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On Friday the dollar was soaring around 12-year highs against its peers, as news of the ECB stimulus program continued to pressure risk-related currencies and as markets awaited upcoming US data on manufacturing activity and a private sector report on existing home sales...
Iron ore, which plummeted 47 percent in 2014, keeps seeing reduced price forecasts from global banks, like Citigroup, UBS Group AG and now Goldman Sachs, which continue coming in the opening weeks of the year...
On Friday the pound stayed near 18-month lows against the U.S. dollar, despite the release of optimistic retail sales data as expectations for the Bank of England to hold its monetary policy for longer continued to weigh...
On Friday the Japanese yen traded slightly stronger in Asia after the death of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, the main U.S. ally on oil policy and diplomacy that raised questions about whether the succession plan would keep the bonds tight...
This Asian stocks advanced Friday, driven by a long waited move of the European Central Bank, which also set off gains in Europe and on Wall Street, according to The Washington Post...
On Thursday the U.S. dollar edged higher against its Canadian peer, to trade close to the previous session's nearly six-year high after data showed that U.S. jobless claims fell from a seven-month high last week, lower than analysts had initially anticipated...
The bosses of Goldman Sachs and the International Monetary Fund speak out their views on some of the issues the global economy is facing today...
On Thursday the euro was steady vs the greenback after the European Central Bank kept interest rates on hold and said a further monetary policy announcement would follow at its post policy meeting press conference...
Plunging oil prices may boost world economic growth by 15-20 percent in 2015, however, several countries will still lose out, the chief of the World Bank said on Thursday...
David Miles, Bank of England policymaker, has suggested low inflation means there is no great need in returning interest rates to normal levels from their record low of 0.5...