The latest hot topic among economic talking heads is the coming currency war. According to conventional wisdom, there’s a risk that major countries will – simultaneously – try to revive their sluggish ...

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The good news, as reported by the Federal Reserve Board survey of business conditions, is that “on balance, national economic activity continued to rise” in September and at the beginning of this ...

Brazil’s finance minister, Guido Mantega, touched a raw nerve when he stated in late September that an international currency war had broken out. It may seem like a war to Brazil, which has seen its ...

Investor Ray Dalio is warning that economic rivalries rarely stop at tariffs. He says they often spill into fights over money flows and currencies, with risks for markets and policy makers. In recent ...

The yuan hovered near a three-year high against the dollar Tuesday, buoyed by expectations of stronger US-China ties ahead of this week’s meeting between the countries’ leaders. Goldman Sachs analysts ...

Crucially, currency profits have proved to be both steady and uncorrelated with results from banks’ other capital markets businesses. Since 2000, RBS has earned almost exactly the same amounts from ...

RBC says at least four events this week herald the re-emergence of the theme. First, the Federal Reserve stepped up its quantitative easing programme – a move that many see as an attempt to engineer a ...

Paused rate cuts and full-blown currency wars await markets and investors in 2025, predicts deVere Group CEO Nigel Green. Investors should prepare for heightened volatility in global markets as ...

Wen Jiabao, Chinese premier, said last week to an audience of European business people: "If we increase the yuan by 20 percent-40 percent as some people are calling for, many of our factories will ...