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The pound saw its biggest 2 day jump in 7 months, the European and the U.K. share-index futures headed for a rise and the treasuries fell as the vote for Scotland’s independence was rejected. The yen climbed while Japans equities and U.S. stock-gauge futures jumped up. The pound gaining 0.4 percent to $1.6466 by 7:08 […]

The pound advances against the dollar as voting started on the future of Scotland. The sterling strengthening against most of the 16 major peers as suggestions of a tight outcome to the vote. Gauges predicting the future price is swinging to the U.K. currency it has been felt as investors try to understand the implications

The final day of the campaign over Scotland’s future with the pro-independence campaigners saying that it had the momentum to claim victory in the ballots and the “no” side trying to get voters not to use it as a protest. In an interesting last survey, it showed that the gab was closing fast was the

It was said by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that the role of high-frequency traders were hidden by Barclays Pls (BARC) even after claiming that it had shut off clients who engaged in suspicious activity. The New York Attorney General sued the accused bank in the Supreme Court in New York State back in

In an effort to boost returns some of the biggest investors in leveraged-buyout funds are using unique levels of debt to boost returns. It was quoted by a professor at a French business school “Leverage is a double-edged sword,” and further said “It can boost the performance on the upside and rapidly eat into capital

At an interview of foreign-exchange traders by the Bank of England’s inquest as to whether the staff working there were aware of any currency-rate rigging were surprised at some very focused questions. The investigation was called for by the U.K. central bank when it was revealed that a senior trader handed over notes on the

Prime Minister David Cameron’s government and the opposition Labour Party my take a huge hit as talks of Scottish independence increase. Something they never seemed to anticipate. A deciding vote held by yesterday’s YouGov Plc (YOU) putting the Yes vote on 51% renewed interest from the union to incentivise Scots. 100 Labour lawmakers will now

There was something entirely fitting about the first monetary policy committee decision and post decision press conference held by the new Bank of England governor Mark Carney on Thursday July 4th. Firstly, most of the assembled journalists and analysts were left in no doubt that from here on in the MPC, the monetary policy commission

“We will look with an open mind at these measures that are especially effective in our institutional setup and that fall within our mandate. Some of those measures may have unintended consequences. This does not mean that they should not be used, but it does mean that we need to be aware of those consequences

Once again we await news from the German courts, who are deciding whether or not Germany rescuing other countries by way of, for example, monetary easing is constitutional for German taxpayers. The German constitutional court will start its hearing on the legality of the European Central bank’s bond buying programme at 11am local time (10am