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Geithner Must Give S&P Documents in U.S. Fraud Suit
May 14th, 2014
Ex-U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner must comply with Standard & Poor’s demand that he provide documents related to its claim the U.S. sued the company in retaliation for downgrading government debt. Harold W. McGraw III, chairman of S&P parent ...
Futures manipulator sentenced to community service
May 14th, 2014
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has issued a press release informing as follows: The Eastern Magistrates’ Court today sentenced a futures trader, Mr Ernest Fan Kwong Hung, to 200 hours of community service and fined him $59,430 for ...
SFC resolves concerns over Citigroup’s algorithmic trading system
May 14th, 2014
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded Citigroup Global Markets Asia Limited (Citigroup) for its failure to ensure that certain securities orders executed through its algorithmic trading system between April 2009 and May 2010 would not cause undue ...
When Education Doesn’t Pay
May 14th, 2014
When I was in business school, back at the turn of the millennium, a team from my New Venture Strategy class proposed an innovative way to pay for school: sell shares of your future income to investors. I was ...
Stocks: In need of a break?
May 14th, 2014
Wall Street might need a break. The past few days have seen investors push stock markets to all-time highs, but it looks like the pace could slow Wednesday. U.S. stock futures were barely moving ahead of the opening bell, ...
IRS said to make $13B in improper refunds
May 14th, 2014
The U.S. government doled out more than $13 billion last year in improper payments of a tax credit meant to help the working poor, according to a government watchdog. One of the country’s largest cash assistance programs, the so-called ...
Investors May Have Gained Early Word on Fed Policy, Study Finds
May 14th, 2014
Some investors may have gotten early word of changes to Federal Reserve policy between 1997 and 2013 and profited by trading before the policy shifts were publicly announced, according to Singapore-based researchers. Trading records show abnormally large price movements ...
IASB amends IAS 16 Property and IAS 38 Intangible Assets
May 14th, 2014
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), has published amendments to IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment and IAS 38 Intangible Assets. IAS 16 and IAS 38 both establish the principle for the basis of depreciation and amortisation as being the ...
FCA warning on clone firms
May 14th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British financial regulatory authority, has issued a warning informing the investors that “Loan Solutions (Cheshire) Limited trading as Loan Solutions Direct” and “BGC Markets” are clone firms, therefore, they are not permitted to provide ...
USD/JPY stops ahead of 100-day SMA
May 14th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook USD/JPY is struggling to pass through the formidable resistance at 102.38/16, which is required for a bullish outlook to be confirmed. However, the task is a difficult one, being that this supply zone consists of the major ...
