Search Results for: financial markets
UBS launches white paper for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2015
January 21st, 2015
Publication recommends solutions to challenges presented by US energy independence, technological advancement, financial policy shifts, and the environmental credit crunch. Zurich/Basel, 21 January 2015 – UBS today launches a white paper titled, The New Global Context: Could economic transformations threaten ...
Swiss banks try to calm scared shareholders
January 21st, 2015
SWISS financial institutions and firms that trade with them yesterday tried to reassure investors who had been walloped by the soaring franc last week, after the central bank removed the currency’s peg with the euro. The Swiss National Bank ...
Gold is the New Cash: Weak Currencies Cause Gold Prices to Soar
January 20th, 2015
Gold prices have soared on the recent wave of global volatility with stock market crash in China and the Swiss national currency turmoil, exceeding $1,300-1,320/oz. One of the top-valued metal commodities and a universal monetary equivalent, gold, is heading ...
IG Group today announces Interim Results for the six months ended 30 November 2014
January 20th, 2015
IG Group Interim Results six months ended 30 November 2014: Operating and Financial Summary Strong first half results following a very subdued first quarter Net trading revenue(1) up 8% at £197.4 million Profit before tax up(2) 2.8% to £101.4 ...
SNB president defends shock move: reaction ‘overdone’
January 19th, 2015
Reaction to the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) scrapping of its cap on the value of the Swiss franc has been overdone, the bank’s president Thomas Jordan has said in a newspaper interview. “We see significant excesses in current exchange ...
Swiss Franc Trade Is Said to Wipe Out Everest’s Main Fund
January 19th, 2015
Marko Dimitrijevic made a smart bet in December. The hedge fund manager, wagering the Swiss franc would fall, profited after voters there rejected a plan to have the central bank hold a fifth of its assets in gold. For ...
SEC Adopts Rules to Increase Transparency in Security-Based Swap Market
January 15th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted two new sets of rules that will require security-based swap data repositories (SDRs) to register with the SEC and prescribe reporting and public dissemination requirements for security-based swap transaction data. The SEC ...
Chinese Companies, Investors Move Money Back Home
January 15th, 2015
Shares of Chinese companies are soaring at home but stumbling overseas, and one reason is fast-trading Chinese investors. That is leading some companies and investors to shift money back home after riding a rally in Chinese stocks in the ...
Increased U.S. Output Bolsters Oil Glut Fears Sending Prices Back Down
January 15th, 2015
Oil resumed its decline after the biggest gain since June 2012 as U.S. crude production increased, bolstering speculation a global supply glut that spurred last year’s price collapse may persist. Futures dropped as much as 1.3 percent in New York. ...
The Currency Exchange Selects Quantifi for Counterparty Credit Risk Management for Emerging Market Currencies Derivatives
January 14th, 2015
Quantifi delivers sophisticated analytics for emerging market interest rates and FX derivatives Advanced models generate fast, accurate results Quantifi, a specialist provider of analytics, trading and Risk Management solutions, today announced that The Currency Exchange (TCX) has selected Quantifi ...
