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Reserve Bank warns banks against making “mockery” of its lending operations
February 20th, 2015
The Reserve Bank of India is getting tougher on extending unlimited credit to the country’s banks to try to ensure they push interest rate cuts through the financial system and to stop them from making what one official called a “mockery” of its ...
SEC Charges New York-Based Brokerage Firm and CEO With Committing Fraud During CDO Liquidation Auctions
February 20th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a New York City-based brokerage firm and its CEO with fraudulently deceiving other market participants while conducting auctions to liquidate collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). An SEC investigation found that VCAP Securities and ...
Internal and External Risks to the Cyprus Economy
February 20th, 2015
Despite the tragic events of March 2013, Cyprus economy has showed resilience and the country was able to return back to stability and regain some of the lost confidence from international markets and investors rather quickly, which is necessary ...
Yemen FX reserves stabilise but borrowing balloons in political crisis
February 20th, 2015
Yemen’s foreign exchange reserves have stabilised after a steep fall due to its political turmoil, but ballooning government debt issuance indicates the country may be moving closer to a fiscal crunch, central bank data showed on Friday. Shi’ite Muslim ...
Investors Still Don’t Think Greece Will Exit the Euro
February 20th, 2015
As Greece heads toward 11th-hour funding talks with its euro-area membership on the line, bondholders are surprisingly sanguine about its failure so far to secure a deal. Forget the strategists at Commerzbank AG who say there’s a 50 percent ...
Nasdaq nears all-time highs as exuberance yields to reason
February 20th, 2015
As the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index closes in on the all-time high it reached in March 2000, investors are facing a market that barely resembles the go-go era of 15 years ago. Valuations, as measured by what investors are willing to ...
Japan stocks shrug off Greece fears
February 20th, 2015
Japanese stocks are rallying further despite concerns Greece may be forced to leave the eurozone should it fail to negotiate a new bailout deal. Germany rejected a Greek request for a six-month extension to its loan programme without austerity reforms, ...
Greek proposal lifts markets, despite German rejection
February 19th, 2015
A Greek proposal to extend its bailout and not to undermine agreed fiscal targets lifted European stocks to seven-year highs on Thursday and cut government borrowing costs across the euro zone, even though Germany rejected it. Despite the German rejection, Greece’s wording of ...
Euro Area Investment Fund Statistics: December 2014
February 19th, 2015
19 February 2015 – Financial statements of the ECB for 2014 ECB’s net profit for 2014: €989 million (2013: €1,440 million) Net interest income from the Securities Markets Programme: €728 million (2013: €962 million) Interest income on banknotes: €126 ...
ECB Set to Release Meeting Minutes for the First Time Ever
February 19th, 2015
The European Central Bank is about to lift the veil on how it pushed through unprecedented stimulus against the wishes of some of its members. In a revamp of its communications, the ECB will on Thursday publish a summary ...
