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Asia’s key risks this week: China flash PMI, Japan inflation
September 21st, 2015
As financial markets in Asia recover from the Fed’s decision to keep rates unchanged, other risk events will likely serve up fresh volatility this week. China’s flash Caixin purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for September will be announced on Wednesday ...
Bitcoin Is Officially a Commodity, According to U.S. Regulator
September 18th, 2015
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission makes its mark. Virtual money is officially a commodity, just like crude oil or wheat. So says the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which on Thursday announced it had filed and settled charges against a Bitcoin exchange for ...
Citic Securities Placed on S&P Credit Watch List After Probe
September 17th, 2015
S&P places firm on credit watch with negative implications Citic said Tuesday three staff members under investigation Standard & Poor’s placed China’s largest brokerage Citic Securities Co. on a credit watch list days after the firm said some employees including its ...
Yet Another Election? Weary Greeks See Little Gain From Vote
September 17th, 2015
Greeks head to their third ballot in less than a year Greek voters say nothing is going to change for them Like many Greeks, Christi Psarra has no illusions about what the country’s third vote in less than ...
Five things to listen for during Janet Yellen’s press conference
September 17th, 2015
Clues as to future interest-rate path will be key for Fed press conference Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen has not spoken publicly since mid-July when she finished two days of testifying to Congress. At the time, she expressed the ...
Saudi Arabia Just Got Turned Into an ETF
September 17th, 2015
Now that you can have instant exposure to Middle Eastern stocks, the question is: Do you want it? Like a game of Risk, the entire world is slowly but surely getting wrapped up by U.S. exchange-traded fund issuers. The IShares MSCI Saudi ...
Gold logs largest 1-day price gain in nearly a month
September 17th, 2015
Fall in CPI may make Fed hesitate to raise interest rates Gold futures logged their largest single-session price gain in nearly a month on Wednesday, after a U.S. consumer-price report suggested that inflation might be short of the Federal ...
Asian stocks climb amid Fed rate wait, but China lags
September 17th, 2015
Asian stocks advanced on Thursday, as investors eyed gains in oil prices and the positive lead from Wall Street. However, trade volumes could stay light as investors await the Federal Reserve‘s policy decision. The Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) ...
Acca And Ima Explore Future Challenges Facing The Accounting Profession
September 16th, 2015
Signature research agenda launches with new website and SoMoClo report ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants) explore the future of the accounting profession with the launch of a new multi-year signature research ...
Saxo Bank uses Interoute’s advanced network to support its multi-asset trading platform
September 16th, 2015
Award winning trading platform updates currency prices 10 times every second and manages 11 billion dollars of transactions daily. Interoute, owner-operator of one of Europe’s largest networks and a global cloud services platform, has announced that Saxo Bank, a specialist ...
