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World’s leading economies warned over ‘global jobs crisis’
September 10th, 2014
The world’s largest economies are still failing to create enough jobs and too many of those that are being produced are too low quality to generate a meaningful boost to global growth, three leading international institutions warned on Tuesday. ...
Brent Oil Drops Below $100 after Chinese Data
September 9th, 2014
Oil tumbled by $1 on Monday, with Brent sliding below $100 a barrel for the first time in more than a year and West Texas Intermediate tumbling to near its lowest of 2014, as Chinese and U.S. data pointed ...
Gold Remains Under $1260 on U.S. Dollar Strength
September 9th, 2014
Gold hovered near its lowest in three months on Tuesday after sharp overnight losses as the dollar traded at 14-month highs against a basket of major currencies, dimming the metal’s appeal as a currency hedge. Spot gold had slipped ...
Dollar sweeps higher, Japan shares shy from peaks
September 9th, 2014
The U.S. dollar held on to broad-based gains in Asia on Tuesday in a boon for shares of Japanese exporters but a burden for oil, gold and stocks in the energy majors. As the dollar finally broke to a ...
Rosneft struggles to grow as sanctions hit Russia’s oil champion
September 9th, 2014
The Kremlin’s prized oil firm Rosneft is cutting staff and production and selling stakes in Siberian fields in the strongest evidence to date that Western sanctions are hurting what was the world’s fastest growing oil firm in recent years. ...
Shifting Polls in Scotland Send Investors Rushing for Shelter
September 9th, 2014
Scotland, home to just five million people, has never weighed on the minds of currency traders and market investors the way that Russia or China or the eurozone has — until now. A poll this weekend showed Scottish voters ...
Legislative on cheque imaging and payment systems access updated
September 8th, 2014
FCA has announced changes on legislation which has recently been introduced to British Parliament affecting payment systems. As part of FCA’s commitment to transparency, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has set out below details of these latest developments in ...
Goldman Sachs wins role stabilizing early trade in Alibaba IPO
September 4th, 2014
Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) will be the bank in charge of overseeing early share trading in China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s (IPO-BABA.N) initial public offering, according to a source. Other banks working on the e-commerce company’s IPO were ...
Caution dominates Asia bourses ahead of ECB meeting
September 4th, 2014
Asian bourses retreated from multi-month highs in a mixed session as investors took a cautious stance ahead of a keenly anticipated monetary policy update from the European Central Bank. Coming off a seven-month high, Japan’s Nikkei 225 Average fell ...
Brent Oil Drops to $100 on Demand Woes
September 3rd, 2014
Brent crude fell to its lowest level in 15 months on Tuesday, pressured by the prospect of slowing oil demand growth in China and Europe, while a strong dollar and ample supplies pressured U.S. oil prices. Oil prices on ...
