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Fourth and final director sentenced in OPI Pacific Finance case
September 28th, 2015
A former director of OPI Pacific Finance, David Mark Anderson, has today been sentenced in the Auckland High Court for misleading investors. Mr Anderson was sentenced to 300 hours community work and ordered to pay AUD $100,000 in reparation ...
Asian stocks turn negative on Fed uncertainty
September 25th, 2015
Asian stocks lost steam in choppy trade on Friday, mirroring the lackluster lead from Wall Street amid uncertainty over U.S monetary policy. In a speech that occurred after the market close, Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said that an ...
London Capital Group reports £8.6 million loss before tax
September 24th, 2015
LONDON CAPITAL GROUP HOLDINGS PLC has issued today an announcement to inform on its Interim Results for the Six Months Ended 30 June 2015. Operating Summary Since the arrival of the new management team in October 2014 there has ...
China Cannot Let This Happen
September 24th, 2015
After borrowing — and largely wasting — $15 trillion during the Great Recession, China now looks like a typical decadent developed-world country, complete with slow growth, anemic consumer spending and unstable financial markets. But it’s not France, Canada or ...
European stocks rise despite China fears, Volkswagen up 4%
September 23rd, 2015
European stocks were trading higher on Wednesday in what has been a choppy morning of trade amid renewed fears over the health of the Chinese economy and continued fallout from the Volkswagen emissions scandal. The pan-European STOXX 600 was up was ...
Third director sentenced in OPI Pacific Finance case
September 23rd, 2015
FMA: A former director of OPI Pacific Finance Limited, Craig Robert White, has today been sentenced in the Auckland High Court. Mr White was sentenced to 250 hours community work and ordered to pay AUD $100,000 in reparation to ...
Ultra-low Interest Rates: Dangerous or Just a Price?
September 22nd, 2015
Two recent reports start by observing that long-term interest rates have been at extraordinarily rock-bottom levels for several years now. But from that common starting point, the analysis of the reports heads in different directions. The Council of Economic ...
Dollar hits near two-week high on renewed rate hike bets
September 22nd, 2015
The dollar touched an almost two-week high against a basket of major currencies on Tuesday after comments from Federal Reserve officials revived expectations that U.S. interest rates will still be hiked later this year. The greenback has bounced back ...
IG Group issues a trading update for the three months to 31 August 2015
September 22nd, 2015
IG Group, a global leader in online trading, today issues the following Trading Update for the three months to 31 August 2015, the first quarter of its 2016 financial year. The trends and figures highlighted below refer to this ...
Asian shares follow Wall Street gains
September 22nd, 2015
Asian markets headed higher on Tuesday, recovering from the previous session’s losses after commodities and shares on Wall Street rebounded. US shares bounced back from big losses last week, when the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged over worries ...
