America’s financial war strategy
April 23rd, 2017
America’s renewed desire to escalate military tensions is a front for America’s continual financial war, this time directed at North Korea, Syria and possibly Iran. This is likely to be the opinion of China’s strategic advisors. We analyse the ...
Here’s what Venezuela’s deepening crisis means for oil prices
April 21st, 2017
Venezuela and its worsening economic and political crisis may be an underappreciated wild card when it comes to the outlook for oil prices. The nation, which has the world’s largest oil reserves, is suffering an economic collapse that has ...
CFTC grants registration to NEX SEF Limited
April 21st, 2017
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that it has issued an Order of Registration to NEX SEF Limited (NEX SEF), of London, England, granting it registration status with the CFTC as a Swap Execution Facility (SEF). ...
SGX reports 3Q FY2017 net profit of $83 million
April 21st, 2017
3Q FY2017 Financial Summary – Revenue: $203 million, down 2% from a year earlier – Operating profit: $103 million, unchanged – Net profit: $83 million, down 7% – Earnings per share: 7.8 cents, down 7% – Interim dividend per ...
Law firm in Australia launches patented legal technology
April 21st, 2017
Australia’s leading independent law firm, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, has received a patent from IP Australia for a new optical character recognition (OCR) analysis technology. The technology identifies documents with low quality searchable text and will be used as part ...
Trading firm Virtu Financial to buy KCG for about $1.4 billion
April 21st, 2017
Virtu Financial Inc (VIRT.O) said it would buy rival KCG Holdings Inc (KCG.N) in a $1.4 billion deal that brings together two major U.S. electronic trading and market-making firms. The deal comes at a difficult time for high-frequency trading ...
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April 21st, 2017
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Deutsche Bank AG fined $156.6 million
April 21st, 2017
The Federal Reserve on Thursday announced two enforcement actions against Deutsche Bank AG that will require the bank to pay a combined $156.6 million in civil money penalties. The bank will pay a $136.9 million fine for unsafe and ...
PM markets: traders weigh European drought, US rains
April 20th, 2017
Wheat prices in the Chicago and Paris saw early gains, helped by fears that time is running out for much needed rains in Europe and North Africa, but the rallies failed later in the day, as a strong forecast ...
Why We’re Ungovernable: Europe Gets Its Doomsday Scenario
April 20th, 2017
The rise of French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has made a lot of people nervous since, among many other things, she’s in favor of leaving the eurozone, which would pretty much end the common currency. But since ...
