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Japan Stocks Surge
October 20th, 2014
Japan’s Nikkei share average surged 3.3 percent on Monday and was on track to post its biggest daily rise in more than a year as investors took heart from upbeat U.S. data and as the weaker yen lifted exporters such as Toyota Motor ...
The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect holds profits for sharp-eyed investors
October 17th, 2014
CapitalVue’s Elias Glenn explains how to own a piece of a Communist Party Newspaper or Zhou Enlai’s favorite liquor with the SH-HK Stock Connect Baijiu is going global: Under a program to be launched in October, individual investors in ...
Fears that Pimco and other Big Firms being unable to unload risky bonds
October 17th, 2014
Financial experts warn that a small group of giant asset managers that have amassed high-risk, high-yield bonds could find themselves unable to raise enough cash during a sell-off. When it comes to high-risk bonds, the asset management giant Pimco ...
Dubai, Saudi, Qatar bourses plunge amid oil price decline
October 17th, 2014
Markets across the Middle East tumbled on Thursday as global equities and oil prices continued to decline, while Saudi Arabia’s drop was magnified by investors selling to prepare for a $6 billion initial public offer of shares. Brent crude ...
Asia stocks halt selling as U.S. data calm investor nerves
October 17th, 2014
Asian stocks clawed back some of this week’s losses on Friday after a solid set of U.S. data calmed turbulence in global financial markets, though underlying worries about slowing world economic growth kept investors on edge. MSCI’s broadest index ...
Merkel urges EU to keep up reforms as crisis not over
October 16th, 2014
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told parliament on Thursday that Europe must push ahead with efforts to cut public deficits and improve competitiveness because the euro zone debt crisis has not yet been overcome and its causes have not been ...
Steep Sell-Off Spreads Fear to Wall Street
October 16th, 2014
Dizzied by the turmoil, Wall Street experts agreed on one thing: The jarring day showed that fear had finally returned to markets that had become disconcertingly complacent. Waves of nervous selling buffeted the stock market in the United States ...
Netflix plunges on subscriber data
October 16th, 2014
Netflix shares fall as subscriber gain momentum stalls Shares of Netflix fell 24% in after-hours trading after the company revealed that its third-quarter subscriber gain fell short of its estimates. Still, company’s $1.4 billion in revenue met Wall Street ...
CPMI and IOSCO issue report on the recovery of financial market infrastructures
October 16th, 2014
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have published a report entitled Recovery of financial market infrastructures. The report provides guidance to financial market infrastructures (FMIs) such as central counterparties ...
Australia 200 – Bounces Strongly Off Support at 5100
October 15th, 2014
Australia 200 for Wednesday, October 15, 2014 Since the beginning of September the Australia 200 Index has declined strongly from its multi-year high after running into resistance around 5650 back to enter its previously established trading range between 5400 ...
