WHY AFRICAN MILLENNIALS CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF BITCOIN

Bitcoin classes Martin Serugga, a sharply dressed currency trader in Kampala warns people to be cautious too... READ MORE›

DOLLAR RALLIES AFTER DATA, FED MINUTES; WORLD SHARES HOLD RECORD HIGHS

The euro fell to a session low versus the dollar after the release of minutes from last month's Federal Reserve meeting... READ MORE›

BITCOIN FALLS ON S.KOREA CURBS ON DIGITAL CURRENCY TRADE

The announcement came as the hyper-wired South emerged as a hotbed for cryptocurrency trading, accounting for some 20 percent of global bitcoin transactions... READ MORE›

ASIAN STOCKS NEAR A RECORD HIGH AS TRADING THINS MARKETS WRAP

Ten-year Treasury yields advanced toward 2.43 percent after the biggest intraday slide since the start of December on Wednesday... READ MORE›

ETHIOPIA MOVES TO COMBAT FOREX TRADING ON BLACK MARKET

The National Bank of Ethiopia NBE has initiated processes to better regulate foreign exchange transactions and by that weaken the black market... READ MORE›

GLOBAL MARKETS-ASIAN SHARES RISE AMID US TAX CUT HOPES CHINA INFOCUS

Japan's Nikkei was the best performer in the region, rising 1.3 percent to edge closer to a 25-year peak of 23,382 points set last month... READ MORE›

EURO STEADIES AFTER BIG DROP AS MARKETS LOOK BEYOND POLITICS

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel raised the prospect on Monday of a new election after talks on forming a three-way coalition collapsed... READ MORE›

SOUTH KOREA'S FX DEPOSITS MARK BIGGEST-EVER JUMP IN OCTOBER

Deposits denominated in U.S. dollars rose 7.82 billion to 62.47 billion for the month, which accounted for 85.2 percent of the total foreign exchange deposits... READ MORE›

ZIMBABWE DOESN'T HAVE ITS OWN CURRENCY AND BITCOIN IS SURGING

Demand for bitcoin in Zimbabwe has surged amid a shortage of hard currency... READ MORE›

THE DOLLAR IS NOW MORE CORRELATED WITH OIL THAN SOME PETROCURRENCIES

Meanwhile, the link is getting weaker between oil and the currencies of major oil producers such as Russia and Canada... READ MORE›

HUMANS ARE BECOMING LESS IMPORTANT IN THE WORLD'S BIGGEST MARKET

That's the conclusion of trading and foreign-exchange heads surveyed by the organizers of the TradeTech FX conference in Miami... READ MORE›

DOLLAR SAGS AS U.S. YIELDS SLIP, AUSSIE TAKES RBA HOLD IN STRIDE

The Australian dollar was little changed at 0.7692 AUD D4 after gaining about 0.5 percent the previous day against the broadly weaker dollar... READ MORE›

ASIA SHARES STUMBLE FROM DECADE HIGHS OIL HITS TWO-YEAR TOP ON SAUDI PURGE

The dollar index .DXY held near four-month highs against a basket of currencies, while the euro EUR trod water to loiter around its lowest since July... READ MORE›

PEOPLE'S BANK OF CHINA SEEN SUPPORTING YUAN AROUND TRUMP VISIT

China is leaving nothing to chance during next week's visit by U.S. President Donald Trump, and will likely fortify the value of the yuan... READ MORE›

BREXIT HAS MADE THE UK 'THE SEVENTH BEST VALUE HOLIDAY DESTINATION IN THE WORLD'

Estonian capital Tallinn is number one, followed by Lanzarote in the Canary Islands and the US state of Arizona... READ MORE›

CHINESE STOCKS FALL, YUAN SLIPS AS GROWTH AND PROPERTY COOL

The Chinese yuan also eased against the US dollar... READ MORE›

CATALONIA RELIEF SENDS EURO TO TWO-WEEK HIGH

But the situation is still potentially incidiary, said Rabobank currency strategist Jane Foley, in London... READ MORE›

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A LESSON FROM HURRICANE IRMA CAPITALISM CANT SAVE THE PLANET IT CAN ONLY DESTROY IT

The environmental crisis demands a new ethics, politics and economics... READ MORE›

ASIA'S UGLY DUCKLING OF THE YEAR IS THE PHILIPPINE PESO

Political developments might be the catalyst to drive the dollar-peso higher, said Alan Cayetano, Manila-based head of foreign-exchange trading at the bank... READ MORE›

HERE ARE THE BEST AND WORST PERFORMING ASSETS OF 2016

Were the worst performing, as rating agency Moody's Investors Service downgraded the firm and warned of a possible default... READ MORE›

DOLLAR SURGES MOST SINCE BREXIT AFTER TRUMP ELECTION SURPRISE

The U.S. currency has risen since mid-August as signs of faster economic growth and accelerating inflation fueled bets on Fed hikes... READ MORE›

FLASH CRASH OF THE POUND BAFFLES TRADERS WITH ALGORITHMS BEING BLAMED

S P 500 Index futures expiring in December rose 0.1 percent, while a gauge of Asian equities lost 0.2 percent... READ MORE›

EGYPT CENTRAL BANK DEVALUES CURRENCY BY 48 PERCENT

This move will allow market demand and supply dynamics to work effectively in order to create an environment of reliable and sustainable provision of foreign currency... READ MORE›

LOSSES PILE UP AS POLITICAL DRAMA MOUNTS

But he's hardly tweeted a word about another, less rosy measure of Trump's America the U.S. dollar... READ MORE›

BITCOIN FRAUD SUSPECT ARRESTED IN GREECE

Police said 38-year-old Alexander Vinnik was held on a US warrant near the northern city of Thessaloniki... READ MORE›

WHY NOBODY TRUSTS THE WORLD'S BEST CURRENCY

The regulator in January removed regulations limiting lenders from buying and selling foreign currency outside a 4 percent band on either side of the official exchange rate... READ MORE›

ROOKIE CURRENCY TRADERS ARE CAUSING BIG PROBLEMS

For the flash crashes that have roiled the 5.1-trillion-a-day currency market over the past two years... READ MORE›

INSTANT VIEW: REACTIONS TO GRAND JURY SUBPOENAS REGARDING DONALD TRUMP JR.

JIM PAULSEN, CHIEF INVESTMENT STRATEGIST, THE LEUTHOLD GROUP, MINNEAPOLIS We're going to get a fair number of these headlines... READ MORE›

GOLDMAN WARNS CHINA'S OUTFLOWS MAY BE WORSE THAN THEY LOOK

The currency fell 0.2 percent to 6.7179 against the dollar at 6 15 p.m in Shanghai, the weakest since September 2010... READ MORE›

HSBC TRADERS USED CODE WORD TO TRIGGER FRONT-RUNNING, U.S. SAYS

New York managed a bit and London just had a bonanza on it, Johnson said... READ MORE›

EURO JUMPS 1.6 PERCENT IN MINUTES AS ALGO ORDERS SURPRISE MARKET

The euro surged as much as 1.6 percent against the dollar in the Asian morning Friday as a rush of computer-generated orders caught traders off guard... READ MORE›

OPEC BE WARNED: RUSSIA PREPARES FOR OIL AT $40

Rising 16 percent from current levels by the end of the year, oil's 10 percent decline in March alone amid supply woes is making the market nervous... READ MORE›

A US-CHINA TRADE WAR IS THE LAST THING THE WORLD NEEDS

Based on the numbers alone, China fits the profile, with annual US-China trade nearing 520 billion and a deficit exceeding 300 billion in 2016... READ MORE›

Big Banking Royal Bank of Scotland has set aside 400m to cover potential costs from an investigation into alleged manipulation of the foreign exchange market... READ MORE›

CHINA TAKES NEW STEP TO DOWNGRADE THE DOLLAR'S PROMINENCE

The move lowers the dollar's weighting by 4 percentage points, to 22.4 percent... READ MORE›

HERE'S WHAT THE LATEST TRUMP-COMEY NEWS IS DOING TO MARKETS

The latest developments in the saga of President Donald Trump and ousted FBI Director James Comey is weighing on a number of assets... READ MORE›

CHINA DEVALUES YUAN AFTER POOR ECONOMIC DATA

But some of Asia's most interventionist central banks appeared to be holding their nerve on currency policy... READ MORE›

NOBODY KNOWS FX CYCLES LIKE JOHN R. TAYLOR, WHO'S BACK UP, AGAIN

Taylor presides over a far smaller and less lucrative operation than during the hedge fund's heyday... READ MORE›

TRUMP BUBBLE BURST WILL DRIVE YEN TO 98 PER DOLLAR UBS WEALTH

UBS Wealth Sees Trump Bubble Burst Strengthening Yen to 98... READ MORE›

GLOBAL DEBT MAY BE UNDERSTATED BY $13 TRILLION

The BIS said non-financial users employ FX forwards and currency swaps for speculation and to hedge international trade and foreign currency bonds... READ MORE›

CURRENCY TRADERS SPOT FATAL FLAW IN REPUBLICANS' BORDER TAX PLAN

That amounts to 0.3 percent of the 4.4 trillion in dollars transacted in the global currency market each day... READ MORE›

ASIAN EXPORT NATIONS WARY DOLLAR BOOST GIVES TRUMP PRETEXT TO BEAT THEM

Asia's trade surpluses with the United States were firmly in Trump's sights during the election campaign... READ MORE›

CHIEF OF BITCOIN EXCHANGE MT. GOX PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO EMBEZZLEMENT

Chief of bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox pleads not guilty to embezzlement Nikkei... READ MORE›

GOOD FOR SHOPPERS, BAD FOR OIL PRODUCERS

Traditionally the value of the Canadian dollar moves with oil as oil prices move higher, the loonie does as well... READ MORE›

U.S. STOCKS SLIP, DOLLAR GAINS AFTER FRENCH VOTE

The common currency faces headwinds after moving further than bonds in recent days, and because data shows investors still shorting the euro, he said... READ MORE›

TRUMP STRONG DOLLAR WARNING SENDS US CURRENCY TUMBLING

President Donald Trump has triggered a sharp decline in the US dollar by criticizing the currency's strength on the back of increased confidence in his presidency... READ MORE›

FIVE WAYS TRUMP CAN GET A WEAKER DOLLAR

Non-Currency Intervention In the end, Trump may just focus on protectionist policies that produced a weaker dollar as a natural consequence... READ MORE›