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...The hires reflect a significant pick-up in opportunities for macro hedge funds, which have chalked up their best half-year of returns since 2013, at 5.01 per cent, according to data from HFR....
...Gold rose as much as 1.5 per cent to $1,215.01 an ounce this morning, the highest level since May 19 last year. Elsewhere in commodities, oil was lower on Thursday in Asia....
...Gold was down 0.7 per cent at $1,165 an ounce, but rallied 5 per cent last week for its best weekly performance since July 2013....
...It was the indicator’s worst showing since mid-2013. Back in New York, the S&P 500 energy subindex fell 2.1 per cent as oil prices continued to retreat....
...The Dallas-based lender had signed one of the first partnerships with Lending Club, agreeing in March 2013 to buy up to 25 per cent of the loans it originated....
...The S&P 500 was steady at 2,000.12, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1 per cent to 17,122.01. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite was flat at 4,569.62....
...The Silicon Valley-based company met revenue and earnings expectations in 2013 but its first-quarter and full-year forecasts fell short of the average analyst estimate....
...Citic made the purchase through its Hong Kong-based brokerage CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, which it bought from French bank Crédit Agricole for $1.25 billion in 2013....
...http://on.ft.com/1fL8THZ Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up +0.07% at 1,006 Europe FTSE down +0.11% at 6,456 RTS up +0.14% at 1,430 Warsaw Wig down -0.54% at 50,705 FTSE 300 Eurotop down -0.01%...
...Investors asked for $4.4bn back last month, taking the outflows for 2013 so far to $33.2bn....
...stimulus measures from global central banks. http://on.ft.com/13HNDZY Taiwan GDP growth falls to 1.5% Taiwan’s economic growth rate dropped to just 1.5 per cent year-on-year in the first three months of 2013...
...The assay results from the sample tower represent approximately 0.01% of the material excavated from the 426585E cross-cut....
...(Bloomberg)(Reuters) Ben Bernanke suggested the Fed will keep trying to push down interest rates in 2013....
...Shares in Smurfit Kappa, which debuted at €16.50 in March 2007, hit a 52-week low of €1.01 in October following concerns over its long-term financing....
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