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Gold Rebounds Boosted by India Holiday Sales
October 21st, 2014
Even after a two-week rally in bullion, domestic prices remain 7.4 percent lower than a year ago just as sales are set to climb for the festival and wedding season. India is the largest gold buyer after China. The ...
I.M.F. warns of Global Financial Risk
October 13th, 2014
Policy makers at a meeting of the International Monetary Fund said that high debt in China and a lack of spending in Europe, among other factors, could provoke a market convulsion. A more immediate concern drew the attention of ...
Kobre & Kim Adds Hong Kong Law to Follow the Money
October 6th, 2014
Kobre & Kim LLP, a law firm that secured an acquittal for one of the defendants in the U.S.’s first foreign bribery sting operation, added a local legal practice to its Hong Kong office this month according to latest ...
Banks pull out of dozens of benchmarks after rate-rigging scandals
October 2nd, 2014
Some of the world’s largest banks have stopped contributing to dozens of financial benchmarks to avoid further litigation risk in the wake of the Libor and foreign exchange rate rigging scandals. Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, JPMorgan and UBS, among others, ...
Citizens Financial’s Offering Raises $3 Billion as It Parts From R.B.S.
September 24th, 2014
After 26 years within the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Citizens Financial Group, the American retail bank, is setting off on its own. The bank raised $3 billion in its initial public offering on Tuesday, valuing itself at $12.9 ...
Japan PMI shows manufacturing picked up in third-quarter
September 24th, 2014
Japan’s manufacturing activity picked up in the third quarter, a survey showed, but economists say they need more information on wages and consumer spending to determine whether the government should raise the sales tax again next year. An improving ...
HSBC settles a $550 Million lawsuit
September 15th, 2014
HSBC has agreed to pay $550 million for a lawsuit filed in 2011 by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the federal regulator that oversees the government’s two mortgage finance companies, over troubled mortgage-backed securities sold in the lead-up to ...
China’s Tianhe denies overstating profits, cites investor support
September 11th, 2014
Tianhe Chemicals (1619.HK) has denied allegations that it made false statements in its initial public offering prospectus and said key investor Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia (MSPEA) has given it full support. A report by Anonymous Analytics, which describes ...
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 ...
China’s State Media Join Brokerages Saying Buy Equities
September 4th, 2014
China’s state-run media are trying to do something the securities industry has failed to accomplish for much of the past three years: get the world’s biggest population to buy more stocks. The official Xinhua News Agency published at least ...