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China Unveils Plan to Link Shanghai and Hong Kong Bourses
April 10th, 2014
China plans to connect the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and Shanghai, allowing a combined 23.5 billion yuan ($3.8 billion) of daily cross-border trading. Investors will be able to trade 10.5 billion yuan of Hong Kong-listed stocks through the ...
European Stocks Are Little Changed Amid Ukraine Tension
April 8th, 2014
European stocks were little changed, after dropping yesterday from a six-year high, as investors weighed escalating tensions between America and Russia over the future of eastern Europe. U.S. index futures and Asian shares were also little changed. Suedzucker AG ...
Asian Stocks Fall Second Day as Health-Care Shares Drop
April 8th, 2014
Asian stocks fell for a second day, following the biggest three-day rout in U.S. shares in more than two months, as health-care to technology companies retreated in Japan. Chinese equities rose. Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. lost 5.2 percent after a ...
CFOs enter spend mode as risk appetite increases
April 7th, 2014
CFOs are looking to take more risk onto their balance sheets, as optimism and appetite to grow hit the highest levels in several years. Seven in ten of the senior CFOs interviewed by Deloitte said it was a good ...
Japan Sales Tax Hike Boosts Popularity Of Gold As Investors Rush To Beat Implementation Of Tax
April 3rd, 2014
Japanese shoppers have snapped up gold bars ahead of a controversial hike in the country’s sales tax, which takes effect Tuesday, a key part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic “Abenomics” reforms. Tokyo’s Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K., Japan’s largest ...
FCA to investigate how firms deal with risk benchmark manipulation
March 31st, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced plans to look into how firms can reduce the risk of traders manipulating key benchmarks as a central part of its Business Plan for 2014/15, which was published today. The forward-looking thematic ...
CySec: consultation by ESMA
March 27th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission would like to draw the attention of Issuers with securities admitted to trading on the Cyprus Stock Exchange or any other regulated market, their shareholders and other stakeholders, to the Consultation launched by ...
Italians Join Greeks Selling Bank Stock to Once-Wary Investors
March 27th, 2014
Eight Italian banks are preparing to sell at least 8 billion euros ($11 billion) of stock to shore up their balance sheets, as nations shunned during the sovereign-debt crisis return to favor with investors. Leading the pack is Banca ...
FCA warning for clone company
March 26th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British financial regulatory authority, has issued a Warning informing the investors that Traders Trust Capital Markets Ltd (www.fxttcm.co.uk , www.fxttcm.co.uk/En/) is a clone firm and thus, is not permitted to provide financial services or ...
FCA: warning for unauthorised firm
March 26th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British financial regulatory authority, has issued a Warning informing the investors that Everest Markets (UK) Limited/ Everest Capital Limited (http://www.everestmarkets.com) is not permitted to provide financial services or products. FCA announces that Everest Markets ...
