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Financial Policy Committee statement from its policy meeting, 23 March 2016
March 29th, 2016
1. The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) assesses the outlook for financial stability by identifying the risks faced by the financial system and weighing them against the resilience of the system. In doing so, its aim is to ...
Barclays Warns Commodities May Slump on a `Rush for the Exits’
March 29th, 2016
Oil may drop to low $30s a barrel in selloff, Norrish writes Raw materials `vulnerable to a wave of investor liquidation’ Commodities including oil and copper are at risk of steep declines as recent advances aren’t fully grounded in ...
Economic Takeaways From Japan’s Retail Sales, Spending Data
March 29th, 2016
What you need to know about Tuesday’s data released in Japan: The numbers for February paint a mixed-to-negative picture of the Japanese economy, maintaining pressure on Shinzo Abe’s government and the central bank to consider more fiscal and monetary ...
IBM blockchain leader Jerry Cuomo using ‘shadowchains’ to launch moonshots
March 28th, 2016
IBM has been building momentum behind blockchain by championing the Linux Foundation’s Hyperleder Project and creating its own Open Blockchain (OBC) among other things. IBM’s vice president of blockchain Jerry Cuomo, who recently gave testimony before US Congress about ...
Investors are still betting big on gold. What do they know that you don’t?
March 28th, 2016
The stock market may be back on track, but nervous investors are still showering gold with tons of love. An impressive $13.4 billion was poured into gold assets over the past 11 weeks, according to Bank of America Merrill ...
Virtual Currency that is rival to Bitcoin, attracts attention and has soared in value
March 28th, 2016
A new virtual gold rush is underway. Even as Bitcoin, riven by internal divisions, has struggled, a rival virtual currency — known as Ethereum — has soared in value, climbing 1,000 percent over the last three months. Beyond the ...
Low Oil Prices Forcing Saudi Arabia To Modernize Economy
March 28th, 2016
The collapse in oil prices is forcing Saudi Arabia to undertake some deep and fundamental changes to its economy, reforms that no amount of browbeating from organizations like the IMF could induce. A new report from The Atlantic Council finds that ...
HSBC reports on Oil prices scenarios
March 24th, 2016
Despite hopes that lower oil prices will stabilise global growth, experience suggests otherwise. Growth was disappointing in 2015 even though the oil price had plunged in 2014. While developed-world consumer spending grew at the fastest rate since before the ...
Italian police open money laundering investigation of broker linked to HSBC
March 23rd, 2016
An Italian financial broker who worked on behalf of HSBC in the Swiss town of Lugano is under investigation for possible money laundering in a probe linked to a wider tax evasion case, an Italian finance police colonel told ...
J.P. Morgan Executives Say Regulators Should Approve IEX as Exchange
March 23rd, 2016
The country’s largest bank is siding with upstart market IEX Group Inc. in its effort to create a new stock exchange that pledges to be a haven for long-term investors. Executives at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. say regulators should approve IEX’s ...
