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When OPEC cuts output, oil prices will begin to climb
January 13th, 2016
While the consensus view is the the oil price will go even lower yet, once production is reduced it will start rising again. There’s a very good reason why the price of oil keeps falling – there’s no real need to buy it. ...
Crude oil prices fall almost 20 percent since beginning of the year
January 12th, 2016
Crude oil prices continued a relentless dive early on Tuesday, falling almost 20 percent since the beginning of the year as analysts scrambled to cut their 2016 oil price forecasts and traders bet on further price falls. U.S. crude ...
Britain’s stock market just had its worst year since the financial crisis
December 30th, 2015
2015 is a year that investors in Britain’s biggest companies won’t want to repeat for a long, long time, and it’s all down to crashing commodity prices. At the time of writing, the FTSE 100, Britain’s blue chip share index dropped by ...
StanChart:We announced the world’s first application of distributed ledger technology for trade finance
December 18th, 2015
Standard Chartered Bank, DBS Bank and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) have successfully completed a proof of concept (PoC) delivering the world’s first application of distributed ledger technology to enhance the overall security of trade finance invoicing. Leveraging ...
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ goes live on FXSpotStream as the 12th Liquidity Provider
December 16th, 2015
Volumes on the Service increases 25% through November FXSpotStream LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of LiquidityMatch LLC, today announced that Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ is now live as a liquidity providing bank to FXSpotStream’s price aggregation service and client ...
SGX announces successful launch of SGX Bond Pro
December 10th, 2015
Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced the successful launch of SGX Bond Pro, the first Over-The-Counter (OTC) trading venue dedicated to Asian bonds. SGX Bond Pro has been established under SGX’s subsidiary, SGX Bond Trading (“SGX BT”), a licenced Recognised ...
China Forex Reserves Fall to Lowest Level in More Than Two Years
December 8th, 2015
Numbers suggest Beijing is struggling to control capital outflows as a U.S. rate increase looms China’s foreign-exchange hoard fell in November to its lowest level in more than two years, reigniting concerns about Beijing’s ability to stem the outflow ...
Chinese stocks rally on rumored mortgage tax break
December 2nd, 2015
Chinese markets rallied Wednesday afternoon on speculation of an upcoming incentive to be announced by Beijing to boost the country’s lagging property market. Elsewhere, other Asian equities ended lower on Wednesday as sentiment remained shaky in the region, with ...
RBS,HSBC, Barlcays and StanChart announced their stress test results
December 1st, 2015
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, HSBC Holdings plc, Barclays PLC and Standard Chartered PLC have issued press releases to announce their results in relation with the 2015 Bank of England stress test. Royal Bank of Scotland Group ...
What Will It Mean If the Yuan Gets Reserve-Currency Status?
November 30th, 2015
At least $1 trillion of global reserves may migrate to yuan Successful bid would boost Xi’s economic reform efforts International Monetary Fund representatives have given China strong signals that the yuan is likely to soon join the fund’s basket of reserve ...
