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KPMG: What Audit committees cite as top challenges in 2015
February 2nd, 2015
KPMG issued a press release saying that: Audit committees cite uncertainty, volatility and high risk environment as top challenges in 2015 More Boards Reallocating Oversight Duties as Risk Environment Strains Audit Committee Agendas. Audit committees around the world said ...
Oil Companies Draw on Creative Financing to Stay Afloat After Prices Tumble
February 2nd, 2015
North America’s small and mid-sized energy companies are searching for creative ways to stay afloat as investors smell blood in the water from the almost 60 percent fall in the price of oil since June. Oil and natural gas ...
Commodity currencies feel heat; dollar, yen, euro stable
January 30th, 2015
Commodity currencies nursed hefty losses on Friday, as investors sent the Australian dollar to 5 1/2 year lows as they bet on the Australian central bank reducing interest rates when it meets next week. While currencies from energy and resource producing countries, such ...
Markets mixed after Fed statement
January 29th, 2015
US stocks fell sharply on Wednesday after Federal Reserve reiterated its plans to hike interest rates sometime in 2015. The Federal Reserve boosted its assessment of US economy as it described the expansion as “solid”, an improvement over the ...
Platts Launches Market Data Direct
January 29th, 2015
New Real-Time Global Commodity Prices and Data Service Trusted Industry Benchmarks From Platts Available in New Customizable Cross-Commodity Collections Historical Data at the Ready on a Global Basis for Trend and Arbitrage Analysis London – January 28, 2015 Platts, ...
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
January 29th, 2015
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December suggests that economic activity has been expanding at a solid pace. Labor market conditions have improved further, with strong job gains and a lower unemployment rate. On balance, ...
Asian shares skid as bullish Fed take investors by surprise
January 29th, 2015
Asian shares extended losses on Thursday after the Federal Reserve took an upbeat view on the U.S. economy and signalled that it remains firmly on track to raise interest rates this year despite an uncertain global outlook. A greater likelihood of ...
Markets decline on weak economic data and disappointing earnings reports
January 28th, 2015
US stocks recorded their biggest decline in three weeks on Tuesday after an unexpected drop in durable-goods orders and disappointing earnings reports from Microsoft Corp. and Caterpillar Inc. The durable-goods orders fell 3.4% in December instead of a small ...
U.S. oil well shut-ins start as crude rout batters small producers
January 27th, 2015
Collapsing crude prices are confronting scores of smaller U.S. oil producers with the grim choice of either shutting older high-cost wells or burning through cash in the hope of riding out the downturn. As oil prices fell by more ...
OPEC’s El-Badri Says $200 Oil Possible With Lack of Spending
January 26th, 2015
OPEC’s secretary-general said oil prices as high as $200 a barrel are possible if producers fail to invest in new supply. Crude futures pared losses in London and New York. “If you don’t invest in oil and gas, you will see more ...
