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Looming FOMC meeting keeps Asian stocks on edge
September 11th, 2015
Asian stocks see-sawed on the final trading day of the week, as investors eyed increased uncertainty heading into the Federal Reserve‘s crucial meeting on interest rates next week. The Fed is widely expected to raise its near-zero interest rate as ...
CME Group Volume Averaged 16.3 Million Contracts per Day in August 2015, Up 25 Percent from August 2014
September 2nd, 2015
Equity index average daily volume increased 61 percent Energy average daily volume rose 46 percent, as WTI futures and options reached record 1.8 million contracts on August 31 Eurodollar options average daily volume increased 39 percent, driven by 124 ...
SEC Charges BNY Mellon With Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violations
August 19th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that BNY Mellon has agreed to pay $14.8 million to settle charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by providing valuable student internships to family members of foreign government officials ...
Yuan cut clobbers markets, rekindles fear of forex war
August 12th, 2015
China’s 2 percent devaluation of the yuan hit global equities and U.S. oil prices on Tuesday with investors fearing a new currency war as well as declining Chinese economic momentum. Wall Street ended lower as investors contemplated the implications ...
This Precious Metal Needs a Silver Bullet
August 6th, 2015
In the past 12 months alone, the benchmark silver-futures contract has declined 27% Once prized as a precious metal that could be put to practical use, silver is now getting the worst of both worlds. Like gold, silver has ...
Forex Broker FX World Under Investigation by City of London Police
July 16th, 2015
Currencies-trading firm’s license was suspended in June, says FCA The City of London police are conducting a fraud investigation into currencies-trading firm FX World, according to a person familiar with the matter. “ are investigating a foreign-exchange company in ...
European Stocks, Chinese Stocks And Commodities Are All Crashing – Are U.S. Stocks Next?
July 8th, 2015
A global stock market crash has begun. European stocks are crashing, Chinese stocks are crashing, and commodities are crashing. And guess what? All of those things happened before U.S. stocks crashed in the fall of 2008 too. In so many ways, it seems like we ...
CME Group Volume Averaged 14.6 Million Contracts
July 3rd, 2015
CME Group Volume Averaged 14.6 Million Contracts per Day in June 2015, Up 15 Percent from June 2014 Includes monthly records in Agricultural Commodities and Weekly Treasury Options Agricultural commodities average daily volume rose 48 percent Foreign exchange (FX) ...
Why CySec did not report details of the imposed sanctions to Safecap Investments Ltd?
July 3rd, 2015
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) announced imposition of Administrative fine to the Cypriot Investment Firm, Safecap Investments Ltd, but in contrast to its usual practice to provide details of the violations with reference to the specific articles ...
Study: Penalties Levied by Financial Watchdogs Spiked in 2014
July 2nd, 2015
Financial regulators in the United States, United Kingdom, and Hong Kong have decreased their agency expenditures but increased the penalties they’ve levied, according to a new report by regulatory, compliance, and risk consultancy Kinetic Partners. The study, Global Enforcement ...