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Bank of Japan launches negative rates, already dubbed a failure by markets
February 16th, 2016
The Bank of Japan‘s negative interest rates came into effect on Tuesday in a radical plan already deemed a failure by financial markets, highlighting Tokyo’s lack of options to spur growth as global markets sputter. The central bank, ...
Europe feels pain from olive oil crisis
February 15th, 2016
Europe’s consumers are facing a 20 per cent rise in the price of olive oil after bad weather and disease devastated the continent’s olive harvest. Olive farmers in Spain and Italy, meanwhile, have seen their leading position as exporters ...
Iran resumes oil export to Europe after 5-year-halt
February 15th, 2016
Iran has shipped crude oil to Europe for the first time in five years just a month after world powers lifted sanctions on Tehran in step with the landmark nuclear deal reached last July. The oil shipment to Europe ...
Uberima unveils social-conscious short-term loans
February 15th, 2016
Uberima, a FinTech company set up as a for-profit Social Enterprise, intends to transform how consumers are served by the financial services industry. Uberima’s first objective is to revolutionise the broken short-term and payday loan industry, by having a ...
KPMG forecasts more pain for Dubai housing
February 15th, 2016
House prices in Dubai will continue to suffer this year as cheap oil and the strong US dollar push properties beyond the means of many overseas investors, according to the latest report from consultants KPMG. The low global price ...
Nasdaq to Acquire Marketwired
February 15th, 2016
Acquisition expected to significantly enhance Nasdaq’s corporate services and product suite with Marketwired’s media analytics and targeting capabilities; Expected to be accretive to Nasdaq’s earnings within twelve months of closing and generate attractive returns on capital Nasdaq, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) announced ...
Gold outlook improves
February 12th, 2016
There is a conflation of three related events that materially alter the prospects in favour of a higher gold price. The change in the outlook for US interest rates has probably put an end to the dollar’s four-year bull ...
Bear Market Descends on Global Stocks
February 12th, 2016
The MSCI All-World Index falls 20% from its May 2015 record Retreat is biggest since selloff during 2011 Europe crisis The yearlong decline in global equities that started with a selloff in energy became a full-blown bear market Thursday ...
Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2016
February 11th, 2016
The Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook and the Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Sourcebook are published today. New research analyses 70,000 days of financial market history and 2,400 country-years of data across 21 countries Rate rises typically bad ...
Shock slump in European industry bodes ill
February 11th, 2016
Europe‘s top four economies suffered steeper drops in industrial output during December than any analyst had forecast, a grim sign for the global economy as it struggles to sustain momentum. Wednesday’s industrial output data for Britain, France and Italy ...