Brexit and brakes
By Ashley Kindergan From The Financialist And so it begins. Even before the Brexit vote, corporate profits in the U.K. were already under pressure from a combination of sluggish global growth and rising wages. But now, several weeks after referendum,…
A Longer Wait for the Fed
By Ashley Kindergan From The Financialist The Federal Reserve is expected to keep monetary policy unchanged over the next few months as the central bank continues to assess the underlying strength of the U.S. economy, especially after the Brexit vote…
Next up for central banks: infrastructure investments?
By Alice Gomstyn From The Financialist Published: July 7, 2016 In the years following the global financial crisis, the world’s leading economies have found relief through aggressive monetary policy. But with interest rates slashed to historic lows and central bank…
The Dawn of China’s Entrepreneurial Age
By: Ashley Kindergan From The Financialist The headline data out of China hasn’t exactly been comforting of late. The country is grappling with the challenges of slowing GDP growth, rising debt levels, and volatile stock markets, to name just a…
The fall of value and the search for quality
By Alice Gomstyn From The Financialist It’s been a tough couple of years for value investors. Over the long term, value stocks have outperformed momentum and quality in most regions, sectors, and size segments. Since 2014, however, the opposite has…
The Editor Speaks: The banks and their “dark pool”
In one of our stories today (see Barclays and Credit Suisse are fined over US ‘dark pools’ filed under PUBLISHER’S CHOICE] it gives an explanation of Banks “Dark Pool”: “The “dark” in “dark pools” is supposed to be a good…
Barclays and Credit Suisse are fined over US ‘dark pools’
From BBC Barclays and Credit Suisse have been fined a total of $154m (£108m) by US regulators for their US “dark pool” trading operations. “Dark pool” operations allow investors to trade large blocks of shares but keep the prices private….
The Great Fall of China?
Geoff Cook Chief Executive Officer From Jersey Finance Tumbling stock markets around the world have triggered a resurgence in the debate about the sustainability of China’s economic performance. So what does the future hold? Chinese intervention to prop up the…
Credit Suisse ruling helps preserve Martin Act’s reach
By Scott Flaherty, From The Litigation Daily In refusing to toss a multibillion-dollar fraud lawsuit against Credit Suisse AG last week, New York Supreme Court Judge Marcy Friedman didn’t just disappoint the bank and its lawyers at Cravath, Swaine &…
Chinese Capital Markets: A $98 Trillion Opportunity
By: Ashley Kindergan From The Financialist When it comes to the size of their capital markets, emerging countries have long punched below their economic weight. While they make up 39 percent of global GDP, their share of global equity market…
