Options traders are the least bearish on Asian currencies versus the dollar in a year as confidence builds that China will avoid a so-called hard landing, helping lure funds as Europe’s debt crisis deepens.

The election of socialist Francois Hollande as the new President in France is unlikely to have much of an impact on the country’s property market, according to experts.

Currency Swap, last year’s Grade 1 Hopeful winner where he beat, among others, I’ll Have Another, returns to New York at Belmont Park in Saturday’s $85,000 You and I Stakes at seven furlongs.

Submitted by John Aziz of Azizonomics Is China A Currency Manipulator? Mitt Romney thinks so: China has an interest in trade. China wants to, as they have 20 million people coming out of the farms and coming into the cities every year, they want to be able to put them to work. They want to have access to global markets. And so we have right now something they need very badly, which is access to ...

Submitted by John Aziz of Azizonomics Is China A Currency Manipulator? Mitt Romney thinks so: China has an interest in trade. China wants to, as they have 20 million people coming out of the farms and coming into the cities every year, they want to be able to put them to work. They want to have access to global markets. And so we have right now something they need very badly, which is access to ...

Cracks in an ETF following the Australian dollar earlier this year was a warning sign to investors that U.S. stocks could be in for a choppy ride.“Investors should be at least a little concerned by recent ...

The currency extended its drop this year against the dollar to 4.5 percent, the worst performance among the 16 most-traded currencies tracked by Bloomberg.

YESpay’s EMBOSS managed EMV chip & PIN payment service is first to launch Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) as a standard part of its EasyV-Retail payment client software that integrates into any PC-based Point-Of-Sale (POS) retail system. The EasyV-Retail payment client is now integrated with both DCC and Tax Free Shopping functionality that brings a win-win situation for retailers as well as ...

Decision expected to help southern African nation overcome shortage of foreign currency needed to import fuel.

Currency Rallies Viewed As Corrective; Fresh US Dollar Upside Ahead

The Chinese yuan has been artificially weakened against the U.S. dollar as China engaged in a decade long export-driven strategy for economic growth. However, China is beginning to shift towards domestic ...

James Rickards is a hedge fund manager in New York City and the author of Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis from Portfolio/Penguin. Follow him on Twitter: @JamesGRickards . On most issues, ...

Malawi floated its currency on Monday, with the kwacha plunging a third against the US dollar as the impoverished nation bowed to a key demand of the International Monetary Fund to fix its troubled economy.

Oil prices took a hit last week, and this strategist sees a pattern that points to a currency trade.

Oil prices took a hit last week, and this strategist sees a pattern that points to a currency trade. On the face of it, a move in oil prices may or may not indicate an obvious currency trade.

Currency Exchange Reports Six Months Financial Results

A few weeks ago the Royal Canadian Mint rolled out MintChip, a digital currency that is “better than cash.” It isn’t an alternative currency in that it’s a digital representation of the sovereign currency — the Canadian dollar. Nevertheless, digital money geeks are atwitter, especially with comparisons to Bitcoin. The MintChip business model is yet [...]

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss consumer prices barely rose in April, leaving them falling on an annual basis and underlining the rationale behind the Swiss National Bank's currency cap to shield the economy from deflation. Huge investment flows into Switzerland, seen as a safe port of call during the financial and euro zone crises, have sent the franc soaring, pushing down domestic prices and ...

Alternative currencies keep resources and economic systems close to home and have both a trickle-down and a ripple-out effect.

Understanding Inflation for Currency Trading