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Germany’s DAX 30 index jumps above 12,000 for first time
March 16th, 2015
Germany’s DAX 30 index DAX, +1.07% jumped to an all-time intra-day high on Monday, climbing above the 12,000 mark for the first time ever. The index briefly touched 12,001.98, but fell back to trade up 0.8% at 11,991.92 at the latest. The ...
Euro set to continue slide
March 13th, 2015
The Hague – Even though the euro’s downward spiral against the dollar was brought to a standstill on Wednesday and even somewhat reversed, doubts still linger about European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi‘s quantitative easing programme. This policy, ...
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 ...
Low oil prices and supportive policy to drive recovery in Eurozone
March 12th, 2015
After a year of tentative recovery in 2014, the Eurozone has moved into 2015 aided by two important growth drivers – sharply lower oil prices and QE according to the March 2015 issue of the EY Eurozone Forecast (EEF). ...
The Last, Great Run For The U.S. Dollar, The Death Of The Euro And 74 Trillion In Currency Derivatives At Risk
March 12th, 2015
Are we on the verge of an unprecedented global currency crisis? On Tuesday, the euro briefly fell below $1.07 for the first time in almost a dozen years. And the U.S. dollar continues to surge against almost every other ...
SFO launches investigation into Bank of England liquidity auctions
March 5th, 2015
It is unclear whether the Bank’s employees are suspected of involvement in any attempt to rig the auctions, used as emergency lending during the credit crisis The Bank of England has, today, issued the following statement: “Following the ...
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 ...
Asia stocks slip, euro hits 11-year low before ECB
March 5th, 2015
Asian stocks slipped on Thursday after Wall Street continued to pull back from record highs ahead of Friday’s closely-watched U.S. jobs data, while the nervous euro languished at an 11-year low prior to the European Central Bank‘s policy meeting. ...
Dollar clings near 11-year high ahead of U.S. data, ECB
March 4th, 2015
The dollar held firm near an 11-year high versus a basket of major currencies on Wednesday, as investors awaited U.S. economic data and a European Central Bank meeting later this week for fresh clues on policy direction. The dollar index edged ...
ECB meeting preview: What traders should expect from it
March 3rd, 2015
DESPITE a range of economic indicators suggesting that the Eurozone economy has finally begun to turn a corner, markets had an uncertain start to the week. Although the currency bloc’s unemployment rate slipped to 11.2 per cent in January ...
