The dollar held firm with higher Treasury yields on Wednesday after a surprisingly high reading for U.S. inflation threatened to give a hawkish tilt to the Federal Reserve’s policy outlook later in the session. The risk was more than enough to keep most Asian share markets on the defensive with […]
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Fitch Revises Outlook on 4 South African Banks to Negative
(Fitch released the following statement) Fitch Ratings-London-17 June 2014: Fitch Ratings has revised the Outlook on Absa Bank Limited (Absa Bank), FirstRand Bank Limited (FirstRand), Nedbank Limited (Nedbank) and The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited (SBSA) and their respective rated holding companies to Negative from Stable. The rating actions […]
IOSCO Research Department Publishes Securities Markets Risk Survey
Press Release The Research Department of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published a Staff Working Paper entitled A Survey of Securities Markets Risk Trends 2014: Methodology and Detailed Results, which provides a detailed analysis of responses to its annual survey on market trends and emerging risks. The […]
