Search Results for: Gold
Goldman Sachs Bolsters Asia Mergers Team Amid Rising Volumes
June 5th, 2014
Goldman Sachs (GS.N) has named John Kim as its new head of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for Asia ex-Japan and will relocate Christos Tomaras from London to join that team, amid surging deal volumes in the region. Kim takes ...
Gold nears worst week since March as stocks climb, demand falls
May 30th, 2014
Gold steady above $1,250/oz, heads for 3 pct weekly loss * Improved appetite for risk pushes stock markets higher * Premiums fall in India; demand soft across Asia-traders (Updates throughout, changes dateline, pvs SINGAPORE) Gold steadied on Friday ...
Silver recovers by Rs 350 on industrial demand, gold stable
May 30th, 2014
Silver prices today recovered by Rs 350 to Rs 40,850 per kg on increased demand from consuming industries but gold remained steady at Rs 27,500 per 10 grams after falling for four straight sessions on low-level buying. Silver ready ...
Gold Traders Investigated in Colombian Cocaine Laundering
May 27th, 2014
Colombia is investigating the possible involvement of gold trading firms and a Miami refinery in a cocaine money-laundering scheme that’s distorting the country’s trade data, according to the tax and customs agency. As much as $3.3 billion of gold ...
Barclays Manipulated Gold as Soon as It Stopped Manipulating Libor
May 26th, 2014
If you were writing a paranoid fantasy of gold price manipulation you’d be hard pressed to come up with something more on the nose than the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority’s order against Barclays. It has everything; it is the ...
Central Bank Gold Agreement
May 19th, 2014
ECB and other central banks announce the fourth Central Bank Gold Agreement as follows: The European Central Bank, the Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique, the Deutsche Bundesbank, Eesti Pank, the Central Bank of Ireland, the Bank of ...
FCA Said to Observe Banks’ London Gold-Fixing Calls
April 25th, 2014
Regulators are stepping up their scrutiny of how gold prices are set, with officials from Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority visiting Societe Generale SA (GLE) to observe the so-called London fixing process, two people with knowledge of the matter said. ...
Goldman, Client Trade Lawsuits Over Singapore Stock Rout
April 14th, 2014
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Lynne Ng Su Ling, an independent director at LionGold Corp., traded lawsuits in London over payment demands after shares owned by Ng and held by the bank as debt collateral plunged in an ...
Stocks Drop With Ruble as Ukraine Tension Spurs Gold
April 14th, 2014
Global stocks dropped a third day, the ruble tumbled and oil and gold advanced as the U.S. and Russia traded barbs in the United Nations Security Council amid worsening violence in Ukraine. The euro dropped on prospects for more ...
SEC Goldman Lawyer Says Agency Too Timid on Wall Street Misdeeds
April 9th, 2014
A trial attorney from the Securities and Exchange Commission said his bosses were too “tentative and fearful” to bring many Wall Street leaders to heel after the 2008 credit crisis, echoing the regulator’s outside critics. James Kidney, who joined ...
