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World Bank:Anemic recovery in emerging markets to weigh heavily on global growth in 2016
January 7th, 2016
Weak growth among major emerging markets will weigh on global growth in 2016, but economic activity should still pick up modestly to a 2.9 percent pace, from 2.4 percent growth in 2015, as advanced economies gain speed, according to ...
Asia Stocks Resume Slide Amid China Intervention; Metals Rise
January 5th, 2016
PBOC injects cash, state-run funds said to prop up stocks Oil rises to trade near $37 a barrel; base metals advance Asian stocks extended declines while Chinese shares shrugged off government efforts to prop up the country’s sputtering stock ...
China battles to shore up stocks, yuan after globe-shaking slide
January 5th, 2016
China moved to shore up shaky sentiment on Tuesday a day after its stock indexes and yuan currency tumbled, rattling markets worldwide, but analysts warned investors to buckle up for more wild price swings. Stocks fell more than 2 ...
The Crystal-Ball Business For 2016: A Brief Sampling
January 4th, 2016
It’s a new year and that means that it’s time to roll out a new round of predictions. There’s no reason to think that turning the calendar to January is any more productive for prognosticating vs. flipping the page ...
Cyprus: Haircut battle due to kick off within weeks
January 4th, 2016
A GRAND Chamber comprising 15 judges of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) will hear a number of appeals brought by Cypriot bank depositors, who lost their money in the March 2013 ‘haircut’ against the European Commission and the ...
China cracks whip on foreign banks with forex shut-out
January 4th, 2016
* Beijing targets “aggressive” trading to stem capital flows * Also wants to narrow onshore-offshore yuan gap * China-based banker says “easy-money” arbitrage days now gone Chinese authorities are starting to police the nation’s foreign exchange market in a ...
Pound Outlook Darkens on Brexit Referendum With BOE Stuck on Launchpad
December 30th, 2015
Sterling will fall to $1.41 by September 2016, SocGen says Fragile global economy, ‘Brexit’ may keep BOE from liftoff The odds are stacking up against the pound for 2016. With growth slowing and the potential for a referendum on ...
The 25 financial events that shaped the year 2015
December 30th, 2015
As we are close to move from year 2015 to year 2016, OneStopBrokers has collected and presents the major Financial events happened in 2015. 2015 was a year that the Eurozone was almost collapsed. We all witnessed a possible ...
Bitcoin is one of 2015’s biggest winners
December 30th, 2015
Gold is down nearly 10 percent, major U.S. stock indexes are roughly flat and energy commodities have nearly all fallen more than 30 percent: It’s been a tough year for investors. And while individual stocks have seen big pops ...
Traders in China and Hong Kong Paying $920,000 to Settle Insider Trading Case
December 29th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that two traders in China and Hong Kong have agreed to pay more than $920,000 to settle an insider trading case against them. Cousins and business associates Zhichen Zhou and Yannan Liu, ...
