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Gold Price Slips as China Adds Another 16 Tonnes of Bullion
September 8th, 2015
Gold prices slipped in quiet trade in London on Monday, retreating near the lowest levels since mid-August at $1119 per ounce as European stock markets held flat, ignoring another sharp drop in Asian equities. New data overnight showed China’s People Bank growing ...
Former Citi FX trader set to challenge dismissal in London court
September 8th, 2015
A former Citigroup foreign exchange trader is to challenge his dismissal at a London court on Tuesday, potentially the first of many such cases in the wake of the currency market rigging scandal. Perry Stimpson, who was an FX ...
Bye Bye Brazil
September 7th, 2015
For about a decade there, Brazil was the Latin American country that got it right. Under a socialist but apparently reasonable government they kept their budgets under control, managed the population shift from farm to city, and developed some ...
UBS Diverts $5 Billion of Asia Deposits to Curb Basel III Costs
September 4th, 2015
UBS Group AG has shifted more than $5 billion of riskier Asia-Pacific deposits into alternative cash investments as new rules raise the cost of holding them. The world’s largest manager of millionaires’ money has helped some clients such as ...
Citi sells Hungary consumer banking business to Erste Group
September 2nd, 2015
Citigroup Inc (C.N) agreed to sell its consumer banking business in Hungary to Austria’s Erste Group Bank AG (ERST.VI) as the third-biggest U.S. bank by assets continues to divest non-core operating businesses. The sale includes Citi’s retail banking, consumer ...
U.S. Currency Probe Expands to Russia, Brazil Trades
September 1st, 2015
U.S. prosecutors have expanded their probe of currency-market manipulation by some of the world’s largest banks to include the Russian ruble and Brazilian real, according to two people familiar with the matter. The Justice Department is using cooperation agreements ...
Serious Fraud Office interviews Deutsche Bank traders as it steps up criminal probe into Libor rigging
August 27th, 2015
The Serious Fraud Office has interviewed present and former Deutsche Bank traders as it steps up its criminal probe into the manipulation of Libor interest rates. At least one banker is thought to have been interviewed under caution, meaning ...
Nasdaq poised to launch FX trading platform: top executive
August 26th, 2015
Nasdaq (NDAQ.O) is poised to launch a platform for foreign exchange trading which it says would make the $5 trillion-a-day global market more transparent and would diversify its own business, a top executive from the stock market operator said. ...
U.S. banks moved billions in trades beyond CFTC’s reach
August 24th, 2015
This spring, traders and analysts working deep in the global swaps markets began picking up peculiar readings: Hundreds of billions of dollars of trades by U.S. banks had seemingly vanished. “We saw strange things in the data,” said Chris ...
Oil Poised for Longest Weekly Losing Streak Since 1986 Amid Glut
August 21st, 2015
Oil headed for the longest run of weekly declines in almost three decades on signs the supply glut that drove prices to a six-year low will be prolonged. Futures fell as much as 1.6 percent in New York, set ...
