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Bank of China Hires in Hong Kong as High-Yield Bond Trade Starts
July 16th, 2014
Bank of China Ltd. is hiring traders and sales people in Hong Kong as it sets up a high-yield bond-trading platform to boost market share and cement its position as one of Asia’s top 10 debt underwriters. Surging sales ...
European Stocks Advance With Asia as Gold, Oil Retreat
July 14th, 2014
European and Asian stocks advanced with U.S. equity-index futures after a gauge of global shares suffered its biggest weekly loss in three months. Gold fell from a four-month high, corn slid a 10th day and oil dropped as the ...
Traders Flood U.S. With $3.4 Trillion of Bond-Auction Demand
July 14th, 2014
The intensifying debate over when the Federal Reserve raises interest rates is little more than a sideshow when it comes to the ability of the U.S. to borrow. For all the concern fixed-income assets will tumble once the central ...
Asian shares nudge higher, oil nurses losses
July 14th, 2014
Asian shares rose on Monday as euro zone banking jitters faded, but investors remained cautious ahead of corporate earnings and a raft of global economic events, including testimony from the head of the Federal Reserve. MSCI’s broadest index of ...
ayondo Opens Office in Singapore
July 11th, 2014
The ayondo group announced that it has opened an office in Singapore, the ayondo Asia PTE Ltd, following its strategist expansion worldwide. The holding company, which operated as an investment group under the name Next Generation Finance until April ...
Japan reveals plans to cut corporate tax to below 30%
June 24th, 2014
Japan has unveiled plans to cut the country’s corporate tax to below 30% in several stages starting next year. The move is part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plan to revive the economy, a pledge made when he took ...
Wall St. slides on concerns about Iraq
June 13th, 2014
U.S. stocks fell on Thursday as concerns escalated about Iraq and after disappointing economic data on retail sales and jobless claims. The three major U.S. stock indexes ended off their session lows. With the day’s decline, though, the S&P ...
Crédit Agricole (CIB) Selects Solace Systems Messaging Appliances for Next Generation eTrading Platform
June 11th, 2014
Solace Systems announced that Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB), has decided to implement Solace messaging appliances as the data distribution backbone as part of its continuous investment in low latency electronic trading in FX, Rates and Bonds. ...
Asian Stocks Rise With Ringgit; U.S., Europe Futures Gain
June 6th, 2014
Asian stocks rose for the fourth straight week and emerging-market currencies strengthened after the European Central Bank cut interest rates to fight deflation. The dollar headed for its best week since April versus the yen and U.S. and European ...
Dow, S&P end at records; Apple, Google drag on Nasdaq
June 3rd, 2014
The Dow and the S&P 500 finished at record highs again on Monday after a closely watched read on U.S. manufacturing was revised to show more strength than initially indicated. Industrials and material stocks were among the day’s biggest ...
