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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... it came up short in its fourth-quarter earnings, profits coming in well below what analysts expected. Retail foreign exchange broker FXCM plunged 87.3 per cent in the first trading session since its rescue Friday by Leucadia. Leucadia's injection of ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... sharp rise of the currency threatens causing a slump in the export-dependent economy and has bankrupted several foreign exchange broker firms worldwide. A brokerage in Britain and another in New Zealand declared insolvency Friday as they were caught ...

SNB dismantles defense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... currency. But if this (again) fails, the SNB warned that, "If necessary, it will therefore remain active in the foreign exchange market to influence monetary conditions". Right or wrong, the SNB's decision has increased volatility and introduced another ...

More Australians to invest in China

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... will help China reduce the political ramifications of holding a significant amount of its nearly $4 trillion in foreign exchange reserves in US government bonds. To mitigate this, he said, more of China's claims on the US should be denominated in RMB ...

NAS loses another super fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... business in July, but has so far struggled to find a buyer, in part because it does not want to sell the cash and foreign exchange parts of the business.

New Vanguard modelling tool picks global equities to win

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... generates distributional forecasts for hundreds of financial market parameters including inflation, yield curves, foreign exchange rates and volatility. The outputs of the VCMM deliver reasonable return expectations for the major asset classes, with ...

Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... real GDP growth over the remainder of the year was little revised. However, in response to a further rise in the foreign exchange value of the dollar, a deterioration in global growth prospects, and a decline in equity prices, the staff revised down ...

ASX and Bank of China sign major agreement

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... Australia by the People's Bank of China. Official RMB clearing banks have direct access to China's onshore RMB and foreign exchange markets, and enhance liquidity in the local market. ASX and the Bank of China launched an RMB settlement service in Australia ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... global regulators fined six top European and US banks $US4.2 billion (3.4 billion euros) for attempting to rig foreign exchange markets. However higher than expected US jobless claims sent major European indices briefly negative, before bouncing back ...

ANZ halts trading after accidental data release

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... Excel document inadvertently contained details of unaudited half on half percentage movements for cash profit and foreign exchange, adjusted by division and geography. ANZ 2014 full year results will be announced on October 31 and the annual general ...