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Is Anybody Okay Out There?
November 20th, 2015
In normal times, the world’s major economies are a mixed bag. Some are up, some are down, some are placid, some are in crisis. It’s only at the boom/bust extremes that everyone finds themselves in more-or-less the same boat. ...
Shell’s Takeover of BG Group Clears Australian Hurdle
November 20th, 2015
Tie-Up’s success hangs on approval from China and Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board Australia’s antitrust regulator won’t stand in the way of Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s takeover of BG Group PLC, brushing aside its earlier concerns that the tie-up could reduce the supply of natural ...
Asian Stocks Set for Weekly Gain as Metals Advance With Ringgit
November 20th, 2015
Optimism that the Federal Reserve will take a gradual approach to raising interest rates sent Asian equities toward their biggest weekly gain in more than a month and buoyed the region’s currencies. Metals advanced and oil traded near a three-month ...
Egypt’s new central bank chief faces bitter pill of currency devaluation or IMF aid
November 19th, 2015
Spare a kind thought for the travails that Tarek Amer, the newly appointed governor of Egypt’s central bank, will be facing when he formally takes up his post on November 27. He could have had no illusions how disastrous ...
PBOC cuts rates for standing lending facility
November 19th, 2015
China’s central bank on Thursday said it would cut interest rates for a monetary instrument called the Standing Lending Facility, or SLF, in an effort to guide market rates. In a brief statement on its Twitter-like Weibo account, it ...
Brokers in push for mutual funds to be added on HKEx platform
November 19th, 2015
Mutual fund trading platform would bolster Hong Kong as a hub for financial products, brokers say Brokers have urged the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing to launch a trading platform targeted at listed mutual fund products. The Hong Kong ...
Oil prices edge up on reports of falling inventories, but glut remains in place
November 18th, 2015
Oil prices edged up on Wednesday following reports of falling stockpiles and rising refinery activity, but analysts said the market would remain under pressure for the rest of the year and into 2016. Industry group American Petroleum Institute (API) ...
Rolls-Royce calls in top law firm to deal with fraud investigation
November 17th, 2015
The engine maker’s decision to bring in Slaughter and May underlines seriousness of allegations Rolls-Royce has called in a leading law firm to help it deal with bribery allegations and a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation. Slaughter and May has ...
Gold Prices Rise as Paris Attacks Spark Safe-Haven Demand
November 17th, 2015
Gold’s gains could be short lived, analysts say, as the market refocuses on the U.S. Federal Reserve Gold prices rose, breaking a three-session losing streak as the terror attacks in Paris sparked safe-haven demand for the metal. The precious metal has ...
Oil edges up after Paris attacks, French air strikes in Syria
November 16th, 2015
Crude oil futures rose on Monday as France launched large-scale air strikes against Islamic State in Syria, but analysts said oil and other commodities were expected to remain under pressure as oversupply weighs on prices. Crude benchmarks, which lost ...
