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Added topic 'CADapult': Buy USD/CAD targeting 1.40 - Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank on the Canadian dollar USD/CAD is set to rise above 1.40 over the course of 2017, predominantly driven by faster-than-priced Fed tightening and US tax reform. A possible US border tax adjustment would boost the broad USD and have
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Added topic Brace Yourself For Italy's Bankruptcy
When Charles Gave, paterfamilias of Gavekal, chooses to express displeasure over an economic trend, an asset class, or what have you, he does not exactly mince words. If you happen to be in the room when he does so, he can sound like the Voice of God
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Added topic Here Is How A 'Border Tax' Would Impact The USD
The potential switch to destination-based taxation in the US has far-reaching implications for the US Dollar . Under the current US taxation regime, goods and services are taxed based on their origin, rather than where they are sold. Under a new
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Added topic Ex-Blackrock Portfolio Manager Sentenced To 12 Months In Prison For Insider Trading
Former Blackrock star portfolio manager Mark Lyttleton, 45, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after pleading guilty to an "elaborate web of insider trading, using offshore companies, unregistered mobile phones and cash payments." Lyttleton
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Added topic EUR/USD: Make Or Break At 1.0465
After consolidating within a broad range since March 2015, EUR/USD is now breaching below the lower bound (1.0465) pointing towards possibility of further down move. On daily chart the pair has moved below a multi month descending
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Added topic Gold Manipulation Suspicion Lingers
Deutsche Bank Caves In Deutsche Bank trader: “u just said u sold on fix.” Answer UBS trader: “yeah, we smashed it good.” Deutsche Bank is a defendant in more than 7,000 lawsuits worldwide. In two of them it has recently agreed to settlements and is
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Added topic Bundesbank head Weidmann is bringing gold back to Germany faster than planned
The Buba has been moving Germany's gold reserves back into the country. Almost half of the country's reserves are now back, "significantly more ... than initially planned" Via Reuters - Germany has around 3,381 tonnes of gold as reserves
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Added topic Top five forex fundamentals
The foreign exchange (forex) market has grown to be the most liquid financial market in the world. In its tri-annual survey last year, the Bank for International Settlements found the forex market is now trading more than $4 trillion in daily
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Added topic U.S. hits Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank with toxic debt penalties
Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have been hit with a combined penalty of more than $12 billion over the sale of U.S. toxic debt, further hampering two of Europe's leading investment banks as they struggle with weak earnings. The penalties stem from
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Added topic Gann square outs: Time and price balance in the markets
The trading community is relentless in its pursuit to find out how and why the market turns. Bull and bear markets surge relentlessly along their path until one day they reverse course and set sail in an entirely new direction, never looking back
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Added topic EUR/USD jumps a big figure higher
A sharpish sort of move for EUR/USD here in the Asian morning (early Tokyo and very early Singapore/Hong Kong). There isn't any fresh news hitting the wires, it seems the thin liquidity time of day playing a decisive role in the jump it is always
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Added topic Markets continue to disagree with Fed call for 3 rate hikes in 2017
As U.S. equities entered their last trading day of the year on Friday, markets remained unconvinced that the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) call for three rate hikes in 2017 would hit the mark. When the U.S. central bank raised rates in December 2015 for
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Added topic ECB Stuns Markets, Announces Tapering Of Bond Purchases To €60 Billion
That Reuters trial balloon was right. In a stunning announcement, Mario Draghi came out hawkish after all, and while the ECB kept all rates unchanged, it announced that it would effectively taper its bond purchases from €80 billion to €60 billion
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Added topic Deutsche Bank Provides "Smoking Gun" Proof Of Massive Rigging And Fraud In The Silver Market
Back in April, when we first reported that Deutsche Bank had agreed to settle allegations it had rigged the silver market in exchange for $38 million, we revealed something stunning: "in a curious twist, the settlement letter revealed that the former
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Added topic Euro Slumps Against Pound, Dollar as ECB Keeps the Printing Press Running
The Euro dropped as markets digested the full implications of the ECB's December decision to keep its asset purchase programme running through 2017. At their December 8 meeting the European Central Bank announced they would hold at -0.4% their
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Added topic EUR/USD: Breach Of Parity Ahead
EUR/USD: There were a number of key elements of yesterday’s announcement that make this a more dovish event than expected that we believe reinforces the downside risks for EUR/USD and that keep our forecast of a breach of parity in H1
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Added topic The Counterintuitive EUR Reaction; The Market Is Wrong
Whatever it takes” seems to be trumped by politics now Since 2011 Mario Draghi had brought iron-clad consistency to the ECB: it would err on the side of caution, would go as far as possible to reduce fragmentation in the Euro area, and the stance
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Added topic GBP: Sitting In Limbo: Where To Target?
Since the US election, GBP has been the best performing currency in G10 against the USD. In this piece we argue that no individual factor, when taken in isolation, succeeds at providing a convincing explanation of this outperformance. We rather
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Added topic Fed to hike interest rates next week while ignoring the elephant in the room
The Federal Reserve is going to raise interest rates next week, but shy away from the bigger question looming for financial markets: How does the shock outcome of the presidential election change the economic landscape? The Fed is widely expected to
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Added topic EUR/USD Forecast - Parity For Euro To Dollar Exchange Rate
A strong surge in US consumer confidence has seen the Euro to Dollar exchange rate extend its ECB-inspired downtrend. The University of Michigan confidence index advanced an impressive 4.2 points, against predictions of a 0.7 rise to 94.5. Euro
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