European equities markets were up Friday on employment news from the United States, although that data was mixed, showing that private employers added 67,000 jobs in August, more than expected, but that the US economy overall lost 54,000 jobs for a second consecutive monthly decline and the unemployment...
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on 09-03-2010
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European equities markets were mixed Thursday after the European Central Bank held Eurozone interest rates at 1 percent and issued a higher growth outlook for the region, while Sweden’s central bank hiked rates there to 0.75 percent from 0.5 percent, the second consecutive increase from Riksbank. Better...
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on 09-02-2010
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European equities markets were mixed Tuesday, with markets in London, Paris and Frankfurt seeing gains on new data from the United States showing that consumer confidence was up in the US in august, while prices for single-family homes added more than expected in June. The FTSE 100 was up 0.45 percent...
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on 08-31-2010
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I saw the headline of this Matt Leising article, “Lehman Derivatives Records a Mess,” and reflexively thought it would be about its OTC trades (of which there were, if memory serves, over 900,000 if memory serves).
I was wrong. It was about its exchange traded–and cleared–positions...
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Economics
on 08-31-2010
Filed under: Politics, Economics, Financial crisis, Commodities, Derivatives, Exchanges, Clearing