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Market volatility fails to dent investors’ attraction to robo-advisers
October 9th, 2015
Automated investment sites enjoyed a 57% jump in assets under management from December 2014 through July 2015 The summertime spike in market volatility failed to dent investors’ willingness to invest — or invest more of — their assets with ...
Bank of England maintains Bank Rate at 0.5%
October 9th, 2015
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets monetary policy in order to meet the 2% inflation target and in a way that helps to sustain growth and employment. At its meeting ending on 6 October, the MPC ...
Equity rally stalls as German data casts cloud over global growth
October 8th, 2015
Global stocks traded just off three-week highs on Thursday after unexpectedly weak trade and machinery orders data from Germany and Japan hinted at a stalling in the momentum of some of the world’s biggest economies. An oil price bounce, ...
Gold Gains on Shifting Rate Views, Central-Bank Buying
October 8th, 2015
Weaker dollar also benefits bullion prices Gold prices crept higher Wednesday, with investors continuing to bet that the U.S. Federal Reserve will delay raising interest rates as other central banks stocked up on the precious metal. Gold for December ...
1 in 4 companies say they won’t meet BEPS deadline
October 8th, 2015
One quarter of corporate executives, tax and transfer pricing directors have said their companies won’t meet the Base Erosion and Profit shifting deadlines, according to a Thomson Reuters survey. The BEPS project has been championed by the Organisation for ...
Bundesbank publishes gold bar list
October 8th, 2015
On 7 October, the Deutsche Bundesbank published a list detailing its holdings of gold bars in custodian storage in Frankfurt am Main, London, Paris and New York. The list contains the bar numbers, melt or inventory numbers, the gross and ...
Interactive Data Expands 7ticks Global Connectivity with Access to GPW
October 8th, 2015
Latest addition to electronic trading network opens up market access in Eastern Europe Interactive Data, a leading provider of low‐latency trading infrastructure and market access, has added the GPW (Warsaw Stock Exchange) to its 7ticks global network. By connecting to ...
Now you can buy gold in kilo bars from Royal Mint – top 10 countries investing in bullion
October 7th, 2015
The Royal Mint is hoping to attract gold buyers with deeper pockets with the launch of a new kilo bullion bar. Since setting up shop online a year ago with a trading platform that allows retail investors to buy ...
Saxo Bank sees opportunity in emerging markets amid falling global growth and a tumultuous start to Q4
October 7th, 2015
The plunge in the price of oil and other commodities has scores of emerging markets under severe pressure. And yet, it is in emerging markets that Saxo Bank sees most hope. As risks to global growth increase, the timing ...
FCA introduces new rules on whistleblowing
October 7th, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), alongside the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), has today published new rules in relation to whistleblowing. These changes follow recommendations in 2013 by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards (PCBS) that banks put in place mechanisms to ...