Forex News
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Arcade giant Dave & Buster’s is taking its games to a new level by offering social wagering on its app. Customers can soon make a friendly $5 wager on a Hot Shots basketball game, a bet on a Skee-Ball competition or on another arcade game. The betting function, expected to launch in the next few months, will work through the company’s app. Dave & Buster’s, ...
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Tesla (TSLA) shares soared 15% Monday following reports that CEO Elon Musk's weekend trip to China brought a number of wins for the electric vehicle maker. Tesla reportedly cleared key data privacy hurdles and won tentative approval to deploy Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system in China, Tesla's second-largest market behind the U.S. 1 The software is a ...
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The past century has been a wild ride for investors. This article explores ten of the most dramatic plunges the stock market has witnessed, from the tech-fueled Dot-com bubble burst to the global economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each crash offers a unique story, exposing vulnerabilities in the system and highlighting the interconnectedness of ...
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Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 1.2 percent, seasonally adjusted, for the 3-month period ending in March 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries increased 1.1 percent and benefit costs increased 1.1 percent from December 2023. (See tables A, 1, 2, and 3.) Compensation costs for civilian workers ...
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Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 0.2% in February, following a 0.5% gain in January. Services-producing industries (+0.2%) led the growth for a second month in a row, fuelled by gains in transportation and warehousing. The goods-producing industries aggregate was essentially unchanged as the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sector ...
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The March 2024 seasonally adjusted estimate: Fell 0.4% month-on-month. Rose 0.8% compared with March 2023. Turnover at current prices: table Monthly turnover, current prices - seasonally adjusted estimate: chart Total retail turnover - level, current prices: chart Trend estimates from March 2020 to June 2022 are not available due to the degree of ...
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The growth engine of the Chinese economy unexpectedly decelerated last month while Australian retail sales are growing at the weakest pace on record outside one-off economic ...
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To Robin Brooks, the former chief currency strategist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Japan’s massive government debt — for now at least — is likely to doom any efforts to prop up ...
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Asia-Pacific markets were largely set to extend gains on Tuesday, tracking Wall Street moves, with investors awaiting China manufacturing purchasing managers’ index for April. ...
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China’s factory activity remained in expansion territory for the second consecutive month in April, in the latest sign that the economic recovery is picking up pace. The official ...
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The improvement in Chinese manufacturing sector conditions extended into the start of the second quarter, according to the latest PMI data. Greater new work inflows, including ...
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post: Mini Flash Crash G10FX/JPY?USD/JPY plunges again A second wave of selling has hit USD/JPY • USD/JPY is down 266 pips and at the lowest levels since the first round of what was likely intervention a few hours ago. post: DOLLAR/YEN FALLS BACK BELOW 155.50 AMID MARKET JITTERS ABOUT SUSPECTED BOJ INTERVENTION, LAST DOWN 1.72% AT 155.60
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AUDUSD was sold this week, after the bulls struggled to overcome the 0.6575 barrier. In the bigger picture, the pair is trading back within the sideways range that has been containing most of the price action since mid-January and thus, the outlook remains neutral. The MACD lies well above zero, but it has already crossed below its trigger line and is ...
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I'm sure you've already seen what's happened overnight in the USD/JPY. Prior to the suspected intervention by the Japanese finance ministry/BoJ, the USD/JPY had initially surged some 500 pips from its low point on Friday to rise above 160.00, before dropping more than 500 pips to below 155.00 and then bouncing back. So, it's been a very volatile session, ...
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The Funded Trader, a prop trading firm that halted payouts and temporarily suspended services for three weeks, came back online last week and is now in the process of moving its base from the United States to the Cayman Islands. “The Funded Trader LLC, headquartered in the USA, is currently in the process of transitioning its operations to an entity located ...