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Foreign investors warn China e-trading proposal could sink Stock Connect
November 13th, 2015
Draft rules to curb high-speed trading blamed for China’s summer stock market crash could kill off billions of dollars of investment into China, global banks and investors have told Chinese regulators in a letter. Industry participants who signed off ...
Asian stocks bruised by tumbling oil, Fed hike jitters
November 13th, 2015
Asian stocks were battered on Friday, with risk-off sentiment in full swing amid sharp falls in the price of commodities and growing expectations that the Federal Reserve is on track for a rate hike in December for the first ...
China stocks set for 3rd day of gains, Hong Kong slips on US rate worry
November 6th, 2015
Main indexes up; small caps help sustain the rise Some investors sell blue chips on profit taking Hong Kong index down, pressured by possible U.S. rate hike China’s stocks rose for a third day on Friday, but gains were ...
Asian stocks mixed on possible December rate hike
November 5th, 2015
Asian stocks put up a mixed performance on Thursday, after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said that December’s monetary policy meeting would be a “live possibility” for a rate hike if upcoming economic data were supportive. Yellen was testifying before the ...
Asian Stocks Track S&P 500 Gains; Aussie Rises as RBA Stays Put
November 3rd, 2015
Stocks rise from Sydney to Seoul as holiday closes Tokyo S&P 500 topped 2,100, back to pre-yuan devaluation levels Asian stocks climbed after signs of stabilization in global manufacturing activity helped drive the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to ...
China raises central rate for yuan by largest amount in a decade
November 2nd, 2015
China raised the central parity rate of the yuan by 341 basis points to 6.3154 against the US dollar on Monday (2 November), the largest amount by far on a single day in a decade. The move comes at ...
Asian stocks advance on China rate cut, U.S. tech earnings
October 26th, 2015
Asian stocks on Monday were close to wiping out all their losses since China’s shock currency devaluation in August, as global equities rallied after the Chinese central bank cut rates and U.S. tech giants provided upbeat earning guidance. MSCI’s ...
Is China Turning To Bitcoin As Yuan Devalues?
October 19th, 2015
China is seemingly buying up a lot of Bitcoin and alternative currencies like gold right now. The devaluation of their currency has been slashed over the course of the past month. The country’s Foreign Exchange Commission has ordered financial institutions to increase its checks ...
Asia stocks rise, dollar sags as weak U.S. data dents rate hike prospects
October 15th, 2015
Asian shares rose to 2-month highs on Thursday and the dollar struggled near multi-week lows after weak U.S. economic data added to expectations that the Federal Reserve will delay hiking interest rates. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside ...
Stock Market Crash October 2015? 9 Of The 16 Largest Crashes In History Have Come This Month
October 8th, 2015
The worst stock market crashes in U.S. history have come during the month of October. There is just something about this time of the year that seems to be conducive to financial panic. For example, on October 28th, 1929 ...
