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Outside candidate may emerge as Lagarde successorThe biggest immediate effect of Germany’s dramatic 6 September regional election surrounds the necessary but painful economic reform course pursued by Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s embattled coalition. But the landslide far-right Alternative for Germany win in Saxony-Anhalt will al
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Canada’s tariffs take effect as it seeks closer EU ties and awaits Trump responseCanadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that Canada would move faster to reduce its economic reliance on the United States and deepen ties with Europe as retaliatory tariffs took effect on about $20 billion worth of U.S. goods and the country braced for U.S. President Do
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Consumer Credit Smashes Estimates As Credit Card Debt Hits New All-Time HighThe relevering of the US consumer continues: one month after the June consumer credit number came higher than estimates (and followed the unexpected May contreaction in US credit), in July consumer credit came in even higher than expected, with the Fed reporting in its latest G.1
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FTMO Paid $422 Million for OANDAFTMO paid over 8.79 billion Czech koruna (about $422 million at today’s exchange rate) to acquire OANDA last year, according to its annual filings. CVC, the previous owner of OANDA, bought the broker in 2018 for $160 million. The prop firm decided to acquire OANDA from CVC early
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Fight the yen at your own riskYen moves have continued to dominate the start of the week. Thin liquidity due to the US holiday likely amplified yesterday’s USD/JPY sell-off, pushing the pair through the key 155.0 level before extending to 153.0 overnight. This still looks primarily like a JPY story rather tha
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DXY, EUR/USD, AUD/USD, USD/CAD, Gold, Bitcoin Weekly Technical Outlookchart It’s a big week for the Dollar with the index trading just above pivotal support at the 2025 August high-day close and the May low at 98.68/69. The focus is on possible inflection off this threshold in the days ahead with a break / daily close below needed to fuel the next
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Bessent’s yen bet is paying off—for nowTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bet on the yen is paying off so far. The Japanese currency touched an almost seven-month high against the U.S. dollar in Asia on Tuesday, a sharp turnaround from July when the U.S. and Japan jointly intervened in the foreign-exchange market to c
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Art heist thieves make off with Renoir paintings worth millions from museum on French RivieraThieves made off with two valuable Renoir paintings after breaking into a small museum on the French Riviera early Tuesday, dropping two other stolen works in the garden as police raced to the scene, officials said. The two thieves cut through a garden fence and entered the Renoi
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Will Oil Prices Spike Again?At the height of the oil price panic earlier this year, I pushed back on apocalyptic oil price forecasts, starting with this post and then this chat with Paul Krugman shortly thereafter on his brilliant podcast. My view that there wouldn’t be an out-of-control spike in oil prices
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US Medium-Term Inflation Expectations Tick Down; Unemployment Expectations DeteriorateThe Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data today released the August 2026 Survey of Consumer Expectations, which shows that households’ inflation expectations decreased slightly at the medium-term horizon and remained unchanged at the short- and longer-t
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Moneta Markets Launches 24/7 Gold Trading on MT5Moneta Markets has announced the launch of 24/7 Gold trading on MetaTrader 5, giving eligible clients the ability to trade its XAUUSD247 product around the clock, including weekends. The new product offering extends access beyond conventional weekday trading sessions, giving Mone
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Taylor: Report to the Treasury Select CommitteeMacroeconomically, the UK year in retrospect played out in two distinct halves. In the first half, September 2025 to February 2026 the underlying disinflationary process continued, activity was increasingly subdued, and slack accumulated in the labour market. The temporary hump i
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