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European Stocks Advance With Asia as Gold, Oil Retreat
July 14th, 2014
European and Asian stocks advanced with U.S. equity-index futures after a gauge of global shares suffered its biggest weekly loss in three months. Gold fell from a four-month high, corn slid a 10th day and oil dropped as the ...
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 ...
Portugal Bonds Drop With Europe Stocks as Gold Advances
July 9th, 2014
Portugal and Italy led declines in European bonds and stocks dropped while gold climbed. Emerging-market shares fell from a 16-month high. The yield on Portugal’s 10-year bond jumped 19 basis points to 3.84 percent by 9:53 a.m. in London. ...
Yuan to Start Direct Trading With Pound from tomorrow
June 18th, 2014
China will allow the yuan to be exchanged directly for British pounds from tomorrow in Shanghai as the world’s second-largest economy promotes the use of its currency in global trade and finance. “This is an important step in strengthening ...
Bitcoin’s Futile Quest to Be a Currency
June 2nd, 2014
Bitcoin is a fascinating and ingenious technology, but most promoters are mindful of neither the monetary nor the tax issues. For all practical purposes IRS regulations issued in March preclude bitcoins from being used as an alternative currency. The ...
Two men arrested for insider trading and abuse of public office, $7 million restrained
May 9th, 2014
The Australian Federal Police and Australian Securities and Investments Commission have issued a joint press release as follows: Two men have been arrested by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) today for offences relating to insider trading, money laundering, corruption ...
D2MX Pty Ltd pays infringement notice penalty to ASIC
May 6th, 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has given D2MX Pty Ltd (D2MX) an infringement notice penalty and therefore has paid a total penalty of $110,000 to comply with an infringement notice given to it by the Markets Disciplinary Panel ...
Invesco Fined, EU Stress Test, Libor Charges: Compliance
April 29th, 2014
Invesco Perpetual (IPE) was fined 18.6 million pounds ($31.3 million) for failing to comply with risk limits or tell clients about the use of derivatives as leverage in their funds. Invesco Perpetual, the largest retail investment manager in the ...
ASIC cancels Banksia’s AFS licence
April 28th, 2014
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has cancelled Banksia Mortgages Limited’s (Banksia Mortgages) Australian financial services (AFS) licence. Banksia Mortgages is one of four subsidiaries of the Victoria-based Banksia Financial Group, which collapsed in 2012. The others include the ...
Sonray director jailed following $46 million collapse
April 17th, 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has issued a press release informing the investors that former sole director of Sonray Capital Markets Pty Ltd (Sonray), Mr Russell Andrew Johnson, has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail. Today’s ...
