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The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect holds profits for sharp-eyed investors
October 17th, 2014
CapitalVue’s Elias Glenn explains how to own a piece of a Communist Party Newspaper or Zhou Enlai’s favorite liquor with the SH-HK Stock Connect Baijiu is going global: Under a program to be launched in October, individual investors in ...
Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) signs two MoUs in Washington DC
October 16th, 2014
The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), the private sector arm of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDB), and the Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF), a US-based international financial institution mandated to promote economic development ...
U.S. stocks slide allows short sellers to smile again
October 15th, 2014
The stock market’s long-suffering short sellers finally have something to smile about. Investors who make a living betting that stock prices will fall are in a position to profit handsomely as the U.S. equity market sinks, with its biggest ...
IPO banks seek measure of success
October 14th, 2014
What is the best way to judge the success of an initial public offering? Investors in Rocket Internet probably have a view. They were left counting their paper losses earlier this month, after shares in the German technology company ...
Stocks, oil flounder on growth anxiety, China data little help
October 13th, 2014
Asian stocks stumbled to seven-month lows on Monday, while crude oil prices were pinned near a four-year trough as promising trade numbers out of China failed to cheer a market still worried about faltering global growth. “European equities look ...
Where Next? A peek through the Macro Lens
October 9th, 2014
Financial markets have been on a heady ride since the financial crisis began in 2008. It looks like we are now at a very critical juncture which will define how things play out over the next 18-24 months. There ...
Earnings season begins with dollar in spotlight
October 8th, 2014
The bar is low for earnings season, with a strong dollar and slowing global growth. The third-quarter earnings season kicks off on Wall Street Wednesday with the bar set low due to analysts slashing profit forecasts — but also ...
Russia debt freeze is lesson for Hong Kong
October 2nd, 2014
Beyond a few wobbles, global markets have proved remarkably indifferent this year to political risks – whether Russia’s incursions into Ukraine, Iraq’s descent into chaos or democracy protests in Hong Kong, which have this week tested China, the world’s ...
UK bank adviser pay catching up with traders
September 15th, 2014
Senior advisory bankers’ pay in London has risen almost on to a par with traditionally higher-earning traders, underlining the shifting fortunes of these distinct businesses within investment banks. By contrast, senior traders have suffered an average 13 per cent ...
Rupee gains 7 paise against the US dollar in trade
September 3rd, 2014
Snapping its four-day losing streak, the rupee recovered by seven paise to 60.61 against the US dollar in early trade at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market today amid sustained overseas capital inflows. Fresh selling of the American currency by ...