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London Stock Exchange Group profits rise and is on course to complete Frank Russell acquisition in weeks
November 13th, 2014
London Stock Exchange (LSE) Group has reported a pre-tax profit of £136.8m for the half-year ended 30 September, up from £116m the same time last year. The FTSE 100 company enjoyed an 18 per cent rise in revenue to ...
Pimco Total Return Fund decreases U.S. government holdings in October
November 13th, 2014
The Pimco Total Return Fund, whose long-time manager Bill Gross unexpectedly departed on Sept. 26, ended October with a slight decrease in U.S. government-related holdings and a slight increase in mortgages, the first full month under the portfolio’s new ...
FATCA Letters Promise Disclosure To IRS, What To Do?
November 12th, 2014
If you have a bank account anywhere outside the U.S., chances are you will receive a letter saying that your bank must hand over the details of any American accounts, including yours. The letters vary with the country and ...
BNP Paribas: The five ways Bitcoin can shake up the financial services world
November 12th, 2014
Bitcoin could become a market-leading technology that will change the way financial systems are engineered says BNP Paribas, in an analysis of the potential disruptive impact of the crypto-currency on banking and asset servicing. In an article for the ...
U.S. and China Reach Deal on Climate Change after Months of Talk
November 12th, 2014
China and the United States made common cause on Wednesday against the threat of climate change, staking out an ambitious joint plan to curb carbon emissions as a way to spur nations around the world to make their own cuts in ...
HMRC letters warning of £1m fines hit tax firms
November 12th, 2014
The first batch of avoidance experts who could be both publicly denounced by HM Revenue & Customs and forced to reveal their clients’ names has been written to by the tax department. The advisers, who HMRC regards as potentially ...
The Two New Tools of Monetary Policy
November 12th, 2014
Every basic exposition of how monetary policy is conducted before about 2008 is soon to become obsolete. The three basic monetary policy tools that used to be taught in almost every introductory economics course were changing reserve requirements, changing ...
Dow, S&P 500 set record highs in light volume
November 12th, 2014
The Dow and S&P 500 eked out a fifth session of record closing highs on Tuesday, barely extending the market’s recent rally in light volume as consumer discretionary shares gained. The S&P 500’s top percentage gainer was Zoetis, which jumped 8.9 ...
Japanese stocks soar to seven-year peak on tax-hike delay talk
November 12th, 2014
Japanese stocks scaled seven-year highs on Wednesday, putting the rest of Asia in the shade, buoyed by expectations Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will postpone a planned sales tax hike to avoid damaging a fragile economic recovery. MSCI’s broadest index ...
Suit Accuses Banks of Role in Financing Terror Attacks
November 11th, 2014
The suit accuses banks — including HSBC and Barclays — of helping to finance the violent activities through their ties to Iran, painting Wall Street as a sort of middleman of terror. Those acts of terrorism occurred a world away ...
