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London Stock Exchange stake sale earns Dubai huge profit
March 30th, 2015
Dubai has made a profit of billions of dirhams on the sale of its eight-year-old stake in the London Stock Exchange. Essa Kazim, the chairman of Borse Dubai, confirming the disposal, said the shares had been sold at a ...
Investors Waiting for Consumer Profits to Match Share Price Hype
March 18th, 2015
The plunge in oil that drained energy shares was also supposed to boost disposable income for consumers. Companies from automakers to retailers are still waiting to see that trickle down to their bottom lines. That poses a risk ...
Credit Suisse Joins FXSpotStream’s Price Aggregation Service, Expanding Liquidity Providers to Ten Global Banks
March 17th, 2015
CREDIT SUISSE BECOMES A LIQUIDITY PROVIDER TO FXSPOTSTREAM’S PRICE AGGREGATION SERVICE, EXPANDING FXSPOTSTREAM’S LIQUIDITY PROVIDERS TO TEN GLOBAL FX BANK FXSpotStream LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of LiquidityMatch LLC, today announced that Credit Suisse has agreed to join the ...
Liquidnet hires European head of EQS
March 12th, 2015
Liquidnet, the institutional trading network, has announced that industry veteran Chris Jackson has joined the company as European Head of Liquidnet’s Execution and Quantitative Services (EQS) Group. Chris brings over twenty years of experience to this new role which ...
European Stimulus Sparks Bond Blitz
March 5th, 2015
French utility GDF is the first company in over 14 years to issue euro bonds bearing no regular payments for investors Investors snapped up a half-billion euros of French utility bonds that will pay them no interest, a groundbreaking ...
Gold may take a shine to $1,700 an oz. by 2016
March 2nd, 2015
Don’t expect to see much of a climb in gold prices this year, but a spike to $1,700 an ounce or more could come as early as the summer of 2016. Gold futures prices on Comex closed at $1,210.10 ...
$9 Trillion Question Is How Tighter Fed Will Impact the World
February 13th, 2015
When Group of 20 finance ministers this week urged the Federal Reserve to “minimize negative spillovers” from potential interest-rate increases, they omitted a key figure: $9 trillion. That’s the amount owed in dollars by non-bank borrowers outside the U.S., ...
Central Banks Move to Drive Down Currencies, Yielding Domino Effect
February 9th, 2015
The central-bank stimulus spree of 2015 has the look of a global currency war. In quick succession, countries representing about a third of the world’s economic output—from the eurozone to China, Australia and Canada—have taken steps that have driven ...
‘Currency war’ to be ‘lose-lose’ game: Strategist (video)
February 4th, 2015
With each fresh headline of a central bank cutting interest rates comes rising concerns over the global race to the bottom. As the U.S. contemplates coming off policies that suppressed the dollar’s value, its counterparts are heading in the ...
What Draghi’s Bond Buying in Europe Means for U.S. Debt Markets
January 23rd, 2015
The European Central Bank’s resolve to funnel more than a trillion dollars into the region’s capital markets may be a boon for borrowers across the Atlantic. ECB President Mario Draghi unveiled a bond-purchase program to ward off signs of ...
