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Here’s what happens when the #readers choose the front page story

What if front pages were selected by newspapers’ readers instead of their editors?  At NewsWhip, we’re always interested in the news stories people are choosing to share – and how those stories differ from the normal news stories editors put on the front pages of big newspapers. So we ran a little experiment.

http://blog.newswhip.com/

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11 Ugly Charts That Confirm China’s Dramatic Slowdown

11 Ugly Charts That Confirm China’s Dramatic Slowdown

During the National People’s Congress, China’s policymakers announced that it would target 7.5% GDP growth target for 2014.
This is down from 7.7% growth in 2013, and the recent data shows that the economy is clearly off to a slower start to the year.

Before we launch into the data, it’s important to remember that part of the slowdown is intended by China’s policymakers as they try to clamp down on lax lending standards and rebalance the economy toward domestic demand driven growth.

 

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-economic-slowdown-in-11-charts-2014-3#ixzz2vslB3lLH

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/

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China’s central bank is prepared to take its strongest action since 2012

China’s central bank is prepared to take its strongest action since 2012 to loosen monetary policy if economic growth slows further, by cutting the amount of cash that banks must keep as reserves, sources involved in internal policy discussions say.

A cut would be triggered if growth slips below 7.5 per cent and towards 7.0 per cent, they said, and would come on top of money market operations and currency intervention via state banks that traders say has already loosened monetary conditions.

Apart from supporting a stumbling economy, the stronger action of cutting bank reserves would provide a cushion against any shocks from financial reforms that the central bank is widely expected to push through this year, including a widening of the yuan’s trading band to give the currency more room to rise or fall each day and allowing banks more room to set deposit rates.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/

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Business Banking The foreign exchange trader: ‘the closer you get to 4pm, the less the risk’

Caspar Marney, a veteran of forex desks, now teaches others how the impenetrable markets work

“Banks don’t have to beat the market to make money. They just have to beat their customers.”

So says Caspar Marney, a foreign exchange trader of about 20 years’ experience, including spells at major City banks such as UBS and HSBC.

The former paratrooper has been playing those markets using his own statistical methods on behalf of private clients since 1999, and gives lectures to others keen to learn how this impenetrable scene really works – which seems to be in a very different way to how most of us imagined.

On Tuesday, Bank of England governor Mark Carney admitted that allegations of exploitation in foreign exchange markets could prove to be a bigger scandal than the manipulation of Libor, following last year’s revelations that the £3tn-a-day global trade in currencies might have been rigged.

“A bank’s spot [currency trading] desk doesn’t generally beat the market,” Marney adds. “They extract profit from their orders. Orders are information. Every bit of information stacks the deck. And the closer you get to 4pm, the less the risk [of the price moving against you].”

http://www.theguardian.com/

 

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