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Friday December 5: OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Currency pairs
December 5th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for December 5, 2014 EURUSD sold off in the early session only to bounce off strongly into the 1.2400 level finding resistance at the 1.2450 area near the 20 DMA. Rally driven by ECB announcement ...
Currency trader whizz kid ‘masterminded £5.5m Ponzi fraud’
December 4th, 2014
A foreign currency trader used investors’ cash as his “personal piggy-bank” and blew £1 million in casinos and £500,000 in nightclubs, a court heard. Financial whizz kid Alex Hope, 25, masterminded a £5.5m Ponzi fraud to fund his hedonistic lifestyle ...
The Russian Central Bank Is Intervening Again To Halt A Rouble Collapse
December 4th, 2014
Traders are claiming that the Central Bank of Russia has stepped back into currency markets to halt the rouble’s slide as it continued to fall in early trading on Wednesday. Here’s the evidence — the rouble sudden reversed its ...
ESMA and Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) sign MoU on trade repository data
December 4th, 2014
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on access to data held in European trade repositories . The MoU is effective as of 26 November 2014. The ...
ESMA to cooperate with regional regulators on Australian CCPs
December 4th, 2014
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU establishes cooperation arrangements between the signatory authorities regarding Central Counterparties ...
Thursday December 4: OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Commodities
December 4th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for December 4, 2014 Positive day for Gold with a strong push towards $1220 level finding resistance beneath at $1215. Gold likely to bounce around in the general vicinity as it looks for further direction. ...
Thursday December 4: OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Currency pairs
December 4th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for December 4, 2014 EURUSD smashed down to 1.2320 in the early session spending the rest of the day going downwards from there. New low at 1.2301 appears well supported for now with the market ...
Fall of the Bond King: How Gross Lost Empire as Pimco Cracked
December 4th, 2014
Bill Gross, the 70-year-old king of bonds, rushed through the offices of his $2 trillion empire on a Friday morning distributing hand-written notes. He knew his reign was over. The billionaire co-founder of Pacific Investment Management Co. and its ...
U.S. Shares Rise With Dollar as Oil Surges Amid Data
December 3rd, 2014
U.S. stocks rose toward records, as energy shares rallied with the price of crude and investors weighed data on hiring and the services sector. European equities climbed and the dollar gained on speculation the region’s central bank will add ...
Fitch: Petrobras Corruption Scandal Pressuring Credit Quality
December 3rd, 2014
Recent allegations of corruption scandals in Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.’s (Petrobras) contracting practices hold the potential to affect its credit quality to the extent it slows production growth, affects access to debt capital markets, and receives monetary penalties according to ...