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Argentina’s Sovereign Bondage
July 10th, 2014
Sovereign debt has been back in the news recently, this time because of a United States Supreme Court ruling concerning Argentine debt. As a result of the ruling, a complicated issue is likely to become even more so. Sovereign ...
US Taxpayers Warn Against Myopic Tax Reform Measures
July 10th, 2014
On July 8, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) led a coalition of 13 organizations in sending a letter to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee urging ...
Asian stocks Mixed after China Trade Data
July 10th, 2014
Asian stocks outside Japan rebounded as China’s trade expanded, while the U.S. oil benchmark-contract slipped toward a record losing streak. European index futures were flat and gold was near a 3 1/2-month high. The MSCI Asia Pacific excluding Japan ...
Kiwi near 3-year high; dollar awaits Fed minutes
July 9th, 2014
The Kiwi, New Zealand dollar, hovered near a three-year high on Wednesday, buoyed by the prospect of a sovereign rating upgrade, while the U.S. dollar held steady ahead of minutes of the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting. Against a basket of ...
Horizon Software to Launch Chinese Options Trading System
July 8th, 2014
Horizon Software, a Paris-based provider of front-end trading software, is planning the launch of an options trading system for the Chinese market, set to launch in the fourth quarter of 2014. As China is about to launch equity index ...
Judge Denies Madoff Trustee Recovery of Foreign Transfers
July 8th, 2014
Transfers made abroad between a foreign transferor and a foreign transferee cannot be recovered by the trustee administering the estate of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, a federal judge has ruled. Dealing a win to foreign banks and investment ...
Yen Holds Biggest Gain in a Week on Stock Drop
July 8th, 2014
The yen remained higher after a gain yesterday that was the biggest in a week, as U.S. stock futures point to declines in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and after Japan reported a bigger-than-expected current-account surplus. The currency ...
Australia, Japan sign defense and trade deals
July 8th, 2014
On Tuesday, Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe met with his Australian counterpart to sign agreements aiming to boost defense and trade ties between the countries. The defense deal, which involves the transfer of military equipment and technology, comes a ...
Central Banks Testing Limits of Monetary Policy
July 8th, 2014
The world’s major central banks are returning to a more opaque and artful approach to policymaking, ending a crisis-era experiment with explicit promises that they found risked their credibility and did not substitute for action. From Washington to London ...
Bond Anxiety in $1.6 Trillion Repo Market as Failures Soar
July 7th, 2014
In the relative calm that is the market for U.S. Treasuries, a sense of unease over a vital cog in the financial system’s plumbing is beginning to rise. The Federal Reserve’s bond purchases combined with demand from banks to ...