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Oil prices drop 3 percent as investors retreat from overnight gains
September 1st, 2015
Oil prices fell nearly 3 percent in Asian trade on Tuesday, with investors covering short positions and taking profits after Brent and U.S. crude soared more than 8 percent in the previous session. Both Brent and U.S. crude prices ...
Statement by Glenn Stevens, Governor of RBA: Monetary Policy Decision
September 1st, 2015
At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.0 per cent. The global economy is expanding at a moderate pace, with some further softening in conditions in China and east Asia of late, ...
Japan Exchange Group will strenght Market Monitoring of Cross-border Transactions
August 31st, 2015
Japan Exchange Regulation (JPX-R) has issued a press release to announce that it will establish an International Surveillance Office to Strengthen Market Monitoring of Cross-border Transactions. The office will also study regulations and trends outside Japan regarding unfair trading ...
KPMG Forms Exclusive Alliance with Fintech Platform Matchi
August 31st, 2015
KPMG has issued a press release to inform that it has become the exclusive advisory alliance partner with Matchi.biz, the innovative fintech matchmaking platform that connects banks and insurance companies with financial services technology start-ups and innovations sourced from ...
Barclays set to become first UK high street bank to accept bitcoin
August 31st, 2015
Company set to partner with a ‘bitcoin exchange’ or spending platform Has two bitcoin ‘labs’ in London and has been collaborating with start-ups Bought with real money and traded online, a bitcoin is worth around $230 It can be ...
Qatari trade surplus falls in July due to oil and gas price volatility
August 31st, 2015
Qatar’s trade surplus fell last month, largely because of tumbling oil and gas prices. It dipped 1.4 per cent from June to 14.3 billion Qatari riyals (Dh14.4bn) and plunged 55.6 per cent from July last year, according to a government report ...
Shanghai Composite widens losses as US futures tank
August 31st, 2015
Mainland equities lost as much as 3.7 percent on Monday while Dow futures tanked more than 200 points on reports that Beijing may finally halt its controversial market intervention. A report by The Financial Times over the weekend said that Beijing will abandon large-scale share ...
China’s Economic Woes Jeopardize Putin’s Pipeline, Energy Trade Between Russia, China
August 28th, 2015
For the past decade, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been putting plans in place to free Russia from energy dependency on European markets with a series of projects that aim to capitalize on the economic clout of China. But ...
Oil markets extend gains after biggest daily climb in six years
August 28th, 2015
Crude oil futures rose on Friday, adding to their biggest one-day rally in over six years the day before, led by recovering equity markets and news of diminished crude supplies. U.S. crude are on track for their first weekly ...
UAE shares rise sharply in line with US and oil price recovery
August 27th, 2015
UAE shares rose sharply on Thursday morning, on the back of US and Asian stock markets, and a rebound in the price of crude oil. Dubai’s headline index surged 4 per cent at the opening bell on Wednesday, and ...
