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Europe Index Futures Rise With Asia Stocks as Kiwi Drops
May 26th, 2014
European stock index futures rose as Asian stocks headed for their highest close this year after China’s premier said policy will be fine-tuned as needed to support the economy. New Zealand’s dollar fell with crude futures as copper and ...
EU Market Rules, Logitech Probe, Finra Fines: Compliance
May 23rd, 2014
Europe’s capital markets are getting a new foundation. The 28-nation European Union’s top markets regulator yesterday made public more than 800 pages of proposed rules that cover everything from high-frequency trading curbs to transparency requirements for bond markets and ...
Dollar better bid after data, euro hobbled by rate cut view
May 23rd, 2014
The dollar hovered at one-week highs against the yen and held its ground on the euro early on Friday, having drifted up broadly after promising U.S. housing and factory activity data gave Treasury yields a bit of a lift. ...
Wall Street Finds New Subprime With Brokers Pitching 125% Loans
May 22nd, 2014
Doug Naidus made his fortune selling a mortgage company to Deutsche Bank AG months before the U.S. housing market collapsed. Now he’s found a way to profit from loans to business owners with bad credit. From an office near ...
Vietnam Offers Help To Companies After Deadly Anti-China Riots
May 22nd, 2014
Vietnam will compensate businesses hit by anti-China riots, which exploded across the country last week over a territorial dispute in the South China Sea. Factories were torched and at least four workers were killed, according to the Metallurgical Corporation ...
Eastern dryness mars strong Australia crop outlook
May 20th, 2014
Dryness in eastern Australia is marring otherwise favourable prospects for US growers, and posing an “increasing risk” to a recovery in cattle prices, RuralCo said, as the farm services group unveiled a return to the black. The grain trading-to-farm ...
SEC Warns Investors About Marijuana-Related Investments
May 19th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cautioned investors about the potential for fraud in microcap companies that claim their operations relate to the marijuana industry after the agency suspended trading in the fifth such company within the past two ...
Gas prices are high…
May 19th, 2014
Rumors about the demise of U.S. gasoline demand have been greatly exaggerated. Until late 2013, most energy observers forecast the world’s most reliably gas-guzzling market to consume less fuel this year. What was once thought to be a structural ...
SEC Charges Unregistered Securities Salesman
May 16th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Tiburon, Calif.-based securities salesman for selling millions of dollars in oil-and-gas investments without being registered with the SEC as a broker-dealer or associated with a registered broker-dealer. Behrooz Sarafraz has ...
What the Kenya Railroad Says About China’s Approach to Africa
May 14th, 2014
When China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang announced a deal with Kenya to establish a new railroad, whose first stage will link the port city of Mombasa to the capital, Nairobi, he framed the arrangement in terms familiar to Sino-African ...
