speculators

In addition to targeting foreign speculators, the tax is designed to affect Canadians from outside of the province, who are thought to be having a significant impact on B.C. housing prices. It will also impact B.C. residents who own homes that are empty for over six months of the year in certain cities. This will ...

News about BLACK getting a movie deal has seen the speculators jump on back issues of the series, with pretty much every issue being hoovered off eBay at whatever price the seller had it up for. So, after not selling a copy for days on eBay, BLACK #1 is selling for $8, and all the retailer exclusive versions ...

Copper Non-Commercial Speculator Positions: Large metals speculators increased their bullish net positions in the copper futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday. The non-commercial ...

Early Saturday local time, the U.S., U.K. and France coordinated a missile attack on Syria, bombing three government sites suspected of being chemical weapons facilities. The move was in response to a suspected chemical attack on the town of Douma last week which killed dozens. U.S. President Donald ...

Beyond the candy speculators, people are trying to hold onto a piece of their youth, Candyfavorites.com's Prince said. "What people are really trying to stockpile is a connection to their youth and their past," he said. "You're trying to hold onto a little piece of a time in life when things were cheaper and life ...

The Japanese yen is the sweetheart of global speculators. Speculators loath uncertainty but thrive on calculated risk, and the yen offers unparalleled favorable odds for fast-paced global money managers. Incredible but true, it is with almost 100 percent certainty that any new crisis or sudden bad news in ...

Bogle: This volatility is of interest to speculators, not long-term investors. 2:02 PM ET Thu, 5 April 2018. Vanguard Founder Jack Bogle tries to make sense of today's markets, in light of a brewing trade war and rising rate environment. Watch CNBC Live TV ...

But a speculator who enters the market shortly after the currency is listed might potentially earn lower returns. ... arrived at these conclusions by comparing mining and speculating for the 18 altcoins against Bitcoin and Litecoin using opportunity cost to estimate potential profits for miners and speculators.

Aluminium prices inched up by 0.89 per cent to Rs 135.70 per kg in futures market today as speculators built up fresh positions, taking positive cues from the spot market on uptick in demand. At the Multi Commodity Exchange, aluminium for delivery in March hardened by Rs 1.20, or 0.89 per cent to Rs ...

As US inflationary pressure remains conspicuous by its absence and signs emerge that the economy may be slowing early this year, speculators are ... Chicago futures markets data show that hedge funds and other speculators now hold their biggest short dollar position against other major currencies ...

This letter is in response to the Tuesday, March 12, Marshall Independent story titled “Farmland Prices Drop.” Minnesota University Extension educator David Bau in other papers has written about rent prices, putting farmer against farmer, (and land owner against tenant), when he should be talking about ...

Non-commercial large futures traders, including hedge funds and large speculators, had an overall US dollar net position totaling $-14.61 billion as of Tuesday March 13th, ... This week saw only one substantial change (+ or – 10,000 contracts) in the individual currency contracts for the speculator category.

WASHINGTON - EPA chief Scott Pruitt suggested Monday that the government might limit Wall Street's ability to trade ethanol-blending tax credits as a way to lower costs for refineries. Federal law requires refiners to blend gasoline with up to 10 percent ethanol, but allows companies that don't to meet their ...

Non-commercial large futures traders, including hedge funds and large speculators, had an overall US dollar net position totaling $-11.46 billion as of ... The currency speculator positions that rose against the US dollar this week were the Japanese yen (9,806 weekly change in contracts), Swiss franc (7,522 ...

The CoT report is longer-term sentiment indicator; for short-term indications see the IG Client Sentiment page. The most recent Commitment of Traders (CoT) report showed large speculators flipping net-short in silver for the first time in nearly 15 years, an unusual occurrence indeed. While in gold, the same ...

Oil prices have bounced back a lot, despite recent softer price action that sees crude near $60. That's put near-month crude at a hefty premium to out-months, a so-called backwardation of the WTI curve. As shown in the chart below, the ~10% premium for front-month over year-ahead crude is about as high ...

There has been quite an uproar the past few years about the seemingly “mystical and all-knowing” funds and speculators in the commodity marketplace. They're the scapegoat when prices rally too fast and you feel you sold your crop too soon. They're the enemy to point to when prices crash unexpectedly ...

Mexico should move to discourage speculators in its clean-energy auctions by embracing a pre-qualification system similar to those in place in Brazil and South Africa, says Steve Sawyer, secretary-general at the Global Wind Energy Council. Mexico's first three clean-energy auctions, held between March ...