During early Asian session, oil futures prices are trading in a lower trend on concern of rising stock piles, where lower demand is expected from major oil consuming nations. Prevailing European debt crisis getting tough day by day as partial solutions are not helping the global market to withstand. The credit rating agency Moody has […]
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量的金融緩和, ryōteki kin’yū kanwa The markets have been subjected to a softening up process over the past month or so, with regards to an expectation that further Q.E. will take place by the UK’s Bank of England possibly at their next monthly meeting. Given the topic is hot it may be worth taking a ‘lite-bite’
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Japan sold at least 14.3 trillion yen ($183 billion) in 2011 in order to stem the gains that cut profits for exporters, Finance Minister Jun Azumi has pledged more intervention if required in 2012. Intervention in 2012 may fail again however, as the financial turmoil in the USA and Europe attracts investors to the world’s
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There are times when the mechanics of high finance can leave even the most economically literate amongst us speechless. Whilst there’s an argument that burning through $500 billion is simply emotive and extreme language to describe the ‘spend’ the Bank of Japan has engaged in to support the yen, the fact remains that estimates put
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Assumption, can make an ASS out of U and ME… It would appear that the solution for the Eurozone crisis, released to the markets which the mainstream media lapped up like a child whose Christmas list had been ticked to the letter, has been juiced. Underpinning the detail and process was an assumption and expectation
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