Market Sense

The UK pound has hit an all time high against the US dollar at $2.067 per pound last Tuesday. Such high level of appreciation of the UK pound against US dollar occurred last twenty-six years back, on 5 November 1980 when the dollar touched a low of...

A faltering US dollar, that had touched its all time low compared with Euro last Friday, has favorably affected US exports by reducing its trade deficit but a strong Euro is not good news for European exporters with exports to the countries trading...

After two days of bear run in the stock markets worldwide, Wednesday saw stock markets in Asia recoup a part of their losses. The positive investor response was a direct result of the cut in Fed rate by three and a quarter basis points and the better...

The International Monetary Fund and the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation have scaled down the growth potential of the USA, the Euro zone and Japan. The international organizations have come short of declaring that a recession had...

The Fed has become rather agile reacting quickly to any signs of further downturn in the US economy. In keeping with the current trend of monetary activism, the Federal Reserve has further reduced the Fed rate by half basis point to 3%. This rate cut...

Although, Nasdaq has extended deadline for its 31% stake sale in the London Stock Exchange, market rumors are asserting that LSE is supporting the Qatari Investment Authority's bid to end the unwanted ruckus, likely in the coming time. Earlier...

The purpose of high leveraged buyouts is to allow companies to make large buyouts without having to invest a large amount of capital. However, the recent credit crunch has created an unusual problem for the companies in UK that had resorted to...

Yesterday was a 'Black Monday' for investors throughout the globe, with stocks in American, European and the Asian markets witnessing unprecedented downslide amidst fears of the US economy moving towards recession. In London, FTSE crashed by 217.3...

With recession hitting nearly every country in the West, the small businesses are likely to bear the worst brunt of the credit crunch. Small businesses unlike their big brothers often risk everything on one endeavor and without any escape route suffer...

Ben Bernanke the Federal Reserve Chairman said that most of economic problems in the U.S., including the severe housing slump, will cause business growth to slow noticeably in coming months. Fed policymakers last week cut a key interest rate for the...