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Wall Street’s Top Banks To Keep Lower Profile At Russian Investment Meeting Amid Growing Sanctions
April 30th, 2014
Wall Street’s top firms are walking an increasingly fine line between business as usual and growing political pressure to shun Russia for its annexation of Crimea and meddling in Ukraine, believing that their business ties are more important than ...
Russia is preparing its response to additional sanctions by the EU, the U.S. but also Japan
April 29th, 2014
The Japanese government followed the lead of the U.S. and the European Union, or EU, Tuesday by imposing additional sanctions against Russia even as Moscow stated that it has prepared a response to the sanctions and is working on ...
FCA fines fund manager for investors exposure
April 29th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British regulatory authority, has fined Invesco Asset Management Limited and Invesco Fund Managers Limited (Invesco Perpetual) £18,643,000 for exposing investors to greater levels of risk than they had been led to expect. Between ...
David Cameron’s brother calls for fraud trial to be halted over legal aid cuts
April 29th, 2014
Alexander Cameron QC argues in court that state has failed to provide defendants with adequate representation The prime minister’s brother, Alexander Cameron QC, has argued in court that a complex fraud trial should not go ahead because the defendants ...
European Stocks Climb Amid Earnings as Fed Meeting Starts
April 29th, 2014
European stocks rose for a second day as companies from Deutsche Bank AG to ABB Ltd. reported earnings and the Federal Reserve begins a two-day policy meeting. U.S. stock-index futures advanced, while and Asian shares were little changed. Deutsche ...
Bank of America Lost $2.7 Billion in a Maze of Accounting
April 29th, 2014
Last month, Citigroup failed the Fed’s stress test because, even though it would meet minimum capital requirements in a severely adverse scenario, the Fed wasn’t comfortable with Citi’s capital planning process. Meanwhile, Bank of America passed the stress test ...
USD/CHF bounced off 0.8824/13
April 29th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook There was only a brief rally yesterday during which USD/CHF closed a bearish gap—nothing critical was altered by this behaviour of the pair. The bias therefore remains negative and it implies a decline down to the 2011 ...
Invesco Fined, EU Stress Test, Libor Charges: Compliance
April 29th, 2014
Invesco Perpetual (IPE) was fined 18.6 million pounds ($31.3 million) for failing to comply with risk limits or tell clients about the use of derivatives as leverage in their funds. Invesco Perpetual, the largest retail investment manager in the ...
USD/JPY to re-test 100-day SMA
April 29th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook The strong upward impulse seen yesterday confirmed that USD/JPY still deserves a bullish outlook. Now the pair is facing the 100-day SMA and monthly PP. Last week this supply area prevented further appreciation of the U.S. Dollar ...
“Killer B” anti-abuse regulations are on the way
April 29th, 2014
Recognizing that taxpayers are exploiting the rules in ways it had not intended, the IRS on Friday announced that it will amend the existing regulations on cross-border reverse triangular reorganizations, popularly known as “Killer B” transactions (Notice 2014-32). Killer ...