Month: August 2018

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  Qatar and Turkey central banks sign swap agreement

  Qatar and Turkey's central banks have signed a currency swap agreement to provide liquidity and support for financial stability Qatar's central bank announcement Sunday
  2018-08-20 07:27:08

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  20 August is the date marking the formal end of the bailout of Greece

  European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Managing Director Klaus Regling is celebrating: He adds monitoring will continue: And it looks like what's his name has lashed out[...]
  2018-08-20 07:27:08

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  AUD traders - heads up for some politics - looming challenge to Prime Minister

  There are numerous reports of an impending challenge to Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Let's see if this unsettles the AUD, it seems to focus[...]
  2018-08-20 07:27:08

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  German finance ministry says TRY crisis an additional risk to German economy

  Turkey's currency crisis,  trade frictions with the United States and possibility of a no deal Brexit all cited as risk  In the German finance ministry[...]
  2018-08-20 07:27:08

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  Japan's governing party will have a leadership vote on September 20

  The LDP leader position vote was expected, just a date set now  - Elects a leader for a 3-year term - Abe will run and[...]
  2018-08-20 07:27:08

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  UK Rightmove house prices (August) -2.3% m/m (prior -0.1%)

  Down 2.3% for the % m/m - prior -0.1% Up 1.1 % y/y  - prior +1.4% y/y Not generally much of an immediate forex mover[...]
  2018-08-20 07:27:08

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  Barclays trade of the week is short AUD/USD

  The bank says short AUD/USD with a target at 0.7170 and a stop loss at 0.7390 Citing - Federal Reserve and RBA rhetoric is likely[...]
  2018-08-20 07:27:08

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  Head of Mersk says US will be hit harder than the rest of the world by trade war

  Bloomberg reporting on comments from Soren Skou,  chief executive officer of Moller-Maersk (the world's biggest shipping company) - US economy will be hit many times harder than[...]
  2018-08-20 07:27:08

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  Some (not much) chatter of an early Australian election

  There are some political shenanigans occurring in Australia today, a potential challenge to the Prime Minister (earlier: ) AUD traders - heads up for some[...]
  2018-08-20 07:27:08

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  ForexLive Asia FX news wrap: Asia FX opens the week, no one notices

  Forex and Bitcoin news for Asia trading Monday 20 August 2018 The FX opened Monday morning here in Asia, but I don't think anyone noticed.[...]
  2018-08-20 07:27:08

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