Oil Faces Steep Downside Risk From China’s Stock Market
July 1st, 2015
Oil markets face a lot of downside risk – high crude oil inventories in both the U.S. and Europe, resilient production from U.S. shale, increasing output from OPEC, a nuclear deal with Iran, the turmoil in Greece – but one has not ...
Asian Shares Hold Steady After Greece Defaults
July 1st, 2015
China shares take a break from choppy trading; investors calm as Greece’s default comes as little surprise China’s markets were roughly flat Wednesday as investors took stock of a choppy period of trading over the past two weeks that ...
Amazon to offer loans to sellers in China, 7 other countries
June 30th, 2015
Amazon.com Inc will launch its business loan program for small sellers later this year in eight more countries including China, where credit is becoming a key factor in competing for new vendors and grabbing market share. Until now, the e-retailer ...
Greece Risk May Pose Black Swan Dangers for Emerging Markets
June 30th, 2015
Here we go again. A flight to haven assets has begun as Greece’s economy faces a tailspin, sparking concern defaults and bank collapses could spill over to other European nations, and impose a global impact. This time, though, Europe ...
Asia stocks bounce back but Greece uncertainty still looms
June 30th, 2015
Asian stock markets bounced back Tuesday, recouping some of the previous day’s sharp losses, but investors remained worried the crisis in Greece could spread to other financially weak countries. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.4 percent to 20,189.02 after ...
Euro volatility: The impact of Greece crisis has been less clear in FX than in other markets
June 29th, 2015
Euro recovers ground but still broadly down in volatile trade The euro recovered much of the ground it had lost overnight in volatile trading on Monday, but was still 0.8 percent down against the dollar, after Greece took a ...
Asian stock markets sink after Greece closes banks
June 29th, 2015
Asian stock markets sank Monday after Greece closed its banks and imposed capital controls in a dramatic turn in its struggle with heavy debts. Oil prices declined and the euro edged down against the dollar after Athens announced the ...
Regulatory Fine
June 26th, 2015
Global Regulators Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) Fines Imposed for Year 2015 and 2016
J.P. Morgan, SEC in Settlement Talks Over Product Steering
June 25th, 2015
J.P. Morgan, other banks have faced more scrutiny on conflicts policies from OCC J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is in talks with the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle a probe into whether the bank inappropriately steered private-banking clients to ...
Asian shares, dollar edge down as markets eye Greece
June 25th, 2015
Asian shares and the dollar edged down in Asian trade on Thursday, with investors on ice ahead of a meeting of European Union leaders later in the session as Greece continued last-minute efforts to avert a default. Athens’s talks ...
