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China FX reserves fall record $93.9 bln in Aug as central bank supports yuan
September 7th, 2015
Global investors are bracing for data this week that could show a big drop in China‘s foreign exchange reserves as the central bank steps up its intervention to stabilise the yuan currency after its shock devaluation last month. China ...
Saudi Arabia reassures on oil prices: Strategist
September 7th, 2015
While Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud Salman met with President Barack Obama on Friday to discuss the Iran deal, the country’s finance minister also assured investors in a forum that Saudi Arabia will weather the decline in oil prices, ...
Bank of Israel to cut VAT, corporate taxes to buoy economy
September 4th, 2015
Israel will cut corporate and value-added taxes to help boost economic growth after it collected more tax than expected in recent months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. In a plan initiated by Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, VAT ...
The danger of eliminating cash
September 4th, 2015
In the early days of central banking, one primary objective of the new system was to take ownership of the public’s gold, so that in a crisis the public would be unable to withdraw it. Gold was to be ...
CME Group Successfully Completes First Multilateral Compression Cycle Using TriOptima’s triReduce Service
September 4th, 2015
Gross Notional Reductions Amount to $2.2 Trillion CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced today the completion of the first multilateral compression cycle in collaboration with TriOptima’s triReduce compression service. Nine CME Group IRS clearing ...
IMF Note on Global Prospects and Policy Challenges
September 3rd, 2015
The Following executive summary is from a note by the Staff of the IMF prepared for the September 4-5, 2015 G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Ankara, Turkey. Global growth remains moderate, reflecting a further slowdown ...
The Current Global Financial Crisis
September 3rd, 2015
During the last month global markets has been roiled by the financial crisis that emanated from China, but propagated to other parts of the world. To put things into perspective, during the month of August more than $5 trillion ...
China tightens trading rules on forex, stock markets
September 3rd, 2015
China has announced tougher rules on trading stock index futures and foreign exchange derivatives as it seeks to steady jittery markets whose weakness has raised concern over the health of the world’s second-largest economy. Facing slowing economic growth and ...
China central bank sets reserve requirements for all FX derivatives
September 2nd, 2015
China’s central bank will require reserves to be set aside for purchases of all currency derivatives from October, according to a document seen by Reuters, as Beijing moves to make it more expensive to bet on further depreciation of ...
Is the EU losing the Western Balkans? What local experts think
August 31st, 2015
No business as usual in the Western Balkans The Western Balkans remain Europe’s unfinished business, not only for the continuing stalemate in Bosnia or tensions in Macedonia and Northern Kosovo, but also because broader geopolitical developments shaping the EU’s ...