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Citic Securities Chinese brokers missing as Beijing crackdown intensifies
December 8th, 2015
The scandal at Citic has already scuppered a proposed takeover of Russell Investments Two investment bankers from Citic Securities, China’s biggest broker, have gone missing, sparking fresh concerns about a state-led crackdown in the wake of this summer’s stock-market ...
Opec bid to kill off US shale sends oil price down to 2009 low
December 8th, 2015
Oil falls by $2 a barrel with energy shares as Opec refusal to stop flooding the market with cheap oil and likely US rate hike sends Brent crude tumbling Oil prices have slumped by 5% after the latest attempt ...
Why the Fed Has to Raise Rates
December 4th, 2015
No empire has ever prospered or endured by weakening its currency. A great many insightful commentators have made the case for why the Fed shouldn’t raise rates this month–or indeed, any other month. The basic idea is that the ...
FXCM Completes Sale of FXCM Securities to Expobank
December 3rd, 2015
FXCM Inc. (NYSE:FXCM), a leading online provider of foreign exchange (FX) trading and related services, announced that it has completed its sale of FXCM Securities Limited., (“FXCM Securities”) to AS Expobank (“Expobank”). This is a non-material disposition of one of FXCM’s ...
CME Group Volume Averaged 13.7 Million Contracts per Day in November 2015
December 3rd, 2015
Eurodollar options average daily volume rose 70 percent Equity index average daily volume rose 16 percent Interest rate average daily volume rose 9 percent CME Group, announced that November 2015 volume averaged 13.7 million contracts per day, up 6 percent from November ...
UBS Traders May Be First to Face Sanctions in Forex Probes
December 2nd, 2015
Swiss regulator may issue penalties by the end of the year Finma probed 11 currency, metals traders amid global scandal As many as seven UBS Group AG traders may face sanctions from Switzerland’s financial watchdog in the coming weeks, ...
Russia’s Central Bank adds yuan to reserve currency basket
December 1st, 2015
According to the sources, the share of Russian reserves in yuan in the near future will remain small and symbolic Russia’s Central Bank has added the Chinese yuan to the foreign exchange reserve basket, two sources close to the ...
Chinese Debt Snowball Gaining Momentum
November 30th, 2015
Financial crises can happen quickly, like the bursting of the tech stock bubble in early 2000, or slowly, like the late-1980s junk bond bust. The shape of the crash depends mostly on the asset in question: Equities can plunge ...
10 Forex Concepts You Need to Understand
November 25th, 2015
The foreign exchange (forex, FX for short) is the world’s most liquid financial market, with a daily turnover of $5.3 trillion(1). Each day, governments, multinational corporations, banks, investors and traders exchange currencies on the open market to facilitate ...
Retail gold prices drop as much as Dh11.75 in one month
November 23rd, 2015
Majority of retail investors expect prices to decline further this week Gold’s retail price in Dubai has dropped by more than Dh11 per gram in just about one month, thanks to rising expectations that the Federal Reserve in the ...