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Oil prices dip as strong dollar outweighs supply disruptions
May 6th, 2016
Oil prices fell on Friday, dragged down by a surging dollar and sliding Chinese commodities which at least temporarily outweighed crude supply disruptions in Canada as a result of a massive wildfire threatening its huge oil sands operations. The ...
Mobile Payments: Where’s the Benefit?
May 5th, 2016
The ‘use case’ for mobile payments, particularly at the point of sale, is still not strong enough to lure the bulk of smartphone owners. Apple’s Tim Cook speaks of mobile payment adoption as if the market is exploding. On ...
First-time investors urged to turn to inexpensive ‘robo-advisers’
April 28th, 2016
It appears not many people are into investment in Japan. As of last December, only about 16 percent of Japan’s ¥1.7 quadrillion in personal financial assets was held in stocks, investment trusts or bonds. This is partly due to ...
Thomson Reuters Reports First-Quarter 2016 Results
April 27th, 2016
Thomson Reuters (TSX / NYSE: TRI) today reported results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016. The company also re-affirmed its 2016 full-year outlook. Reported revenues declined 1%. Before currency, revenues grew 1% Excluding recoveries, revenues increased 2% ...
FSA Japan announced Administrative action against Credit Suisse Securities (Japan) Limited
April 26th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) conducted an inspection on Credit Suisse Securities(Japan)Limited (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”), and found violations of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (hereinafter referred to as ”FIEA”). On April 15, 2016, ...
Bank of Israel keeps the interest rate for May 2016 unchanged at 0.1 percent
April 25th, 2016
Inflation data: The Consumer Price Index for March declined by 0.2 percent, a slightly greater decline than the average of forecasters’ predictions for a decline of 0.1 percent. There was a seasonal price decline of 3.9 percent in the fruit ...
CFTC Announces Additional Names to Its List of Foreign Entities that Illegally Solicit U.S. Residents in Forex and Binary Options
April 19th, 2016
Registration Deficient (RED) List on CFTC Website Identifies Companies Operating Illegally without Being Registered As part of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) ongoing efforts to help protect Americans from fraud, today the agency announced the addition of ...
International law firm in merger talks with Pepper Hamilton
April 13th, 2016
The global law firm Reed Smith is in talks to combine with the smaller Pepper Hamilton of Philadelphia, the firms confirmed on Monday night. “Based on these preliminary discussions, we see many potential benefits to joining forces,” said a Reed ...
CFTC Orders Nathan Schleifer and Galileo Trading to Pay Restitution and Penalties Totaling More than $1.6 Million
April 13th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today settled charges against Nathan Schleifer of New York City, and his company, Galileo Trading, LLC (Galileo), for fraudulently soliciting customers to trade commodity futures and for repeatedly making numerous false statements and material misrepresentations to ...
SFAT affirms SFC decision to reprimand and fine Moody’s over Red Flags Report
April 6th, 2016
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded Moody’s Investors Service Hong Kong Limited (Moody’s) and fined it $11 million for various failures relating to its preparation and publication of the special comment report entitled “Red Flags for Emerging-Market ...
