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Friday February 13: OSB G10 Currency Pairs Cheat Sheet & Key Levels
February 13th, 2015
OSB Daily G10 Currency Pairs Cheat Sheet & Key Levels for February 13. EURUSD Open 1.1401, High 1.1439, Low 1.1394, Close 1.1422, 0.17% Change. GRBUSD Open 1.5381, High 1.5418…View table below
$9 Trillion Question Is How Tighter Fed Will Impact the World
February 13th, 2015
When Group of 20 finance ministers this week urged the Federal Reserve to “minimize negative spillovers” from potential interest-rate increases, they omitted a key figure: $9 trillion. That’s the amount owed in dollars by non-bank borrowers outside the U.S., ...
Russian Asset Sales Muddy Sanction Compliance
February 13th, 2015
U.S. Companies Already Have to Contend With Complex Rules In recent months, Boris and Arkady Rotenberg—Russian businessmen and friends of Vladimir Putin —have sold off assets to their sons that include holdings in a Gazprom drilling contractor and the sleek Finnish Langvik Congress ...
Asian shares jump on Ukraine ceasefire, Greek hopes
February 13th, 2015
Asian shares soared on Friday on news of a ceasefire accord in Ukraine, while Sweden’s surprise move to cut its main rate into negative territory and hopes of a resolution between debt-strapped Greece and its creditors burnished risk appetite. MSCI’s broadest index ...
Greece, lenders appear to edge closer to deal
February 13th, 2015
There were hopes on Thursday that Greece and the eurozone might be edging toward a deal after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, attending his first European Union summit, agreed for government officials and representatives of the country’s lenders to find ...
ICE Futures Europe and ICE Endex Achieve Daily Volume Records in NBP and TTF Natural Gas Futures
February 12th, 2015
Intercontinental Exchange, the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, today announced that daily volume records were set in the ICE Futures Europe UK NBP and the ICE Endex Dutch TTF Natural Gas futures contracts on February 10, 2015, with 137,495 (120.9 TWhs) ...
Former Petrobras CEO Weighs In on Corruption Probe
February 12th, 2015
Gabrielli Says He Feels Like ‘David Fighting Goliath,’ Denies Any Wrongdoing José Sergio Gabrielli, the former chief executive of Petróleo Brasileiro SA, presided over one of the brightest periods in the state-owned oil giant’s history. During his tenure, from 2005 to ...
Hodge delivers fresh attack on tax avoidance
February 12th, 2015
Professional tax advisers heard some tough talking from Margaret Hodge MP, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, when she spoke at an ICAS Business Insights event in London on 10 February. The Labour MP for Barking said: “There are too many ...
Thursday February 12: OSB G10 Currency Pairs Cheat Sheet & Key Levels
February 12th, 2015
OSB Daily G10 Currency Pairs Cheat Sheet & Key Levels for February 12. EURUSD Open 1.1335, High 1.1351, Low 1.1302, Close 1.1313, -0.19% Change. GRBUSD Open 1.5232, High 1.5248…View table below
SEC Announces Charges Against Atlanta Man Accused of Insider Trading in Advance of Tender Offer
February 12th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against an Atlanta resident accused of insider trading in the stock of a technology company by exploiting nonpublic information he learned from the friend of a company executive. The SEC’s Enforcement ...
