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BNP Keeps Investors Guessing About U.S. Sanctions Penalty
June 16th, 2014
BNP Paribas SA (BNP) has given investors scant information about how much it expects to pay to settle a criminal probe of U.S. sanctions violations. The bank told shareholders at an annual meeting on May 14 that the settlement ...
Hungary Verdict to Pave Way for $15 Billion FX Loan Plan
June 16th, 2014
Hungary’s supreme court will complete its precedent rulings today on foreign-currency mortgages, paving the way for the government to phase out loans worth about $15 billion. The court, known as Kuria, will brief reporters at 12:30 p.m. in Budapest ...
Predatory Trading Rules Considered in Canada
June 13th, 2014
The Ontario Securities Commission may consider measures to regulate high-frequency trading if evidence of predatory activity is found as it reviews its market-structure policies, Chairman Howard Wetston said. “The important question for us is, is our market fair?” Wetston ...
Oil jumps to near $106 on Iraq violence
June 12th, 2014
Oil rose to near $106 per barrel Thursday as an insurgency in Iraq raised the risk of disruption to supplies after OPEC vowed to keep output unchanged. Benchmark U.S. oil for July delivery was up $1.45 to $105.85 a ...
High-Speed Trading Rules Coming From SEC
June 6th, 2014
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White unveiled the regulator’s most sweeping plan yet for reining in high-frequency trading and monitoring dark pools and other secretive trading practices in the world’s largest equity market. Proprietary traders who ...
All you need to Know about CySec’s Exams 2014 – Analysis by GP GLOBAL LTD
June 3rd, 2014
All you need to Know about CySec’s Exams 2014 – Analysis by GP GLOBAL LTD When will the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) Exams 2014 take place? According to a recent press release issued by the Commission, the certification exams ...
Dow, S&P end at records; Apple, Google drag on Nasdaq
June 3rd, 2014
The Dow and the S&P 500 finished at record highs again on Monday after a closely watched read on U.S. manufacturing was revised to show more strength than initially indicated. Industrials and material stocks were among the day’s biggest ...
When Spanish firms use tax havens
June 2nd, 2014
Almost all of the 35 companies listed on the Spanish stock exchange use tax havens, according to a report from Observatorio RSC, an organisation that monitors corporate social responsibility. The figures, based on company reports for 2012, show a ...
Nasdaq Nears 13-Year High as Technology Goes From Hated to Loved
May 28th, 2014
Technology stocks are back. A four-day rally in the Nasdaq 100 Index has pulled the gauge within 0.1 percent from erasing a 7.5 percent selloff from earlier this year. Exchange-traded funds that buy computer and software shares absorbed $1.1 ...
Credit Suisse Said Close to Guilty Plea, $2.5 Billion Accord With U.S.
May 16th, 2014
Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) is close to reaching an agreement to plead guilty and pay about $2.5 billion to the U.S. Justice Department and regulators to resolve investigations into whether it helped Americans evade taxes, three people familiar ...
