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New EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality
September 10th, 2014
Jean-Claude JUNCKER, the President-elect of the European Commission has allocated Věra Jourová, a lawyer and politician from the Czech Republic, the Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality portfolio in the new European Commission. If approved by the European Parliament, she ...
U.S. regulator would welcome delay of EU clearing rules
September 10th, 2014
A top U.S. regulator said on Wednesday he would welcome a delay by the European Union that gave more time to resolve a conflict with Washington over making derivatives markets safer. Reuters reported last week that the EU is ...
Japan Keeps Faith in Weaker Yen as Economy Struggles
September 10th, 2014
Facing the prospect of the first growth-free fiscal year since the 2009 global recession, Japan’s policy makers are keeping faith that a weaker exchange rate will help the world’s third-largest economy. While the yen’s 26 percent slide against the ...
Gold Remains Under $1260 on U.S. Dollar Strength
September 9th, 2014
Gold hovered near its lowest in three months on Tuesday after sharp overnight losses as the dollar traded at 14-month highs against a basket of major currencies, dimming the metal’s appeal as a currency hedge. Spot gold had slipped ...
Dollar sweeps higher, Japan shares shy from peaks
September 9th, 2014
The U.S. dollar held on to broad-based gains in Asia on Tuesday in a boon for shares of Japanese exporters but a burden for oil, gold and stocks in the energy majors. As the dollar finally broke to a ...
Asian Equities Mixed on Soft Lead
September 9th, 2014
Asian indices were mostly higher on Tuesday amid light volumes as markets in South Korea and Hong Kong were closed for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Overnight in the U.S., Wall Street closed mixed with energy producers leading losses on oil’s ...
Rosneft struggles to grow as sanctions hit Russia’s oil champion
September 9th, 2014
The Kremlin’s prized oil firm Rosneft is cutting staff and production and selling stakes in Siberian fields in the strongest evidence to date that Western sanctions are hurting what was the world’s fastest growing oil firm in recent years. ...
OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Currency pairs
September 9th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for September 9, 2014 EURUSD continued its downward trajectory on Monday following a pause at the end of last week. Some indecision and sideways action during the mid-session gave way to sellers in the second ...
Telefonica trials to take AT&T home security technology overseas
September 9th, 2014
AT&T Inc (T.N) on Monday said Spain’s Telefonica SA (TEF.MC) will license its home security technology for limited trials in Europe as the U.S. carrier hopes it has found a new way to profit from its nascent connected-home business. ...
Brokers Battle Deutsche Bank Over Selling In-House Products
September 9th, 2014
Since the market collapse of 2008, scrutiny has intensified on the way large banks and securities firms treat their brokerage customers, particularly when it comes to steering them into the firms’ own products. One possibility raised in the 2010 ...
