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Chinese regulator asks banks to cut wealth management yields
January 12th, 2016
China‘s banking regulator and main bond clearinghouse have asked commercial banks to reduce rates they offer on high-yielding wealth management products (WMPs), five sources told Reuters, an apparent back-pedalling on commitments to let markets price credit. The move to ...
Crude oil prices fall almost 20 percent since beginning of the year
January 12th, 2016
Crude oil prices continued a relentless dive early on Tuesday, falling almost 20 percent since the beginning of the year as analysts scrambled to cut their 2016 oil price forecasts and traders bet on further price falls. U.S. crude ...
GAIN Capital Announces Monthly Metrics for December 2015
January 12th, 2016
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP, “GAIN” or “the Company”) today reported certain operating metrics for the month of December 2015. Retail Metrics OTC average daily volume1 of $12.6 billion, an increase of 15.2% from November 2015 and 17.3% fromDecember 2014.2 OTC trading volume1 of $276.9 billion, ...
China Stock Selloff Abates on State Efforts to Stabilize Yuan
January 12th, 2016
Offshore yuan climbs to one-week high amid intervention Shanghai Composite’s RSI signals oversold conditions China’s stocks rose in volatile trading after the benchmark index briefly fell below the 3,000 level as policy makers intensified efforts to stabilize the yuan. ...
The Challenges for the Cypriot Economy for 2016
January 11th, 2016
Assessing the current state of the Cypriot economy one could say that the year 2015 was undoubtedly another difficult year with several problems still remaining unresolved. One could also though add a positive note, that it was the year ...
Swaps Payout Is a Windfall for Funds
January 11th, 2016
Market participants, lawyers will divide up $1.9 billion settlement Here’s another way some Wall Street debt traders are making money: suing. Several hedge funds and other big credit investors are in line for payouts of tens of millions of ...
China forex regulator says will ramp up risk control efforts
January 11th, 2016
China’s foreign exchange regulator said on Saturday it will ramp up risk control efforts, push ahead with regulatory reforms and look to accelerate the development of the country’s foreign exchange market in 2016. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange ...
Shanghai drops 5%, Shenzhen down 6.5% in renewed sell-off
January 11th, 2016
Chinese markets extended an already rough start to the year Monday, losing further ground and other Asian markets came along for the ride lower. The Shanghai composite was down as much 5.22 percent in late-afternoon trade, while the Shenzhen Composite shed 6.5 percent. ...
Gold in 2016
January 8th, 2016
Advance signs of a global slump in economic activity emerged in 2015. Furthermore, the dollar’s strength, coupled with widening credit spreads confirms a global tendency for dollar-denominated debt to contract. These developments typically precede an economic and financial crisis ...
ESMA to Cooperate with Canadia and Swiss Regulators on CCPS
January 8th, 2016
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has established three Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The MoUs establish cooperation arrangements, including the exchange of information, regarding Central Counterparties (CCPs) which are established and ...
