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Key Events In The Last Week Before Christmas

By silveristhenew | Published December 18, 2017

It might be the last full week before Christmas – with both newsflow and trading volumes set to slide substantially – but there’s still a few interesting events and data releases to look forward to next week. Among the relatively sparse data releases schedule, we get US GDP, core PCE, housing and durable goods orders […]

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FX Weekly Preview: Looking For A Rise In Vol As The Fed Finally Makes Their Move – So We Can All Move On

By silveristhenew | Published December 11, 2017

Submitted by Rajan Dhall MSTA and Shant Movsesian from fxdailyterminal.com In the absence of key economic data, we tend to see heightened levels of containment in the FX markets, where the heavy presence of system (algo) traders require constant direction in order to drive price action one way or the other.  We have also been […]

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Key Events In The Coming Week: Jobs, Brexit, PMI, IP And More

By silveristhenew | Published December 4, 2017

The first full week of December is shaping up as rather busy, with such Tier 1 data in the US as the payrolls report, durable goods orders and trade balance. We also get UK PMI data and GDP, retail sales across the Euro Area, as well as central bank meetings including Australia RBA and BoC […]

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Lira Tumbles After Zarrab Confirms Erdogan Approved “Secret Iran Gold” Trade

By silveristhenew | Published November 30, 2017

In somewhat of a worst-case scenario, Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab just confirmed that Turkish President Erdogan approved the "secret Iran gold" trade that enabled Iran to evade US sanctions. Full Zarrab quote: "What I’m saying is that the prime minister at that time period Recep Tayyip Erdogan and minister of the treasury … had […]

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China Slashes Import Tariffs on Consumer Goods In Boost For Trump And Western Exporters

By silveristhenew | Published November 24, 2017

China announced it is slashing import tariffs on 187 consumer products starting next month. The Finance Ministry pointed to the cuts being concentrated in products in short supply domestically which, it believes, will prompt local producers to improve quality. The items in the list which, includes baby formula, diapers, electric toothbrushes, medicines, cosmetics, coffee machines […]

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Mysterious Turk At Center Of “Secret Gold” Trade With Iran, Vanishes From Federal Jail

By silveristhenew | Published November 16, 2017

While long forgotten for some, in the summer of 2014, we reported in detail on what appeared to be the biggest, most bizarre money-laundering scheme ever, involving Turkey trading "200 tons of secret gold" with Iran… The topic of Turkey's Oil-for-Gold 'deals' has not been far from our thoughts over the last few years (here, […]

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Traders Paralyzed, Markets Flat Ahead Of Today’s Main Event: The ECB’s Taper Announcement

By silveristhenew | Published October 26, 2017

US equity futures and Asian shares are flat this morning with European shares treading water ahead of the ECB’s policy meeting in which it’s expected to announce a tapering to its €60bn in monthly QE. On this busiest day of Q3 earnings season, companies set to report earnings include Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Intel, while […]

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Italy’s Parallel Fiscal Currency: All You Need To Know

By silveristhenew | Published October 16, 2017

Authored by Marco Cattaneo, from Basta con l’Eurocrisi, via GEFIRA, There is an increased talk in Italy about fiscal money as an instrument to resolve the economic crisis, which is not over yet. Despite the optimism shown by the Italian government and the EU, the Eurozone economy is far from being in an acceptable condition, and […]

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World Stocks Hit 4th Consecutive Record High, Bonds Rise On ECB QE Report

By silveristhenew | Published October 13, 2017

World stocks rose to a 4th consecutive record highs, while the dollar headed for its worst week; U.S. stock-index futures are steady, with European and Asian stocks higher ahead of much anticipated US inflation data, which is expected to give cues on the outlook for the Federal Reserve’s interest rates. MSCI’s all world equity index […]

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FX Week Ahead: Discretion And Common Sense Not Easy For “The Machines”

By silveristhenew | Published October 8, 2017

Submitted by Shant Movsesian and Rajan Dhall MSTA of fxdailyterminal.com Coming off the back of a mixed payrolls report which saw the headline number recording a negative balance for the first time in 7 years, the USD initially gained on the rise in wage inflation which recorded a 0.5% increase in average hourly earnings.   Into […]

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