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Asian Energy Stocks Fall as OPEC Split Hits Oil; Dollar Gains
October 31st, 2016
Crude drops after OPEC talks end without individual quotas Gold rises after FBI reopens probe of Clinton’s emails Asian energy stocks fell with oil after the world’s biggest crude producers failed to agree on supply cuts, while rising metals prices ...
Nasdaq reports a record $585 million Net revenues for Q3 2016
October 27th, 2016
Nasdaq Delivers record Subscription and recurring Revenues1 Net revenues2 were a record $585 million in the third quarter of 2016, up 11% year-over-year. Third quarter 2016 diluted EPS was $0.77. Non-GAAP3 diluted EPS for the third quarter 2016 was ...
France To Increase Financial Transactions Tax
October 26th, 2016
French deputies have voted in favor of an amendment to the draft 2017 Budget that will increase the country’s tax on financial transactions and expand the tax’s scope. Under France’s financial transactions tax (FTT), which has been in place ...
Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week
October 26th, 2016
Twitter Inc., having failed to sell itself, is planning to fire about 8 percent of its workforce as the struggling social-media company prepares to go it alone for the time being. Twitter may eliminate about 300 people, the same ...
Monte Paschi sees €4.8 billion loss in 2016; cuts thousands of jobs
October 25th, 2016
Italy’s third-largest bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, has resolved to write down bad loans, lay off a tenth of its staff and raise €5 billion. The planned overhaul could shape the fortunes of the country’s wider banking sector. ...
Asian Stocks Rise With Industrial Metals as Fed Bets Buoy Dollar
October 25th, 2016
Nidec, SK Hynix rally after earnings; Apple reports Tuesday Kospi drops as South Korea tourism threatened by China spat Asian stocks rose to a two-week high and industrial metals advanced, buoyed by a generally upbeat corporate earnings season and ...
HKEX to Roll Out Volatility Control Mechanism for its Derivatives Market
October 24th, 2016
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) plans to roll out its Volatility Control Mechanism (VCM) – a measure designed to protect market integrity by preventing extreme price volatility arising from major trading errors and other unusual incidents – for its ...
The Law Firms who are advising the mega Tobacco acquisition
October 24th, 2016
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) andCravath, Swaine & Moore are advising British American Tobacco (BAT) on its offer to acquire the remaining 57.8 % stake in Reynolds American for $47bn. BAT had already owned 42.2% of Reynolds for the last 12 years. ...
Two of the largest online brokerages are near to a $4 Billion acquisition Deal
October 24th, 2016
TD Ameritrade, TD Bank Said Near $4 Billion Scottrade Deal Deal would combine two of the largest online brokerages Toronto-Dominion Bank said to acquire banking operations TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. and its largest stakeholder, Toronto-Dominion Bank, are close to ...
Dollar Climbs as Asian Stocks Advance Amid Earnings; Oil Falls
October 24th, 2016
Speeches by Fed officials may affect outlook for U.S. rates Offshore yuan sinks toward all-time low after record outflows The dollar strengthened versus most of its major peers, buoyed by the prospect of U.S. interest rates being raised at ...
