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RiksBank:Repo rate cut to –0.50 per cent
February 11th, 2016
The economy continues to strengthen but inflation is expected to be lower during 2016 than previously forecast. The period of low inflation will therefore be longer. This increases the risk of weakening confidence in the inflation target and of ...
City grandee Rich Ricci joins fintech revolution at freemarketFX
February 11th, 2016
Rich Ricci, formerly CEO of Barclays Corporate and Investment Banking, is the latest in a growing list of financial services grandees to lend their business heft to a disruptive technology startup, joining currency exchange freemarketFX as chairman. Launched by ...
Shock slump in European industry bodes ill
February 11th, 2016
Europe‘s top four economies suffered steeper drops in industrial output during December than any analyst had forecast, a grim sign for the global economy as it struggles to sustain momentum. Wednesday’s industrial output data for Britain, France and Italy ...
Goldman Sachs Abandons Five of Six ‘Top Trade’ Calls for 2016
February 11th, 2016
New York bank closes bet on dollar strength versus euro, yen Divergent-rates policy still favors greenback, Himmelberg says Goldman Sachs to clients: whoops. Just six weeks into 2016, the New York-based bank has abandoned five of six recommended top trades for the ...
PayPal Puts a Stop to Bitcoin-Inspired Ad Parody
February 11th, 2016
‘New Money’ campaign gets an imitator after the Super Bowl PayPal Holdings Inc. this week blocked a parody of its “New Money” Super Bowl ad that swapped in “bitcoin” as the future of money. PayPal, which lets users and ...
Asia markets close mixed; Hong Kong shares tumble
February 11th, 2016
Asian markets closed mixed on Thursday as investors digested remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and oil remained volatile. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index, which resumed trading today after being shut from Monday through Wednesday for the Lunar New ...
Deutsche Bank: Germany’s financial colossus stumbles
February 11th, 2016
Deutsche Bank fuelled Germany’s rise to the status of economic powerhouse, financing its industry in the 19th century and helping the country’s economy to rise again from the rubble of the second world war. It took on the giants of ...
Yellen – Fed not likely to reverse course on rates despite risks
February 11th, 2016
The Federal Reserve is unlikely to reverse its plan to raise interest rates further this year, but tighter credit markets, volatile financial markets, and uncertainty over Chinese economic growth have raised risks to the U.S. economy, Fed Chair Janet ...
Wall Street Trading Desks Upgradng Technology – And The Sales Traders That Use It
February 10th, 2016
A new breed of Wall Street sales trader is using increasingly sophisticated technology to preserve fixed income trading revenues and profits in a market defined by capital requirements and other regulations that squeeze margins, depressed trading volumes and historically ...
Deutsche Bank shares soar 11% on bond buyback speculation
February 10th, 2016
Deutsche Bank shares have bounced back, after hitting a 30-year low on Tuesday, on reports that it will instigate an emergency bond buyback plan. Shares in the bank soared more than 11% to €14.72 (£11.43) in Frankfurt on the ...