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ASIC permanently bans Victorian finance broker
July 10th, 2014
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned Mr Rudy Noel Frugtniet, a former Victorian finance broker, from engaging in credit activities after it was found he provided misleading information and a lack of full disclosure on a ...
ESMA publishes accounting enforcement guidelines
July 10th, 2014
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final Guidelines on the enforcement of financial information published by listed entities in the European Union (EU). The aim of the guidelines is to strengthen and promote greater supervisory ...
Argentina’s Sovereign Bondage
July 10th, 2014
Sovereign debt has been back in the news recently, this time because of a United States Supreme Court ruling concerning Argentine debt. As a result of the ruling, a complicated issue is likely to become even more so. Sovereign ...
Asian stocks Mixed after China Trade Data
July 10th, 2014
Asian stocks outside Japan rebounded as China’s trade expanded, while the U.S. oil benchmark-contract slipped toward a record losing streak. European index futures were flat and gold was near a 3 1/2-month high. The MSCI Asia Pacific excluding Japan ...
Shale boom confounds forecasts as U.S. set to pass Russia, Saudi Arabia
July 9th, 2014
Four years into the shale revolution, the U.S. is on track to pass Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer of crude oil, most analysts agree. When that happens and by how much, though, has produced disparate ...
Wall Street stoked over Alcoa earnings
July 9th, 2014
Alcoa unofficially kicked off earnings season with gusto Tuesday, delivering second-quarter results that smashed expectations. The aluminum giant reported an adjusted quarterly profit of 18 cents a share — 50% more than expected. The news boosted shares of Alcoa ...
Kiwi near 3-year high; dollar awaits Fed minutes
July 9th, 2014
The Kiwi, New Zealand dollar, hovered near a three-year high on Wednesday, buoyed by the prospect of a sovereign rating upgrade, while the U.S. dollar held steady ahead of minutes of the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting. Against a basket of ...
Profits Vanish in Venezuela After Currency Devaluation
July 9th, 2014
Brink’s, the armored car company, could see about $400 million in revenue disappear this year from its operations in this country. Procter & Gamble announced a write-down of $275 million on its Venezuela business. American Airlines and Delta Air ...
Gibraltar lawyers jailed over £40m client money scam
July 9th, 2014
Three brothers who ran one of Gibraltar’s largest law firms were jailed last week for fraud, four years after their firm, Marrache & Co, was put into liquidation. Benjamin, Isaac and Solomon Marrache were found guilty of fraud last ...
Macquarie drawn into Commonwealth Bank financial planning row; ASIC undertaking
July 8th, 2014
Macquarie Group’s private wealth unit has been accused of not co-operating with the Senate committee that delved into unethical financial planning practices at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Inquiry chairman Labor senator Mark Bishop said Macquarie had similar “systematic ...
