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IHS and Markit announce Senior Executive Leadership appointments for IHS Markit
June 7th, 2016
IHS (NYSE: IHS) and Markit (NASDAQ: MRKT) today announced senior executive leadership appointments for IHS Markit following the consummation of the proposed merger of equals that was announced on March 21, 2016. The appointments will be effective upon completion ...
CME announced that May 2016 volume averaged 14.9 million contracts per day
June 3rd, 2016
CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that May 2016 volume averaged 14.9 million contracts per day, up 6 percent fromMay 2015. CME Group May 2016 options volume averaged 2.8 million contracts per day, up 10 percent versus May ...
Interactive Brokers Group Reports Brokerage Metrics for May 2016
June 2nd, 2016
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: IBKR) an automated global electronic broker and market maker, today reported its Electronic Brokerage monthly performance metrics for May. Highlights for the month included: 641 thousand Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs), 4% higher ...
The Five Most Useful Properties of Bitcoin
June 2nd, 2016
Bitcoin has received plenty of hype as the money of the future over the past few years, but what are the properties of this digital asset that set it apart from everything else on the market? What are the ...
Bitcoin Miner KnCMiner Declares Bankruptcy
May 31st, 2016
KnCMiner, who recently won a lawsuit against complainants who had sued over late or failed delivery of one of the company’s previous iterations of bitcoin mining hardware (the Titan) , has filed bankruptcy ahead of July’s mining reward halving. The Swedish ...
The World’s Biggest Stock Exchanges; New York Stock Exchange is on top
May 30th, 2016
Below is a list of the biggest stock exchanges in the world. New York Stock Exchange is first on the list with a Market cap of $13.4 trillion. With technology advancing and barriers to entry falling just as rapidly, ...
HSI, Nikkei lead gains as most Asian markets advance
May 25th, 2016
Asia markets mostly closed higher on Wednesday, with Hong Kong leading gains and several major indexes advancing more than 1 percent each. Japan’s Nikkei 225 closed up 258.59 points, or 1.57 percent, at 16,757.35, with shares receiving an additional boost from ...
Asia trades mixed; Chinese shares under pressure
May 16th, 2016
Asian markets ended mostly higher on Monday, as traders shrugged off data released over the weekend that revived concerns over the Chinese economy. Japan’s Nikkei 225 pared some of its over 1 percent gains from early morning to close up 54.19 ...
Asia trades lower, as oil prices drop; Westpac shares down 3.7%
May 12th, 2016
Asian stocks fell modestly Thursday, taking cues from declines in U.S. stocks after a string of top-flight retail companies released disappointing earnings. The U.S. markets falls came despite gains in oil prices on better-than-expected inventories data. Shares of Disney had ...
Seamless granted authorization to issue electronic money in Europe
May 10th, 2016
Nasdaq Stockholm-listed Seamless (OMX: SEAM) has been granted authorization by Sweden’s financial supervisory authority, Finansinspektionen, to issue electronic money. This means that SEQR users can send and receive money, worldwide, in real time. Under the terms of the authorization, ...
