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JPMorgan: Feds pursue criminal forex probe
November 4th, 2014
JPMorgan said it faces a criminal probe of its foreign exchange business and boosted its legal budget by $1.3B. JPMorgan Chase (JPM) disclosed Monday that the New York-based global bank is in talks with the Department of Justice over ...
Dollar climbs on yen, BOJ passes baton to ECB
November 3rd, 2014
The U.S. dollar powered to seven-year peaks against the yen on Monday and a two-year high on the euro, a punishing trend for commodities priced in dollars as gold, silver and oil all fell. Disappointing surveys out of China’s ...
Inflation? Deflation Is New Risk
October 31st, 2014
A generation of economists and central bankers who lived through the 1970s learned that there is a large risk from runaway inflation and that steps must be taken to stop it before it gets out of control. In reality, ...
Deutsche Bank cannot rely on this trading rebound – Bottom Line
October 30th, 2014
Trading revenues were once the mainstay of many an investment bank, and made up the glamorous end of the City. It is always the traders who get the public’s attention. Who ever complains about City brokers or City auditors? But ...
DGCX launches to new pairs of Mini Indian Rupee Futures
October 30th, 2014
The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX), which has commenced trading in November 2005 as the regions first commodity derivatives exchange and has become today, the leading derivatives exchange in the Middle East., announced the launch of two new pairs of ...
CFTC charges Texas-Based Financial Robotics, Inc. for Fraudulent Forex Scheme
October 27th, 2014
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Judge Lee H. Rosenthal of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas entered an Order of default judgment and permanent injunction against Defendant Financial Robotics, Inc. ...
Falling Coal Prices Wreaking Havoc With Corporate Balance Sheets
October 24th, 2014
The slide in oil prices has raised speculation that oil companies in the U.S. could be forced to cut back on production, but a market slump in another commodity is also putting pressure on producers. Coal markets are currently ...
Alpari Trading Volumes Reach $217 Billion in September
October 23rd, 2014
The Alpari group of companies have announced trading volumes in excess of $217 billion for 1-30 September 2014. Forex, precious metals and commodity trading proved particularly robust during September. Comprehensive analysis of the Scottish referendum – which included Bloomberg ...
National Bank of Oman highlights distinctions between conventional and Islamic finance
October 22nd, 2014
“The GCC countries have committed to actively strengthening their positions in the Islamic finance market, with Saudi Arabia currently in the lead. We, at the National Bank of Oman, have been doing significant work in the Islamic finance domain ...
Soft Australian inflation supports low interest rates
October 22nd, 2014
Australian consumer prices rose 0.5 percent in the three months to September, official figures showed Wednesday, as the annual rate of inflation eased after the removal of a controversial carbon tax. The increase in the consumer price index (CPI) ...
