February, 2016

• 11 February

  US oil prices dive below $27 a barrel

  Singapore/ AFP US crude tumbled below $27 a barrel in Asia Thursday as the oversaturated market struggled to cope with high inventories in the United States and an increased output from OPEC. The decline came despite the weekly US Department of Energy report showing US oil stocks fell about 800,000 barrels for the week ending February 5, with traders seeing ...

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• 11 February

  China Turns a Glut of Oil Into a Flood of Diesel

  

  Bloomberg Fuel producers from India to South Korea are finding that rising refined products from China are cutting the profit margins they’ve enjoyed from cheap oil to the lowest in more than a year. Worse may be coming. China’s total net exports of oil products — a measure that strips out imports — will rise 31 percent this year to ...

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• 11 February

  Emirates Securities Market Index dives 1.36 percent

  

  ABU DHABI / EMIRATES BUSINESS The Emirates Securities Market Index has decreased by -1.36% to close at 4097.34 points. Accordingly the Market Capitalization has lost AED9.19 Billion attaining AED664.64 Billion. A total of 0.65 Billion Shares were traded with a total value of AED0.79 Billion during the trading session of 11-02-2016 through 8716 transactions. The number of companies which has been traded ...

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• 11 February

  Asia markets suffer fresh rout as Hong Kong, dollar goes down

  

  Hong Kong / AFP Asian markets extended their rout and the dollar hit 15-month lows against the yen on Thursday after Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen raised concerns about the global economy, essentially quashing the chances of another US rate hike any time soon. Hong Kong led a broad sell-off across the region, while an ongoing supply glut and production ...

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• 11 February

  Paris, Frankfurt stocks markets dip more than 3 percent

  PARIS/ AFP Shares on the French and German stock exchanges fell sharply in early trading on Thursday, dipping below three percent, over oil price worries and after Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen raised concerns about the global economy. At 0830 GMT, France’s main CAC 40 index was 2,57 percent lower, at 3,956.73 points, after falling briefly more than three percent. ...

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• 11 February

  Finance House registers 2015 net profit of AED61.7 million

  

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Finance House (FH) has reported a consolidated net profit at the group level of AED 61.7 million for the financial year ended December 31, 2015 compared to a consolidated net profit of AED 73.3 million achieved in the previous year. Total Assets as of December 31, 2015 grew by 4% to AED 5.04 billion compared ...

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• 11 February

  Royal Bank of Scotland hires JPMorgan executive

  Bloomberg Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc hired the head of Asia wealth management at JPMorgan Chase & Co. to lead its private-banking businesses, as Michael Morley steps down. Peter Flavel will join as chief executive officer of private banking, responsible for RBS’s Coutts & Co. and Adam & Co. businesses, the Edinburgh-based bank said in a statement on Thursday. ...

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• 11 February

  SBI’s profit growth goes down on bad loan surge

  Bloomberg State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender by assets, posted the slowest profit growth in four years as provisions for bad loans almost doubled from the previous quarter. Net income fell 62 percent to 11.2 billion rupees ($164 million), or 1.43 rupees a share, for the three months ended Dec. 31, from 29.1 billion rupees, or 3.9 rupees, ...

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• 11 February

  Sweden’s central bank cuts key interest rate

  

  Stockholm / AFP Sweden’s central bank on Thursday cut its key interest rate by 15 basis points to a new all-time low of -0.5 percent, citing the risk of slowing inflation and falling confidence in its monetary policy. The bank moved its key rate into negative territory in February 2015 in a bid to encourage spending amid three years of ...

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• 11 February

  IILM to sell US$1.34bn of bills in biggest Islamic offering

  Bloomberg International Islamic Liquidity Management Corp., which counts nine central banks as its shareholders, plans to sell $1.34 billion of three-month bills in its biggest offer since being set up in 2010 to support Shariah-compliant financial activity. The Kuala Lumpur-based institution, which added two more primary dealers to its existing network of nine last week, will auction the Islamic notes ...

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