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Nigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Report - Week Ending 14 October 2016

Date 14/10/2016

A turnover of 1.163 billion shares worth N9.251 billion in 14,992 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 934.905 million shares valued at N6.357 billion that exchanged hands last week in 12,352 deals.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen, At "The Elusive 'Great' Recovery: Causes And Implications For Future Business Cycle Dynamics" 60th Annual Economic Conference Sponsored By The Federal Reserve Bank Of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, October 14, 2016, Macroeconomic Research After The Crisis

Date 14/10/2016

Watch live: https://www.bostonfed.org/live 

Extreme economic events have often challenged existing views of how the economy works and exposed shortcomings in the collective knowledge of economists. To give two well-known examples, both the Great Depression and the stagflation of the 1970s motivated new ways of thinking about economic phenomena. More recently, the financial crisis and its aftermath might well prove to be a similar sort of turning point. Today I would like to reflect on some ways in which the events of the past few years have revealed limits in economists' understanding of the economy and suggest several important questions I hope the profession will try to answer. Some of these questions are not new, though recent events have made them more urgent. Appropriately, some are addressed by the papers prepared for this conference. Pursuing answers to these questions is vital to the work of Federal Reserve and other economic policymakers, and the Fed is likewise engaged in ongoing research to seek answers.

TOM MTF Statistics Week 41, 2016

Date 14/10/2016

Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 41, 2016.

Italian Startups Meet Borsa İstanbul Private Market - Italia’s Innovative Startups Meet Turkish Investors At Borsa İstanbul

Date 14/10/2016

ITALIAN TRADE AGENCY (ITA) and BORSA İSTANBUL PRIVATE MARKET invited seven  innovative startups from Italy to meet Turkish investors at Borsa İstanbul on Thursday, October 13, 2016. Each startup executive made a seven-minute pitch, followed by a four-minute Q&A session. After the pitching sessions, startup executives started investment negotiations at the coffee break.

Singapore Hosts First EU – Asia-Pacific Forum On Financial Regulation

Date 14/10/2016

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) hosted regulators from the European Union (EU) and the Asia-Pacific Region at the inaugural EU-Asia-Pacific Forum on Financial Regulation (Forum) today.

Borsa İstanbul Money Market Directive Has Been Published

Date 14/10/2016

In line with the purpose of encouraging institutional investors in the capital markets as part of the Turkish Government Action Plan and in order to ensure the development of organized money markets, it was decided to establish “Borsa İstanbul Money Market” for secured funding.

Bats Reports Strong September Data, Including 11.7% U.S. Options Market Share - Remains #1 In U.S. ETF Trading - #1 Pan-European Stock Market

Date 14/10/2016

Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats: BATS) today reported September data and highlights, including its second-best month on record for its U.S. options business, with 11.7% market share. Highlights for September include:

• Announcing a transaction agreement with CBOE Holdings under which CBOE will  acquire Bats to create one of the largest market operators around the globe.
• Remaining the #1 U.S. market operator for ETF trading, executing 24.7% of all volume during the month. In addition, Bats has won 25% of all new U.S. ETF listings year-to-date vs only 9% for full-year 2015;
• Maintaining its position as the second-largest U.S. Equities market operator with 20.9% market share;
• Retaining its position as the largest European stock exchange with 22.7% market share and the largest trade reporting facility with €347.5 billion reported to BXTR for the month;
• Reporting 15.3% market share in single-leg equity options trades for the month;
• Recording more than $112 billion of notional value per day touched by the Bats markets in September, including trades reported to BXTR.

Bermuda Stock Exchange: Open For Business

Date 14/10/2016

The Bermuda Stock Exchange (“BSX”) advises that they are open for business.  Trading and settlement will operate as per normal market hours from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.

SIX Swiss Exchange: Bonds Quarterly Statistics: 3rd Quarter 2016

Date 14/10/2016

• The latest issue of the "Bonds Quarterly Statistics" report looks at the performance of SIX Swiss Exchange's Bonds segment in the third quarter of 2016.

Ken Lamar, Former SVP Of The Federal Reserve Bank, Joins Axiomsl Board Of Advisors

Date 14/10/2016

AxiomSL, a global leader in risk management, regulatory compliance and data management for the financial services industry, has announced that Kenneth (Ken) Lamar, former senior vice president, senior advisor to the director of research and head of the statistics function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has been appointed to the company’s board of advisors.