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Asian shares track Wall St. lower, yen gains
July 11th, 2014
Asian shares recouped early losses on Friday as sentiment in the region proved resilient to Portuguese bank concerns amid signs offshore funds were returning to emerging world assets. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan recovered to be ...
Argentina’s Sovereign Bondage
July 10th, 2014
Sovereign debt has been back in the news recently, this time because of a United States Supreme Court ruling concerning Argentine debt. As a result of the ruling, a complicated issue is likely to become even more so. Sovereign ...
Australia accused of breaking law after returning asylum seekers to Sri Lanka
July 8th, 2014
Australia has been accused of breaking international law and violating the refugee convention after returning a group of 41 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who attempted to reach the country by boat directly into the hands of the Sri Lankan ...
Ex-Jefferies Trader Deserves 9-Year Sentence, U.S. Says
July 1st, 2014
Ex-Jefferies & Co. Managing Director Jesse Litvak, who was convicted earlier this year of fraud in the trading of mortgage-backed securities, should be sentenced to nine years in prison, the U.S. said. Litvak was convicted in the only criminal ...
Regions Financial to pay $51 mln for alleged accounting misdeed
June 26th, 2014
Regions Financial Corp, a large U.S. southeast regional bank, agreed to pay $51 million to settle federal and state allegations it failed to account properly for souring commercial loans during the financial crisis, boosting its earnings. The settlements announced ...
Emerging-Market Target Practice
June 26th, 2014
Central bankers want only a few things. To achieve any of them they usually seek to nudge inflation expectations, demonstrate the transparency of monetary policy, and establish their institutions’ credibility. To communicate their intentions simply and clearly, they may ...
IMF in warning over Argentina ruling at US Supreme Court
June 18th, 2014
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that Argentina’s legal defeat in its fight against hedge fund investors may have wider implications. On Monday, a US Supreme Court ruling sided with bondholders demanding Argentina pay them $1.3bn (£766m). The ...
Asian Stocks Retreat From Six-Year High as Kiwi Advances
June 12th, 2014
Asian stocks fell, with the regional benchmark index retreating from its highest close in six years, after U.S. stocks dropped by the most in three weeks. Euronext delayed the opening of cash markets due to a “critical issue” while ...
Gunfire in Karachi, Stocks Drop on Report of Politician’s Arrest
June 4th, 2014
Shops closed and public buses stopped operating in Pakistan’s biggest city a day after U.K. police questioned Karachi’s most powerful political figure as part of a money-laundering investigation. About 400 people blocked one of Karachi’s main streets to protest ...
Google shows good faith but those wanting to be forgotten must wait
June 2nd, 2014
In announcing its willingness to implement the EU court of justice decision on the “right to be forgotten”, Google is making the best of a bad job. Although the ruling delivered in Luxembourg on 13 May left it with ...
