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CFTC Orders Convergent Wealth Advisors LLC to Pay an $800,000
December 20th, 2016
CFTC Orders Convergent Wealth Advisors LLC to Pay an $800,000 Civil Monetary Penalty for Fraudulent Omissions and False Statements in Connection with an Employee’s Commodity Pool David Zier made fraudulent representations and issued false statements to clients in connection ...
Crude stocks down, though inventories up again in Cushing
December 15th, 2016
U.S. crude stocks fell last week as refineries hiked output, while gasoline stocks increased and distillate inventories fell, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday. Crude inventories fell by 2.6 million barrels in the last week, compared with analyst ...
Enforcement Director Andrew J. Ceresney to Leave SEC
December 9th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Enforcement Director Andrew J. Ceresney will leave the agency by the end of the year. During his nearly four years as head of the agency’s largest division, Mr. Ceresney implemented approaches ...
The top 10 investment ideas for 2017
December 5th, 2016
In 2017, we face a polarized political environment. The likes of Brexit, the U.S. election result, and key upcoming votes in Europe are likely to make investors more uncertain, not less. In a recent survey, a quarter of UBS’s ...
Oil price rally likely short-lived as OPEC deal not enough to reduce glut
December 2nd, 2016
The oil price rally sparked by an OPEC-Russia deal to cut output is likely to be short-lived, say traders in Asia, because the agreement may only draw more supplies from storage tanks and more crude shipments from the United ...
Rolls-Royce cuts another 800 marine division jobs
December 1st, 2016
Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC RYCEY, +0.41% will reduce its marine division’s workforce by a further 800 as part of a plan to reduces losses at the unit. The British aircraft-engine maker said Thursday that this reflected the continuing weakness in ...
What the OPEC Production Cut Will Really Mean for Oil Prices
December 1st, 2016
Crude oil prices–and the shares of U.S. oil and gas companies–surged over 8% Wednesday as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreed to cut its output by some 1.2 million barrels a day to end a global glut. ...
International law firm merges with US firm
November 30th, 2016
On 3 January 2017 international law firm Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) will be merging with leading US energy and marine firm Legge, Farrow, Kimmitt, McGrath & Brown LLP, based in Houston, Texas. The merger is a major strategic development ...
Oil prices fall on renewed doubts on OPEC-led production cut
November 23rd, 2016
Oil prices fell in Asian trade on Wednesday, reversing earlier gains, as doubts re-emerged over whether OPEC would agree to a crude oil production cut at a ministerial meeting next week. A strong dollar, which traded near the 13 ...
Rally for oil prices stretches further as optimism builds for OPEC deal
November 22nd, 2016
Oil futures extended their advance into a third session in Asia trading Tuesday, as anticipation over a production cut at next week’s meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries continued to build. Light, sweet crude for January ...
