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Shanghai Stock Exchange, China Financial Futures Exchange and Deutsche Börse agree on joint venture
May 27th, 2015
Shanghai Stock Exchange, China Financial Futures Exchange and Deutsche Börse today agreed on a strategic cooperation to launch a joint venture. It has the objective to develop and to market financial instruments based on Chinese underlyings to international investors ...
Shanghai Stock Exchange Planning Startup Market
May 20th, 2015
New market to host firms in sectors favored by Beijing for building an innovation-driven economy The Shanghai Stock Exchange is on track to inaugurate a new market for small, innovative companies as soon as this year, which will challenge ...
Asian stocks drift after lackluster US retail sales data
May 14th, 2015
Asian stock markets drifted Thursday after weak retail sales figures suggested the U.S. economy is struggling to maintain growth momentum. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dropped 0.6 percent to 19,656.28. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dipped 0.9 percent to 5,664.60. ...
Interim results of the Swiss National Bank as at 31 March 2015
April 30th, 2015
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) reports a loss of CHF 30.0 billion for the first quarter of 2015. The loss on foreign currency positions amounted to CHF 29.3 billion. A valuation loss of CHF 1.0 billion was recorded on ...
Chinese, Australian benchmarks lead Asian stock market gains
April 16th, 2015
Most major Asian stock indexes were higher Thursday as Chinese shares rebounded on stimulus hopes a day after gloomy first-quarter economic numbers and Australian shares rose on a surprise drop in the jobless rate. KEEPING SCORE: Most Asian indexes ...
JSE and Eris Exchange Announce Swap Futures Licensing Partnership
April 15th, 2015
JSE to Launch Interest Rate, Cross-Currency and Credit Default Swap Futures Based on the Eris Methodology™ The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Africa’s largest exchange, today announced that it signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Eris Exchange (Eris), a U.S.-based futures ...
The $33 Billion Silver Lining to Israel’s Stock-Market Exodus
April 9th, 2015
As stock trading in Israel plunges and public offerings dry up, the country’s flagship bourse may have found a savior: exchange-traded notes. The volume of trading in ETNs, which are similar to exchange-traded funds but have stricter return rules, ...
Asia stocks gain after Fed official signals slow rate rises
April 7th, 2015
Asian stocks rose Tuesday after Wall Street gained on a jump in crude prices and expectations the Federal Reserve will put off an interest rate hike until late in the year. KEEPING SCORE: The Shanghai Composite Index rose 1.8 ...
London Stock Exchange stake sale earns Dubai huge profit
March 30th, 2015
Dubai has made a profit of billions of dirhams on the sale of its eight-year-old stake in the London Stock Exchange. Essa Kazim, the chairman of Borse Dubai, confirming the disposal, said the shares had been sold at a ...
Kuwait opens door for foreign operator to own part of stock market
March 27th, 2015
The Kuwait Stock Exchange may offer up to 44 percent of its shares to a company that has experience in operating bourses when it goes public, a senior government official told Reuters on Thursday. Such a move, which still ...