Based on Google analytics tracking, here are the top courses on the Corporate Finance e-education portal this month. Structured Products: Basic Products, sample term sheet and pricing | Learning Corporate Finance - 171 Views Calculating Forward Prices, Forward Rates and Forward Rate Agreements (FRA) – Calculation reference | Learning Corporate Finance - 146 Views Asset Liability [...]
It took five months to break through the Technorati Rating system but earlier this month Learning Corporate Finance finally became a Technorati Top 100 Finance blog. Couldn’t have done this without our content team (Agnes, Nabil and Adnan) and our super editor (Uzma) or our designer (Nida Faizi) or without the marvelous technological platform of [...]
The trend for crude oil is now very clearly established. Sell the minute it crosses 80 barrels per dollar for crude and buy once it gets closer to 70 dollars per barrel. I think the trade is worth about 5 dollars each way if you get in at the right time. I won’t do options [...]
Hang up your trading shoes and run for the hills. The Yen is heading towards 80 Yen to a dollar (if you believe everything you read) as the world switches to safe havens rather than risk. Double dip anyone? The FOMC certainly thinks so! On the same note, the relatively higher safe haven inflows into [...]
With the Euro nicely recovering from its low of 1.18, the momentum that pushed gold beyond 1,256 dollars an ounce is now gone. Combine this with deflationary pressures in the US and the upcoming elections in November and we should see weakening in Gold from its current level to its pre-Euro zone crisis level of [...]
It looks as if crude oil prices are ready to head lower, this time all the way down past 65 dollars per barrel of crude oil. From a momentum point of view the recent rally in oil has not been able to break past 80 and the rash of bad news about the US economy [...]
Crude Oil Macroeconomic forecast model Given the nature of our economy, one key factors effecting the economic outlook of Pakistan is the country’s balance of payments in particular the balance on its current account. In turn the major factor impacting the surplus/ deficit of the current account has been its sensitivity to oil price changes [...]
US, China, Japan and Australia all had “growth” news and numbers with Australia even mentioning the “I” word. Crude oil NYMEX July futures trading between 74 and 75 per barrel. Goldman cuts its Euro target to 1.15 on anticipated future euro “policy mishaps”. Three economic indicators and two policy rate decisions are due today including: [...]
American Petroleum Institute inventories drop by larger than expected numbers (4.5 million barrels versus 1.3 barrels of crude oil) while Oil hovers around 72 dollars a barrel in New York. Euro bounces back to 1.1973 on news of intervention and calming comments by Fed Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke on the pace of recovery in the [...]
