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SEC: Alternative Fund Manager Overcharged Fees, Misled Investors
January 20th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that a Denver-based alternative fund manager has agreed to settle charges that the firm overcharged management fees and misled investors about how it valued certain assets. An SEC investigation found that Equinox ...
KPMG withdraws audit opinions on CFTC over accounting error
January 20th, 2016
The U.S. regulator that polices the complex derivatives markets is struggling to keep its own books in order and has made a material error that its auditor found so significant that it withdrew nearly a decade of its financial ...
U.K. Markets Pounded and ‘Brexit’ Vote Doesn’t Even Have a Date
January 18th, 2016
Pound, stocks decline as risks to U.K. economy stack up Turmoil is hurting outlook for Bank of England rate increase Wherever you look, Britain’s financial markets are creaking. The pound is at the weakest level since 2010 against the ...
Austrians get (some) mainstream credibility
January 15th, 2016
Well, well: who would have believed it. First the Bank for International Settlements comes out with a paper that links credit booms to the boom-bust business cycle, then Britain’s Adam Smith Institute publishes a paper by Anthony Evans that ...
J.P. Morgan’s Earnings and Revenue Rise, Beating Expectations
January 14th, 2016
The New York firm kicks off earnings season for big U.S. banks J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. said its fourth-quarter profit beat expectations thanks in part to cost-cutting and higher earnings within its investment banking division. The largest U.S. bank ...
Oil drops over 2 pct as China slowdown weighs; market loses faith in rebound
January 11th, 2016
Crude oil prices fell over 2 percent on Monday as China’s economic slowdown dented the outlook for demand and traders are placing record bets on even lower prices as they increasingly lose faith in a significant market recovery. Global ...
Shanghai drops 5%, Shenzhen down 6.5% in renewed sell-off
January 11th, 2016
Chinese markets extended an already rough start to the year Monday, losing further ground and other Asian markets came along for the ride lower. The Shanghai composite was down as much 5.22 percent in late-afternoon trade, while the Shenzhen Composite shed 6.5 percent. ...
Gold in 2016
January 8th, 2016
Advance signs of a global slump in economic activity emerged in 2015. Furthermore, the dollar’s strength, coupled with widening credit spreads confirms a global tendency for dollar-denominated debt to contract. These developments typically precede an economic and financial crisis ...
$30 Oil Just Got Closer as WTI Slides to 12-Year Low on China
January 7th, 2016
West Texas Intermediate trades at lowest since December 2003 China lowers yuan daily reference rate by most since August U.S. oil futures in New York slid to the lowest in 12 years as turmoil in China’s markets pushes crude ...
Chinese markets halt trading for day after shares plunge
January 4th, 2016
Chinese stocks plunged Monday, spurring a trading halt for the rest of the session, and leading stock markets in Asia Pacific lower after feeble manufacturing surveys revived concerns over the slowdown of the mainland’s economy. The Shanghai Composite tumbled 6.85 percent ...
