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Breaking: BaFin restricts CFD trading
May 9th, 2017
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – BaFin) today issued a General Administrative Act pursuant to section 4b of the German Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandelsgesetz – WpHG). The General Administrative Act restricts the marketing, distribution and sale ...
Gulf countries will return to economic growth
May 8th, 2017
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast the return of GCC countries to faster economic growth starting next year, supported by a fundamentally strong financial services sector and improved growth in the non-oil private sector as well as a ...
Oil prices rise on expectation of output cut extension
May 8th, 2017
Oil prices rose on Monday as Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said an OPEC-led production cut scheduled to end in June would likely be extended to cover all of 2017, although a relentless increase in U.S. drilling capped gains. Brent ...
Business cycles are credit cycles
May 7th, 2017
This article gets to the heart of why central banks’ monetary policy will never succeed. The fundamental error is to regard economic cycles as originating in the private sector, when they are the consequence of fluctuations in credit. It ...
The European Commission proposes simpler and more efficient derivatives rules
May 7th, 2017
The European Commission is today proposing some targeted reforms to improve the functioning of the derivatives market in the EU. The reforms provide simpler and more proportionate rules for over-the-counter derivatives to reduce costs and regulatory burdens for market ...
Adidas reports strong start into the year; Q1 2017 results
May 5th, 2017
Major developments in Q1 2017: Currency-neutral revenues increase 16% Gross margin declines 0.2pp as a result of anticipated FX headwind Operating margin improves 0.9pp to 11.1% Net income from continuing operations grows 30% to € 455 million Basic EPS ...
Will Bitcoin price reach $2000 soon?
May 4th, 2017
Aside from the longstanding conflicts in the Bitcoin community and the recent upsurge in the capital outflow to other cryptocurrencies, do you think $2000 seems a sure range that could have been reached by now? Bitcoin’s eventful life The ...
BofAML upgrade forecasts for British Pound v Euro and Dollar
May 3rd, 2017
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) have told clients they are now confident enough on Pound Sterling to raise their forecast profile. Analysts had been expecting one final dip in the UK currency ahead of a more sustained recovery, ...
Interview with Eurex Clearing AG CEO, Eric Müller
May 3rd, 2017
“We work on delivering attractive and efficient solutions:” Interview with Eurex Clearing AG CEO, Eric Müller The IOMA conference brings together the leaders of the clearing and derivatives industry each year, to debate the themes impacting the sector. As ...
End of empire
April 30th, 2017
“Already, China dominates world trade. Her own economy is already significantly larger than that of the US on the PPP estimates. While being the largest consumer of raw materials, China also exports more finished goods by value than any ...
