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Originally published by guppytraders.com Tuesday January 1 the Australian dollar crashed to 0.6745 before closing at 0.6915. Thursday January 3 the Australian dollar crashed again to 0.67.41 before...

Data released overnight shows that U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have taken a significant bite out of both China's imports, which dropped 7.6% in December, and exports, which fell 4.4%,...

The first trading day of the New Year has come and gone, and oil traders haven’t found it assuring at all. After Wednesday’s soft open in Asia, followed by further weakness in Europe and a...

That oil will likely end the year with its biggest loss since 2014—down 25 percent—and its worst December since 2015, off 11 percent, is no longer news. What everyone wants to know is how...

As we go to press, it looks as if 2018 may become known as the year the Trump Bump became the Trump Slump. Equity markets—which had for much of the year been robust enough to shrug off such...

It was a low-key speech delivered by a crop academic in Texas, the second smallest wheat growing state in the US. But in outlining his case for wheat in 2019, Texas A&M agricultural economist Mark...

When Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih leaves Vienna on Friday, he may be beset by two bigger worries than the current oil price crisis. The first is that Russia, rather than Riyadh, has become...

The curse of shale is its gift of cheap oil to the world, so much that few remember the spectacular blow-up of US drillers during the crude price crash of two years ago. Hedge funds, of course, can...