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Asian stocks extend losses on weak China PMI survey; dollar strong
September 23rd, 2015
Asian stocks fell on Wednesday as fears of an entrenched global economic slowdown gripped investors, underlined by a weak factory survey from China, while the greenback firmed as investors fled to relatively safe-haven assets. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific ...
Ultra-low Interest Rates: Dangerous or Just a Price?
September 22nd, 2015
Two recent reports start by observing that long-term interest rates have been at extraordinarily rock-bottom levels for several years now. But from that common starting point, the analysis of the reports heads in different directions. The Council of Economic ...
Dollar hits near two-week high on renewed rate hike bets
September 22nd, 2015
The dollar touched an almost two-week high against a basket of major currencies on Tuesday after comments from Federal Reserve officials revived expectations that U.S. interest rates will still be hiked later this year. The greenback has bounced back ...
China turns to Islamic finance to expand economic clout
September 22nd, 2015
Islamic finance is gaining prominence as a channel for China to expand its economic influence abroad as banks strengthen ties with Muslim-majority countries and Chinese companies start to tap offshore pools of Islamic funds. With a Muslim population of ...
Private equity firm EMR teams up to buy Australian copper miner
September 21st, 2015
Private equity firm EMR Capital has teamed up with the former head of Equinox Minerals to buy a small Australian copper mine for up to A$15 million ($10.75 million) plus taking on about A$40 million in rehabilitation bond costs, ...
Asian shares edge up, dollar soft as Fed stands pat and eyes China
September 18th, 2015
Asian shares rose modestly on Friday on relief the Federal Reserve held off on raising interest rates but gains were capped by renewed concerns about the health of the global economy, in particular China. The dollar was on the ...
Big Banks Cutting Tens Of Thousands Of Jobs; Huge Implications
September 16th, 2015
Money center banks — which over the past few decades have grown into the biggest financial entities the world has ever seen — appear to have hit a wall, and are now shedding tens of thousands of workers. Three ...
Thomson Reuters: Interview with Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB
September 16th, 2015
Interview with Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB, conducted by Paul Ingrassia, Balazs Koranyi and John O’Donnell on 14 September Is quantitative easing working? It is working and effective in many ways. The ultimate metric to assess success is the ...
Rabobank Adopts Bloomberg Tool to Monitor Its Liquidity Buffer
September 16th, 2015
Bloomberg’s HQLA Solution Helps Rabobank Meet Basel III Requirements Bloomberg announced today that Rabobank, one of the world’s safest banks according to Global Finance magazine, is the latest to adopt Bloomberg’s High-Quality Liquid Assets (HQLA) solution to monitor its liquidity ...
Financial services Firms published their Trading Volumes for August 2015
September 16th, 2015
KCG Holdings, E*TRADE Financial Corporation and Alpari have issued press releases to inform regarding their Trading Volumes and Activity for August 2015. KCG released for August that: In Market Making, KCG averaged $35.6 billion dollar volume traded, 4.5 billion ...