Search Results for: financial markets
Poroshenko Flummoxes Investors With About-Face on Truce
September 4th, 2014
Ukraine’s leader sent financial markets into turbulence as he backtracked on talk of an end to five months of violence in his nation’s east. President Petro Poroshenko announced yesterday that he’d hammered out a deal with Vladimir Putin to ...
Banks say funding rules will make key equities trades more expensive
September 2nd, 2014
Banks are sounding the alarm about a proposed global rule aimed at forcing them to fund themselves more safely, warning that it could have “severe” knock-on effects on short selling and other important equities market transactions. Industry lobbyists have ...
Bank regulators need to get more realistic if we are to avoid a new crisis
September 2nd, 2014
The idea of a “Europe without banks” became popular after the financial crisis, when bankers were demonised and punitive regulations proposed. Six years on, the repercussions still resonate deeply, as I found at the recent Alpbach Financial Markets Symposium, ...
Vanishing euro zone inflation seen intensifying ECB policy headache
August 29th, 2014
If euro zone inflation falls deeper into the ‘danger zone’ as expected on Friday, it will at the very least complicate the European Central Bank’s plans to wait and see whether its recent policy move to ignite the euro ...
Gold at $1275 on Stronger U.S. Dollar
August 26th, 2014
Gold settled near its lowest in two months on Monday, pressured by a stronger U.S. dollar and a rally in global financial markets. U.S. gold futures ended $1.30 lower at $1,278.90 an ounce. Spot gold was down 0.2 percent ...
Brent Oil Rallies Above $102 on Geopolitical Tensions
August 26th, 2014
Brent crude oil rose on Monday and U.S. crude fell in light trading, as support from geopolitical tensions in Ukraine and Libya countered ample supplies and anticipated weak demand after a slew of disappointing economic data from the United ...
Gold – $1275 Level Stays True to Form
August 26th, 2014
Gold for Tuesday, August 26, 2014 Over the last week now Gold has been falling lower back towards the medium term support level at $1290 however to finish out last week it fell sharply down to the previous key ...
Market watchdog warns on danger of cyber attack
August 25th, 2014
A global watchdog has sounded the alarm about the growing danger of cyber attacks, on financial markets, warning that firms and regulators around the world need to address the “uneven” response to the threat of online assaults. Greg Medcraft, ...
Case closed in favor of INTL FCStone in Sentinel case
August 22nd, 2014
INTL FCStone Inc. (Nasdaq:INTL) (“the Company”) announced on March 19, 2014 that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit had reversed the trial court’s January 2013 decision against its subsidiary, FCStone, LLC, in the Sentinel matter. Because ...
ASIC publishes supervision report
August 21st, 2014
The Australian regulator in its effort to enforce regulation has published its eighth report on market supervision to inform firms on compliance procedures. ASIC has published its eighth report on the supervision and surveillance of Australian financial markets and ...
