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UK-based business and IT consultancy Rule Financial officially becomes GFT, following acquisition by the global GFT Group
January 9th, 2015
GFT now has over 400 specialists in the UK and over 3,100 worldwide The combined GFT team in the UK now delivers a wider range of services for clients UK-based business and IT consultancy Rule Financial has officially become ...
Standard Chartered PLC today announced the closure of its institutional cash equities, equity research and equity capital markets “ECM” activities
January 8th, 2015
Standard Chartered PLC (“The Group”) continues to exit or reconfigure non-core and underperforming businesses This decision is in addition to a number of actions being taken to deliver at least US$400m of cost saves targeted for 2015, as communicated ...
Markets advance as oil rebounds
January 8th, 2015
Markets rebounded and oil rose on Wednesday. US stocks recorded solid gains, with the S&P 500 index snapping a five-day losing streak and recording its first gain in 2015. Investor optimism was boosted as oil markets stabilized and better ...
Leading global brokerage company, BGC Partners Inc., extends all-cash tender offer to acquire GFI Group
January 8th, 2015
BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) (“BGC Partners,” “the Company,” or “BGC”), a leading global brokerage company primarily servicing the financial and real estate markets, today announced that it has extended the deadline for its fully financed, all-cash tender offer ...
Markets decline as oil plunge continues
January 7th, 2015
Markets continued retreating on Tuesday as oil prices slumped. The sell-off of US stocks continued for the second consecutive day. The S&P 500 benchmark index fell for the fifth session in a row, with only two sectors – utilities and telecoms, ...
Markets retreat as oil plunges
January 7th, 2015
World stock markets tumbled on Monday on continued fall in oil prices and surging dollar. Sell-off of US equities dragged US stock indices down, with Dow Jones Industrial and the S&P 500 recording their worst losses since October. Investors ...
Global Oil: Production, Politics, Price and Pain
December 23rd, 2014
The drop of oil prices in the past six months is all over the headlines with all sorts of opinions about how this is good or bad for economies around the world, consumers and corporations. Like everything there are ...
Russia’s ruble rout rattles emerging markets
December 16th, 2014
Russia’s currency rout has sent a shudder through global markets and the sell-off is spreading to other emerging markets. The Russian ruble plunged about 12% Monday, while the Indonesian rupiah fell to its lowest level since the 1997 Asian ...
BaFin release for global systemically important institutions
December 15th, 2014
When global systemically important credit institutions fail – i.e. banks that are too big, too complex or too interconnected with other market participants to be able to exit the market following insolvency without creating further problems – it can ...
Yen Advances on Haven Demand Amid Global Plunge in Equities
December 9th, 2014
The yen gained the most in two months against the dollar as a plunge in global stocks revived demand for Japan’s currency as a haven. The yen rose versus all but one of its 16 major peers as the ...
