Day: July 2, 2022

Jul 02
Alcoa’s stock slumps as ‘operational challenges’ leads to partial curtailment of Indiana facility

Shares of Alcoa Corp. AA, -1.76% slumped 3.5% toward a seven-month low in afternoon trading Friday, after the aluminum producer said it will immediately start curtailing one of three smelting lines that are operating at its Warrick Operations facility in Indiana, citing “operational challenges.” The company said the one line, which has an annual capacity […]

Jul 02
JAPANESE YEN FUTURES (6J1!), H1 Potential For Bullish Rise

Type: Bullish RiseKey Levels:Resistance: 0.0076495Pivot: 0.0074610Support: 0.0073395Preferred Case:On the H4, with moving above the ichimoku cloud , we have a bullish bias that price will rise to the pivot at 0.0074610 in line with the swing high resistance, 78.6% fibonacci retracement and 7100% fibonacci projection. Once there is upside confirmation, we would expect bullish momentum […]

Jul 02
CANADIAN DOLLAR FUTURES (6C1!), H1 Potential For Bearish Drop

Type: Bearish MomentumKey Levels:Resistance: 0.77755Pivot: 0.77410Support: 0.76840Preferred Case:On the H1, with price moving below the ichimoku cloud and along a descending trendline , we have a bearish bias that price will drop from the pivot at 0.77410 in line with the overlap resistance and 23.6% fibonacci retracement to the 1st support at 0.76840 where the […]

Jul 02
Biden says Dems need ‘two more votes’ in the Senate to change the filibuster and codify abortion rights

President Biden called on Americans to vote in November to expand Democrats majority in the Senate by 2, so that his party has the votes to reform the filibuster in order to pass a law that guarantees American women the right to an abortion in all 50 states. “Congress is going to have to act […]

Jul 02
Gold pares losses after a dip below the key $1,800 mark; silver settles at a 2-year low

Gold futures pared much of their losses by Friday’s settlement, after a dip below the key $1,800-an-ounce mark, while worries that a recession would hurt demand for industrial metals pulled silver prices to their lowest in about two years. Gold moved up from the session lows after the 10-year Treasury yield extended declines following a […]

Jul 02
Labour market recovery after the pandemic – Central Bank report

Q4 2021 saw 2.5 million people in employment, the highest on record. Strong employment was supported by the domestic labour force, with migration playing a smaller role Two groups drove this labour force expansion; under 25s and women over 35.  Evidence that there are longer running trends that have encouraged women to remain part of […]

Jul 02
Central Bank of Ireland hosts inaugural meeting of the Climate Forum and publishes Sustainable Investment Charter

Climate Forum will meet twice yearly and brings together climate change experts, industry representative bodies, regulated firms, and Central Bank representatives. Central Bank also publishes its first Sustainable Investment Charter. Charter provides a guide to apply sustainable investment principles to the Central Bank’s investment assets. The Central Bank of Ireland has hosted the inaugural meeting […]

Jul 02
Statement – Post CEO Roundtable

The Central Bank of Ireland welcomes the statement from the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) following Tuesday’s CEO roundtable meeting, at which the retail banks set out the programme of work being undertaken by the sector to manage the migration of personal and business bank accounts. The work outlined focuses on the four areas […]

Jul 02
Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm – Fraudulent firm clones Fire Financial Services Limited T/A fire.com and Fire

It has come to the Central Bank of Ireland’s (‘Central Bank’) attention that a fraudulent entity has been claiming to be a retail credit firm in the State in the absence of an appropriate authorisation. In this instance the fraudulent entity cloned and impersonated a legitimate Central Bank authorised firms in order to deceive consumers. […]

Jul 02
Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm – Renfrew Capital Management (Clone)

It has come to the attention of the Central Bank of Ireland (‘Central Bank’) that a scam entity by the name Renfrew Capital Management (Ireland and Bermuda), formerly operating the website https://renfrewcapitalmgmt.com, has been claiming to be an investment firm / investment business firm in the State in the absence of appropriate authorisations. In this […]