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    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      Gold
      Gold price hits all-time high as traders bet on rate cuts

      Recent fall in the dollar has added fresh impetus to metal’s year-long rally

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    • Saturday, 2 December, 2023
      Digital currencies
      UK digital pound could put financial stability and privacy at risk, MPs warn

      Treasury committee urges BoE and Treasury to ‘proceed with caution’ over new currency

      A view of the Bank of England
    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      US interest rates
      Dollar hits 3-month low after Fed official signals rates may start to fall

      Investors betting central bank likely to cut borrowing costs by May next year

      Christopher Waller
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      US Dollar
      Investors dump dollar in bet that US rates have peaked

      Asset managers sell greenback at fastest pace in a year as market prices in more rate cuts next year

      Dollar bills
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      LexArgentina
      Argentina/election: dollarising disrupter brings instability Premium content

      Country’s precarious fiscal situation needs more than noisy rhetoric to keep creditors at bay

      Argentina’s newly elected president Javier Milei with his sister during an election rally
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
      The US-China currency wars are in an unstable lull

      If Beijing returns to promoting export-led growth, tension over exchange rates may return

    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      South African economy
      Ramaphosa government faces calls to tap foreign exchange gains to ease debt burden

      Hedge fund Amia Capital becomes latest body to float South Africa using central bank account as economy falters

      A view of the Pretoria city centre
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Pound Sterling
      The Bank of England can’t afford to sound soft on sterling

      The pound still looks vulnerable

    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Offshoring the euro: London calling?

      Euro area depositors won’t all sit still for large, unremunerated required reserves

    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Gilts
      UK gilts rally after official signals BoE is open to rate cuts in 2024

      Yield on short-term British government debt falls to lowest level since June

      Huw Pill, the Bank of England’s chief economist
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      ExplainerJapanese government bonds
      What the end of Japan’s yield curve control experiment means for markets

      Investor reaction to the BoJ removing the hard ceiling on 10-year yields has so far been muted

      Montage showing the Bank of Japan, 100 Japenese Yen coin, and a bar chart
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast25 min listen
      The global power of the dollar

      How effective are US financial sanctions in taming Hamas or the Putin regime?

    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      Central bank intervention
      The BoJ is, or isn’t, playing a blinder

      Deutsche Bank sees danger for the yen

    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Yen
      Yen under renewed pressure following BoJ policy tweak

      Currency sinks close to last intervention point after small adjustment to central bank policy

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    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Bank of Japan
      Bank of Japan under pressure from weak yen and soaring yields

      Two-day policy meeting could end with changes to trading band for government bonds

      Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda
    • Saturday, 28 October, 2023
      Nigeria’s record currency slide continues as dollars dry up

      Inflation-stoking collapse in naira reaches new extremes

    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Markets InsightPeter Kinsella
      The era of relentless Swiss franc appreciation is coming to an end

      If the risk of wider regional conflict over Gaza recedes, the currency’s high valuation is unlikely to be sustained

      The white cross of the Swiss national flag sits on 50, 20 and 10 Swiss franc banknotes against a black background
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      Financial fraud
      Hedge fund co-founder Neil Phillips convicted over forex manipulation

      Prosecutors alleged manager of Glen Point Capital had attempted to artificially move dollar-rand exchange rate

      South African rand coins
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      Japanese business & finance
      ‘50 Cent’ has a big new trade on – the Japanese yen

      RIP YCC = JPY FTW

    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      Chinese business & finance
      Chinese investors’ sales of US stocks and bonds hit four-year high

      Sales surge coincides with People’s Bank of China’s efforts to defend renminbi

      The People’s Bank of China headquarters in Beijing
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Unhedged podcast17 min listen
      Japan’s new direction

      Will Japan’s pledge to change corporate culture work?

    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      Euro
      JPMorgan and Citi expect euro to fall to parity with US dollar

      Wall Street banks forecast rising energy prices and flagging eurozone growth to drag down single currency

      A montage of euro and dollar coins
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      Markets InsightRebecca Patterson
      The dollar has joined the commodity currency club

      A change in the greenback’s historical relationship with oil is increasingly rippling through economies and markets

      Montage of a $1 bill set in front of a US flag
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Currencies
      The case for a sterling squeeze

      ‘Is the pound the UK’s economic release valve?’ and several other questions, somewhat answered

    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Unhedged podcast17 min listen
      Three markets we’re watching

      How will gold, oil and the yen respond to chaos in the Middle East?

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