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Japan securities watchdog seeks penalties against Deutsche Securities
December 8th, 2015
Japan‘s securities watchdog recommended on Tuesday that Deutsche Bank‘s brokerage unit be punished after it provided information about a Japanese company to clients ahead of an earnings release. The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission said Deutsche clients were encouraged ...
A Fateful Mistake Haunts Goldman Sachs
December 8th, 2015
Bank faces fresh allegations of share-count error tied to Tibco takeover Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is entangled in an increasingly contentious fight over a 2014 takeover on which it advised, underscoring the treacherous legal environment for mergers-and-acquisitions bankers. Goldman faces fresh allegations ...
Citic Securities Chinese brokers missing as Beijing crackdown intensifies
December 8th, 2015
The scandal at Citic has already scuppered a proposed takeover of Russell Investments Two investment bankers from Citic Securities, China’s biggest broker, have gone missing, sparking fresh concerns about a state-led crackdown in the wake of this summer’s stock-market ...
Opec bid to kill off US shale sends oil price down to 2009 low
December 8th, 2015
Oil falls by $2 a barrel with energy shares as Opec refusal to stop flooding the market with cheap oil and likely US rate hike sends Brent crude tumbling Oil prices have slumped by 5% after the latest attempt ...
Asian stocks at three-week lows on oil drop; Fed eyed
December 8th, 2015
Asian stocks hit three-week lows on Tuesday as a rout in oil prices knocked energy company shares lower and many investors moved to the sidelines ahead of next week’s meeting where the Federal Reserve is expected to raise U.S. ...
Fifty individual shareholders sue Toshiba seeking $2.45 million in damages
December 7th, 2015
Fifty individual shareholders of Toshiba Corp sued the Japanese conglomerate in Tokyo on Monday, seeking 301.99 million yen ($2.45 million) in damages after the firm’s stock plunged in the wake of a multi-billion dollar accounting scandal. The lawsuit against ...
Bitcoin Fund Linked to Currency’s Rally
December 7th, 2015
Heavy trading in Bitcoin Investment Trust may have contributed to bitcoin price spike After months at $250, the price of the digital currency bitcoin took flight in early November, peaking above $450 before falling back to $360 more recently. ...
Asian markets close near flat, economic data eyed
December 7th, 2015
Asian stocks lost much of their gains from the morning session to close near flat on Monday, as investors eye a host of economic data due this week. Last week, nonfarm payrolls data showed the U.S. economy created 211,000 ...
GOLDMAN SACHS: ‘The Blockchain can change… well everything’
December 4th, 2015
Goldman Sachs is a big bull on blockchain, the distributed ledger software that underpins digital currency bitcoin. In an “Emerging Theme Radar” note sent to clients on Wednesday, the bank says: “While the Bitcoin hype cycle has gone quiet, ...
Robot financial advisers to march on the UAE
December 4th, 2015
When the Dubai resident Lewis Brown and his wife Penelope wanted financial planning advice, they took what for many is a natural step – they spoke to a financial adviser. The adviser, Will Carling of AES International, spent several ...
