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SEC Adopts Rules to Increase Transparency in Security-Based Swap Market
January 15th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted two new sets of rules that will require security-based swap data repositories (SDRs) to register with the SEC and prescribe reporting and public dissemination requirements for security-based swap transaction data. The SEC ...
Oil Prices Explained by Economics
January 13th, 2015
The oil industry, with its history of booms and busts, appears to be in the early stages of its latest downturn. The price of oil has plunged in recent months, reaching its lowest point in more than five years. ...
Oil Prices Fall to Fresh Lows
January 13th, 2015
Global Benchmark Brent Is 17% Lower for the Year The global oil benchmark settled below $50 a barrel for the first time in nearly six years Monday after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. slashed its forecasts, saying lower prices are ...
Oil-Product Prices Fall as Supplies Climb
January 8th, 2015
U.S. Inventory Data Confirm the Market Is Still Oversupplied Prices at the gas pump are heading even lower. Gasoline futures fell to nearly a six-year low on Wednesday after U.S. government data showed oil and fuel supplies rising to ...
Euro hits fresh low before inflation trial, bonds boom
January 7th, 2015
The euro hit a nine-year trough today as collapsing oil prices and worries about the world economy drove skittish investors into the arms of safe-haven sovereign debt. From Japan to Germany to Australia, government borrowing costs reached all-time lows as oil fell 10 percent in just ...
29-Year-Old Russian Hedge Fund Founder Disappears With All The Firm’s Money
January 5th, 2015
The value of the ruble isn’t the only thing that is vanishing in Russia. A Moscow hedge fund chief executive has disappeared, along with all the money in the firm’s accounts. That’s according to a stunning feature in The ...
2015 investing tips for the rational investor
January 2nd, 2015
Is that time of the year when pundits put forth their market prognostications for the coming year, ballyhoo their favorite stocks and dazzle readers with can’t-miss strategies and trends. So here are a few words to the wise, some ...
Fed issued final rule to ensure the treatment of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, eligible margin loans, and repo-style transactions
December 17th, 2014
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today issued an interim final rule to ensure that the treatment of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, eligible margin loans, and repo-style transactions under ...
Oil plumbs depths as OPEC refuses to blink
December 16th, 2014
A modest rebound by oil futures gave way to fresh selling Monday, clearing the way for a new round of lows after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries offered no indication it’s ready to blink and cut production. ...
Federal Reserve will decide this week for widen the door for interest rate hikes next year
December 15th, 2014
Federal Reserve officials will decide this week whether to make a critical change to their policy statement that would widen the door for interest rate hikes next year and effectively bet the United States will continue to shine in ...
