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Major Asian markets close higher after Nikkei, Kospi erase early losses
December 29th, 2015
Asian equities closed higher on the second day of 2015’s final week, after the Japanese and South Korean markets erased morning losses and the Australian market totted up a more than 1 percent gain. That’s a turnaround from earlier ...
Asia stocks slip but Japan bucks trend on oil bounce; dollar wobbles
December 28th, 2015
Asian stocks dipped on Monday amid a lack of immediate directional cues in light year-end trade, although Japanese shares managed to rise following a rebound in crude oil prices from multiple-year lows. Investors across asset markets were without some ...
Outlook for the USD index for 2016
December 23rd, 2015
Goldman Sachs recently released a fairly optimistic outlook for the US dollar for 2016. The group anticipates that the dollar will be strong against both the yen and euro, while expecting US inflation to increase. With an impending ...
Dollar inches higher after mixed U.S. data
December 23rd, 2015
The dollar inched up in holiday-thinned trading on Wednesday, with most major currency pairs bobbing about in narrow ranges after data overnight painted a mixed picture of the U.S. economy. After the U.S. Federal Reserve’s widely anticipated interest rate ...
Toshiba predicts record billions loss
December 21st, 2015
Troubled Japanese conglomerate Toshiba has said it will report a record 550bn yen ($4.5bn) annual loss and cut 6,800 jobs as it carries out a restructuring. The company, whose activities range from laptops to TVs to nuclear energy, is shedding ...
Asian Shares Mixed, Falling in Japan But Rising in China
December 21st, 2015
Japan faced worries over the future of quantitative easing, while Property and Brokerage shares surged in China Shares in Japan fell Monday amid worries that the central bank will be reluctant to expand its easing program in the coming ...
Asian markets trade mixed; Japan shares spike on BOJ
December 18th, 2015
Major markets in Asia were mixed on Friday after wavering between positive and negative territory as investors focused on economic data, central bank decisions and commodity prices. The Japanese market took a wild ride, erasing early losses and spiking ...
Global stocks, dollar climb as Fed lifts off
December 17th, 2015
Asian stock markets jumped on Thursday as investors chose to take an historic hike in U.S. interest rates as a mark of confidence in the world’s largest economy, lifting the dollar and piling on the pain for oil prices. ...
Shares climb, dollar dips as Fed prepares to lift rates
December 16th, 2015
Shares and bond markets rose and the dollar dipped on Wednesday, as investors readied for what is expected to be the first rise in U.S. interest rates in almost a decade. After more than a year of posturing and ...
ASIC implements clearing regime in Australia for OTC derivatives
December 14th, 2015
ASIC has today released rules implementing Australia’s mandatory central clearing regime for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives of financial institutions – the ASIC Derivative Transaction Rules (Clearing) 2015 (derivative transaction rules (clearing)) and explanatory statement. The mandatory central clearing regime will ...
