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HSBC files show how Swiss bank helped clients dodge taxes and hide millions (Video)
February 9th, 2015
Data in massive cache of leaked secret bank account files lift lid on questionable practices at subsidiary of one of world’s biggest financial institutions. HSBC’s Swiss banking arm helped wealthy customers dodge taxes and conceal millions of dollars of ...
Markets mixed as oil plunge resumes
February 5th, 2015
US stocks pulled back on Wednesday on the backdrop of resumed slide in oil prices and news that European Central Bank will no longer accept Greek bonds as collateral. Energy, utilities and health-care stocks led the losses, with six ...
Rising oil boosts investors’ optimism
February 4th, 2015
US markets surged on Tuesday as rising oil prices lifted energy shares. Energy issues gained 2.8%, marking fourth-straight advance. Investors’ optimism was boosted also by developments in Greece’s debt negotiations and automaker’s reports of increases in January car sales. ...
Greek Signals of Compromise Send Markets Soaring
February 4th, 2015
Greece’s new leaders, on a hopscotch tour of European capitals, convinced markets on Tuesday they are eager for a deal with creditors, but their still fuzzy proposals await a harder hearing from Athens’s toughest lender: the German government. Investors ...
Germany Stands To Be Big Winner of Much-Opposed ECB Stimulus
February 2nd, 2015
Germany, the biggest opponent of the European Central Bank’s new stimulus program, is poised to reap immediate benefits from the effort—an irony that underscores the complexities of designing one monetary policy for the 19-member currency area. The ECB’s program, ...
Greeks fly in for debt showdown
February 2nd, 2015
The anti-austerity Greek finance minister is to meet with chancellor George Osborne today as part of a Europe-wide charm offensive to win over creditors and fellow politicians. Investment bank Lazard has been hired by the Greek government to advise ...
Syriza win in Greece set to put markets on edge
January 26th, 2015
In a week where the focus would ordinarily have been on the latest FOMC meeting as well as US and UK GDP numbers, its events in Europe that are at the epicentre of the markets focus once again, and ...
Greece election: Anti-austerity Syriza leader Tsipras vows to end ‘pain’
January 26th, 2015
Anti-austerity Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras has vowed to end Greece’s “five years of humiliation and pain” after his general election win. Before cheering supporters, Mr Tsipras again pledged to renegotiate Greece’s massive international bailout. With nearly all of ...
World Economic Outlook (WEO) UPDATE
January 20th, 2015
Cross Currents Global growth will receive a boost from lower oil prices, which reflect to an important extent higher supply. But this boost is projected to be more than offset by negative factors, including investment weakness as adjustment ...
Swiss Stocks Tumble, European Equities Rise After SNB
January 15th, 2015
Stocks in Switzerland tumbled, led by the nation’s exporters, while the Euro Stoxx 50 Index rose, after the Swiss National Bank (SNBN) unexpectedly ended its minimum exchange rate. The Swiss Market Index plummeted 8.7 percent at 2:14 p.m. in ...
