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@barnejek It is to my great shame I have not got around to reading that yet :) I can't help it with the HUF. Makes me think of 3 little pigs
RT @fastFT Euro's summer resilience rolls on... | More on ft.com/fastFT
“When you can give up something any time, as long as it’s next Tuesday" The problem with trying to withdraw QE ft.com/cms/s/0/7fe26e…
Markets Insight: QE addiction may be hard to kick
ft.com — Financial markets are focusing on the potential exit from the expansionary fiscal and monetary measures, low or zero interest rates and quantitative easing that policy makers have relied on to engineer a recovery. Central banks believe they will be
Dollar up pretty much across the board this morning as the Fed's FOMC prepares to meet to discuss tapering. Dollar index at 80.8
Weird - Russia's finmin is talking about weakening the ruble even as the central bank has been buying it this month bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-1…
Russia Nixes Central Bank Growth Mandate as Weaker Ruble
bloomberg.com — Russia rejected a proposal to pin some of the responsibility for ensuring economic expansion on the central bank and may use a weaker ruble to salvage growth and replenish the budget, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said.
Albeit v similar to his ECB comments RT @fastFT Draghi's "open mind" on non-standard measures hits euro... | More on ft.com/fastFT
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Citi says the absence of importers from the market on a holiday in South Africa has helped the rand to strengthen. Dollar down 0.3%.
It's Not Just Nice to Share, It's the Future
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com — Some people in New York love the city's new bike-sharing system. Some people really, really do not. One of the latter is Dorothy Rabinowitz, an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal, who in a five-minute opinion video called "Death by Bicycle" - this is apparently not a parody - charges that bikes are the city's "most important danger" and that Citi Bikes have "begrimed" the city's best neighborhoods.Sign up to discover more journalists who cover Business and Finance and more.
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