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Statement by Glenn Stevens, Governor: Monetary Policy Decision
April 7th, 2015
At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.25 per cent. Moderate growth in the global economy is expected in 2015, with the US economy continuing to strengthen, even as China’s growth slows ...
Asia stocks gain after Fed official signals slow rate rises
April 7th, 2015
Asian stocks rose Tuesday after Wall Street gained on a jump in crude prices and expectations the Federal Reserve will put off an interest rate hike until late in the year. KEEPING SCORE: The Shanghai Composite Index rose 1.8 ...
Gold upswing After Goldman Says It Is Time To “Put Rate Hikes On Hold For Now”
April 6th, 2015
With heavy moves on the markets last weekend , Exante report on recent upswings While equity futures are modestly higher compared to Friday’s early 9:15 am close, where only a short, 45 minute long bloodbath was allowed on Good Friday ...
Wall Street to open lower in wake of weak jobs data
April 6th, 2015
U.S. stock index futures fell in low volume on Monday, putting Wall Street on track for a lower open on the first trading session since Friday’s surprisingly weak jobs data. * Labor Department data showed U.S. employers last month ...
CySec: Withdraw of CIF authorisation
April 6th, 2015
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has issued an announcement informing that: On its meeting of 16 March 2015, has decided, pursuant, of section 25(1)(b) and 26(4)(b) of the Investment Services and Activities ...
Brokers under SEBI’s scanner for moving investors’ money abroad
April 6th, 2015
At least five stock brokers have come under regulatory scanner for siphoning off securities and funds worth over Rs 500 crore from investor accounts for personal gains to foreign locations, including Switzerland and Singapore, as also for private ventures ...
Legal Revenue Grows as Elite Law Firms Set the Pace
April 6th, 2015
Tech sector, M&A fees help to make 2014 law industry’s best year since recession Last year, on average, was the best year for law firms since the recession. But averages can be misleading. Revenue at large, corporate law firms ...
Bahamas Signs New AIFMD MoUs
April 6th, 2015
The Bahamas Securities Commission has signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with the securities regulators of Cyprus, Austria, and Spain, to open up market access for fund managers under the European Union Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (EU AIFMD). The ...
ESMA launches centralised data projects for MiFIR and EMIR
April 6th, 2015
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has launched two major projects at the request of a number of National Competent Authorities (NCAs) who have delegated the following tasks to ESMA: to provide a central facility in relation to ...
Li backs firms’ global vision
April 6th, 2015
China is to pilot the removal of preconditioned government approval for offshore corporate bonds, part of a national arrangement to lower the financing cost of enterprises expanding overseas. The move, along with the government’s efforts to speed up the ...
