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Nasdaq Agrees to Acquire International Securities Exchange
March 10th, 2016
Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced it has agreed to acquire International Securities Exchange (ISE), an operator of three electronic options exchanges, from Deutsche Börse Group. The acquisition allows Nasdaq to improve efficiencies for clients, broaden its technology offering, and provides the ...
Fitch: U.S. Retail Brokers Focus On Customer Wallet Share
March 10th, 2016
U.S. retail brokers continue to capture more client wallet share and drive a more diverse revenue base, which could support further improvements in their financial performance, according to a special report published today by Fitch Ratings. Reflecting these favorable ...
Hong Kong Exchanges Peers at London Stock Exchange-Deutsche Börse Merger Talks
March 3rd, 2016
HKEx chief Charles Li says deal would put ‘pan-European exchange powerhouse on the horizon’ The operator of Hong Kong’s stock exchange said Wednesday it is keeping a close eye on advanced merger discussions between London Stock Exchange Group PLC and Deutsche ...
Apple Goes to the Supreme Court
February 25th, 2016
The Justices should hear the e-book antitrust case. The Supreme Court may consider as early as Friday whether to take an appeal of one of the great antitrust abuses of recent decades, and the economic import is far larger ...
BetaSmartz Launches First Across-the-Board Automated Investment Platform
February 16th, 2016
BetaSmartz, the automated investment platform for all sizes of investors, from institutional to retail, launched today. BetaSmartz’s technology, based on six decades of Nobel prize-winning research and industry expertise, utilises a wide universe of investment products to create portfolios ...
Dot-Com Bubble 2.0 Is Bursting: Tech Stocks Are Already Down Half A Trillion Dollars Since Mid-2015
February 8th, 2016
Do you remember how much stocks went down when the first dot-com bubble burst? Well, it is happening again, and tech stocks are already down more than half a trillion dollars since the middle of 2015. On Friday, the ...
VW faces tougher Justice Department while GM and Toyota settled criminal charges without pleading guilty
February 8th, 2016
Government making `big deal’ of company’s emissions cheating GM, Toyota settled criminal charges without pleading guilty No one has died from the emissions-cheating software Volkswagen AG has admitted it installed in some of its cars, yet the U.S. Justice ...
Interview with Wall Street Journal
February 5th, 2016
Interview with Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Brian Blackstone and Tom Fairless on 1 February 2016 Over the last few months we’ve seen oil and commodity prices bringing down inflation. How worried ...
Russian Oil: Output Grows as Prospects Shrink
January 25th, 2016
Plummeting prices and U.S.-led sanctions raise questions about Russian oil’s capacity to continue underwriting Putin’s global ambitions In the frosty swamplands of West Siberia, the drilling rigs of oil giant OAO Lukoil are helping raise Russia’s oil output to its highest ...
Nasdaq Launches New, Innovative Investor Relations Platform, Nasdaq IR Insight™
January 15th, 2016
Platform Designed With Extensive Client Collaboration to Capture the Investor Relations Workstream, Improve Data Intelligence and Enhance Decision Making Facilitates and Drives Efficiency of an IR Program by Providing a Single Data Solution Launch Marks the First Step in Wider ...