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  • Commodity Markets On The Growth Surge In Pakistan

    Date 03/11/2011

    The Pakistani Commodity trading market has visibly entered into the growth momentum and is on its way to become a central hub for commodity related activities which include investing in precious metals i.e Gold and Silver and Energy i.e Crude Oil. The number of new investors trading on the exchange grew more than 245 % in the current year. At  present  there  are  investors  in  cities  from  Urban  Pakistan  like  Karachi,  Lahore, Islamabad, Multan, Faisalabad and Peshawar to smaller cities like Jhelum, Attock, Jhang, Sargodha and Rahim yar khan who are actively investing on Pakistan Mercantile Exchange.

  • Hugh Brown Joins EMCF As Director Of UK Markets - London-Based Brown To Manage UK Relationships And Strategy

    Date 03/11/2011

    European Multilateral Clearing Facility NV (EMCF) today announced the appointment of Hugh Brown as Director of UK Markets. In this newly created position, Hugh will be EMCF’s representative in London, managing the relationships with UK-based platforms and clients, liaising with regulators and industry bodies and helping to develop EMCF’s strategy and positioning on industry issues. 

  • EDHEC-Risk Institute Research On Corporate Bond Indices Finds Index Construction Methodologies Unreliable

    Date 03/11/2011

    New research at EDHEC-Risk Institute has concluded that corporate bond index construction methodologies tend to be sub-optimal. The research, entitled “A Review of Corporate Bond Indices: Construction Principles, Return Heterogeneity, and Fluctuations in Risk Exposures,” shows that credit and interest rate risk exposures are relatively unstable for the eight indices examined. This naturally has significant implications for investors' allocation decisions and for the consequences of those allocation decisions over time.

  • Platts Top 250 Rankings: EMEA Energy Firms Thrive Throughout Last Decade - Took Five Of The Top 10 Spots Within The Global Top 250 Energy Roster

    Date 03/11/2011

    Half of the top 10 spots in the 2011 Platts Top 250 Global Energy Company Rankings™ went to major oil and gas companies based in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The roster, now in its 10th year and announced Wednesday night at an awards dinner in Singapore, includes 79 EMEA companies, a 25% increase over the past decade.

  • Trading on the Warsaw Stock Exchange - October 2011

    Date 03/11/2011

    • The value of session trading on the WSE Main Market increased by 6.6% year on year in October 2010; the number of session transactions increased by 12.1%
    • The value of session trading on the Main Market reached PLN 215.8 billion in January – October 2011, more than in all of 2010 (PLN 206.9 billion)
    • The monthly volume of trading in index futures increased by 13.0% year on year
    • Ten months into the year, 2011 is a record-breaking year for the volume of trading in currency futures on the WSE (167.0 thousand contracts)