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GBP/USD: Pound Punished On Polarized Politics
Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 10:18am | 561GBP/USD has resumed its falls after initially rising in reaction to the EU elections. Fears of a hard Brexit and no progress in US-Sino trade relations weigh. The four-hour chart shows the bears leading against the bulls. Did Leave or Remain win the European elections? While Nigel Farage's...
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Sterling Comfortably Numb In Mid-1.3100s Amid Brexit Stalemate
Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 10:43am | 516The GBP/USD is trading little changed on the downside in mid-1.3100s amid Brexit stalemate. The UK government has a deadline until Sunday-next Monday to conclude Brexit negotiations before the vote in House of Commons on Brexit deal. The Bank of England officials acknowledged future monetary...
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Another Brexit ETF Idea
Friday, March 4, 2016 - 10:18am | 520With Great Britain's referendum on its future in the European Union slated for late June, there is increasing talk regarding which corners of the UK's financial markets are vulnerable. That speculation carries over to U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds such as the Guggenheim CurrencyShares...
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Windows Phone Sales Near Double Digits In Key European Markets (MSFT)
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - 10:35am | 570Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows Phone sales share in Europe approached double digits in August, according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Although Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android platform was still king of the hill at 70.1 percent market share, Windows Phone’s 9.2 percent number across the...
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For All the King's Kroner: A Question of Leadership and Politics
Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 9:46pm | 2575Is it time that we have a national discussion on leadership and viable political discourse in America? Given political dysfunctionality in Washington, economic uncertainty ailing everyday citizens, and recent headlines that illustrate sensitive divisions in the US, perhaps a bit more effective...