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Oil prices remain weak on Asia economy woes; shares in commodity firms tumble
September 29th, 2015
Japan stock market at 8-mth lows over Asian economic fear Falling commodity markets hit trading houses hard Oil prices remained low in early Asian trading on Tuesday following a slide of almost 3 percent the previous session, dragged down ...
Ultra-low Interest Rates: Dangerous or Just a Price?
September 22nd, 2015
Two recent reports start by observing that long-term interest rates have been at extraordinarily rock-bottom levels for several years now. But from that common starting point, the analysis of the reports heads in different directions. The Council of Economic ...
Dollar hits near two-week high on renewed rate hike bets
September 22nd, 2015
The dollar touched an almost two-week high against a basket of major currencies on Tuesday after comments from Federal Reserve officials revived expectations that U.S. interest rates will still be hiked later this year. The greenback has bounced back ...
Asian shares edge up, dollar soft as Fed stands pat and eyes China
September 18th, 2015
Asian shares rose modestly on Friday on relief the Federal Reserve held off on raising interest rates but gains were capped by renewed concerns about the health of the global economy, in particular China. The dollar was on the ...
Saudi Arabia Just Got Turned Into an ETF
September 17th, 2015
Now that you can have instant exposure to Middle Eastern stocks, the question is: Do you want it? Like a game of Risk, the entire world is slowly but surely getting wrapped up by U.S. exchange-traded fund issuers. The IShares MSCI Saudi ...
The Next Financial Crisis Won’t be Like the Last One
September 16th, 2015
It seems increasingly likely the next Global Financial Meltdown will arise in the FX/currency markets. Central banks are like generals: they tend to fight the last war. The Great Financial meltdown of 2008 was centered in too big to fail, too ...
Thomson Reuters: Interview with Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB
September 16th, 2015
Interview with Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB, conducted by Paul Ingrassia, Balazs Koranyi and John O’Donnell on 14 September Is quantitative easing working? It is working and effective in many ways. The ultimate metric to assess success is the ...
EY reports 2015 global revenues up by 11.6%
September 15th, 2015
Fastest growth since 2008 with revenues up by 11.6% in local currency Growth across all four service lines and four geographic areas Emerging market practices’ revenue up by 12.3% Developed markets’ growth led by the US, UK, Germany, Australia ...
Saudi rises on FTSE review; Egypt up after govt reshuffle
September 14th, 2015
Saudi Arabia‘s stock market rose in early trade on Sunday after index compiler FTSE added the country to its watchlist for potential upgrade and Egypt edged up after the Cairo government resigned. Saudi Arabia’s main stock index rose 1.1 ...
DIFC reports impressive growth in first half of 2015
September 9th, 2015
Total number of registered companies up 8.3% to 1,327 140 new licensed companies and a combined workforce of 18,521 178,376 sq. ft. of net commercial office space leased in 2015 Ground-breaking of 11th office building in The Gate District ...
