Strategy/Analysis
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Markets Face Rough Summer Ride as Fed Pullback Feared
By Reuters
05/24/2013 9:29:48 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters)—For the past few months, the U.S. Federal Reserve has been squarely in the financial markets' corner, thanks to its massive dollops of monetary stimulus.
E.U. Manipulation Probe Spotlights Oil Firms' Trading Desks
By Reuters
05/22/2013 11:44:54 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters)—Europe's energy price manipulation probe has turned regulatory attention to secretive trading units at oil companies with huge turnover and millionaire staff with risk appetite higher than at Wall Street's biggest banks.
Regulators have scrutinized banks, trading houses and commodities markets more closely following the LIBOR benchmark rigging scandal, but trading desks at oil majors have largely escaped attention.
E.U. Manipulation Probe Spotlights Oil Firms' Trading Desks
By Reuters
05/22/2013 11:44:54 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters)—Europe's energy price manipulation probe has turned regulatory attention to secretive trading units at oil companies with huge turnover and millionaire staff with risk appetite higher than at Wall Street's biggest banks.
Regulators have scrutinized banks, trading houses and commodities markets more closely following the LIBOR benchmark rigging scandal, but trading desks at oil majors have largely escaped attention.
Credit Rating Firms Sow Doubt on Euro Zone Bond Rally
By Reuters
05/22/2013 11:23:24 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters)—Credit rating firms say they could further downgrade the ratings of highly indebted euro zone countries, putting their bonds at risk of being pitched out of global indexes and reversing a fall in their borrowing costs.
The view from the rating firms contrasts with the sanguine attitude of investors who, flush with central bank cash and reassured by the European Central Bank's promise to take whatever measures are necessary to safeguard the common currency, have been buying lower-rated bonds because of the higher returns or "yields" they earn on them.
E.U. Manipulation Probe Spotlights Oil Firms' Trading Desks
By Reuters
05/22/2013 11:44:54 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters)—Europe's energy price manipulation probe has turned regulatory attention to secretive trading units at oil companies with huge turnover and millionaire staff with risk appetite higher than at Wall Street's biggest banks.
Regulators have scrutinized banks, trading houses and commodities markets more closely following the LIBOR benchmark rigging scandal, but trading desks at oil majors have largely escaped attention.
Credit Rating Firms Sow Doubt on Euro Zone Bond Rally
By Reuters
05/22/2013 11:23:24 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters)—Credit rating firms say they could further downgrade the ratings of highly indebted euro zone countries, putting their bonds at risk of being pitched out of global indexes and reversing a fall in their borrowing costs.
The view from the rating firms contrasts with the sanguine attitude of investors who, flush with central bank cash and reassured by the European Central Bank's promise to take whatever measures are necessary to safeguard the common currency, have been buying lower-rated bonds because of the higher returns or "yields" they earn on them.
E.U. Manipulation Probe Spotlights Oil Firms' Trading Desks
By Reuters
05/22/2013 11:44:54 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters)—Europe's energy price manipulation probe has turned regulatory attention to secretive trading units at oil companies with huge turnover and millionaire staff with risk appetite higher than at Wall Street's biggest banks.
Regulators have scrutinized banks, trading houses and commodities markets more closely following the LIBOR benchmark rigging scandal, but trading desks at oil majors have largely escaped attention.
Credit Rating Firms Sow Doubt on Euro Zone Bond Rally
By Reuters
05/22/2013 11:23:24 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters)—Credit rating firms say they could further downgrade the ratings of highly indebted euro zone countries, putting their bonds at risk of being pitched out of global indexes and reversing a fall in their borrowing costs.
The view from the rating firms contrasts with the sanguine attitude of investors who, flush with central bank cash and reassured by the European Central Bank's promise to take whatever measures are necessary to safeguard the common currency, have been buying lower-rated bonds because of the higher returns or "yields" they earn on them.
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