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Foreign-Exchange Traders Staff Up for Brexit
June 21st, 2016
Many banks have slashed currencies-trading staff; now they are girding for an anticipated surge of activity stemming from this week’s U.K. vote Scott Schultz won’t be making any social plans for this Thursday evening. The co-head of foreign-exchange trading at ...
Asia shares rise, sterling steadies ahead of Brexit vote
June 21st, 2016
Asian shares rose after a tentative start on Tuesday, cautiously extending a rally triggered by growing expectations that British voters will opt to remain in the European Union in this week’s referendum. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside ...
HSBC to pay $1.575 billion, ending Household International class action
June 17th, 2016
A unit of HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L) said on Thursday it will pay $1.575 billion to end a 14-year-old shareholder class action lawsuit stemming from the Household International consumer finance business that the British bank bought in 2003. HSBC ...
Elliott Intraday Analysis On German DAX And USDCAD
June 16th, 2016
German DAX DAX fell after the FED meeting together with other indicies. On the intraday chart, we expected a higher pullback but DAX did not find enough buyers to go higher in wave 4. Latest three wave move to ...
Mobile payments: The new future of commerce
June 16th, 2016
We look at how the mobile commerce space is advancing and why this often overlooked part of the brand engagement process is important for marketers to focus back on Many sales and marketing campaigns would be pointless if they ...
Oil futures down on U.S. stockpile report, Brexit concern
June 16th, 2016
Oil prices fell on Thursday, heading for a sixth session of declines, following a lower-than-expected draw on U.S. stockpiles and amid worries Britain might leave the European Union (EU). Front-month U.S. crude futures were down 53 cents, or 1.1 ...
Hedge Fund Managers and Former Government Official Charged in $32 Million Insider Trading Scheme
June 16th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced insider trading charges against two hedge fund managers and their source, a former government official accused of deceptively obtaining confidential information from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A third hedge ...
Yen Surges as BOJ Maintains Policy; Asian Stocks Sink With Oil
June 16th, 2016
Fed scaled back rate-hike outlook, saying Brexit a concern Kiwi strengthens on GDP data as gold rallies with silver The yen soared and Japanese stocks tumbled after the nation’s central bank refrained from easing monetary policy. Shares elsewhere in ...
KPMG has resigned as auditor of Fifa
June 15th, 2016
KPMG Switzerland has resigned as auditor of Fifa, the world football governing body which has become mired in a corruption scandal following claims that millions of pounds have been paid to its top executives as part of corrupt deals ...
The pensions mess: can gold help?
June 14th, 2016
The British have recently seen two unpleasant examples of the cost of pension fund deficits. A deficit at British Steel, estimated to be about £485m, was followed by a deficit at British Home Stores of £571m. In both cases, ...
