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Baltic Exchange outlines bold plans to enhance maritime leadership role
April 26th, 2017
Development of post-trade digital maritime market infrastructure Move into LNG and container indices Enhancement of regulatory role Change of data distribution policies Newly appointed Baltic Exchange Chief Executive Mark Jackson has set out the Exchange’s ambitious vision of the ...
Global Stock Rally Lives On Amid Earnings Optimism: Markets Wrap
April 26th, 2017
Chalco profit follows results from McDonald’s, Caterpillar Japan equities climb amid yen weakness; Australian shares rise Asian stocks extended a global rally after corporate results and hopes of U.S. tax reform boosted optimism for global growth. Weakness in the ...
Oil falls on bulging U.S. crude inventories, record global supplies
April 26th, 2017
Oil prices resumed their downward trend on Wednesday as data showed a rise in U.S. crude inventories and record supplies in the rest of the world cast doubt on OPEC’s ability to cut supplies and tighten the market. U.S. ...
Costa Coffee owner Whitbread reports sales of £3.1 billion
April 25th, 2017
2016/17 was a 52-week year whereas 2015/16 was a 53-week year. In order to provide a clearer comparison, year-on-year growth relating to revenue, underlying profit and underlying earnings per share are shown on a 52-week comparative and a number ...
KCG announces consolidated earnings of $0.05 per diluted share for 1Q2017
April 24th, 2017
KCG accepts proposal from Virtu Financial, INC. to acquire all outstanding shares of KCG’s Class A common stock for $20 per share – A 46 percent premium to unaffected price KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) announced that it has reached ...
Euro Jumps on French Result; China Selloff Resumes: Markets Wrap
April 24th, 2017
Investors bet on Macron victory after first round of voting Yen slides, U.S. futures advance while Shanghai shares slump A relief rally amid speculation that pro-growth centrist Emmanuel Macron will become France’s next president was offset by a selloff in ...
Oil recovers lost ground, but market remains under pressure
April 24th, 2017
Oil prices recovered ground on Monday following last week’s big losses, driven by expectations that OPEC will extend a pledge to cut output to cover all of 2017, although a relentless rise in U.S. drilling capped gains. U.S. West ...
America’s financial war strategy
April 23rd, 2017
America’s renewed desire to escalate military tensions is a front for America’s continual financial war, this time directed at North Korea, Syria and possibly Iran. This is likely to be the opinion of China’s strategic advisors. We analyse the ...
World Federation of Exchanges publishes Annual IOMA Derivatives Report
April 22nd, 2017
The World Federation of Exchanges (“WFE”), which represents more than 200 market infrastructure providers including exchanges and CCPs, has today published its annual report into the global derivatives market. Highlights of the report are as follows: – Derivatives volumes continued ...
International law firm promotes 24 partners
April 21st, 2017
Allen & Overy today announces the promotion of 24 lawyers to partner across its global network, the largest number since 2008. Effective as of 1 May 2017, unless otherwise indicated, the promotions are across 11 offices in 10 countries ...
