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The man in charge of safeguarding China's economic statistics is under investigation for potential corruption...
Huang Weimin, the hedge fund manager whose Chinese stock-index futures wagers returned more than 6,200 percent last year, has some advice for investors in 2016: Sell your shares now, before it’s too late...
George Soros may have broken the BOE and may well have been at least partially to blame for the Asian Financial Crisis, but he will not win an FX battle with the PBoC...
A man has been charged with burgling the home of pop star Rita Ora in a $285,000 raid. Charaf Elmoudden is accused of stealing expensive jewelry, iPhones and Apple Mac computers from singer’s home in London last year...
The opening of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities could easily be written about the UK labour market today. In many ways it is the “best of times”. The unemployment rate is at 5.1% – the lowest rate in over ten years...
Economic activity in Texas keeps getting worse. The general business activity index out Monday from the Dallas Federal Reserve for January was -34.6, a six-year low, and much worse than economists had estimated. The forecast for the index was -14, following the prior reading of -21...
• EUR/CHF has broken hourly resistance at 1.0982 (25/09/2015 high). Hourly support lies at 1.0733 (28/08/2015 low). Expected to test 1.1000. • In the longer term, the technical structure remains negative as long as prices remain below the resistance at 1.1002 (02/09/2011 low...
It's a new year and Bank of England officials have been sharing their views on the outlook for the U.K. and the risks. Well, some of the risks. So far in January, policy makers have spouted more than 20,000 words in three speeches and the minutes of their monthly meeting...
The $15 trillion rout in global equity markets since May is reawakening the lure of gold for investors seeking safety. Hedge funds more than doubled their net-long position in bullion last week, just three weeks after they were the most-bearish ever...