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  • EDHEC-Risk Institute Reiterates Its Warnings To The European Commission On The Inadvisability Of Imposing A Tobin Tax

    Date 01/02/2013

    In an open letter to European Commission President, José Manuel Barroso on January 30, 2013, Professor Noël Amenc, Director of EDHEC-Risk Institute and Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School, has reiterated EDHEC-Risk Institute’s opposition to a ‘Tobin’ or financial transactions tax (FTT). Research findings from EDHEC-Risk Institute and other academic institutions show that the theoretical arguments in support of the FTT as a measure to reduce volatility are, at best, mixed; the empirical evidence, on the other hand, indicates that a FTT has either no effect on volatility or it actually increases volatility; and, introducing an FTT faces serious implementation challenges.

  • Burgundy Aggregated Market Shares - Swedish Equities, January 2013

    Date 01/02/2013

    In cooperation with SIX Telekurs, Burgundy publishes aggregated market shares in  Swedish equities on a monthly basis, in order to provide a better picture of the  market.

  • HKEx Change In Senior Executives

    Date 01/02/2013

    Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announces today (Friday) the following senior management changes.

  • Tokyo Commodity Exchange Gold All-time High Continue To Renew With 4,946 Yen/Gram

    Date 01/02/2013

    The Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc, announced that its December 2013 Gold futures contract (most active/back contract month) temporarily reached 4,946 yen per gram during today’s session renewing the highest price recorded since the listing of gold futures contract at TOCOM on March 23, 1982. Gold price has advanced 5.7 percent since the beginning of the year 2013 renewing the all-time high seven times. Daily trading volume of Gold futures (standard) was 61,328 contracts (including 54,266 contracts traded for December 2013 contract) and that of the entire TOCOM market was 141,890 contracts today.

  • Hong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission: Takeovers Panel Rules A Chain Principle Offer For Greenheart Will Be Triggered As A Result Of The Restructuring

    Date 01/02/2013

    The Takeovers and Mergers Panel (Panel) has ruled that an obligation under the Takeovers Code to make a chain principle offer for Greenheart Holdings Limited (Greenheart) will be triggered if Sino-Forest Corporation (Sino-Forest) proceeds with the transfer of substantially all the assets of Sino-Forest, which include an indirect shareholding of 63.6% of Greenheart, to a new company wholly owned by Sino-Forest’s creditors. The Panel also decided that a waiver of any such mandatory offer obligation would not be available.