May, 2016

• 30 May

  Bonds fall with emerging mkts as Dollar gets lift from Yellen

  

  BLOOMBERG The Fed factor dominated global markets, battering bonds and developing-nation currencies while lifting the dollar. Treasury 10-year futures slid the most in almost two weeks and German bunds declined after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said an interest-rate increase is likely in coming months. Emerging-market currencies headed toward the worst month since August and gold fell for a ninth ...

  Read More »
• 30 May

  Every stock was a buy to this analyst team, then shares tanked

  

    Bloomberg Companies probably love getting attention from analysts at Emperor Securities Ltd. in Hong Kong. Investors who followed their advice for the past year, not so much. The unit of Emperor Capital Group Ltd. issued buy recommendations on every one of the 173 companies it reported covering from April 2015 through May 16. Its target prices, which the company ...

  Read More »
• 30 May

  Oil pessimists exit as supplies closer to balance

  

    Dubai / Reuters The oil market doomsayers are beginning to capitulate. Speculators reduced bets on falling prices to the lowest level in 11 months as oil briefly breached $50 a barrel on signs supplies are coming into balance. Crude climbed 7.4 percent this month in New York amid lower U.S. production and unplanned disruptions in Canada and Nigeria. Prices ...

  Read More »
• 30 May

  Danske removes human element in currency trading

  

    Bloomberg Danske Bank A/S is pitching a new product to help clients net their currency transactions and reduce the need for human traders. The second-biggest Nordic bank won a contract last week with Sweden’s government to provide the service and is now using that success to attract corporate clients. “For Danske Bank to be the primary, one-and-only supplier of ...

  Read More »
• 30 May

  Rate hike likely in coming months: Yellen

  

    Bloomberg Treasury 10-year futures contracts fell by the most in more than one week after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said that improvement in the US economy would warrant raising interest rates in the coming months. Ten-year Treasury futures contracts for September delivery slid 15/32, or $4.69 per $1,000 face amount, to 129 1/4 in New York, based on ...

  Read More »
• 30 May

  Chinese bank divulges yuan’s rate mechanism

  

    Bloomberg A Chinese state-run bank has revealed the inner workings of the yuan’s reference rate mechanism, including details on the lenders that provide prices as well as how the system was tweaked following market turmoil in January. The 14 contributors, which must consider the previous day’s yuan closing price, have to take into account movements in baskets of currencies ...

  Read More »
• 30 May

  Caution sounded over Russian central bank’s next move

  

    Bloomberg Even after almost a year of unchanged rates, caution is still a virtue for economists gauging the Russian central bank’s next move. All but two of the 25 economists surveyed by Bloomberg agreed with the International Monetary Fund’s advice to keep the pace of future easing gradual. The rest said they concur with a call by the head ...

  Read More »
• 30 May

  Wanda offers $4.4bn to privatize HK unit

  

    Bloomberg Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin’s Dalian Wanda Group Co. is offering HK$34.5 billion ($4.4 billion) to buy out its Hong Kong-listed property unit in the biggest take-private deal on the exchange ever, as it seeks a higher valuation for the business on mainland stock exchanges. Wanda Group will pay HK$52.80 for each Hong Kong-traded share of Dalian Wanda Commercial ...

  Read More »
• 30 May

  Chinese realty market recovery fragile, says S&P

    Bloomberg A recovery in the Chinese property market that’s been fuelled by government stimulus may not be sustainable, according to S&P Global Ratings, which has cut ratings on 11 developers this year. “The recovery isn’t all that rosy, in fact it’s rather fragile,” Cindy Huang, director of corporate ratings at S&P, said during a webcast on Monday. “It’s driven ...

  Read More »
• 30 May

  Gone in four hours: Lendlease sells all 391 Sydney homes

  

    Bloomberg All 391 apartments offered by Lendlease Group at a project in Sydney were snapped up in just four hours on Saturday, indicating demand for inner-city homes remains buoyant despite looming oversupply. More than 400 potential buyers turned up from 8 a.m. in Darling Square, a development on the western edge of Sydney’s central business district, for the apartments ...

  Read More »