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Pound Approaches 5-Month High as Odds Show U.K. to Remain in EU
June 22nd, 2016
Gauge of sterling heads for best week since October 2009 Pound’s two-week implied volatility falls from record high The pound approached a five-month high against the dollar as bookmakers’ odds indicated a growing probability Britons will vote to remain ...
Bitcoin exchange Quoine raises $20m venture investment
June 21st, 2016
Quoine, a Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange, has closed a $20 million funding round, leveraging off the large opportunity for Bitcoin in the Japanese market, led by venture capitalists (VCs) and other ‘strategic investors’. It’s last funding round was a $2 million ...
Iran’s Oil Comeback May Already Be Over
June 16th, 2016
Crude output may peak in 2016 at 3.6-3.8 million barrels a day Investors facing sanctions, political risk in entering country Iran easily beat expectations with its speed in boosting oil exports after the lifting of sanctions. Without an injection ...
Oil futures down on U.S. stockpile report, Brexit concern
June 16th, 2016
Oil prices fell on Thursday, heading for a sixth session of declines, following a lower-than-expected draw on U.S. stockpiles and amid worries Britain might leave the European Union (EU). Front-month U.S. crude futures were down 53 cents, or 1.1 ...
Bats Hotspot to Launch Outright Forwards for FX Market
June 15th, 2016
Bats Hotspot today announced plans to offer global trading of outright deliverable forwards contracts, with a launch planned for fall 2016. A division of Bats Global Markets (Bats: BATS), Bats Hotspot is a leading global foreign exchange market with ...
Asian Stocks Advance Before Fed as Pound Halts Slide; Oil Sinks
June 15th, 2016
Yuan hovers near five-year low after MSCI’s China ruling Japanese bond yields drop to new records as copper gains Asian shares rose, rebounding from the steepest selloff in global stocks since January, as currency markets stabilized ahead of the ...
INTL FCStone Ltd.’s Global Payments Division reports increase in cross-border payments
June 14th, 2016
Facilitated ~101,000 payments in CY Q1 2016; an increase of ~14% vs. CY Q1 2015 Signed 500th institutional client in CY Q2 2016 Transferred more than $22 billion in payments in CY 2015; on track to increase in 2016 INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
Pound wobbly, yen edges higher on mounting Brexit worries
June 14th, 2016
The British pound remained fragile near a two-month low against the dollar on Tuesday and the yen hovered near six-week highs against the U.S. currency on worries Britain may leave the European Union in a referendum less than 10 ...
Surging yen sends Nikkei tumbling 3.1 percent ahead of BOJ meeting
June 13th, 2016
Asian markets ended sharply lower Monday, ahead of central bank meetings in the U.S. and Japan this week and amid jitters over the upcoming referendum on whether the U.K. would remain in the European Union. Japan’s Nikkei 225 tumbled 582.18 points, ...
Oil, Metals Rally as Fading Fed Move Prospects Keep Dollar Weak
June 9th, 2016
China markets closed; consumer prices rise as May PPI slips Kiwi strengthens; Japanese shares decline as yen advances Oil and metals advanced as mounting speculation the Federal Reserve will hold off on raising interest rates until later in the ...
