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CySec fined an executive director of a Cyprus Investment Firm
July 31st, 2017
The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform the public that, at its meeting held on 26 June 2017, decided to impose an administrative fine of €10.000 to Mr. Charalambos Kiritsis ...
HSBC reports Interim Results 2017
July 31st, 2017
HSBC Holdings plc has issued today a press release to publish results for the first half of 2017. The highlights according the press release are: Strategic execution Delivered growth from our international network with a 7% increase in revenue ...
Why economists cannot forecast recessions
July 28th, 2017
The purpose of this article is to draw the widest attention to the chronic inability of the economic establishment to forecast recessions. Next time you hear an economist make a prediction on mainstream media, your default assumption should ...
China says will persist with crackdown on forex irregularities
July 28th, 2017
China will maintain a crack down on forex irregularities to ensure stability in the currency market and the broader economy, the country’s forex regulator said on Friday, in a sign Beijing will continue to keep a tight leash on ...
House prices up by 4.0% in the euro area
July 28th, 2017
First quarter of 2017 compared with first quarter of 2016 House prices up by 4.0% in the euro area Up by 4.5% in the EU House prices, as measured by the House Price Index, rose by 4.0% in the ...
“Typical Summer Overshoot” in EUR/USD Likely Warn Soc Gen
July 28th, 2017
Kit Juckes at Societe Generale believes the conditions are ripe for the Euro v Dollar exchange rate to rush to 1.20 this summer and make life difficult for the team at the European Central Bank. Juckes makes his views ...
Dollar sank, euro added 0.2 percent and the Aussie extended gains; Early Forex review
July 27th, 2017
The dollar sank and Treasuries climbed after the Federal Reserve signaled that inflation remains persistently below its target even as the economy picks up steam. Asian stocks rose to the highest in almost a decade on optimism about corporate ...
German automakers might face EU fines after allegations but no global legal threat, analyst says
July 26th, 2017
“I still don’t see a major global legal threat here,” Arndt Ellinghorst, head of global automotive research at Evercore ISI, told CNBC on Tuesday. EU antitrust officials confirmed Saturday they had started investigating allegations of a cartel among a ...
Deutsche Bank May Take $350 Billion Out of London Post-Brexit
July 26th, 2017
In the aftermath of the Brexit vote from a year earlier, German banking giant Deutsche Bank has been making plans to downsize its London operations. Now, the bank led by CEO John Cryan is reportedly thinking about moving an ...
“Time to Sell” Pound Sterling v Dollar and Euro say BofAML Exchange Rate Strategists
July 26th, 2017
It’s “time to sell GBP” says Athanasios Vamvakidis, a foreign exchange strategist with Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research in a note to clients released ahead of the new week. The call by Vamvakidis comes as momentum against ...
