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Thursday March 05: OSB Commodities & Equity Indices Cheat Sheet & Key Levels
March 5th, 2015
OSB Commodities & Equity Indices Cheat Sheet & Key Levels for March 05. Gold Open 1203.80, High 1208.40, Low 1197.70, Close 1200.90, -0.29% Change. Silver Open 16.26, High 16.36… View table below
Asia stocks slip, euro hits 11-year low before ECB
March 5th, 2015
Asian stocks slipped on Thursday after Wall Street continued to pull back from record highs ahead of Friday’s closely-watched U.S. jobs data, while the nervous euro languished at an 11-year low prior to the European Central Bank‘s policy meeting. ...
Thursday March 05: OSB G10 Currency Pairs Cheat Sheet & Key Levels
March 5th, 2015
OSB Daily G10 Currency Pairs Cheat Sheet & Key Levels for March 05. EURUSD Open 1.1175, High 1.1185, Low 1.1061, Close 1.1077, -0.87% Change. GRBUSD Open 1.5359, High 1.5371… View table below
China lowers 2015 growth target to around 7%
March 5th, 2015
China targeted economic growth of approximately 7 percent in 2015, lower than the goal of around 7.5 percent in 2014, according to a government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang at the parliament’s annual session Thursday. The growth ...
Merkel says France reforms on ‘right track’
March 4th, 2015
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that French economic reforms put the country on the “right track” after Paris won a two-year delay from the EU to get its budget deficit back within Brussels limits. “I think France is ...
Varoufakis’ 6 reforms: 3 for humanitarianism + 3 for tax
March 4th, 2015
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis is heading to the Eurogroup meeting of the euro area’s finance ministers on Monday with six proposals aimed at appeasing them. In an effort to reach a compromise, he is pulling back the proposal ...
Citi and MasterCard Sign New Global Agreement That Expands Relationship
March 4th, 2015
Citi to Align Majority of Consumer Proprietary Credit and Debit Portfolios to MasterCard Citigroup (NYSE: C) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA) announced today that the companies have signed a new and expanded 10-year agreement. Citi will begin aligning the company’s ...
The Price of Oil Is About to Blow a Hole in Corporate Accounting
March 4th, 2015
There’s one place in the world where oil is still $95 a barrel. On paper. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requires drillers to calculate the value of their oil reserves every year using average prices from the first ...
Court upholds British challenge to ECB policy on clearing houses
March 4th, 2015
The European Union’s second-highest court has ruled the European Central Bank (ECB) was wrong to insist that euro clearing houses should be based in the single currency area, a policy Britain had challenged to defend its financial sector. Lawyers ...
Special Rural Development Tax to be Exempted from Imported Gold Traded in the KRX Gold Market
March 4th, 2015
The Korea Exchange (KRX) announced that the special tax for rural development that had been imposed on the imported gold to be traded in the KRX gold market (a gold spot market operated by the KRX) will be exempted ...
