Search Results for: Global equity markets
Dubai Financial Market profit plunges 69 per cent over oil worries
April 27th, 2015
The Dubai Financial Market, the UAE’s biggest stock exchange, said its first quarter profit slid 69 per cent as investor concerns over oil prices dampened trading volumes. The DFM, which makes most of its money on trading commissions, said net ...
MarketAxess Reports First Quarter 2015 Record Revenues
April 23rd, 2015
MarketAxess Reports First Quarter 2015 Record Revenues of $76.8 Million, Record Pre-Tax Income of $38.5 Million and Record Diluted EPS of $0.65 First Quarter Financial Highlights* Record revenues of $76.8 million, up 21.1% Record pre-tax income of $38.5 million, ...
Britain’s bank tax jump threatens to push HSBC, StanChart to new home
April 20th, 2015
HSBC and Standard Chartered are looking at the viability of quitting London for a new home in Asia because a big jump in a tax on UK banks makes staying in Britain increasingly painful. Several investors told Reuters they ...
Virtu IPO Tests Perceptions of High-Speed Trading
April 16th, 2015
High-frequency trading firm prices shares at $19, high end of projected range When Virtu Financial Inc., starts trading Thursday, its performance will be a test of how markets view a firm that has been at the center of controversy ...
KCG releases March 2015 Trade Volumes
April 15th, 2015
KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) today released trade volumes for the month of March 2015. In Market Making, KCG averaged $29.8 billion dollar volume traded, 5.2 billion shares traded, and 3.8 million trades per day in U.S. equities. In Global ...
Top 12 Media Myths on oil prices
April 13th, 2015
The upstream oil and gas industry is not a black hole. There’s no mystery wrapped in an enigma here. There are a lot of meetings with engineers, chemists and geologists. There’s a constantly evolving learning curve. And then there’s ...
Legal Revenue Grows as Elite Law Firms Set the Pace
April 6th, 2015
Tech sector, M&A fees help to make 2014 law industry’s best year since recession Last year, on average, was the best year for law firms since the recession. But averages can be misleading. Revenue at large, corporate law firms ...
Asia up after dismal U.S. jobs data, dollar pressured
April 6th, 2015
Asian shares rose and the dollar steadied but remained under pressure on Monday, after a dismal U.S. jobs report led investors to pare bets the U.S. Federal Reserve would hike interest rates anytime soon. Major European markets were closed from Friday to ...
China’s thriving brokerage minnows set to come under M&A spotlight
April 3rd, 2015
* Stock market boom saw brokers doubling profits in 2014 * Beijing plans to open up sector to more financial firms * Stiff industry competition ahead to lead to more deals In the shoals of China’s little-known stockbrokers, fast-growing ...
Chinese investors trade way more often than Americans
April 2nd, 2015
One of the easiest ways to mess up your investment portfolio is by tinkering with it too much. That’s when pesky fees and human error tend to drag down performance. Unless you get super lucky, this common mistake can ...
