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UBS Diverts $5 Billion of Asia Deposits to Curb Basel III Costs
September 4th, 2015
UBS Group AG has shifted more than $5 billion of riskier Asia-Pacific deposits into alternative cash investments as new rules raise the cost of holding them. The world’s largest manager of millionaires’ money has helped some clients such as ...
Nerves ahead of US jobs bring down Asian stocks
September 4th, 2015
Asian stocks declined on the final trading day of the week, as investors awaited the U.S. nonfarm payrolls report for August that may play a crucial role in the Federal Reserve‘s decision about when to lift interest rates. A ...
History of Bitcoin: The journey of a virtual currency
September 3rd, 2015
The biggest thing to hit the global market since the invention of currency is the word “Bitcoin”. What started merely as an alternate electronic payment system soon became the seventh wonder of modern economy. But while most of us ...
The Current Global Financial Crisis
September 3rd, 2015
During the last month global markets has been roiled by the financial crisis that emanated from China, but propagated to other parts of the world. To put things into perspective, during the month of August more than $5 trillion ...
China tightens trading rules on forex, stock markets
September 3rd, 2015
China has announced tougher rules on trading stock index futures and foreign exchange derivatives as it seeks to steady jittery markets whose weakness has raised concern over the health of the world’s second-largest economy. Facing slowing economic growth and ...
Asian Shares Rise, China Markets Closed for Holiday
September 3rd, 2015
U.S. markets regained some footing overnight Asian markets were mostly higher on Thursday, led by a strong performance in Japanese stocks after U.S. markets restored some stability to a region rocked by volatility. Japan’s Nikkei was 1.5% higher at around midday, ...
ANZ signs AU$450 million, five-year strategic partnership with IBM
September 2nd, 2015
Leading edge technology to help ANZ be the best connected and respected bank across Asia Pacific ANZ, one of Australia and New Zealand’s leading banks, has signed a five-year, AU$450 million strategic agreement with IBM (NYSE: IBM). This partnership will ...
Extreme volatility rocks China stocks
September 2nd, 2015
China stocks swung wildly on Wednesday as investors grappled with the market’s latest episode of extreme volatility. The benchmark Shanghai Composite shed 4.2% at the opening bell, only to recover and lurch into positive territory by mid-day. The smaller ...
In The Month Of September 2015 We Officially Enter The Danger Zone
September 1st, 2015
Is September 2015 going to be one of the most important months in modern American history? When I issued my first ever “red alert” for the last six months of 2015 back in June, I was particularly concerned with ...
European stocks suffer as China outlook continues to worsen
September 1st, 2015
More than £30bn was wiped off FTSE 100-listed stocks this morning, after new economic data from China reduced hopes of a recovery from last week’s market turmoil. The FTSE dipped below 6,100 points in mid-morning trading, 2.4 per cent ...
