Archive for the September 13, 2019
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Belgium's former world number one Kim Clijsters announced on Thursday her return to competitive tennis in 2020, seven years after retiring to become a stay-at-home mum of three children. The 36-year-old four-time singles Grand Slam
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The dollar rose to a six-week high against the safe-haven yen on Thursday after an exchange of olive branches between Washington and Beijing on trade stoked investors' appetite for risk. Export-driven Asian currencies from Taiwan
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The euro skidded below $1.10 on Thursday after the European Central Bank cut interest rates and unexpectedly relaunched a quantitative easing programme as well to boost the region's economy. Investors had expected a rate cut
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The euro gained against the dollar on Thursday, erasing earlier losses, after the European Central Bank launched new stimulus but failed to live up to some dovish market expectations. The ECB cut its deposit rate
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The euro fell to a one-week low against the greenback on Wednesday, a day before the European Central Bank is expected to add further stimulus in a bid to boost the region's economy. ECB policymakers
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The Australian dollar hovered near six-week highs on Thursday as risk assets got a fillip after US President Donald Trump agreed to make a small concession in his trade war with China, while the kiwi
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The Turkish lira weakened in early trade on growing anticipation that an expected central bank interest rate cut at Thursday's policy-setting meeting could exceed a poll forecast of 250 basis points. Concerns about Turkey-US tensions
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Concessions by Beijing and Washington before planned talks aimed at defusing their bitter trade dispute on Thursday sparked a rally among Asian currencies, with that of export-dependent Taiwan leading the gains. Others that had solid
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Sterling slipped a quarter of a percent on Thursday against the euro but firmed against the dollar, as the single currency enjoyed a broad rebound in the wake of the European Central Bank's new stimulus
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On Wednesday at Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited, PMEX Commodity Index closed at 4,193. The traded value of Metals, Energy and COTS/FX was recorded at PKR 4.877 billion and the numbers of lots traded were 9,139.
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