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Apple investors: Buy the phone, sell the watch
September 10th, 2014
Apple shares on Tuesday were generally bought on the rumor but sold on the news — a broad range of it, in fact — raising the question of whether the late-day drop was a reflection of new investor concerns ...
Fed Research Shows Investors Underestimate Path of Rate Rise
September 9th, 2014
Low volatility across financial markets may signal investors are underestimating how quickly the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates, according to researchers at the San Francisco Fed. “Surveys, market expectations, and model estimates show that the public seems to ...
Junior Mining Companies Looking for Financial Lifeboats
September 9th, 2014
Any company will tell you that panic starts to set in once the confidence of the board or of investors begins to wane. This is precisely the situation in the mining industry. As a result, mining companies have sought ...
Shifting Polls in Scotland Send Investors Rushing for Shelter
September 9th, 2014
Scotland, home to just five million people, has never weighed on the minds of currency traders and market investors the way that Russia or China or the eurozone has — until now. A poll this weekend showed Scottish voters ...
ESMA invites investors to open hearing on market abuse
September 8th, 2014
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will hold an open hearing on the issues raised in the two recently published Consultation papers on draft Technical Standards and on possible implementing measures on the Market Abuse Regulation. ESMA is ...
Poroshenko Flummoxes Investors With About-Face on Truce
September 4th, 2014
Ukraine’s leader sent financial markets into turbulence as he backtracked on talk of an end to five months of violence in his nation’s east. President Petro Poroshenko announced yesterday that he’d hammered out a deal with Vladimir Putin to ...
Swiss watchdog investigates Espirito Santo private bank
September 3rd, 2014
Switzerland’s financial regulator said on Wednesday it is investigating Banque Privee Espirito Santo SA (BPES), a Swiss private bank which is part of the Espirito Santo family’s troubled business empire. The Lausanne-based bank is owned by Espirito Santo Financial ...
SEC Charges Investor Relations Firm Executive
August 27th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a director of market intelligence at a Manhattan-based investor relations firm with insider trading ahead of impending news announcements by more than a dozen clients. The charges were filed against Michael ...
CySec: acquisition of CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms) licence
August 25th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that the following firms have successfully obtained the CySec licence for CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms): AAA Trade Ltd LEON MFO Investments Ltd R Capital Solutions ...
Chinese state-owned enterprise investment in Australia
August 25th, 2014
As the negotiation of the Australia–China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) moves into what is hopefully its final phase, there is intense focus on how the investment chapter of the FTA will treat the access of Chinese state-owned enterprises to ...
