Eurozone QE: Why and how Draghi may pull the trigger April 14, 2014 The ECB will opt for a massive sum to force the euro down DESPITE the strongest signs yet that the European Central Bank (ECB) will act to tackle disinflation, markets remain unconvinced. ECB president Mario Draghi, speaking on Saturday, said that a continued strengthening of the euro (which the ECB believes has knocked up to [...]
CNBC Comment: Investors are warming to sickly France April 14, 2014 MARKET darlings have been feeling the pain of rejection. Now safer dividend stocks are the new best thing, but curiously there is another contender for reallocating funds – France. The benchmark CAC 40 Index, which delivered double the pace of growth of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2013, with returns of 15 per cent, [...]
DailyFX Tips & Picks: The simple technique of trading FX market breakouts April 14, 2014 MOST of the time, trading a breakout is a simple way to trade the markets. It was one of the first few techniques I learnt when I started to trade FX back in 2006 and, as a well-documented trading edge, it has been used for many decades. It is also a particularly effective technique when [...]
DailyFX Tips & Picks: Analyst’s pick April 14, 2014 CURRENCY STRATEGIST CHRIS VECCHIO My pick: Stay short euro-Aussie, short euro-dollar Expertise: Fundamental and technical analysis with risk management Average time frame of trades: A few hours to a few weeks As global central banks diversify away from the US dollar, and as the Eurozone continues to progress from the depths of its crisis, we [...]
Want to improve your focus? Wind up a kitchen timer April 14, 2014 The Pomodoro Technique claims to make the clock your friend, but it has a big flaw THERE may be a small device lurking in your kitchen that could transform your ability to get things done. The tomato-shaped cooking timer, known in Italian as a pomodoro, was first identified as a vital tool for better time [...]
Here’s what you need to know about today’s gold price surge April 14, 2014 Demand for the lustrous metal has seen gold prices hit a three week high, with geopolitical risks seeing investors move towards the safe-haven asset. Seen as a hedge against inflation, other metals have also spiked as tensions over Ukraine heat up. Palladium today sees an August 2011 high, as traders worry that US sanctions on [...]
E-cigarettes: A solution with which the World Health Organisation has a problem April 14, 2014 E-cigarettes may be facing their greatest challenge yet, as elements of the World Health Organisation (WHO) have suggested plans to regulate the electronic devices as stringently as conventional tobacco, according to leaked documents seen by the Financial Times (FT). Should the proposals go ahead, e-cigarettes would fall under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), [...]
UN says shale gas can combat climate change April 14, 2014 SHALE gas could help beat global climate change, according to a new UN study that warned greenhouse gas emissions have risen to unprecedented levels. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said that global mean temperatures would increase by three to five degrees by the end of the century unless there was [...]
Job title inflation: When will it end? April 13, 2014 While less is more when dressing for work, that same logic hasn’t yet reached corporate uplifts MARK Zuckerberg is guilty of it. So were the tieless bunch of world leaders who assembled at the G8 summit last June. Yet the much-criticised phenomenon of successful people dressing down – eschewing shirts, ties, suits, and proper shoes [...]
Trade’s influence on the two Koreas in one dramatic map | City A.M. April 11, 2014 If you had to pick one development of the 20th century that contributed most to human progress, what would it be? Don’t rush to say the internet. While it may have improved communications, its first incarnations offered just marginal improvements over the telegram. If you want to choose something truly remarkable – that has seen [...]