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Moody’s downgrades ratings of 7 French banks and backed ratings of another 6 French
September 24th, 2015
Moody’s Investors Service has today taken rating actions on seven French banks as well as downgraded the ratings backed by the French government of another six banks. The outlook on all of the affected ratings is stable. Moody’s has ...
Oil nears $50 as U.S. stock-draw balances China data
September 23rd, 2015
Brent crude oil rose towards $50 a barrel on Wednesday as a drawdown in U.S. crude oil stocks outweighed the negative impact of weak economic manufacturing data from China. The American Petroleum Institute (API) said U.S. crude stockpiles fell ...
Ultra-low Interest Rates: Dangerous or Just a Price?
September 22nd, 2015
Two recent reports start by observing that long-term interest rates have been at extraordinarily rock-bottom levels for several years now. But from that common starting point, the analysis of the reports heads in different directions. The Council of Economic ...
Algorithmic markets would save us from another financial crisis
September 21st, 2015
As the world recovers from yet another international stock-market roller-coaster — an outright crash probably only prevented by safety algorithms installed after the Singapore flash crash of 2013 — it might be helpful for us to remember a couple ...
Uncertainty over Greek elections could weigh on Euro – Euro Currency update
September 18th, 2015
Euro As forecast by the majority of economists, the Federal Reserve played it safe and left borrowing costs at record lows after its latest gathering. The decision sent the US Dollar trending lower against the Euro and as EUR/USD ...
Moody’s: Plummeting oil prices will squeeze global oil and gas companies’ earnings, keeping outlook negative into 2016
September 17th, 2015
Plummeting oil prices will cause cash flow for the global integrated oil & gas industry to contract by 20% or more for 2015, with only a modest recovery expected in 2016, say Moody’s Investors Service. This reflects the rating ...
The Next Financial Crisis Won’t be Like the Last One
September 16th, 2015
It seems increasingly likely the next Global Financial Meltdown will arise in the FX/currency markets. Central banks are like generals: they tend to fight the last war. The Great Financial meltdown of 2008 was centered in too big to fail, too ...
Global information services giant has chosen KPMG to replace PwC as its new external auditor
September 14th, 2015
EXPERIAN, the global information services giant, has chosen KPMG to replace PwC as its new external auditor. The move will officially take effect for the financial year ending 31 March 2017 and bring to an end PwC’s decade-long audit ...
Snapshots of Foreign Direct Investment Flows
September 9th, 2015
The canonical source for data on flows of foreign direct investment are the reports from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, more commonly known as UNCTAD. It’s World Investment Report 2015 provides a discussion of trends up through last ...
AMF: list update of unauthorised websites offering binary options trading
September 9th, 2015
The AMF is publishing a new updated list of websites offering binary options trading, for which no authorised investment services provider could be clearly identified. The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is once again warning retail investors against aggressive ...
