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© Reuters. Dollar treads water, Trump news conference awaited for direction By Shinichi Saoshiro Stock Trading -  TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar trod water early on Wednesday, showing little inclination to move against major peers such as the euro and yen before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump fronts a news conference that could set the market's near-term direction. The euro was flat at $1.0552  after brushing a 10-day high of $1.0628 overnight. The dollar was steady at 115.765 yen  . The greenback has suffered two days of losses against the safe-haven yen as investors braced for Trump's news conference - his first since winning the election in November. Over the past two months, expectations that the Trump Administration would enact economic stimulus measures backed by massive fiscal spending have taken Wall Street to record highs, U.S. debt yields to levels unseen since 2014, and the  dollar index  to a 14-year peak. Against that backdrop, finan...

© Reuters. Dollar treads water, Trump news conference awaited for direction By Shinichi Saoshiro Stock Trading -  TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar trod water early on Wednesday, showing little inclination to move against major peers such as the euro and yen before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump fronts a news conference that could set the market's near-term direction. The euro was flat at $1.0552  after brushing a 10-day high of $1.0628 overnight. The dollar was steady at 115.765 yen  . The greenback has suffered two days of losses against the safe-haven yen as investors braced for Trump's news conference - his first since winning the election in November. Over the past two months, expectations that the Trump Administration would enact economic stimulus measures backed by massive fiscal spending have taken Wall Street to record highs, U.S. debt yields to levels unseen since 2014, and the  dollar index  to a 14-year peak. Against that backdrop, finan...

© Reuters. Top 5 Things to Know in the Market on Tuesday Stock Trading   - Here are the top five things you need to know in financial markets on Tuesday, January 10: 1. U.S. dollar edges lower as markets eye Trump The  greenback edged lower  against its major rivals on Tuesday, as some investors opted to unwind their bullish dollar bets ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s first news conference since his election victory on Wednesday. The  U.S. dollar index , which measures the greenback’s strength against a trade-weighted basket of six major currencies, was down 0.15% at 101.77 by 5:57 AM ET (10:57GMT). The index fell to as low as 101.48 earlier, pulling further away from last week's 14-year high of 103.82. Against the yen, the dollar was down about 0.2% at 115.78 ( USD/JPY ). Meanwhile, the euro rose around 0.2% to 1.0595 ( EUR/USD ). 2. Sterling sinks to fresh 11-week low on 'hard Brexit' fears The British pound fell to a session low of ...

© Reuters. U.S. dollar notes are seen in this picture illustration Stock Trading -  SYDNEY (Reuters) - The dollar got off to a steady start on Monday after signs of wage pressure in the December U.S. jobs report pushed up Treasury yields, but bulls were wary of a setback following last week's wave of profit-taking. A holiday in Tokyo kept trading light, and the  dollar index  was just a fraction firmer in early trade at 102.26 ( DXY ), near the middle of last week's wide 101.30 to 103.82 range. The dollar was perched at 117.07 yen, having recovered all the way from an 115.06 trough on Friday, but remained well short of the next major chart target around 118.60. The euro stood at $1.0527, after ricocheting between $1.0339 and $1.0621 last week. There were enough hints of inflationary pressure in Friday's mixed U.S. payrolls report to support the case for more interest rate hikes and reverse a down move in yields and the dollar. Yields on U.S. 10-year not...

© Reuters. Now at $3 trillion level. Stock Trading   - Forex reserves in China shrank last month, but ended the year above U.S. $3 trillion, according to figures released by the People's Bank of China this weekend. The report comes among rising debate on whether the Chinese government will strategically defend the yuan or prevent depletion of its reserves. The People’s Bank of China figures released on Saturday said that foreign exchange reserves fell by U.S. $41 billion in December to U.S. $3.01 trillion. Forex reserves dropped by U.S. $319.8 billion for Beijing last year. The government said later the central bank’s efforts to stabilize the yuan were the primary reason for the decline in its reserves during 2016. “In terms of the situation in December, the central bank’s supply of foreign exchange to adjust market demand and supply, the depreciation of non-U.S. dollar currencies against the greenback, and other factors, led to the decline of foreign exchange reserve...

Aussie gains in Asia Stock Trading - The Aussie gained on Monday in Asia in thin trade with markets in Tokyo shut and investors awaiting remarks from President-elect Donald Trump at a planned press conference this week as well as a slate of Fed speakers, including Chair Janet Yellen AUD/USD  gained 0.19% to 0.7318, while UJSD/JPY changed hands at 117.24, up 0.18%. In Australia, building approvals rose 7.0% on November month-on-month, well above the 4.6% gain seen, while private house approvals fell 0.2% in November, following a 2.3% decline the previous month. Earlier on Monday, Australia forecast a dramatic decline in the price of iron ore -- its most valuable export commodity -- over the next two years to well below current market prices with the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science expecting average prices at $51.60 a metric ton this year and $46.70 in 2018, compared with current spot prices of around $80, double the price a year ago. The department predicte...

© Reuters. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks next to children toys during his weekly broadcast "En Contacto con Maduro" (In contact with Maduro) at Miraflores Palace in Caracas CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro announced on Sunday a 50 percent hike in the minimum wage and pensions, the fifth increase over the last year, to help shield workers from the world's highest inflation rate. The measure puts the minimum monthly salary at 40,683 bolivars - about $60 at the weakest exchange level under the state's currency controls, or $12 at the black market rate. "To start the year, I have decided to raise salaries and pensions," he said on his weekly TV and radio program. "In times of economic war and mafia attacks ... we must protect employment and workers' income," added Maduro, who has now increased the minimum wage by a cumulative 322 percent since February 2016. The 54-year-old success...

© Reuters. Men walk past an electronic board showing Japan's Nikkei average outside a brokerage in Tokyo HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian stocks are poised to rise on Monday and the dollar firmed against a basket of currencies after the latest payrolls data highlighted U.S. jobs and wage growth. Financial markets will be carefully tuned to President-elect Donald Trump's news conference on Wednesday with his views on global trade and China under close scrutiny, although investors would be wary of chasing any big market moves higher. MSCI's ex-Japan Asia-Pacific shares index ( MIAPJ0000PUS ) was broadly flat, holding near one-month highs. Australia's S&P/ASX200 ( AXJO ) rose 0.5 percent. Japan is closed for a holiday. U.S. stocks ended at record highs fueled by optimism about Trump's plans to stimulate the economy with lower taxes and infrastructure spending. Both the Nasdaq ( IXIC ) and the S&P 500 ( SPX ) ended at record highs. In currencies, the doll...

$78 trillion is a massive number, & according to Citigroup, that is the amount of unfunded pension liabilities incurred by the richest 20 countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD). These countries include the US, UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, & central Europe, among others. The report also noted that most US & UK corporate pension plans were also severely underfunded. The problem here is that governments have borrowed more money than can ever be paid back, & they have made promises of entitlements that are hopelessly underfunded. We are already seeing the impact of unfunded pension funds. Detroit went bankrupt, primarily because it could not afford to pay its pensioners. If the city's pensioners had not agreed to a series of cuts to the pension plan, according to the Kresge Foundation's Rip Rapson, "Detroit could have been in bankruptcy court for maybe a decade". Now in the US, the Governm...

Financial Services Financial Services is a term used to refer to the services provided by the finance market. Financial Services is also the term used to describe organizations that deal with the management of money. Examples are the Banks, investment banks, insurance companies, credit card companies and stock brokerages. It is part of a financial system that provides different types of finance through various credit instruments, financial products, and services. These are the types of firms comprising the market, that provide a variety of money and investment related services. These services are the largest market resource within the world, in terms of earnings. The challenges faced by these Services market are forcing market participants to keep pace with technological advances and to become more proactive and efficient while keeping in mind to reduce costs and risks. These Services have been able to represent an increasingly significant financial driver and a significant...

For the moment, she works for Whole Foods and walks dogs for extra cash. The rest of the time, though, she climbs - indoors or outdoors, it doesn't matter. Every time she's able to put together a few days of paid time off... she's off scaling mountains in Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee or Colorado. And now she's ready to take this hobby to the next step. A month ago, L told me she's going to commit to climbing - all the time. That means living out of a van, one she's been outfitting herself. It'll have a bed, a mini-kitchen, gear storage - everything she'll need to live life on the open road. Now this might seem like an unusual choice, but L is 25 - she's a millennial. And her generation is increasingly able to make decisions like these because millennials are incredibly adept at exploiting the new technologies that make them possible. In fact, these technologies are setting up to make investors a fortune... One of the potentially bi...