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The euro is just over a decade old. In its short existence it has been embraced by every level of the international currency markets. Central banks, national treasuries, sovereign funds and multi-national corporations store their wealth and trust its central bank custodians to maintain value. Institutional and retails traders have…

A string of exploding investment bubbles that started with the dot-coms and ended with mortgages and oil dominated the years from 2000 to 2009. Will the next decade be different?

Wall Street – Business – Investing – Financial Services – Directories

As is so often the case, after last week’s serious financial jitters this one was spent waiting for US Non-Farm Payroll numbers (details below). The biggest loser was the Japanese yen, dropping from a multi-decade high of 84.82 to 89.90, no doubt to the relief of the authorities; the Mexican…

MOST people place their faith in the disclosure-based model which says that the more information financial advisers and companies are made to tell the public, the better. This is the rationale behind Regulation Full Disclosure (RFD) in the US and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and is the preferred regulatory approach that has evolved over the past decade in tandem with deregulated markets.
Howeve… more

A DECADE ago, investor Lui Chee Meng sank $30,000 into what he thought was a safe blue-chip company backed by Temasek Holdings.
Now, he has lost almost all the cash he put into Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world’s No. 3 chipmaker.
The loss made him so angry that he voted against the $5.6 billion acquisition of Chartered by a Middle Eastern fund.
But the sale went through anyway, as o… more

(SINGAPORE) The sharp rebound in the hedge fund space is here to stay, as managers head for their best nine-month performance in a decade, says Eurekahedge.
The latest data from Lipper also shows improved fortunes for global funds, with all hedge fund strategies except dedicated short-bias ending the month in positive territory.
The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index, which tracks more than 2,000 funds,… more

Intel Corp.’s third-quarter numbers show the company is getting better at doing more with less in the toughest stretch for the personal computer industry in nearly a decade.

BusinessWeek – Financial-services stocks have come roaring back since their collapse last fall. Are the gains sustainable? For insight on smart ways to play such stocks now, Personal Finance editor Lauren Young spoke with Anton Schutz, manager of the top-ranked Burnham Financial Services Fund, which delivered an annualized gain of 14.3% over the past decade.

Nothing charges the volatility of the currency markets like an unexpected result for a well watched economic statistic. A decade ago the United States International Trade Balance caused violent gyrations in the Forex market, so much so that traders referred to those Friday morning sessions as “New York Fridays” naming…

FOR many long-suffering shareholders of Chartered Semiconductor, the US$1.8 billion (S$2.6 billion) offer made by Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Investment Company (Atic) to buy the wafer foundry covers only a fraction of their investment costs.
And they find breaking up hard to do, after keeping faith with the loss-making company through the tumultuous decade that Chartered has endured since its… more