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...The US currency jumped 1.2 per cent against the yen to ¥108.39, marking a 2.7 per cent retracement from an 18-month low of ¥105.52 struck less than a week ago....
...This is Peppa Pig’s chance to jump in puddles with ET....
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...(FT) Video of the day Martin Wolf on Grexit The Greek state is running out of cash and there may be no rescue this time. Martin Wolf talks about what happens in the case of a default....
...(Asharq Al-Awsat) Video of the day Do board quotas work? The number of women on company boards has hit the 25 per cent target in the UK....
...-0.56 at 45.03 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,293 Copper (Comex) down -0.04 at 2.50 10-year government bond yields US 1.76% UK 1.48% Germany 0.36% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX Western...
...While in New York he talked about Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of his country’s state oil company PDVSA, which is supposedly up for sale....
...US officials have defined the advances made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis) – an offshoot of al-Qaeda – as a potential direct threat to US national security....
...Good morning New York, FT ALPHAVILLE Naming and shaming in Japan: David notes another angry reflection of how important rising wages are to Abenomics’ success and how irritated Abe et al are at those big...
...will test investor hopes for a pick-up in the U.S. and global economies… Bulls are hoping to see evidence of an economic rebound in the United States in this week’s busy calendar of data that includes the...
...(WSJ) US to suspend a large part of the $1.5bn in aid it gives to Egypt every year as a result of the military takeover in July and the violent crackdown on supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi....
...Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up +1.25% at 967.67 Europe FTSE up -0.41% at 6,520 RTS up +2.00% at 1,373 Warsaw Wig up +1.06% at 47,213 FTSE 300 Eurotop down -0.35% at 1,226 Americas DJIA down -0.10%...
...(Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: UP Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +178.96 (+1.16%) at 15,560 Topix up +8.25 (+0.65%) at 1,279 Hang Seng unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 23,366 US markets S&P 500 up +2.87 (...
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...Although contrast GMO et al: That’s rather more convoluted. In fact, it’s a recipe for a sovereign bankruptcy regime in US courts....
...China offered on Tuesday to talk with the United States about cyber security amid an escalating war of words between the two sides on computer hacking, but suspicion is as deep in Beijing as it is in Washington...
...(FT Brussels Blog) - Merkel ‘will be feted like a star for defending German interests in the eurozone crisis’ at party congress. (Reuters) - Philip Stephens: A taxing problem for Google et al....
...maritime solution US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Chinese President Hu Jintao today on a mission aimed partly at prevailing on China and Southeast Asian nations to use diplomacy instead of...
...“[B]y being a passive investor in the $1.5bn equity investment in Cheniere led by Blackstone, alongside Government of Singapore Investment Corp, and the state of Louisiana, CIC hopes to avoid the sort of...
...Prices for steel are falling, demand is poor, loans are hard to come by, and no relief is in sight. http://on.ft.com/ThtTtG Clinton brings to Beijing plea for maritime solution US Secretary of State Hillary...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...up StanChart accused of hiding Iran dealings New York State’s financial watchdog accused Standard Chartered of hiding $250bn of transactions with the Iranian government, leaving “the US financial system...
...Separately, President Barack Obama authorized US companies to invest in Myanmar for the first time in about 15 years, including with a state-run oil firm that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged multinationals...
...80.03 (79.93) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -1.99 at 110.27 Light Crude (Nymex) down -2.00 at 94.13 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,584...
...0.84% at 20,110 Shanghai Composite up +1.00% at 2,319 MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +0.29% at 498.48 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.21% at 5,138 Currencies €/$ 1.30 (1.30) $/¥ 77.91 (77.68) Commodities Brent Crude...
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