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HSBC to Sell Units in Brazil and Turkey and Shrink Investment Bank
June 9th, 2015
HSBC will take an axe to its investment bank and seek to cut up to $5 billion in costs in an effort to improve its sluggish performance, Europe’s biggest bank said on Tuesday. The announcement to the Hong Kong ...
Asian shares swoon, dollar on defensive
June 9th, 2015
Asia shares sank in a sea of red on Tuesday as speculation of U.S. rate rise as early as September hit emerging markets generally, while failing to give a lasting lift to the dollar. A steady start soon gave ...
What Would Happen If Mainstream Investors Discovered Gold?
June 8th, 2015
China, India and Russia are accumulating a lot of gold, but they’re virtually alone. Traditional money managers, for a variety of reasons, view the metal as neither a viable investment (because it doesn’t pay interest) nor a substitute for ...
Shell Expects Oil Rebound as Shale Fails to Fill Supply Gap
June 4th, 2015
Royal Dutch Shell Plc sees oil prices rising because supply from shale drilling in the U.S. won’t be enough to satisfy growing global demand. The industry needs to find an extra 4 million barrels to 5 million barrels a ...
Clifford Chance advises HTSC on US$4.5 billion IPO
June 3rd, 2015
“The largest IPO in Hong Kong in five years” Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised HTSC on its $4.5 billion initial public offering, the largest public offering in Hong Kong since AIA’s IPO five years ago. The offering contains a “greenshoe ...
Strengthening investment key to improving world economy’s B-minus grade, says OECD
June 3rd, 2015
Global growth will gradually strengthen towards its pre-crisis trend rate by late 2016 as activity becomes more evenly shared across the major economies and overall external imbalances are less marked than in the run-up to 2007, according to the ...
FxPro Increases its Product Offering
June 2nd, 2015
FxPro has issued a press release to announce that: The company has expanded its product range offering to encapsulate numerous additional Contract for Difference (CFDs) including numerous additional shares*, indices, commodity and energy futures. More particularly, the broker shall ...
Top news of the day, May 29
May 29th, 2015
1. China’s campaign to turn the tightly controlled yuan into a global currency is crossing a new threshold, as the government plans to make it easier for individuals and companies to invest overseas. The latest initiative, expected to be ...
Chinese stocks up at midday, shaking off morning slump
May 29th, 2015
SSEC +0.12 pct, CSI300 +0.61 pct Steep morning drop erased by mid-morning Follows market slump on Thursday Investors worried by margin trade changes, monetary policy Chinese stocks ended the morning session up slightly on Friday, but the market saw ...
Top news of the day, May 28
May 28th, 2015
1. Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven economic powers met on Thursday to discuss how to revive a faltering global recovery, with the United States leaning on Europe to reach a deal to avert a Greek bankruptcy. The ...
