Mark Carney’s history is catching up with him. Having watched Quebec’s attempt to break away from his native Canada in 1995 while working at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in London, the Bank of England governor now finds himself in the thick of a splinter campaign. Drawn into the fray of Scotland’s re…
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Carney Steering BOE in Scots Vote as Quebec Casts Shadow
Stock investors who recognize the risks of trading in anonymous “dark pools” but are unwilling to spurn them have found an alternative: club together. A growing number of European investment funds have signed up to use an electronic trading system designed by one of their own – Finland’s Pohjola …
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Investors team up to find path through risky dark pools
Swiss producer and import prices fell 1.2 percent in August from a year ago and were 0.2 percent lower compared with the previous month, the Federal Statistics Office said on Monday. It said producer prices fell 0.9 percent year-on-year, while import prices also fell 1.9 percent. KEY FIGURES …
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Swiss producer/import prices down 1.2 pct yr/yr in Aug
The following are the intraday outlooks for EUR/USD, AUD/USD, GBP/USD, and Spot Gold as provided by the technical strategy team at SEB Group. EUR/USD: Exit from the base formation. Today we can with a higher degree of certainty call for an upward reaction to have started. The break above 1.2963…
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Intraday Outlooks For EUR/USD, AUD/USD, GBP/USD, Gold – SEB
Germany’s anti-euro party swept into two eastern state parliaments, expanding its challenge to Chancellor Angela Merkel in a region mostly dominated by her Christian Democrats since the Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago. As Alternative for Germany drew protest voters from across the political spectru…
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German Anti-Euro Party Advances in Merkel Homeland Voting
The elderly now account for a record 10.1 percent of Japan’s workforce, up from 9.5 percent last year, according to a government survey released ahead of Monday’s “Respect for the Aged Day.” The survey found that of the total Japanese workforce of 63 million, 6.36 million are elderly, or 65 or ol…
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Japan: Number of Elderly Workers at Record High
China’s fiscal spending expenditure growth eased to 6.2 percent in August from a year earlier, data from the Ministry of Finance showed, reflecting the government’s efforts to brake spending after a surge in previous months. Spending growth decelerated after a rise of 9.6 percent in July and gain…
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China’s fiscal spending growth eases in August
Monday’s a light day for economic reports in Europe, and so a pair of US numbers will grab the spotlight. First up is the New York Fed Index (also known as the Empire State Manufacturing Survey), which will povide an early clue about September’s macro profile for the world’s leading economy. Later,…
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3 Numbers: Resurgent New York manufacturing, US industry, EURUSD
ASIC has granted an Australian derivative trade repository (ADTR) licence to DTCC Derivatives Repository (Singapore) Pte Ltd (DDRS). ASIC Commissioner Cathie Armour said the ADTR licence is the first of its kind granted by ASIC and is a key step in ASIC’s implementation of mandatory trade report…
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ASIC Grants First Trade Repository Licence
The chancellor, George Osborne, and the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, are to miss next weekend’s meeting of G20 central bank governors and finance ministers to ensure they are in the UK for the outcome of the Scottish referendum. Carney’s travel plans would have required him to be…
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Osborne and Carney to miss G20 summit for Scottish referendum result
According to one new poll, the recent surge of support for Scottish independence may have been checked — but the result of Thursday’s referendum could still go either way. If the Scots do vote to astonish the world and break up the United Kingdom, it won’t be because they’ve weighed the choice…
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Scots Should Be Careful What They Wish For
The fortunes of Brazilian businessman Eike Batista took another hit over the weekend, as the Rio de Janeiro public prosecutor’s office accused him of manipulating the share price of his now-bankrupt petroleum company, OGX, and engaging in insider trading. The public prosecutor’s office began inve…
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Fallen Brazilian Mogul Eike Batista Accused of Insider Trading
Why the slowdown in China might be real The overarching theme in trading this week is fear that China is slowing down. Well, that’s not actually true. The market doesn’t really mind slower economic growth; US growth has missed growth forecasts every year since the crisis. What the market doesn’t…
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The latest worries about Chinese growth aren’t overblown. Here’s why
At 2.61%, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note is at its highest level since July. But it’s still extremely low. Folks like hedge fund manager David Tepper believe that yields are heading higher from here. But according to Deutsche Bank’s Torsten Slok, there are actually more forces pus…
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Here Are 8 Forces Pushing US Interest Rates
Australian new vehicle sales fell in August for a second straight month with demand for sports utilities cooling slightly. Monday’s data for the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed 91,391 new vehicles were sold in August, seasonally adjusted, down 1.8 percent from July’s 93,051. The July resul…
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Australia new vehicle sales fall further in Aug -ABS
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s options have narrowed: stimulate or miss his 2014 growth target. The weakest industrial-output expansion since the global financial crisis, and moderating investment and retail sales growth shown in data released Sept. 13, underscore the risks of a deepening economic …
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Li’s Options Narrow as China Growth Slowdown Deepens
Asian stocks stumbled to a five-week low on Monday after a batch of disappointing data out of China raised the specter of a sharp slowdown in the world’s second-biggest economy. The Australian dollar, considered a liquid proxy for China plays, also took a hammering and slumped to a six-month low….
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China growth worries rattle Asian stocks, Aussie dollar
Queen Elizabeth II has broken her silence over the Scottish independence vote, telling a member of the public on Sunday that she hoped Scots would think very carefully about the future when voting in a referendum that could break up the United Kingdom. The monarch, coming out of a morning service…
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British queen urges Scots to ‘think carefully’ on independence vote
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Silver Approaching a Key Consolidation Support
Right now, the eyes of the world are on Scotland, which is voting in the coming week on whether to leave the UK. The referendum in Scotland is binding. If they vote YES, then Scotland will leave after a period of negotiating the details. A trickier, potentially more explosive situation is enfoldi…
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There’s Another Huge Independence Movement That’s About To Send Shockwaves Through Europe
