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Gold logs largest 1-day price gain in nearly a month
September 17th, 2015
Fall in CPI may make Fed hesitate to raise interest rates Gold futures logged their largest single-session price gain in nearly a month on Wednesday, after a U.S. consumer-price report suggested that inflation might be short of the Federal ...
Asian stocks climb amid Fed rate wait, but China lags
September 17th, 2015
Asian stocks advanced on Thursday, as investors eyed gains in oil prices and the positive lead from Wall Street. However, trade volumes could stay light as investors await the Federal Reserve‘s policy decision. The Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) ...
The Next Financial Crisis Won’t be Like the Last One
September 16th, 2015
It seems increasingly likely the next Global Financial Meltdown will arise in the FX/currency markets. Central banks are like generals: they tend to fight the last war. The Great Financial meltdown of 2008 was centered in too big to fail, too ...
Thomson Reuters: Interview with Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB
September 16th, 2015
Interview with Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB, conducted by Paul Ingrassia, Balazs Koranyi and John O’Donnell on 14 September Is quantitative easing working? It is working and effective in many ways. The ultimate metric to assess success is the ...
Swiss Lawmakers to Vote on New Rules for UBS, Credit Suisse
September 16th, 2015
Banks may have to hold larger capital buffers, separate investment banking from other operations Swiss lawmakers may deliver a sharp reminder to the country’s biggest banks, UBS Group AG and Credit Suisse Group AG, that they remain under close scrutiny at ...
China Stocks Jump in Last Hour of Trading on State Support Signs
September 16th, 2015
Government buying may be trigger for rebound, IG Asia says ChiNext small-caps index jumps 7.2% for biggest one-day gain China’s stocks surged after the Shanghai Composite Index slid below the key 3,000 level, with gains coming in the ...
The president of China’s biggest brokerage is under investigation
September 16th, 2015
The president of China’s largest brokerage has been caught in Beijing’s widening probe of insider trading. Cheng Boming, the president of Citic Securities, is being investigated for “insider dealing and leaking inside information,” the company said in a stock ...
Asian Stock Markets Bounce Back
September 16th, 2015
Regional markets come off multiyear lows ahead of Federal Reserve meeting Most markets in Asia climbed back from their lowest levels in years on Wednesday, ahead of an announcement from the U.S. Federal Reserve on whether it would raise ...
ESMA raises its market risk indicator to highest level
September 15th, 2015
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today its Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities Report No. 2 for 2015 on European Union (EU) securities markets, covering market developments from January to June 2015. It has also published its Risk Dashboard No. ...
China’s currency could double losses this year – economists
September 15th, 2015
Watch out! China’s currency is likely to tumble further before the end of the year, according to a CNNMoney survey of economists. The yuan, also called the renminbi, is expected to slide another 2.8% against the U.S. dollar by ...
