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Asian Stocks Near One-Week High Before BOJ, Fed as Kiwi Climbs
September 20th, 2016
New Zealand dollar gains with milk prices; Taiwan dollar rises European equity futures fall as oil hovers near $43 a barrel Asian stocks held near a one-week high and European equity index futures declined ahead of Wednesday policy decisions ...
China Rich Help Europe Banks Raise $14 Billion Since August
September 19th, 2016
Eight European finance companies opened books in Asia hours ‘Asian investors tend to be more yield hungry,’ JPMorgan says The appetite of China’s wealthy to diversify from a weakening yuan is helping European finance companies boost capital to prepare ...
Oil prices rise on trouble at Libya’s oil ports
September 19th, 2016
Crude-oil prices recovered losses in early Asian trade on news that military conflicts in Libya had affected its oil exports over the weekend. The Petroleum Facilities Guards, a militia that until this month had controlled Libya’s oil ports for ...
CBOE to Launch Options On FTSE Emerging Index
September 16th, 2016
Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) today announced that it plans to launch options on the FTSE Emerging Index on September 26, 2016. The FTSE Emerging Index is a market-capitalization weighted index representing the performance of large and mid-cap companies from advanced ...
The British Pound strengthens; Asian Shares continue the fall; Yen Gains; Kiwi weakens; Oil below $44
September 15th, 2016
Pound edges higher ahead of BOE policy meeting; kiwi weakens Hong Kong stocks advance, led by gains in Macau casinos A global equities selloff extended into Asian trading and European stock index futures fell after a slide in oil ...
Oil prices fell on Tuesday on concerns over increased drilling in the United States
September 13th, 2016
Oil fell on Tuesday following a series of gloomy predictions on demand growth that suggested the global overhang of unused inventories may persist for much longer than investors anticipate and temper any pick-up in price. The International Energy Agency ...
Asia stocks, bonds suffer central bank anxiety attack
September 12th, 2016
Asian shares suffered their sharpest setback since June on Monday as investors were rattled by rising bond yields and talk the Federal Reserve might be serious about lifting U.S. interest rates as early as next week. European bourses were ...
Asian Stocks Retreat as Crude Oil Rallies; Yuan Bears Squeezed
September 8th, 2016
Yuan borrowing costs jump offshore on suspected intervention Euro edges higher before ECB reviews policy; Aussie gains Price swings in financial markets are becoming increasingly muted as investors mull the outlook for monetary policy in the world’s biggest economies. ...
SWIFT: Virtual currencies unlikely to crowd out fiat currencies
September 7th, 2016
The SWIFT Institute has published a new research paper analysing whether Bitcoin will crowd out fiat currencies in the global community. The paper, entitled “Virtual currencies: Media of exchange or speculative assets?”, looks at the dynamic relationship between virtual currencies, such ...
SGX securites turnover falls 27% in August
September 7th, 2016
Securities Total Securities market turnover value fell 2% month on month and fell 27% year on year to S$20.6 billion, during 22 trading days compared to 20 in July 2016 and 19 in August 2015. Securities daily average value ...
