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Potential For Deflation Is Becoming A Big Threat For 2015
February 2nd, 2015
The fears after 2001 were that the Fed’s easy money policies to pull the economy out of the 2001 recession, followed by even more easing, including the near-zero Fed Funds rate instituted after the 2008 financial meltdown, would result ...
Russian Central Bank Defends Its Independence After Surprise Rate Cut
February 2nd, 2015
Ruble Slides Lower Against the Dollar The Bank of Russia has defended its independence after Friday’s surprise cut in interest rates raised concerns about the influence of the Kremlin, industrialists and bankers over the central bank’s policy. Amid complaints ...
KCG announces Consolidated Earnings
February 2nd, 2015
KCG One of the World’s Largest Independent Market Makers issued a press release for: Consolidated Earnings of $0.23 Per Diluted Share for the Fourth Quarter of 2014 Pre-tax income from continuing operations of $26.5 million includes a net charge ...
Baker Tilly International Reports 5% Increase In Global Revenues
February 2nd, 2015
Baker Tilly International has reported annual revenues of US$3.6bn for the financial year ending 30 June 2014, a year-on-year increase of 5%. The network’s ranking has been maintained as the world’s 8th largest accounting and business advisory network. Commenting ...
Germany Stands To Be Big Winner of Much-Opposed ECB Stimulus
February 2nd, 2015
Germany, the biggest opponent of the European Central Bank’s new stimulus program, is poised to reap immediate benefits from the effort—an irony that underscores the complexities of designing one monetary policy for the 19-member currency area. The ECB’s program, ...
Oil Companies Draw on Creative Financing to Stay Afloat After Prices Tumble
February 2nd, 2015
North America’s small and mid-sized energy companies are searching for creative ways to stay afloat as investors smell blood in the water from the almost 60 percent fall in the price of oil since June. Oil and natural gas ...
Bank of Russia released on key rate
January 30th, 2015
Bank of Russia issued today a notice informing that: On 30 January 2015, the Bank of Russia Board of Directors decided to reduce the key rate from 17.00 to 15.00 percent per annum due to the shift in the ...
EU-US legal services break-through
January 30th, 2015
Conference of chief justices offers a way out of the old plot-line. A very significant step was taken a few days ago in the ongoing negotiations between the US and EU legal professions on opening markets in legal services ...
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 ...
China denies mass foreign investment withdrawal
January 30th, 2015
China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC) on Thursday denied media reports that foreign firms were taking back their capital in China. “There is no mass capital withdrawal of overseas enterprises in China,” MOC spokesman Shen Danyang said during a press ...