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Asia mostly higher; Nikkei leads with 2% gain
May 10th, 2016
Asia markets traded mostly higher on Tuesday, with the Japanese benchmark index leading gains in the region. The Nikkei 225 added 2.04 percent, while across the Korean Strait, the Kospi traded up 0.36 percent. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index was down 0.05 percent. ...
Oil prices dip as strong dollar outweighs supply disruptions
May 6th, 2016
Oil prices fell on Friday, dragged down by a surging dollar and sliding Chinese commodities which at least temporarily outweighed crude supply disruptions in Canada as a result of a massive wildfire threatening its huge oil sands operations. The ...
South Korea offers 25 billion USD investment package to Iran
May 5th, 2016
South Korean President Park Geun-hye offered 25 billion U.S. dollars aid for infrastructure investment in Iran, Petro Energy Information Network (SHANA) reported on Wednesday. According to its 6th Development Plan, Iran wants to invest 185 billion U.S. dollars in ...
Taking the petro out of the dollar
May 4th, 2016
Saudi Arabia has been in the news recently for several interconnected reasons. Underlying it all is a spendthrift country that is rapidly becoming insolvent. While the House of Saud remains strongly resistant to change, a mixture of reality and ...
KCG announces First Quarter 2016 Results
April 22nd, 2016
KCG ANNOUNCES CONSOLIDATED EARNINGS OF $0.41 PER DILUTED SHARE FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2016 KCG reports consolidated revenues of $345.4 million and pre-tax earnings of $60.0 million for the quarter KCG increases book value to $16.42 per share ...
Eurex and Korea Exchange extend cooperation
April 21st, 2016
Eurex, one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges and part of Deutsche Börse Group, and Korea Exchange (KRX) today signed a contract in KRX’s Seoul Office to extend their cooperation by listing Mini KOSPI 200 index futures during Eurex ...
EBS BrokerTec expands its successful NDF offering
April 21st, 2016
One month against the fix complements existing successful one-month outright product EBS BrokerTec, ICAP’s market-leading electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, announces today that in response to customer demand it has added a new non-deliverable forward (NDF) ...
R5 Goes Live In Singapore
April 15th, 2016
Receives Authorisation from the Monetary Authority of Singapore R5, the emerging marketplace for local market FX trading, announces that live trading has commenced in Singapore, following its authorisation from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). R5 went live with ...
Emerging Currencies Halt Rally as Singapore Flags Growth Risks
April 14th, 2016
Malaysian ringgit leads declines after Singapore eases policy Won sinks on Korean election shock as dollar extends advance Emerging-market currencies fell for the first time in six days as Singapore surprised markets by easing monetary policy, spurring speculation other ...
Most Asia markets advance, with Nikkei rising as yen slips
April 12th, 2016
Most major Asia markets ended higher Tuesday, shrugging off after a lower finish in U.S. equities overnight ahead of earnings season. Australia’s ASX 200 added 44.06 points, or 0.89 percent, to 4,975.60, boosted by a 1.73 percent gain in the heavily-weighted ...
