The latest hot topic among economic talking heads is the coming currency war. According to conventional wisdom, there’s a risk that major countries will – simultaneously – try to revive their sluggish ...

Crucially, currency profits have proved to be both steady and uncorrelated with results from banks’ other capital markets businesses. Since 2000, RBS has earned almost exactly the same amounts from ...

RBC says at least four events this week herald the re-emergence of the theme. First, the Federal Reserve stepped up its quantitative easing programme – a move that many see as an attempt to engineer a ...

Last month, Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega revived his “currency war” claim. Two years earlier, he had begun talking about such a war between developed economies, primarily the United States ...

Paused rate cuts and full-blown currency wars await markets and investors in 2025, predicts deVere Group CEO Nigel Green. Investors should prepare for heightened volatility in global markets as ...

The evolution of the use of derivatives by corporations in Latin America has not been straightforward. The fallout from the spectacular misuse of FX hedging products by some Latin American corporates ...