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Goldman Stays Gold Bear as Bullish Wagers Increase: Commodities
July 14th, 2014
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Jeffrey Currie isn’t backing down from his bearish call on gold. As bullion’s 11 percent rally this year beats gains for equities, commodities and Treasuries, he’s sticking with the view that the metal will be ...
US and EU trade talks to resume
July 14th, 2014
Officials from the European Union and the US will spend this week in Brussels trying to make progress negotiating a controversial trade deal. The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) aims to stimulate commerce by reducing barriers such as ...
China Fiscal Spending Jumps 26.1% in June
July 14th, 2014
China’s fiscal expenditure surged 26.1 percent in June from a year earlier to 1.65 trillion yuan (155.3 trillion pounds), reflecting government efforts to speed up spending to shore up the economy. Spending growth accelerated from a rise of 24.6 ...
Asian stocks rebound after portuguese bank scare
July 14th, 2014
Asian stocks rebounded Monday from jitters about a struggling Portuguese bank as investors looked ahead to a busy week of data releases in the U.S., China and Europe. Oil edged up to stay above $100 after tumbling more than ...
Asian shares nudge higher, oil nurses losses
July 14th, 2014
Asian shares rose on Monday as euro zone banking jitters faded, but investors remained cautious ahead of corporate earnings and a raft of global economic events, including testimony from the head of the Federal Reserve. MSCI’s broadest index of ...
China charges GSK-linked investigators for illegally obtaining private information
July 14th, 2014
Prosecutors in China have filed charges against British investigator Peter Humphrey and his American wife, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday, after the couple were detained last year following work they did for British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc. ...
UAE regulator approves new brokerage companies’ regulation
July 14th, 2014
The board of directors of the UAE’s Securities and Commodities Authority, SCA, has approved a new regulation for brokers and amended two other regulations. The new 34-article regulation classifies brokerage firms into (1) those which engage in trading only ...
Dark pool scrutiny no slam dunk for traditional exchanges
July 14th, 2014
The regulatory noose is tightening around dark pools, private share-trading venues that promise anonymity for specialist investors, offering a chance for rival exchanges in the United States and Europe to take back market share. But traditional stock-exchange operators such ...
UK Construction Slowdown in May
July 11th, 2014
Britain’s construction sector has suffered its sharpest slowdown for more than a year after housebuilding activity stalled in May, in the latest sign the property market may be coming off the boil. Construction output dropped 0.8% over the three ...
Shares of tiny Facebook rival wannabe halted
July 11th, 2014
A little known company that’s turned into a strange sensation on Wall Street saw its shares get halted Friday. Cynk Technology, a company that claims to be building “social network business” that trades on the lightly supervised Pink Sheet ...
