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European stocks end lower as M&A hopes fade
November 10th, 2015
UniCredit may cut thousands of jobs; VW hit by downgrade European stocks finished lower Monday, hurt in part by disappointment over potential merger developments for InterContinental Hotels Group PLC and auto maker Renault SA. The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP, -1.07% finished down ...
US Presses Europe to Take Steps to Reduce Greece’s Debt: Investors need confidence
November 5th, 2015
Investors need confidence Greece’s debt is sustainable Servicing obligations are only part of the equation, U.S. says The U.S. is pressing euro-area countries to agree to an overhaul of Greece’s debt to give private-sector investors confidence that the nation’s ...
Snapshots of Well-Being Across High-Income Countries
November 4th, 2015
Well-being is a multidimensional concept, for countries as well as for individuals. Thus, in the recent OECD report “How’s Life 2015: Measuring Well-Being,” the emphasis goes well beyond basic one-dimensional measures of well-being like per capita GDP and offers comparisons ...
Worldline to join forces with Equens to strengthen its pan-European leadership in payment services
November 4th, 2015
A transformational deal for Worldline, providing the enlarged Worldline Group a highly comprehensive pan-European footprint, with leading positions and offerings in key geographies (France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, the Nordics). A transaction structured in two components: An asset/share deal in Financial Processing, by merging the processing ...
VW Emissions Issues Spread to Gasoline Cars
November 4th, 2015
Company adds about 2 billion euros to possible economic risk Tally of 800,000 added to estimated 11 million cars worldwide Volkswagen AG said it found faulty emissions readings for the first time in gasoline-powered vehicles, widening a scandal that so ...
UBS’s third-quarter 2015 results
November 3rd, 2015
UBS 3Q net profit CHF 2.1bn Net profit attributable to shareholders CHF 2.1bn; diluted earnings per share CHF 0.54 Adjusted1 profit before tax CHF 1.0bn Fully applied Swiss SRB Basel III CET1 capital ratio of 14.3% Fully applied Swiss SRB ...
BaFin and the SEC: An international comparison of supervisory practice
November 3rd, 2015
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – BaFin) is often compared to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the media and by the public. The SEC is frequently perceived as the more powerful authority, in ...
Trading Indices: Matters Arising
November 2nd, 2015
Indices are a measure of the performance of a certain set of listed stocks in a stock exchange. In a previous article, we had classified indices and described what they represent. In this piece, we shall consider a ...
Mario Draghi Interview: We must propose a way forward to Europeans
November 2nd, 2015
Interview with Il Sole 24 Ore Interview with Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, conducted by Alessandro Merli and Roberto Napoletano, published on 31 October 2015 President Draghi, in Malta last week, you stressed the downside risks for both ...
What Economic Recovery? Quarter of EU Citizens at Poverty Risk
October 29th, 2015
The so-called economic recovery being experienced by a number of EU states has been called into question following new research that found a quarter of all EU citizens, and close to a third of young people, were at risk ...
