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Is Anybody Okay Out There?
November 20th, 2015
In normal times, the world’s major economies are a mixed bag. Some are up, some are down, some are placid, some are in crisis. It’s only at the boom/bust extremes that everyone finds themselves in more-or-less the same boat. ...
Asian Stocks Set for Weekly Gain as Metals Advance With Ringgit
November 20th, 2015
Optimism that the Federal Reserve will take a gradual approach to raising interest rates sent Asian equities toward their biggest weekly gain in more than a month and buoyed the region’s currencies. Metals advanced and oil traded near a three-month ...
Asian Stocks Gain With Oil as Dollar Falls on Dovish Fed Minutes
November 19th, 2015
Topix holds gains as Bank of Japan leaves policy unchanged Euro, ringgit rally as Fed signals tightening will be gradual Stocks rallied across Asia after U.S. Federal Reserve meeting minutes reaffirmed policy makers’ faith in the world’s biggest economy ...
Asian stocks higher as shock of Paris attacks fades
November 18th, 2015
Asian stocks were mostly higher Wednesday as the shock of the Paris terror attacks faded and an uptick in U.S. inflation added support for a possible interest rate hike. KEEPING SCORE: Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 gained 0.2 percent to 19,676.77 ...
RBI’s Defence of Rupee Depletes Forex by USD 1.90 Billion
November 16th, 2015
The central bank’s attempts to arrest the fall in the rupee’s value due to domestic political uncertainty and a strengthening US dollar drained $1.90 billion from India’s foreign exchange (Forex) kitty, experts said on Saturday. Overall, the Forex reserves ...
Asian stocks bruised by tumbling oil, Fed hike jitters
November 13th, 2015
Asian stocks were battered on Friday, with risk-off sentiment in full swing amid sharp falls in the price of commodities and growing expectations that the Federal Reserve is on track for a rate hike in December for the first ...
Asian stocks mixed after China data deluge
November 11th, 2015
Asian stocks turned mixed on Wednesday following fresh economic data from China that largely met expectations. China’s fixed-asset investment (FAI) increased 10.2 percent in the January-October period compared with the year-earlier period, in line with expectations, slightly coming down from the ...
CFTC Releases Annual Enforcement Results for Fiscal Year 2015
November 9th, 2015
Agency Filed 69 Enforcement Cases and Achieved a Record $3.14 Billion in Civil Monetary Penalties Ordered The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today released the agency’s enforcement results for fiscal year (FY) 2015, which included a record $3.144 ...
Former Rabobank traders convicted in U.S. over Libor rigging
November 9th, 2015
A federal jury found two former traders at Rabobank guilty of fraud on Thursday in the first U.S. trial arising from a global investigation into manipulation of Libor, the leading benchmark for pricing financial transactions around the world. ...
Nikkei, Shanghai outperform lackluster Asia
November 9th, 2015
Asian stocks diverged on Monday, with markets in China and Japan leaping to their highest levels since August 21 while other regional bourses wobbled after below-view trade figures released at the weekend from China. October exports fell 6.9 percent from a ...
