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UAE signs up as founding member of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
April 6th, 2015
The UAE has joined the China-led US$50 billion Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a founding member, the government announced on Sunday. The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, which has Dh8bn in capital, will represent the UAE government on ...
Asian central banks back in action this week
April 6th, 2015
The week ahead starts with Asian markets digesting the crucial U.S. nonfarm payrolls report, which continued to fuel the ongoing debate over when the Federal Reserve will launch its first interest rate hike. After digesting the U.S. jobs data, ...
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 ...
Citibank Seen as Target for Plea in U.S. Currency Case
April 3rd, 2015
The U.S. Department of Justice is pressing for Citigroup Inc.’s main banking subsidiary to plead guilty to a felony tied to the rigging of foreign-exchange markets, according to two people briefed on the matter. Citigroup has countered with an ...
EU lawyers: EU cannot maintain protection against Chinese imports
April 3rd, 2015
EU lawyers say EU cannot ignore rules on China‘s new WTO status EU yet to decide, could favour China to win favour with Beijing European fears of being forced to lower tariff defences against cheap Chinese imports have grown following a confidential ...
Independent Research firm names KPMG a ‘Leader’ among midsize mobile enterprise application services providers
April 3rd, 2015
KPMG Cited as a Leader among Providers in ReportFocusing on Business-to-Enterprise and Business-to-Business Mobile Capabilities. KPMG has been named a Leader in the Forrester Research, Inc. report, The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Enterprise App Services Providers – Midsize Providers, Q1 ...
The Inevitable Failure of Mechanistic Monetary Policy
April 3rd, 2015
Our current faith in central banks’ ability to “make the economy all better, all the time” is horrendously misplaced. We are living in the Cargo Cult Era of Central Bankers. The era began in earnest on December 5, 1996, ...
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 ...
Price Deflation, Asset Prices, and Threats to Growth
April 3rd, 2015
When I read media discussions about deflation,” three separate meanings are often used more-or-less interchangeably. One meaning is the way that economists use the term, in which “deflation” means “inflation happening at a negative rate.” Inflation means that the ...
IBM hire advisers to deal with restless investors – sources
April 3rd, 2015
Some top shareholders of IBM, disappointed by 11 straight quarters of falling revenues, are seeking help from activist investors to shake up the company, but have been turned down by both Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square and Jeffrey Ubben’s ValueAct, ...
