Month: January 2018

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  More from ECB's Smets: Bitcoin has no major risk for financial stability

  ECB's Director of General Economics, Frank Smets with some comments Earlier, he mentioned that Eurozone inflation should hit 1.7% in 2020. His comments on Bitcoin[...]
  2018-01-04 08:47:05

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  European equities open firmer at the start of trading

  European stocks are higher as we kick off the day A very bright start for the European cash equity markets. This follows of course US[...]
  2018-01-04 08:47:05

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  Positive tone in markets is providing a boost to commodity currencies

  AUD and NZD leads the way at the start of European trading, while CHF and JPY lags behind European stocks are opening with a bang,[...]
  2018-01-04 08:47:05

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  Spain December services PMI 54.6 vs 54.8 expected

  Latest data released by Markit - 4 January 2018 According to , rates of expansion in new orders and activity quicken for first time in[...]
  2018-01-04 08:47:05

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  Heads up on the European data near the top of the hour

  A little reminder on the France, Germany, and Eurozone December services & composite PMI numbers That these will be the final readings. The preliminary readings[...]
  2018-01-04 08:47:05

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  China said to target 6.5% economic growth in 2018

  According to unnamed sources via Reuters There have been talks that China would lower its growth target, but it seems like they're sticking with the[...]
  2018-01-04 08:47:05

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  Italy December services PMI 55.4 vs 54.7 expected

  Latest data released by Markit/ADACI - 4 January 2017 Copyright 2015 Forexlive.com
  2018-01-04 08:47:05

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  Larry Lindsey is being considered as Fed Vice Chair

  As per a report from CNBC CNBC is reported from a source that Larry Lindsey is being considered for the Vice Chair role.  Lindsey served[...]
  2018-01-04 08:39:15

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  Final BOJ meeting of 2017 done and dusted - Here are the meeting dates for 2018

  The Bank of Japan have given us so much fun this year that next year we'll be doing it all again! Here is the schedule[...]
  2018-01-04 08:39:15

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  The EUR is the strongest, while the USD is the weakest as the year gets underway

  The USD continues it's fall The last week or so of 2017 saw the USD fall. The greenback was the weakest of the major currencies[...]
  2018-01-04 06:23:14

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