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Why So Much Oil Price Volatility? Blame The Speculators
August 31st, 2015
Oil prices crashed last week only to rebound at lightning speed. On August 28, oil prices surged 10 percent, the largest one-day gain in seven years. So, what happens next for oil prices? On the face of it, the ...
FMA releases enforcement and investigations report 2015
August 28th, 2015
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) published its enforcement and investigations report for the year ending 30 June 2015. The report shows the FMA’s enforcement and investigations activities closely reflect the FMA’s focus on the seven strategic priorities that it identified ...
Japan reports inflation, household spending soften in July
August 28th, 2015
The backdrop to the wild drama in financial markets over the past few weeks is a less dramatic but more daunting reality: the deep-seated challenges for sustaining long-term growth, especially for aging economies like Japan’s. Japan released data Friday ...
Kuroda Says Bank of Japan Can Still Achieve Inflation Target
August 27th, 2015
BOJ stands ready to adjust record stimulus if needed Central bank has “many options” for its monetary policy The Bank of Japan can achieve its 2 percent inflation target with the current level of monetary stimulus, even as it stands ...
During Every Market Crash There Are Big Ups, Big Downs And Giant Waves Of Momentum
August 26th, 2015
This is exactly the type of market behavior that we would expect to see during the early stages of a major financial crisis. In every major market downturn throughout history there were big ups, big downs and giant waves of momentum, ...
China Cuts Interest Rates for Fifth Time in Bid to Stem Rout
August 25th, 2015
China cut interest rates for the fifth time since November and lowered the amount of cash banks must set aside, falling back on its major levers to stem the biggest stock market rout since 1996 and a deepening economic ...
CQG Connects to ASX 24 ITCH™
August 25th, 2015
Provides ultra-low latency access to Australian futures and options markets CQG today announced direct market access to ASX 24 ITCH™, the Australian Securities Exchange’s (ASX’s) premium ultra-low latency protocol for accessing ASX 24 markets, which include interest rate futures ...
U.S. banks moved billions in trades beyond CFTC’s reach
August 24th, 2015
This spring, traders and analysts working deep in the global swaps markets began picking up peculiar readings: Hundreds of billions of dollars of trades by U.S. banks had seemingly vanished. “We saw strange things in the data,” said Chris ...
The Fed Talks And The Market Tanks. That’s Different
August 21st, 2015
Normally there’s a distinct pattern to the impact of Federal Reserve statements on the financial markets. The tone of equities trading in particular starts to improve as the moment of the announcement approaches; the words turn out to be ...
FMA New Zealand reports: Guilty pleas entered in OPI Pacific Finance case
August 21st, 2015
FMA, New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority, has issued a press release to inform that: Two former directors of OPI Pacific Finance, Mark Lawrence Lacy and Jason Robert Duncan Maywald, have today pleaded guilty to two charges under the Securities ...
