The European Union's struggle to avoid a period of falling consumer prices suffered a setback in September, as the annual rate of inflation across the bloc's 28 members fell to its lowest level in five years...
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16 October 2014, 11:46
MOSCOW--The Bank of Russia continued adjusting the ruble trading band, letting the ruble weaken gradually to new all-time lows, the bank's data showed Thursday. The central bank said it pushed the ruble's trading band 25 kopecks higher to 36.95-45.95 rubles per euro-dollar basket on Wednesday...
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16 October 2014, 10:01
New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore - The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation's (DTCC) subsidiary Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) intends to submit a rule filing with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and an Advance Notice filing to both the SEC and the Federal Reserve to...
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15 October 2014, 17:18
We write a lot about pay for people in banks’ investment banking divisions (IBD), but we write a lot less about pay for people working in banks’ markets businesses. This is partly because pay is more predictable for IBD professionals. And it’s partly because there’s a lot more IBD pay data around...
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15 October 2014, 16:30
What technology should you bone up on if you want a job in an investment bank these days? When we asked this question 18 months ago, the answer was unquestionably Java, which had more than double the number of jobs than its nearest competing programming language...
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15 October 2014, 12:18
Germany’s biggest public pension fund plans to invest more in private equity and hedge funds and reduce its bond holdings as low interest rates curb returns...
Company News
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15 October 2014, 10:35
ZURICH — The Ebola virus is killing 70% of the people who contract the disease, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, and as many as 10,000 new cases a week could be reported by early December...
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15 October 2014, 09:32
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Researchers at Google Inc. GOOG, +0.89% GOOGL, +0.72% have discovered a vulnerability in widely used encryption technology, Reuters reported late Tuesday, citing a Google spokesman. The bug affects SSL 3.0 protocols, according to the report. Google Class A GOOGL, +0...
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15 October 2014, 09:24
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Tech stocks delivered a mostly upbeat trading performance Tuesday, as the sector prepared for an onslaught of earnings reports. Intel INTC, +2.13% , which kicked off the tech results, saw shares rise more than 2% to close at $32.14...
Market News
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15 October 2014, 09:17
Volatility has returned to the market. To be specific, the market has rallied, sold off, rallied, and sold off, all in one week. This is ideal for day traders but unnerving for individual investors. It is also a big red warning sign...
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