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Bloc in Europe Starts to Balk Over Austerity
October 17th, 2014
France, Italy and the European Central Bank have coalesced into a bloc against Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, and they are insisting that Berlin change course. With Europe once again rattling global markets, many of the largest European countries ...
SEC Charges New York-Based High Frequency Trading Firm With Fraudulent Trading
October 17th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission sanctioned a New York City-based high frequency trading firm for placing a large number of aggressive, rapid-fire trades in the final two seconds of almost every trading day during a six-month period to manipulate ...
Temporary prohibition of short selling
October 17th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) notifies that it temporarily prohibits short selling in the following instrument under Articles 23 (1) and 26 (4) of Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March ...
ICAEW fines member for improper tax claims
October 17th, 2014
An ICAEW member was severely reprimanded and fined £32,500 for submitting and later amending a personal self assessment tax return that he knew included improper claims against self employed income, or should have known he could not claim those ...
Can rating agencies ruin Russian economy?
October 17th, 2014
Russian Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said that international agencies may soon downgrade Russia, adding that it would be an unfounded move, because the country’s economic indicators remain at a high level. According to the minister, the decision will ...
Australia 200 – Continuing to Fight to Stay Above 5200
October 17th, 2014
Australia 200 for Friday, October 17, 2014 Since the beginning of September the Australia 200 Index has declined strongly from its multi-year high after running into resistance around 5650 back to enter its previously established trading range between 5400 ...
BoE lashes out at EU bonus cap rules
October 17th, 2014
The Bank of England has launched a full-blooded counter-attack on the EU cap on banker bonuses, calling it the “wrong policy” just one day after European regulators tried to stop banks from dodging the rule. In a sign of ...
Tribunal analysis: Entrepreneurs’ relief dispute
October 17th, 2014
The key question, explored by the first tier tribunal in the case of Jeremy Rice v HMRC, is whether or not a significant change in a business can amount to a cessation of the existing trade and the start ...
The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect holds profits for sharp-eyed investors
October 17th, 2014
CapitalVue’s Elias Glenn explains how to own a piece of a Communist Party Newspaper or Zhou Enlai’s favorite liquor with the SH-HK Stock Connect Baijiu is going global: Under a program to be launched in October, individual investors in ...
Fears that Pimco and other Big Firms being unable to unload risky bonds
October 17th, 2014
Financial experts warn that a small group of giant asset managers that have amassed high-risk, high-yield bonds could find themselves unable to raise enough cash during a sell-off. When it comes to high-risk bonds, the asset management giant Pimco ...
