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HKBN Raises $750 Million in Hong Kong’s Biggest IPO This Year
March 5th, 2015
Broadband-services provider HKBN Ltd. raised US$750 million after pricing its Hong Kong initial public offering at the top end of the price range, people familiar with the situation said Thursday, making it the second-largest IPO in Asia Pacific this ...
European Stimulus Sparks Bond Blitz
March 5th, 2015
French utility GDF is the first company in over 14 years to issue euro bonds bearing no regular payments for investors Investors snapped up a half-billion euros of French utility bonds that will pay them no interest, a groundbreaking ...
China freezes accounts of metals-trading giant Trafigura
March 4th, 2015
Chinese police have frozen two bank accounts held by Trafigura, one of the world’s three largest private oil and metals traders, as the authorities investigate an alleged $32 million gasoline-trade fraud, according to three sources. Police have held Beijing-based ...
Japan’s Solar Power Growth Falters as Utilities Balk
March 4th, 2015
Rice fields, golf courses and even a disused airport runway. All over the southern Japanese region of Kyushu, unexpected places gleam with electricity-producing solar panels. Solar use in Japan has exploded over the last two years as part of an ambitious ...
Six Reasons Why Economists Should Say Less About “Competition”
March 3rd, 2015
A short essay of mine titled “The Blurry Line Between Competition and Cooperation,” was published a month ago at the Library of Economics and Liberty website. I argued that the rule-based competition in economic markets is inextricably intermingled with ...
ECB meeting preview: What traders should expect from it
March 3rd, 2015
DESPITE a range of economic indicators suggesting that the Eurozone economy has finally begun to turn a corner, markets had an uncertain start to the week. Although the currency bloc’s unemployment rate slipped to 11.2 per cent in January ...
Investors Are Mistakenly Assured By Two Shaky Generalities
March 2nd, 2015
Investors are complacent, even confident, regarding the prospects for 2015. That is in spite of the market being at valuation levels higher than all but one previous market peak of the last 100 years, while the economy appears to ...
International and regional bodies that combat money laundering (part B)
March 2nd, 2015
Introduction Money laundering is a global phenomenon that thrives parasitically on the world’s financial markets. It ignores national boundaries in much the same way that the financial market place does. It has been accepted that this problem requires both ...
Gain Capital announced Record Fourth Quarter
March 2nd, 2015
Gain Capital issued a press releases informing Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results. -Record net revenue of $114.7 million, up 37% -Net income of $17.6 million, up 309% -Earnings per diluted share of $0.41, up 273% -Adjusted EBITDA of ...
Biggest Global Banks Go to Pieces Under Pressure From Regulators
February 27th, 2015
Global regulators have issued dozens of rules aimed at making the biggest banks safer. That’s leading to another result some wanted: making them shrink. HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest bank by market value, said this week it’s considering “extreme ...
