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EY ends Deloitte’s 14-year audit role at RBS
November 4th, 2014
EY has emerged victorious in the battle to secure the lucrative RBS audit account. The bank announced that EY had wrested the account from incumbent Deloitte, which has been the institution’s auditor since 2000. Last year RBS paid Deloitte ...
SEC fines 13 firms over sale of Puerto Rico junk bonds
November 4th, 2014
Units of 13 major Wall Street firms, including JPMorgan and UBS, improperly sold bonds from Puerto Rico’s landmark March junk deal to retail investors who may not have understood the debt’s riskiness, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said ...
Accountancy firm Baker Tilly warns over eBay income
November 4th, 2014
Accountancy firm Baker Tilly has issued a warning to those trading on sites such as eBay or Airbnb after a man was sentenced to two years imprisonment for failing to declare income from online sales. John Woolfenden, from Manchester, ...
Australia loses 24,400 Jobs according to nation’s Statistics Bureau
November 4th, 2014
Australia’s labor market is weaker than previously reported, the nation’s statistics bureau said in a review released today, sending the currency lower as traders bet on an extended interest-rate pause. The total number of Australians employed in September was ...
Sysco shares fall as merger hits a snag
November 4th, 2014
Sysco, US’s biggest food distributor to restaurants, is trying to save its $3.5 billion merger with its closest rival US Foods. The company is in talks with the No. 3 distributor, Blackstone Group-owned Performance Food Group, about selling it ...
IOSCO publishes strategic framework for Investor Financial Education
November 4th, 2014
The International Organization of Securities Commissions today published a final report on the Strategic Framework for Investor Education and Financial Literacy, which describes IOSCO’s role in promoting investor education and financial literacy and its strategic approach to both. The ...
Australia’s central bank keeps rates low, consumers encouraged
November 4th, 2014
Australia’s central bank kept interest rates at record lows for a 14th straight policy meeting on Tuesday, saying the stimulus was justified given the outlook for sub par growth even as consumers showed signs of opening their wallets. The ...
Oil slides after Saudi cuts to US prices
November 4th, 2014
Oil prices fell sharply on Tuesday after Saudi Arabia on Monday lowered the price it charges customers in the US in an effort to prop up its share of the American market. West Texas Intermediate fell as much as ...
EU leaders weigh plan for Greek exit from bailout
November 4th, 2014
Eurozone leaders are weighing a plan to allow Greece to exit its four-year-old bailout at the end of the year by converting nearly €11bn of unused rescue funds into a backstop for Athens for when it raises cash from ...
Is Better Communication Longer and More Complex?
November 4th, 2014
Twenty years ago, when the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee wanted to change interest rates, it didn’t make any announcement. It just took action, and market participants observe those actions. Mark Wynne of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas ...
