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Asian stocks extend losses on weak China PMI survey; dollar strong
September 23rd, 2015
Asian stocks fell on Wednesday as fears of an entrenched global economic slowdown gripped investors, underlined by a weak factory survey from China, while the greenback firmed as investors fled to relatively safe-haven assets. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific ...
IG Group issues a trading update for the three months to 31 August 2015
September 22nd, 2015
IG Group, a global leader in online trading, today issues the following Trading Update for the three months to 31 August 2015, the first quarter of its 2016 financial year. The trends and figures highlighted below refer to this ...
Asian shares follow Wall Street gains
September 22nd, 2015
Asian markets headed higher on Tuesday, recovering from the previous session’s losses after commodities and shares on Wall Street rebounded. US shares bounced back from big losses last week, when the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged over worries ...
Asia Currencies Slide After Fed Officials Signal Rate Increase Possible in 2015
September 22nd, 2015
Most Asian currencies weakened on Tuesday after comments by U.S. Federal Reserve speakers suggested the central bank could raise interest rates as early as next month, while shares made modest gains ahead of a reading on Chinese manufacturing. The ...
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 ...
Forex Investors See Regulation as a Top Issue
September 17th, 2015
Tightening rules could make currency trading more difficult, expensive Global regulators are tightening rules around trading in financial markets after a series of scandals, which could make currency trading more difficult and expensive, said industry participants at a foreign-exchange ...
Asian stocks climb amid Fed rate wait, but China lags
September 17th, 2015
Asian stocks advanced on Thursday, as investors eyed gains in oil prices and the positive lead from Wall Street. However, trade volumes could stay light as investors await the Federal Reserve‘s policy decision. The Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) ...
Rabobank Adopts Bloomberg Tool to Monitor Its Liquidity Buffer
September 16th, 2015
Bloomberg’s HQLA Solution Helps Rabobank Meet Basel III Requirements Bloomberg announced today that Rabobank, one of the world’s safest banks according to Global Finance magazine, is the latest to adopt Bloomberg’s High-Quality Liquid Assets (HQLA) solution to monitor its liquidity ...
ASIC seeks court orders to wind up Management Firm of Investment Schemes
September 16th, 2015
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued a media release to inform that the Commission seeks court orders to wind up Avestra Asset Management. According the Commissions’s report: ASIC has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court of ...
Blockchain expert Tim Swanson talks about R3 partnership of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, Barclays et al
September 16th, 2015
Nine of the world’s biggest banks from both sides of the Atlantic and Asia Pacific have agreed to join a partnership to divine a set of common standards and practices towards constructing a shared digital ledger system for financial ...
