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JPX: Trading Overview for FY2014 & March 2015
April 2nd, 2015
Japan Exchange Group released the trading overview (preliminary estimates) for FY2014 & March 2015. Cash Equity Market In FY2014, trading volume for domestic TSE 1st Section stocks (excluding preferred stock) was 601.47256 billion shares, the second highest on record, ...
GAIN Capital completes acquisition of City Index
April 2nd, 2015
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP) (the “Company” or “GAIN Capital”) today announced it has completed the acquisition of City Index (Holdings) Limited (“City Index”), a leading online trading firm specializing in contracts for difference (CFDs), forex and UK ...
Banks Are Poised to Profit From Forex Tumult
April 2nd, 2015
Swiss central bank’s surprise January move led to volatility that can help Wall Street The big currency swings of the past three months have whipsawed many investors. Wall Street may end up loving the action. As U.S. banks closed ...
Petrobras Investors Claim PwC Ignored Red Flags of Fraud
March 31st, 2015
Investors in Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the state-run oil company at the center of a kickback scandal in Brazil, expanded their lawsuit against the company by adding claims that auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP turned a “blind eye” to the fraud and ...
March 2015 National Association for Business Economics Outlook – Summary
March 30th, 2015
The March 2015 NABE Outlook presents the consensus of macroeconomic forecasts from a panel of 50 professional forecasters (see last page for listing). The survey, covering the outlook for 2015 and 2016, was conducted February 25- March 12, 2015. ...
London Stock Exchange stake sale earns Dubai huge profit
March 30th, 2015
Dubai has made a profit of billions of dirhams on the sale of its eight-year-old stake in the London Stock Exchange. Essa Kazim, the chairman of Borse Dubai, confirming the disposal, said the shares had been sold at a ...
We’re All Hedge Funds Now, Part 2: Tech Startups and Nigerian Bonds
March 27th, 2015
Watching formerly risk-averse investors adapt to a negative interest rate world is almost as much fun as watching Europe try to keep Greece and Germany in the same financial family. In each case, success depends on all the parties ...
FCA lambasted by MPs over insurance market panic
March 27th, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority has still not learnt from last year’s calamitous “pre-briefing” of insurance market reforms, and its chief executive, Martin Wheatley, is still in denial about what went wrong, a committee of MPs warns today. The Treasury ...
Kuwait opens door for foreign operator to own part of stock market
March 27th, 2015
The Kuwait Stock Exchange may offer up to 44 percent of its shares to a company that has experience in operating bourses when it goes public, a senior government official told Reuters on Thursday. Such a move, which still ...
Asian stocks mixed as Mideast worries linger, oil eases
March 27th, 2015
Asian stocks were mixed on Friday and the dollar rebounded as rising tensions in the Middle East clouded the investment outlook. Spreadbetters expected Britain’s FTSE .FTSE, Germany’s DAX .GDAXI and France’s CAC.FCHI to tip toe higher while the markets awaited fresh cues from ...
