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Gold, silver extend losses on weak global cues
July 16th, 2014
Gold dropped for the second day with prices falling further by Rs 120 to Rs 28,330 per ten gram in the national capital today, tracking a weak trend overseas amid slackened demand. Silver also lost Rs 350 to Rs ...
BofA Merrill Lynch: Survey finds global investors positioning aggressively for recovery in H2 2014
July 16th, 2014
A net 61 per cent of global asset allocators are now overweight equities. This ranks as the survey’s highest reading on this measure since early 2011 and represents the panel’s second-strongest response ever. This aggressive positioning for recovery in ...
Japan Leads Global Volatility Decline to Seven-Year Low
July 15th, 2014
Across global stock markets, nowhere is calm descending faster than in Japan. The Nikkei Stock Average Volatility Index, which tracks the cost of options on the Nikkei 225 (NKY) Stock Average, tumbled 33 percent this year to 15.3 yesterday, ...
Global fund managers face multi-asset skills shortage
July 14th, 2014
Global fund management firms are struggling with a skills shortage as the industry moves towards multi-asset investing in an attempt to improve returns, a study showed on Monday. With stock markets struggling to match the stellar gains of 2013, ...
Global stocks mixed, Indonesia up after election
July 10th, 2014
Global markets were mixed Thursday with a slight pickup in China’s exports failing to give a lift to European stocks after most Asian indexes closed up. Indonesian stocks surged despite a contested presidential election result. European markets failed to ...
BIS warns over ‘Euphoric’ capital markets
June 30th, 2014
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has warned that “euphoric” financial markets have become detached from the reality of a lingering post-crisis malaise, as it called for governments to ditch policies that risk stoking unsustainable asset booms. While the ...
Global M&A at seven-year high as big corporate deals return
June 30th, 2014
Investor support for large acquisitions and a desire to trump rivals in consolidating markets have led chief executives to strike big transactions so far in 2014, raising year-to-date global deal volumes to their highest level in seven years. Corporate ...
Shelbourne Markets purchased by ETX Capital
June 27th, 2014
ETX Capital, a London-based financial spread-betting and contracts-for-difference provider, has acquired Shelbourne Markets, Ireland’s largest financial spread-betting firm for an undisclosed sum. Shelbourne, which has 10,000-11,000 clients in Ireland, has been on the market for some months with four ...
Silver futures down 0.32% on profit-booking, global cues
June 23rd, 2014
Silver prices fell 0.32 per cent to Rs 44,428 per kg in futures trade today as speculators booked profits amid a weak trend in global markets. At the Multi Commodity Exchange, silver for delivery in July traded lower by ...
When the World Cup Is On, Stock Markets Go Quiet
June 23rd, 2014
With the World Cup well underway, it’s no surprise that workers everywhere—even financial types—are paying more attention to the games than to their jobs. One way of measuring the global epidemic of distraction is to look at plunges in ...
