Traders have been chasing phantoms—handwringing over Fed independence, apocalyptic chatter about economic collapse—while the price action quietly betrays their fear. Markets punish those who trade on ...

Beneath all of this, the Lisa Cook saga — whispers about Fed independence and political intrusion — has barely made a dent in rates or FX. Traders aren’t seeing evidence that monetary policy ...

LONDON/NEW YORK, May 30 (Reuters) - The increasing frequency of flash crashes in the $5.1 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market has regulators scrambling for answers. Sudden, violent and often ...

Luis Aguilar, a senior commissioner at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is calling for a one-off alert to warn retail investors about the potential risks of trading off-exchange ...

March 21 (Reuters) - The foreign exchange market is on a heightened state of alert following contrasting interest rate surprises from the Swiss National Bank and Taiwan central bank on Thursday, and a ...

A wave of better-than-expected purchasing managers’ indexes, or PMIs, has pushed most equity markets up in Asia and into the black. Yesterday's PMI data from Markit showed that even the weakest ...

Emerging-markets currency exchange-traded funds are an old friend around here. Use the weakness radiating from Asia as a chance to review the thematic plays on the table. Just about every major market ...

LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The increasing frequency of flash crashes in the $5.1 trillion-a-day (£4 trillion) foreign exchange market has regulators scrambling for answers. Sudden, violent and often ...