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  1. Finance Blogger: Anthony Harrington

    Japan's economy: pushing stones uphill, the return of Sisyphus

    On 12 June Japan's Nikkei index fell 6.25% to 12,445, it rallied a touch the next day, but that drop was sharp enough to send shock waves through the Japanese political establishment and to put chills into the heart of the global investment community. Just a few weeks earlier, on 22 May, the Nikkei peaked a few points short of 16000 under the influence of bold statements from the Japanese Prime Minister and the Governor of the country's central bank, who said, more or less, that they intended to run the printing presses flat out to get rid of the deflation that has plagued the country for two decades, and to restore a "healthy" rate of inflation, somewhere around 2%.

  2. Finance Blogger: Anthony Harrington

    Manipulating the gold price - nice work if you can get it... Part 2

    In Part One of our account of Chris Martenson's anatomization of the way the gold price is manipulated by the bullion banks, we looked primarily at how the manipulation is carried out. In this blog we look at Martenson's rather more far reaching assertion that there is a reason why the authorities turn a blind eye to blatant price manipulation, even though it is technically illegal.

  3. Finance Blogger: All About Alpha

    Asia’s Stories: Equities, Wages, Exports

    The average wage rate in China and to a lesser extent in Thailand has been surging, especially in period since 2007. In other countries in the region it has remained more-or-less constant.

  4. Finance Blogger: Anthony Harrington

    Manipulating the gold price - nice work if you can get it... Part 1

    Professional traders and the army of day traders who watch the gyrations of their particular markets day in and day out take it as written that markets are manipulated. Everyone is at it. In a real sense, this is simply how markets work. "Horse trading" where buyers and sellers each try to gain an advantage works if there are enough buyers and sellers out there to create the conditions for a competitive market. Anti-trust and government or pan-national organizations aimed at discovering and breaking up cartel price-fixing activities are all about trying to ensure that markets stay competitive and prices are always under competitive pressure.

  5. Finance Blogger: Economy Watch

    The Economics Of The Illegal Wildlife Trade

    The illegal trade of animals or animal parts has become one of the most lucrative black market activities in the world. Driven by the promise of high profit margins, poachers in Africa – namely militias, armed groups, and insurgent groups – have driven rhinos and elephants close to extinction, while murdering hundreds of park rangers in the process. NGOs and governments now face a race against time to reduce demand for wildlife trade, particularly in Asia, as well as to equip those on the frontline to fight a well-armed enemy.

  6. Finance Blogger: QFINANCE Editor

    QFINANCE: financial news roundup (May 17- 23, 2013)

    QFINANCE brings you some of the biggest news stories from the past five days, May 17th to 23rd, in finance and business – essential reading to keep you up to date with the latest topics.

  7. Finance Blogger: Mindful Money

    How is the Abenomics economic experiment going in Japan?

    Last Monday saw plenty of action in the markets of the Far East with the price of Silver falling by 7% at one point before recovering to around 4% down at US $21.40 as I type this. However if we move to my subject of today there were also wild swings in the exchange rate of the Japanese Yen which were initially triggered by these words uttered on Japanese television by economy minister Amari.

  8. Finance Blogger: Anthony Harrington

    How rigged are the markets? Libor, ISDAfix, and now the oil price...

    It seems that news about the fixing of trillion dollar markets is becoming, well, rather routine. First there was Libor, then there was the announcement that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CTFC) was investigating the possible rigging of the interest rate swap rate, another market in the hundreds of trillions. Then in mid-April the EU announced that it was investigating possible price manipulation in the $165 trillion physical-oil market. That's three price fixing scandals slap bang on each other's heels, all involving trillion dollar markets.

  9. Finance Blogger: QFINANCE Editor

    QFINANCE: financial news roundup (May 10- 15, 2013)

    Each week QFINANCE.com brings you some of the biggest news stories from 10-15 May in finance and business – essential reading to keep you up to date with the latest topics.

  10. Finance Blogger: Anthony Harrington

    ECB rate cut perturbs the euro

    There is a grim inevitability about the way in which analysts pour over every utterance from senior figures at the European Central Bank, weighing every phrase for its dovish or its hawkish qualities. At the time of writing, more than a week has passed since the ECB decided to try to stimulate the flagging EU economy by cutting its main refinancing rate to a record low of 0.5%. Banks and analysts had been on tender hooks wondering which way the ECB will go.

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