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Week Ahead: Inflation fears to rip through FX markets?
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6 MAY clock 08:43

Week Ahead: Inflation fears to rip through FX markets?

Inflation is coursing through the global economy, and central bankers around the world are raising rates in a bid to stamp out these scorching consumer prices.
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Why is the Yen so weak?
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21 APR clock 16:32

Why is the Yen so weak?

Two words: policy divergence (read on to find out more). But first, let's take a look at just how dismal the Yen's performance has been so far in 2022. The Japanese Yen is now trading around a 20-year low against the US dollar.
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18 APR clock 17:49

Trade of the Week: Gold set to breach $2000 again. What’s next?

As mentioned in our Week Ahead outlook (posted on Fridays), gold was expected to rise on a souring outlook for the global economy.
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Key Events This Week: Fed, BoE set to hike interest rates as war continues
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7 APR clock 14:01

QT: The Fed wants to pull out US$1.1 trillion per year from markets! What could this mean for investors and traders?

Investors and traders worldwide for several months now have been obsessing over how the Fed intends to go about its 'quantitative tightening' a.k.a. QT. Hold up! What even is QT? To understand QT, first we must have an idea of QE (quantitative easing).
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“Buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets”?
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30 MAR clock 15:25

“Buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets”?

This well-worn phrase is meant to go back to the early 1800s and is attributed to London financier Lord Rothschild which suggests that the start of a war is a good time to invest in the stock market. Conversely, the end of a war is a good time to sell.
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