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| US Stocks Tick Lower After Powell's Remarks Financial stocks were the relative bright spot in Tuesday's markets, as rising bond yields helped push shares of those companies in the S&P 500 up 0.2%. Higher yields tend to portend better profits for lenders, which earn money on the difference between what they pay on deposits and what they charge ...
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| GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian shares near 3-week high ahead of Powell's testimony "Expectations that Powell will be sensitive to financial markets appear to be running high. But he hasn't said he will sacrifice policy normalisation for the sake of financial markets. I feel there is room for disappointment in markets," said Hiroko Iwaki, senior bond strategist at Mizuho Securities.
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| StanChart markets revenues slump 31% in Q4 HONG KONG, Feb 27 (IFR) - Standard Chartered's financial markets revenue slumped 31% last quarter as it suffered from the same difficult trading conditions as bigger rivals. The weak performance limited the bank's revenue growth last year to a modest 3%. Asia-focused Standard Chartered said on ...
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| US Bancorp to Speak at the RBC Capital Markets Financial Institutions Conference MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) announced today that Terry Dolan, vice chairman and CFO, and Jeff von Gillern, vice chairman, Technology and Operations Services, will present at the RBC Capital Markets Financial Institutions Conference. The presentation will begin at ...
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Hello, Jay Powell. Will You Spook Markets Today?: Taking Stock The one thing that every trader should be paying attention to today, no matter what asset class, is how the new Fed Chair handles himself, with two separate events going on: 1) Powell's prepared remarks hitting at 8:30am followed by 2) his appearance in front of the House Financial Services Committee ...
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| New South African finance minister: Budget may not stave off downgrades FILE PHOTO: South African Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene takes part in a discussion during the World Bank/IMF Annual Meeting in Washington October 8, 2014. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo. Nene, a soft-spoken technocrat who is respected by the markets, told 702 that he had learned of his ...
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| 10 Years After Apple's iPhone Launch & Financial Crisis, How Transparent Are Companies? That was then when markets were being rocked by the mounting financial crisis and the first Apple iPhone launched on June 29, 2007. The findings from digital corporate communication agencies Comprend and Lundquist, who have been tracking how transparently the largest European companies ...
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Mnuchin Spares Treasury Market Nerve Center Amid Trading Tumult It was considered the nerve center of the department during the chaotic days of 2008 as officials tried to keep a lid on the unfolding mess in global financial markets. The team worked seven days a week, studying the capital structures of floundering banks and searching the debt and equities markets to ...
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| Bank Fraud Fallout in India Spreads to Market for Trade Finance Foreign banks' reaction to the $2 billion fraud disclosed by Punjab National Bank two weeks ago, which allegedly involved fake letters of guarantee, is having an impact on financial markets. Signs that trade credit is getting tougher for smaller firms have hurt the rupee, which is among Asia's worst ...
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| South African finance minister: Budget may not stave off downgrades "The boost to the economic cluster by the appointment of Gordhan and Nene will be well received by financial markets and rating agencies," NKC African Economics said in a note. Razia Khan, chief economist for Africa at Standard Chartered, said: "It was clear there was more than a nod to party unity in ...
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| Mayer Brown Expands Tax, Capital Markets Teams Mayer Brown announced that industry-leading capital markets and tax teams, including capital markets lawyers Anna T. Pinedo, James R. Tanenbaum and Jerry R. Marlatt and tax lawyers Thomas A. Humphreys and Remmelt A. Reigersman, have joined the firm in New York and Northern California.
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| Incorrectly Thinking the End Has Arrived Depending on which stock market guru you followed, the opinions expressed may have varied from the end is near to just another market correction. Scott MacKillop astutely reported, "Their explanations about why the market took a sudden dip are no more valuable than their prophecies about how the ...
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| WRAPUP 1-US core capital goods orders fall; goods trade deficit widens Core capital goods shipments are used to calculate equipment spending in the government's gross domestic product measurement. They were previously reported to have increased 0.4 percent in December. U.S. financial markets were little moved by the data as investors monitored Federal Reserve ...
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| First Gulf Bank Hosts ADGM Chairman at Ninth Global Financial Markets Forum The Global Financial Markets Forum (GFMF), the region's premier financial markets conference, is being held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, at Emirates Palace in ...
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| EMERGING MARKETS-Stocks, FX hit soft patch; S.Africa reshuffles cabinet Markets were also awaiting Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's debut appearance in front of U.S. Congress, seen as critical for financial markets with investors nervous about the central bank's policy normalisation following years of stimulus after the financial crisis almost a decade ago.
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| Ally Financial (ALLY) Rating Lowered to Market Perform at BMO Capital Markets Ally Financial Inc logo BMO Capital Markets downgraded shares of Ally Financial (NYSE:ALLY) from an outperform rating to a market perform rating in a research report report published on Wednesday, January 31st, Marketbeat.com reports. The firm currently has $32.00 price objective on the financial ...
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| Opinion: The market dogs that didn't bark LONDON (Project Syndicate) — Three months ago, I argued that rising stock markets around the world were a consequence of improving economic conditions, not a sign of "irrational exuberance." Since that commentary was published, share prices accelerated upward, and some "irrational exuberance" ...
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| Japan's Finance Watchdog Eyeing ICO Regulation, Says Report Japan's financial regulator is mulling the creation of a regulatory framework for companies raising funds through initial coin offerings, a report indicates. According ... 22, Germany's financial markets regulator issued new guidance on how it will classify ICO tokens, including those it will consider securities.
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| Bond Market Activity Returns to Normal The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago publishes a weekly index that measures more than 105 variables to gauge how loose or tight financial conditions are in U.S. capital markets as well as the traditional and shadow banking systems. These variables include credit availability and cost, leverage, risk, ...
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| Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert: Lessons On Leadership As CEO of Deloitte, Engelbert oversees over 85,000 professionals that provide financial services to over 80% of the Fortune 500. ... shifts like longer lives, multiple generations working together, more diversity than ever, and increased customer empowerment and the rise of global talent markets. Did you ...
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| The End Of Bear Markets "Global central banks' post-financial crisis monetary policies have collectively been more aggressive than anything witnessed in modern financial history. Over the last ten years, the six largest central banks have printed unprecedented amounts of money to purchase approximately $14 trillion of financial ...
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| Asian Markets Extend Gains (RTTNews.com) - Asian stock markets, led by Japan, are mostly higher on Tuesday, extending gains from the previous session after Wall Street extended a rally and U.S. bond yields slipped ahead of Congressional testimony later in the day by the new Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
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