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Oil Demand Impacts Foreign Exchange Rates

To say that the past year has been an extraordinary period for the global oil market would be an understatement. Entering into 2020, the commodity was still feeling the impact of the late 2019 drone attack on a Saudi Aramco oil processing facility. In early 2020, oil prices were highly volatile in the aftermath of the killing of Iran’s Qasem Soleimani.

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Gold Up Almost Everywhere in 2014

When looking at prices of anything from cars to oil to gold or stocks… we need to keep in mind our personal frame of reference. We see prices as they are priced in our currency i.e. the currency that we earn in. International companies are especially aware of this as their income can be in one currency while their expenses are in another.

Using a U.S. centric frame of reference we might think that gold didn’t perform very well in 2014 but people from the rest of the world would disagree. Today, Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst for Casey Research looks at the effects of currencies on the price of gold. ~Tim McMahon, editor.

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Currency Trading – An Increasingly Popular Investment Option

There are so many different investment instruments available today that it can be difficult to determine which is right for you. If you only have a small amount of investment capital that you are using as a means to get your “feet wet” in the investment marketplace, the decision can be daunting. This is why

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