Archive for  September 2019
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Three major Russian companies have tapped the Eurobond market this month and more are expected to join them, capitalising on lower borrowing costs as global central banks cut rates. After the summer lull, Russian companies
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Egypt's stock market rose sharply on Sunday, extending gains for a third session following steep losses triggered by September 20 protests. Egypt's blue-chip index rose 3.3% with all 30 stocks gaining, including Commercial International Bank
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Australia's foreign exchange brokers are lobbying regulators to create provisions for experienced retail investors to trade high-risk currency derivatives under a proposed tightening of trading rules, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Australian
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FTSE Russell on Thursday held back from upgrading Argentine equities to emerging market status and removed the South American country from a list of possible upgrades "as a result of the imposition of capital controls"
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Juan MartÃn Landa swipes a finger across his smartphone, carefully checking the latest exchange rate. He is buying dollars, one of many Argentines turning to apps to trade currency after a sharp crash in the
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The European Union could speed up efforts to build an EU-wide capital market by creating euro denominated benchmarks for trading commodities, a new group backed by financial companies, former politicians and central bankers said on
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It's no longer a probability, it's a reality: the escalating US-China trade war and the strengthening dollar appear to be inflicting measurable damage on US goods makers that rely on global markets. Market participants will
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Seventeen people, including a soldier, were killed in weekend attacks in the north of Burkina Faso, security sources said on Sunday. The country has been caught in a spate of violence generally blamed on a
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Thousands gathered in Moscow Sunday for a demonstration demanding the release of opposition protesters prosecuted in recent months. Police estimated a turnout of 20,000 at the Sakharov Avenue in central Moscow about half an hour
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After a bruising week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson entered the warm embrace of his Conservative party's annual conference on Sunday vowing to "get Brexit done". Despite a string of parliamentary setbacks and a defeat
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