Euro/Dollar Betting against the euro seems like the type of thing everybody has been up to, but few have been as successful as the big boys wagering with IG Index. The favoured bet among these punters has been in the euro/dollar markets, where the euro has fallen dramatically from $1.45 to $1.25 in the past…
Last week, Martin Wheatley at the FSA was asked to make a pretty rushed judgement on the British Bankers Association ‘s(BBA) setting of the LIBOR rate. As we all know, this is a key rate, less important than it used to be sure, but still key to setting long-term mortgages and bond prices as well…
BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion (RIM), surprised on the upside after the Wall Street close Thursday, driving the shares up 20% to $8.60 in after hours trading as poor results turned out to be less bad than expected. Earlier in the week the shares hit an all time low of $6.22 on renewed network issues,…
The land of the rising sun, Japan, seems to be waiting for eternally elusive signs of economic sunshine right now with plenty of worrying data emerging in the last few days. After a 0.7% growth print in Japan’s second quarter GDP, driven by Tsunami reconstruction spending, concerns are mounting about the health of the economy. Japanese…
Even though the Federal Reserve seemingly served up to investors what they were looking for in launching QE3 in a last desperate attempt to revive the US economy, commodities just aren’t following the script… Oil in particular has been singled out, after hitting a three month high on September 14 the day that Bernanke unveiled…
After hitting a 52 week low of 1,999 yesterday, the Chinese Shanghai composite index is up 2.5% today to 2,056 on news that the the Chinese central bank has injected a record amount of money into the financial system. The Rmb365 billion ($58 billion) injection over the last few days by the People’s Bank of…
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Markets were looking decidedly shaky yesterday after fears about the European debt situation resurfaced, yet again! The political situation in both Greece and Spain seems to be increasingly concerning. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is continuing to avoid asking for a European Central Bank (ECB) bail out because of fears of another slump in voter…
Regular readers will know that aside from Bumi which illustrates that no matter how well founded one’s research is, a “googly” can always be thrown by fraudulent activities, that the one Conviction Buy recommendation we have got wrong is RIMM. Results are due tomorrow and so here is a piece written by our 3rd party…
From today’s FT – The board of Bumi Plc is weighing up severing ties with one of its Indonesian businesses as part of a restructuring aimed at reviving investor confidence in the controversy-hit London-listed coal miner. Bumi said on Monday that it had asked for an independent investigation, to be carried out by law firm Macfarlanes,…
