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  • US newspaper round-up: JPMorgan Chase, Sprint Nextel, United Airlines...

    Tuesday 21 May 2013

    The New York Times says: “Jamie Dimon, the nation’s most powerful banker, appears set to hold onto his title of chairman after JPMorgan Chase’s shareholders defeated a proposal to split the two top jobs, according to people who have seen the preliminary tallies.” The paper pointed out that the margin of victory is still unclear.

  • OECD first-quarter growth picks up

    Tuesday 21 May 2013

    A report published on Tuesday by the Organization for Economic Coorperation and Development (OECD) showed that overall growth amidst its members improved during the first quarter.

  • AUD/USD: In a steep correction

    Tuesday 21 May 2013

    The AUD/USD has been suffering a steep correction since the breakout of support at 1.0111, according to technical analysts at Digital Look.

  • GBP/USD: A potential rebound following a false breakout

    Tuesday 21 May 2013

    The price chart for the GBP/USD reveals that the support level at 1.52 is actually holding up for now, leading technical analysts at Digital Look to consider a potential rebound towards 1.54.

  • EUR/GBP: Waiting for a rebound

    Tuesday 21 May 2013

    The EUR/GBP has been confined to a narrow trading range for the last two weeks.

  • EUR/USD: Pullback to 1.2950

    Tuesday 21 May 2013

    Last week, the EUR/USD broke through the support level at 1.2954 and confirmed a reversal formation known as a ‘double-top’ with bearish implications, according to technical analysts at Digital Look.

  • Spain sells short-term debt at higher costs

    Tuesday 21 May 2013

    Spain managed to sell more short-term sovereign debt that it had originally predicted today but with mixed results on both demand and financing costs.

  • Former Italian PM says crisis largely over

    Tuesday 21 May 2013

    Italy's former technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti said that the worst of the European crisis has passed and that the current Italian government would remain unchanged in the short-term.

  • Germany attempts to speed up EU decision making, side-step UK

    Tuesday 21 May 2013

    Germany is working on minor changes to European Union (EU) treaties in the hopes of speeding up the decision-making process, while at the same time avoiding an overhaul that might result in the repatriation of powers from Brussels to the UK.

  • FX round-up: Dollar retreats ahead of Fed minutes

    Tuesday 21 May 2013

    Recent dollar strength lost momentum on Monday as investors held back ahead of minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last policy meeting due Wednesday.

  • US newspaper round-up: Actavis, JPMorgan, Yahoo...

    Monday 20 May 2013

    Actavis, the New York-listed generic drugmaker, is to buy Warner Chilcott in a stock-swap deal that values the latter at five billion dollars, writes The Wall Street Journal. The deal will be completed before the end of 2013 with the new company being led by the current Actavis team.

  • EUR/USD: A double-top confirmed

    Monday 20 May 2013

    The EUR/USD has confirmed a double-top formation following last week’s loss of support at 1.2954, according to technical analysts at Digital Look.

  • USD/JPY: As strong as the Nikkei

    Monday 20 May 2013

    The Japanese yen continues to show weakness versus the other majors, especially the 'greenback.'

  • USD/CAD prepares for rally towards year's highs

    Monday 20 May 2013

    USD/CAD was able to move above the top part of a slightly bearish trading range on Friday.

  • Italy still stronger than Spain, says Moody's

    Monday 20 May 2013

    Moody's Investors Service still sustains that Rome's stronger public finances are one of the key reasons for maintaining Italy's 'Baa2' sovereign rating one notch above Spain's 'Baa3'.

  • Bundesbank President urges France to take deficit seriously

    Monday 20 May 2013

    Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has urged France to take deficit reduction 'seriously' as one of the two major Eurozone economies and warned against employing too much flexibility with targets based on economic conditions.

  • FX round-up: Dollar rises on robust US data

    Monday 20 May 2013

    The dollar rallied across the board on Friday after data showed a recovery in US consumer sentiment.

  • US newspaper round-up: Caterpillar, Bill Gates, Fiat...

    Friday 17 May 2013

    Industrial machinery maker Caterpillar has cut the cost of its acquisition of a Chinese mining equipment group, meaning that it will take a big write-down following alleged accounting “irregularities”, the The Wall Street Journal writes.

  • Moody's upgrades Turkey to investment grade rating

    Friday 17 May 2013

    Moody's Investor Service has decided to upgrade Turkey's credit rating to an investment grade with a 'stable' outlook after the country underwent several reforms to its financial structure.

  • France predicts return to growth in second half of 2013

    Friday 17 May 2013

    Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici believes that growth will return to France in the second half of this year after data on Wednesday showed the French economy slipped into recession during the first quarter.

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