the indices are still in a month-long trading range and ended the week closer to the upper-end of the range.” With expectations of an imminent rate hike diminished, “precious metals may have ended their two-month retreat from recent highs,” he added The Federal Reserve raised interest rates slightly in December and wants to gradually from 103.32 yen and the euro edged down to $1.1159 from $1.1197. In other energy trading, wholesale gasoline rose 3 cents to $1.30 a gallon. Heating oil also gained For most traders, if you think of adjusting your stop loss or target once in a trade…don’t. Let the math of your strategy do the work. As long as you have a win-rate that allows you to make a profit with your average reward:risk ratio, you don’t need Fifth Street Senior Floating Rate Corp. (NASDAQ:FSFR) shares saw unusually-high trading volume on Thursday . Approximately 339,301 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 56% from the previous session’s volume of 217,124 shares.The The New Zealand dollar was the best performing currency on Tuesday as comments by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Governor Graeme Wheeler lifted the kiwi in an otherwise muted summer trading session in Asia. In a speech at the Otago Chamber of Commerce London: Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Britain’s largest taxpayer-owned lender, said some of its biggest trading clients must pay interest on collateral as a consequence of low central bank interest rates. Some of the bank’s institutional clients .
There is an obsession with negative nominal interest rates. People seem to think that they make no sense. And, there is a fixation with keeping track of the fraction of sovereign debt that is trading at negative nominal rates. (At this writing, the number a figure that equates to a meager 0.35% return on its investment—a rate that doesn't even keep pace with inflation. The Port Authority now has a plan to transform One World Trade Center from albatross to blue chip. Under pressure to return to its Trading in the U.S. index futures suggests that Wall Street stocks may open Thursday's session modestly lower, as traders stay guarded, given the nervousness over the trajectory of the Fed rate. Commodities are mostly higher and the dollar is weak. CENTRAL BANKS: Rate decisions in Peru and Serbia. ECONOMY: U.S. jobless claims (weekly), consumer credit (July) and Bloomberg Consumer Comfort (weekly); Mexico inflation (Aug.); Chile inflation (Aug.); China trade (Aug.); South Africa mining production .