The strangest point here is that the Pound has been devalued so far on the talk of the exit, Article 50 is the beginning of a two year process to remove from the union. Nothing is happening until the process is finished and the Pound is so low??? ...

GBP: Rebound To Accelerate; 'Sell The Rumor Buy The Fact' - Barclays

The reasoning of "market value" of any traded equity is the sum of fundamentals for the product and emotional content (perceived need)....... Fundamental....what the country manufactures, sells or provides in goods or services (and to a lesser ...

Dollar Bulls Are Throwing in the Towel as Trump Wagers Evaporate

Is the debt in the EU and that in Great Britain paid by themselves?....how much has been provided from the far east???? Should there not be an adjustment for this disparage in equity.... what is the true cross values when compared with trade.....The ...

EU Told By Britain That It Will Announce On Monday It Will Trigger Art.50 Exit Clause On March...

USD??? With all the fed rises already in place??? The vix in such an odd place??? The rise since November and the election???? Nothing makes sense.... The S&P500 having been on an overheated roll...... With the Japanese reducing the controls on ...

EU Told By Britain That It Will Announce On Monday It Will Trigger Art.50 Exit Clause On March...

A flee to yen? What is without serious risk now?

EU Told By Britain That It Will Announce On Monday It Will Trigger Art.50 Exit Clause On March...

The Reserve Bank needs fresh deposits?..... Grief! Waste of reading time.....,

New Bill Would Require Men to Pay $100 Every Time They Masturbate

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Fed takes centerstage — What you need to know in markets this week

With the data present, the rate rise may be larger than expected..........

U.S. Jobs, Wages Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month

I can only see rhetoric talking down the GBP??!!! So far talk has reigned. British exchange and trade is going to go on. Unless, the efficiency introduced by Margret Thatcher and the capacity of the British People avoid their traditional strong ...

UK Treasury plays Budget Eeyore to the government’s Tiggers

The key words in this article is Quote: "The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell......." Filing for unemployment......This is not the number of people unemployed.....that figure is hidden far away as the unemployment benefit in ...

U.S. jobless claims near 44-year low; rate hike expected this month

Production output, inventory orders, non farm pay role states do not add up to this sudden improvement in employment. In a pessimistic outlook, this maybe just the number of unemployment insurance claims that have expired with those not obtaining ...

U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Drop to Lowest in Almost 44 Years

Quote: "We don’t want any border tax to violate WTO rules by becoming a tax system intended to promote exports,” Nishimura told Reuters in an interview. “Our position is WTO rules and multilateralism are important and we want to lobby for that.” ...

Japan will tell U.S. to respect WTO rules, says Abe adviser

Try from our position....

Trump: 2017 Joint Address

Quote: "Currently, when we ship products out of America, many other countries make us pay very high tariffs and taxes -- but when foreign companies ship their products into America, we charge them almost nothing." Tariffs..... The "evil word" of ...

Trump: 2017 Joint Address

The one critical item in these statements is the word "Spending". The recovery from the GFC? Manufacturing? Rebuilding the functions that were once truly "Great" and produced for development and savings. An over value dollar, stocks running up at an ...

White House seeks $54b increase in defense spending

The Emperors New Clothes Quote: "the past president who enjoyed the best post-election pre-inauguration stock market performance was Herbert Hoover, just ahead of the 1929 Great Depression. In line with Kenneth Rogoff, he points out that ...

The Trump market rally conundrum

This is far from a rebound......replacement orders? One off aircraft??? Proxy for future???? Is the USD too high for manufacturing such goods in the US? How is the manufacturing industry really going????

Orders for Durable Goods in U.S. Rebounded 1.8% in January

I agree with this article. The USD is producing little productivity from its strength. Strangely, the JPY shows surprising weakness at the end of trading day.....

USD/JPY Forecast: Feb lows could be revisited ahead of Trump speech

This, in my opinion, is the wisest article of observance I have read for some time. The rise and rise of the USD v JPY in the lead up to Christmas gave me concern as to the rate and lack of fundamental need for such an increase. A 20% increase with ...

Better Signals for Risk Bearing, Conviction Than S&P 500, VIX

So much liquidity for the market......does this not back up Pres Trump on market manipulation?

Japan’s OTC forex segment starts 2017 with strong trading volume