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Who Are the Winners of Russia’s Ruble Meltdown?
December 18th, 2014
The Russian ruble‘s spectacular falls this year have been relentlessly portrayed as bad news. But with the ruble now down some 45 percent against the U.S. dollar since January, are there no winners? Companies that produce in Russia but sell abroad are bound ...
Draghi Urgency for ECB Action Gets Final Reality Check
November 24th, 2014
Mario Draghi is about to find out just how urgent his call for action has become. One week after the European Central Bank president vowed to revive inflation “as fast as possible,” policy makers will receive a glimpse on ...
Yen Set for Fifth Weekly Loss on Elections
November 21st, 2014
The yen rose, paring the sharpest five-week drop since 1995, after Japan’s Finance Minister Taro Aso said the currency had depreciated too rapidly. Japan’s currency has fallen against all except one of its 31 major counterparts this week before Japan ...
China Stocks Fall on Last Day Before Link Start as Brokers Drop
November 14th, 2014
Chinese stocks fell on the last trading day before the start of the trading link between Hong Kong and Shanghai amid concern recent rallies were excessive. China Communications Construction Co. (601800) and ChinaCAMC Engineering Co. led declines for industrial companies with losses of more than 3 ...
Singapore Returns Up to $9 Billion to Banks in Rate Probe
November 7th, 2014
Singapore’s central bank gave back as much as S$12 billion ($9.3 billion) that it took from 19 lenders last year as a penalty for trying to manipulate benchmark interest rates. The banks have taken steps to prevent a recurrence ...
A Recent Surge of Leveraged Loans Rattles Regulators
November 5th, 2014
As regulators hunt for the next financial bubble, they are homing in on an obscure corner of Wall Street: the debt market where Tom Shannon’s company, a chain of flashy bowling alleys, recently borrowed nearly half a billion dollars. ...
$1.5 Million Sent in Error to Money Manager
October 30th, 2014
Credit Suisse is trying to find Joseph Galbraith, manager of Galbraith Capital Investment Management, to which the bank says it sent the money in January. In the board game Monopoly, when the bank makes an error in your favor, ...
Banks to change rules governing derivatives market
October 8th, 2014
The world’s biggest banks have agreed to change rules that govern the $700 trillion derivatives market, the Financial Times reported. Eighteen banks, ranging from Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN.VX) to Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), have agreed to give ...
Brokers Battle Deutsche Bank Over Selling In-House Products
September 9th, 2014
Since the market collapse of 2008, scrutiny has intensified on the way large banks and securities firms treat their brokerage customers, particularly when it comes to steering them into the firms’ own products. One possibility raised in the 2010 ...
Swiss Bank Pictet Reveals Results for First Time
August 26th, 2014
The Swiss private bank Pictet Group reported its financial results publicly for the first time in its 209-year history on Tuesday, showing a profit and highlighting continuing changes in Switzerland’s traditionally secretive banking culture. Pictet, a privately held wealth ...
