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Bank of Israel reports Monetary Policy for the six Months 0f 2016
August 3rd, 2016
Monetary policy: During the first half of 2016, the Monetary Committee decided to leave the interest rate at a level of 0.1 percent. For both July and August, which belong to the second half of 2016, the Monetary Committee also ...
Oil prices reach six-month high on latest surge
May 18th, 2016
Oil prices continued to surge on Tuesday, reaching a six-month high. The price of a barrel of Brent Crude reached just short of $49.50 on Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is also approaching the $50 mark. ...
Oil Advances to Six-Month High as U.S. Stockpiles Seen Falling
May 17th, 2016
Crude inventories forecast to decline by 3.5 million barrels Unplanned outages in Nigeria and Canada have cut global output Oil advanced to a seven-month high before U.S. government data forecast to show crude stockpiles dropped for a second week, ...
Italy’s antitrust watchdog investigates six consultancy firms
March 23rd, 2016
Italy’s competition authority is investigating six consultancy firms over allegedly coordinating their offers in a public tender for services to the national public administration, the watchdog said in a statement on Wednesday. Rome and Milan offices of Deloitte & ...
FCA targets six life insurers over fees
March 3rd, 2016
Britain’s financial watchdog is investigating six insurance firms including Prudential (PRU.L) and Old Mutual (OML.L) over their treatment of long-time life insurance customers. The other firms involved were Abbey Life, Scottish Widows, Countrywide and Police Mutual, the Financial Conduct ...
Goldman Sachs Abandons Five of Six ‘Top Trade’ Calls for 2016
February 11th, 2016
New York bank closes bet on dollar strength versus euro, yen Divergent-rates policy still favors greenback, Himmelberg says Goldman Sachs to clients: whoops. Just six weeks into 2016, the New York-based bank has abandoned five of six recommended top trades for the ...
How Six Brokers Walked Free After Unraveling of U.K. Libor Case
February 9th, 2016
Witnesses fail to convince, jury acquits local defendants Loss in complex case seen a major setback for regulators The first signs of trouble for prosecutors came about three weeks into the trial. Their witness was a government investigator called ...
FCA warns about six unauthorised financial services firms
February 8th, 2016
FCA has issued warnings to inform investors and public regarding firms that FCA believes that have been providing financial services or products in the UK without the FCA’s authorisation. FCA reports the below unauthorised by the Authority firms: 1) ...
Six Banks Negotiating Settlement in Swiss Libor Probe
January 25th, 2016
Swiss regulator: `We won’t go for a settlement at any price’ Settlement would resolve one of few remaining Libor probes At least six banks targeted in Switzerland’s investigation into Libor-rigging are in settlement talks with the country’s competition regulator, ...
Six former brokers acted as ‘well-oiled machine’, Libor trial hears
January 14th, 2016
Defendants conspired with convicted trader Tom Hayes to manipulate inter-bank lending rate, prosecution tells court Six former brokers acted as a “well-oiled machine” to assist convicted trader Tom Hayes to rig Libor interest rates, a court has heard. Summing ...
