Tradition hires market structure experts
February 2nd, 2015
Tradition, one of the world’s largest interdealer brokers in over-the-counter commodity and financial products, has hired three experienced market structure professionals to expand its thriving hybrid and electronic businesses. John Wilson will become Managing Director within Tradition’s Strategy and ...
LedgerX intends to list and clear physically-settled options on digital currencies
January 30th, 2015
LedgerX is an institutional trading and clearing platform that has applied for registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to operate a swap execution facility (SEF) and derivatives clearing organization (DCO). Upon approval, LedgerX intends to list ...
Markets mixed after Fed statement
January 29th, 2015
US stocks fell sharply on Wednesday after Federal Reserve reiterated its plans to hike interest rates sometime in 2015. The Federal Reserve boosted its assessment of US economy as it described the expansion as “solid”, an improvement over the ...
Platts Launches Market Data Direct
January 29th, 2015
New Real-Time Global Commodity Prices and Data Service Trusted Industry Benchmarks From Platts Available in New Customizable Cross-Commodity Collections Historical Data at the Ready on a Global Basis for Trend and Arbitrage Analysis London – January 28, 2015 Platts, ...
Standard Chartered CEO Is Under Pressure From Shareholders, Regulators, Staff
January 29th, 2015
Bank’s Top Shareholders Privately Push for New Leadership Amid Investor, Regulatory Anxiety Hundreds of Standard Chartered PLC’s most senior executives gathered earlier this month on Singapore’s Sentosa island to address the global bank’s dimming fortunes. From a lectern at ...
2014 Mining and Metals deal volume and value lowest in 10 years
January 28th, 2015
Deal volume in the global mining and metals sector reached a 10-year low in 2014, with transactions driven by divestments and forced sales in the face of falling commodity prices and risk-averse capital markets. EY analysis released today ...
Central Bank of Hungary voted to leave the central bank base rate unchanged
January 28th, 2015
Central Bank of Hungary issued a press release informing that voted to leave the central bank base rate unchanged at 2.10%. In the Council’s judgement, Hungarian economic growth is likely to continue. While the pace of economic activity is ...
MAS Monetary Policy Statement
January 28th, 2015
Since the last Monetary Policy Statement in October, developments in the global and domestic inflation environment have led to a significant shift in Singapore’s CPI inflation outlook for 2015. As part of its ongoing economic surveillance, MAS has assessed ...
Investment Analyst
January 28th, 2015
Reference Number: IA012015 The key responsibilities of the role include: Keeping up to date and reporting on global market developments, particularly with respect to currency and commodity markets Assisting in the preparation of charts, tables, or any other materials used ...
Global shares resilient as investors pin hopes on Fed; Apple outperforms
January 28th, 2015
Asian stocks showed some resilience on Wednesday as investors speculated whether the Federal Reserve could take a dovish turn in its post-meeting statement later in the session, amid signs a stronger dollar was hurting U.S. corporate profits. Apple Inc (AAPL.O) also ...
