The United States Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it has decided to maintain interest rates unchanged at a 0% to 0.25% range, pointing to positive recovery signs by the economy despite the risks and concerns due to the coronavirus pandemic. As the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) concluded …
Read More »Federal Reserve Could Show Clearer Signs on Tapering
The United States Federal Reserve is holding its fifth policy meeting this year and it is expected that the discussion about the future of the massive asset purchases, as well as the increasing inflationary pressures, will take center stage in discussions amongst members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). …
Read More »The Dollar’s Upside Stops Before The Fed Meeting
The dollar’s march towards a 3-1/2-month high was halted on Tuesday, July 27th as risk appetite weakened, while the Australian dollar suffered from further tightening of regulation in China. The dollar index recorded 92.73, approaching the highest level since early April, 93.19, which is recorded on July 21. The dollar …
Read More »Amazon Negates Bitcoin Rumors as Bezos Focuses on the Moon
Amazon has reportedly denied on Monday recent news about a plan to begin accepting Bitcoin as payment by the end of 2021, according to Reuters. Now thought-to-be fake reports by British media regarding Bitcoin acceptance by Amazon led to a huge surge in cryptocurrency to levels not seen in about …
Read More »Earning Reports From Household Names This Week
Markets are about to enter another turbulent week, the turmoil will be utterly dependent on the performance of household names in the second quarter according to the earnings report and whether these reports indicate a bad performance – which is expected – or come on the positive side, which drives …
Read More »Dollar And Yen Rise as Risk Appetite Declines Ahead of Fed Meeting
The safe-haven yen and the US dollar started the week on the rise against more risky currencies such as the Australian dollar, as the rise in Covid-19 cases and the decline of stocks in Asia led to a state of caution ahead of the Federal Reserve (US Central Bank) meeting …
Read More »British MPs Report: The UK Will be Exposed to Financial Risks For Decades Due to The Cost of The Corona Pandemic
Reports by British parliament members said that the government will be exposed to financial risks for decades as a result of spending 372 billion pounds on the Corona pandemic, adding that more than two billion pounds has been spent on unusable protection tools. The Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee said in …
Read More »Weekly Recap: 19-23 July
The World Health Organization has called upon all countries around the world to cooperate in finding out the origin of the novel coronavirus, despite the Chinese rejection of the proposed scope for the second phase of the investigation, as the scope includes inspecting the hypothesis that the virus could have …
Read More »France Rejects British Proposal for BREXIT Renegotiations
The French government has rejected the recent request by the United Kingdom to renegotiate the post-Brexit arrangement for Northern Ireland. The French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Clement Beaune, dismissed accusations of European dominance regarding the issue, Reuters reported. “The European Union has dedicated days and nights for the …
Read More »What You Need to Know About the Digital Euro Project
Financial technology has led to huge developments in the industry over the past decades, and one area in particular that is currently attracting growing interest from central banks around the world is digital currencies. The European Central Bank (ECB) has already launched a project to create a digital version of …
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