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CFTC Approves National Futures Association Rules Enhancing Protections for Retail Forex Customers
August 28th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) today approved rule amendments and a new interpretive notice filed by the National Futures Association (NFA). NFA is a registered futures association under section 17 of the Commodity Exchange Act (Act), and ...
RBI on bitcoin: Closely monitoring crowdfunding space, crypto currencies
August 27th, 2015
Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan today said it is closely monitoring the crowdfunding space to check if it poses any concerns, while it also called for an active “market intelligence” mechanism on crypto currencies. Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan today said ...
Playtech: Interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2015 – Directorate Change
August 27th, 2015
Delivering on our strategy – strong underlying growth and strategic M&A Playtech (LSE: PTEC) today announces its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2015 together with a trading update for the period to 24 August ...
Kuroda Says Bank of Japan Can Still Achieve Inflation Target
August 27th, 2015
BOJ stands ready to adjust record stimulus if needed Central bank has “many options” for its monetary policy The Bank of Japan can achieve its 2 percent inflation target with the current level of monetary stimulus, even as it stands ...
Why Saudi Arabia Won’t Cut Oil Production
August 27th, 2015
Nine months after OPEC decided to leave its production target unchanged and pursue market share instead of trying to prop up prices, the group is facing a set of complex problems and decisions going forward. At first blush, the ...
$354 billion foreign exchange reserves too small to fight a crisis: World Bank
August 27th, 2015
“In today’s world where China has $4 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, $354 billion is not enough in case an exchange rate-related issue breaks out.” World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu on Wednesday said the $354 billion of forex war-chest ...
China stocks slip as rate cut fails to convince investors
August 26th, 2015
China‘s turbulent stock markets slipped again on Wednesday, as a double-barrelled blast of central bank stimulus failed to convince investors of Beijing’s ability to jolt the world’s second biggest economy out of its slowdown. After watching share prices tumble ...
Mideast Stocks Fall as Saudi Arabia Mulls Budget Cut on Oil Drop
August 26th, 2015
Dubai’s benchmark gauge is biggest decliner in region Brent crude has dropped almost 60 percent in 12 months Most Middle Eastern stock markets declined amid mounting concern the region’s largest economy will cut spending after oil prices slumped to the ...
Swiss issuers to weather forex storm
August 26th, 2015
The ‘Swiss Credit Handbook 2015’ published today by Credit Suisse contains the credit profiles of the most important Swiss issuers and participants in the Swiss franc capital market. Assessments of the creditworthiness of the different entities covered by Credit Suisse credit ...
Nasdaq poised to launch FX trading platform: top executive
August 26th, 2015
Nasdaq (NDAQ.O) is poised to launch a platform for foreign exchange trading which it says would make the $5 trillion-a-day global market more transparent and would diversify its own business, a top executive from the stock market operator said. ...
