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Investors Waiting for Consumer Profits to Match Share Price Hype
March 18th, 2015
The plunge in oil that drained energy shares was also supposed to boost disposable income for consumers. Companies from automakers to retailers are still waiting to see that trickle down to their bottom lines. That poses a risk ...
ASIC: Two men sentenced in Australia’s largest insider trading case
March 17th, 2015
Joint media release with The Hon Josh Frydenberg, Assistant Treasurer and The Hon Kelly O’Dwyer, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Two men were sentenced to jail terms of 7 years and 3 months, and 3 years and 3 months ...
Asia stocks jump as Fed rate hike expectations shift again
March 17th, 2015
Asian stocks markets jumped Tuesday as investors cheered the prospect of stimulus in China and second guessed what signals the Federal Reserve will give on interest rates at its policy meeting this week. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose ...
Final regulations amend broker basis reporting requirements
March 16th, 2015
The IRS issued final and temporary regulations that provide rules for brokers to report bond premium and acquisition premium as well as govern information reporting of transactions involving debt instruments and options, including the reporting of original issue discount ...
IBM looking at adopting bitcoin technology for major currencies
March 16th, 2015
International Business Machines Corp is considering adopting the underlying technology behind bitcoin, known as the “blockchain,” to create a digital cash and payment system for major currencies, according to a person familiar with the matter. The objective is to ...
Germany’s DAX 30 index jumps above 12,000 for first time
March 16th, 2015
Germany’s DAX 30 index DAX, +1.07% jumped to an all-time intra-day high on Monday, climbing above the 12,000 mark for the first time ever. The index briefly touched 12,001.98, but fell back to trade up 0.8% at 11,991.92 at the latest. The ...
Commerzbank Announcement Regarding Sanctions and Money Laundering Violations
March 16th, 2015
Following the release that Commerzbank nears $1.4 billion-plus settlement with U.S, Commerzbank issued a press release informing that: Commerzbank has reached settlements with the Department of Justice (“DoJ”), the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the New York ...
Results of the Poll Vote: Will Digital Currencies become more popular in 2015? (Poll Closed March 15)
March 16th, 2015
On March 15 closed the poll on www.onestopbrokers.com where you have shared your opinion about an interesting question for the future of Digital Currencies. Please find below the results: Poll: Will Digital Currencies become more popular in 2015? Answer ...
Swiss bank UBS settles currency-rigging claims for $135M
March 16th, 2015
Switzerland‘s largest bank, UBS, has agreed to pay $135 million to settle claims that it helped rig currency-exchange rates in a scheme involving some of the world’s biggest banks. The settlement announced Friday by the lead law firm in ...
Investor Group to Buy GE Capital’s Australia, New Zealand Consumer-Lending Unit
March 16th, 2015
Investors include KKR, Deutsche Bank, Värde Partners, in one of biggest deals in Asia-Pacific this year In one of the biggest deals in the Asia-Pacific region so far this year,General Electric Co. agreed to sell the consumer-lending business of GE Capital ...
