November 21, 2024

Category: Markets

The doomsday that wasn’t
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The doomsday that wasn’t #NewsMarket

CashNews.co Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One fun thing about the VIX — called the “fear gauge” because it puts a price on expectations for future stock-market volatility — is that it has pretty deep lore. For example, the army […]

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Swiss prosecutors accuse Trafigura of paying €5mn in bribes to Angolan official
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Swiss prosecutors accuse Trafigura of paying €5mn in bribes to Angolan official #NewsMarket

CashNews.co Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Trafigura paid nearly €5mn in bribes to an Angolan official through an intermediary who was dubbed “Mr Non-Compliant” by the commodity trader’s founder, Claude Dauphin, Swiss prosecutors have alleged. The Swiss indictment accuses Trafigura […]

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The second coming (and going) of EF Hutton
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The second coming (and going) of EF Hutton #NewsMarket

CashNews.co Everyone knows that the best way to stop a zombie is to destroy its brain. But EF Hutton, an undead US underwriter we wrote about two years ago, had two heads: chief executive Joseph Rallo and president David Boral. Rallo left the bank earlier this year, taking ZombiEF Hutton’s once venerable name and trademark with […]

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