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Europe’s loan portfolio market to top €100bn in 2015
January 30th, 2015
European loan portfolios with a face value of €91bn were sold in 2014, up from €64bn the previous year, says PwC in a Q4 update from its Portfolio Advisory Group. PwC say the European secondary market for loan portfolios ...
Microsoft sales soar for all its non-Windows products
January 27th, 2015
Microsoft sales are growing for just about every product it makes … except for Windows. A couple years ago, that would have caused a panic — Windows has been Microsoft’s cash cow since 1985. In 2015, Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) isn’t sweating it too ...
Swiss Franc’s Leap Lifts Some FX Brokers
January 26th, 2015
Even as some foreign-exchange brokers that focus on serving retail customers were getting hammered by the surprise surge in the Swiss franc earlier this month, other firms that deal mostly with big banks, hedge funds and other large clients ...
Bonds, shares, gold supported ahead of expected ECB action
January 21st, 2015
European shares held close to a seven-year high on Wednesday and Asian shares hit a six-week peak investors bet the European Central Bank would unveil a stimulus drive to boost the flagging euro zone economy. Expectations that the ECB ...
Gold atop $1,300 for the first time since August
January 21st, 2015
Investors are rushing back into gold, so much so that they pushed the price above $1,300 an ounce for the first time since August. In early electronic trading on Wednesday, gold for February delivery GCG5, +0.60% gained $9.10, or 0.7%, to $1,303.20 ...
OPEC vs. U.S.: Who will blink first on oil?
January 14th, 2015
The Merriam-Webster dictionary offers this definition for the word capitulate: “to stop fighting an enemy or opponent; to admit that an enemy or opponent has won.” I’m not sure who oil companies are fighting, whether it’s oil traders, OPEC, ...
Russia faces wave of bankruptcies if interest rates don’t fall
January 13th, 2015
The pressure is building on Vladimir Putin: Russia will be hit by a wave of bankruptcies unless it cuts interest rates very soon, a top financial official warned Monday. Anatoly Aksakov, president of Russia’s regional banking association and deputy ...
HSBC survey: China’s GDP growth to fall to new low, Brazil seen heading back to recession
January 7th, 2015
Output growth picked up in major emerging markets in December led by India, but was subdued overall with China seen slowing further and Brazil likely falling back to recession, an HSBC survey showed on Wednesday. The HSBC Emerging Markets Index rose to a ...
Bank of England disarray in the face of financial crisis
January 7th, 2015
The full extent of the Bank of England’s emergency action to prevent the collapse of the banking system is revealed on Wednesday as it releases previously secret documents detailing its frantic day to day efforts to prop up high ...
5 Worst Performing Markets of 2014
December 29th, 2014
These indices have been hit hard by headwinds over the past 12 months, resulting in losses for investors. What does the future hold for these five indices? MSCI Russia Russian corporates this has been a terrible year, though it ...
