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Citi Launches Wealth Institute for Top Advisors
November 10th, 2015
Citigroup‘s top financial advisors are headed back to school. The global banking giant has formed an institute in partnership with The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania that opens its doors next month in Philadelphia and Beijing. The ...
Magic Circle firms lead on major City broking merger
November 10th, 2015
Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy (A&O) are orchestrating a tie-up between two of the City’s most storied brokers, ICAP and Tullett Prebon, as the market consolidates in response to low trading volumes and tougher regulations. Icap, which was ...
OPEC’s Strategy Seen Potentially Backfiring
November 10th, 2015
Decision against controlling oil output could add to sustained period of low oil prices and dent revenues, IEA says OPEC’s unwillingness to limit its oil output could help usher in a sustained period of low prices and more pain ...
Asia Pacific stock markets continue slide as Chinese inflation weakens
November 10th, 2015
Investors have taken fright at the prospect that the US Fed could raise interest rates at the point when China is experiencing persistently weak demand Stock markets in Asia Pacific have continued to slide as the spectre of higher borrowing ...
JP Morgan CEO sees Bitcoin as a waste of time: Video
November 9th, 2015
Bitcoin skeptic Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan has once again spoken about the decentralized cryptocurrency, Bitcoin – by dismissing it. He sees potential in blockchain, however. “Separate currency from blockchain,” Dimon said, speaking at the Fortune Global Forum. “My belief ...
Goldman’s BRIC Era Ends as Fund Folds After Years of Losses
November 9th, 2015
BRIC fund loses 21% in five years, leading to investor exodus Acronym-based investment strategy comes under greater scrutiny The BRIC era is coming to an end at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The bank’s asset-management unit folded its money-losing BRIC ...
Thomson Reuters brings FX transaction venues onto single desktop
November 9th, 2015
Thomson Reuters has put all of its foreign exchange transaction venues onto one platform in a move it says creates a single point of access to the largest collective independent pool of FX liquidity. A single desktop will now ...
Trading Psychology: How to Cope with Losses
November 9th, 2015
Losing money in the financial markets is a tough pill to swallow for most traders. A big loss may not only affect your bank account, but your trading psychology as a whole. However, letting your fear of losing control ...
Nikkei, Shanghai outperform lackluster Asia
November 9th, 2015
Asian stocks diverged on Monday, with markets in China and Japan leaping to their highest levels since August 21 while other regional bourses wobbled after below-view trade figures released at the weekend from China. October exports fell 6.9 percent from a ...
The end-point in financial credit
November 6th, 2015
Since the 1980s, markets have had to adapt to a world of infinite credit. Of course, this credit has not been available to everyone: it has been principally deployed in favour of governments, financial markets, and big business. It ...
