Maria Iacob

The Japanese currency dropped further to a 6 year low against the dollar among signs of improvement for pension-fund reforms that form a part of the growth strategy of Minister Shinzo Abe who is Prime Minister. The yen dropped against 14 of 16 major peers after it was said by Yasuhisa Shiozaki, the head of […]

The Kiwi currency fell further to its ever weakest point over a year, now possibly the central bank looks to intervene. The dollar rising to a 4 year high among bets that the interest rates will be boosted by the Federal Reserve. The 0.4 percent fall by the New Zealand dollar against its 31 major

Technical indicators were signalling that recent losses were overdone by the dollar as the kiwi and the yen rallied against the U.S. This slowing the dollars impressive advance to its biggest quarterly gain in over three years. The greenback pausing its advance against its major counterpart’s right after William C. Dudley who is the President

The Aussie dollar strengthened its position recovering from a 7 month low after the news of Chinas expansion in the manufacturing sector this month. The help to the Aussie Economy was probably in correlation to China improved Purchasing Managers Index who is Australia largest trading partner. The Aussie rising versus 31 major counterparts. The Chinese

The yen’s decline threatens Japan with a fall into a recession reducing the purchasing power of common households and puts pressure on corporate profits it was said by a deputy governor of the Bank of Japan. In an interview held on September 19th in Tokyo, it was quoted by the deputy from 2003-2008, Kazumasa Iwata

The pound saw its biggest 2 day jump in 7 months, the European and the U.K. share-index futures headed for a rise and the treasuries fell as the vote for Scotland’s independence was rejected. The yen climbed while Japans equities and U.S. stock-gauge futures jumped up. The pound gaining 0.4 percent to $1.6466 by 7:08

The pound advances against the dollar as voting started on the future of Scotland. The sterling strengthening against most of the 16 major peers as suggestions of a tight outcome to the vote. Gauges predicting the future price is swinging to the U.K. currency it has been felt as investors try to understand the implications

The final day of the campaign over Scotland’s future with the pro-independence campaigners saying that it had the momentum to claim victory in the ballots and the “no” side trying to get voters not to use it as a protest. In an interesting last survey, it showed that the gab was closing fast was the

It was said by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that the role of high-frequency traders were hidden by Barclays Pls (BARC) even after claiming that it had shut off clients who engaged in suspicious activity. The New York Attorney General sued the accused bank in the Supreme Court in New York State back in

In an effort to boost returns some of the biggest investors in leveraged-buyout funds are using unique levels of debt to boost returns. It was quoted by a professor at a French business school “Leverage is a double-edged sword,” and further said “It can boost the performance on the upside and rapidly eat into capital