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Oil’s Drop Puts Spotlight on Saudi Arabia
August 25th, 2015
Some OPEC members call for renewed discussions within cartel about restraining production The plunge in global oil prices has eroded an important pillar of Saudi Arabia’s strategy of pumping freely to grab global market share: Demand growth that once ...
China stocks slump again in absence of government support; Hong Kong rebounds
August 25th, 2015
China stocks slumped about 4 percent on Tuesday, touching eight-month lows, as investors dumped shares after a grim “Black Monday” that battered global markets but failed to prompt fresh rescue measures from Beijing. After opening 6.4 percent lower, the ...
India has forex reserves to stabilise currency volatility: RBI
August 24th, 2015
Forex reserves of around $380 billion would be used if needed to subdue the volatility in the currency market, said RBI Governor On a day when the rupee and stock market went down Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan said on ...
FTSE 100 at lowest since 2013 as markets panic over China’s downfall on ‘Black Monday’
August 24th, 2015
The FTSE 100 fell below the 6,000 mark for the first time since 2013 as global stock markets have responded to the free fall of shares in Asia on what has been dubbed ‘Black Monday’. After the Shanghai Composite, ...
China’s Stocks Sink Most Since 2007 as State Intervention Fails
August 24th, 2015
China’s stocks plunged the most since 2007 as government support measures failed to allay investor concern that a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy is deepening. The Shanghai Composite Index tumbled 8.5 percent to 3,209.91 at the close to ...
U.S. banks moved billions in trades beyond CFTC’s reach
August 24th, 2015
This spring, traders and analysts working deep in the global swaps markets began picking up peculiar readings: Hundreds of billions of dollars of trades by U.S. banks had seemingly vanished. “We saw strange things in the data,” said Chris ...
Greece in tatters: Why snap election can’t save nation in crisis
August 24th, 2015
Greece is headed for its fifth general election in the last six years … After convincingly winning an election in January 2015 on an anti-austerity platform and securing a triumphant win for “No” in the referendum on a bailout deal in ...
Oil Price Collapse Triggers Currency Crisis In Emerging Markets
August 24th, 2015
Emerging market currencies are getting slammed by the collapse in commodity prices, a downturn that has accelerated in recent weeks. The health of many middle-income and emerging market economies has been predicated on relatively strong commodity prices. A whole ...
Global Selloff Deepens as Stocks Sink With Oil
August 24th, 2015
Equity investors took flight across Asia, sending the region’s benchmark stock gauge toward a bear market and Chinese stocks plunging by the most since 2007 as U.S. futures tumbled. Ten-year Treasury yields dropped below 2 percent. China’s Shanghai Composite ...
China chooses her weapons
August 22nd, 2015
China’s recent mini-devaluations had less to do with her mounting economic challenges, and more to do with a statement from the IMF on 4 August, that it was proposing to defer the decision to include the yuan in the ...
