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Federal Reserve Issues FOMC Statement

Date 31/01/2018

Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising at a solid rate. Gains in employment, household spending, and business fixed investment have been solid, and the unemployment rate has stayed low. On a 12-month basis, both overall inflation and inflation for items other than food and energy have continued to run below 2 percent. Market-based measures of inflation compensation have increased in recent months but remain low; survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations are little changed, on balance.

BISX Q4 Statistical Report 2017

Date 31/01/2018

BISX is pleased to announce its BISX All-Share Index and trading statistics for the twelve-month period ending December 29, 2017 with comparison to the same period of 2016.

Federal Open Market Committee Reaffirms Its "Statement On Longer-Run Goals And Monetary Policy Strategy"

Date 31/01/2018

The Federal Open Market Committee, at its annual organizational meeting this week, unanimously reaffirmed its "Statement of Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy" with an updated reference to the median of participants' estimates of the longer-run normal rate of unemployment in the most recent Summary of Economic Projections (December 2017).

CFTC Chairman Giancarlo To Testify Before The U.S. Senate Committee On Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

Date 31/01/2018

IISL Index Dashboard For The Month Ended January 2018

Date 31/01/2018

Click here to download the 'IISL Index Dashboard' for the month ended January 2018.

EBA Launches 2018 EU-Wide Stress Test Exercise

Date 31/01/2018

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today its 2018 EU-wide stress test and released the macroeconomic scenarios. The adverse scenario implies a deviation of EU GDP from its baseline level by 8.3% in 2020, resulting in the most severe scenario to date. The EBA expects to publish the results of the exercise by 2 November 2018.

DIFC Announces Enactment Of Amendment Law 2018 and Amendments To Data Protection Regulations

Date 31/01/2018

Dubai International Financial Centre Authority (DIFC Authority) announced today that His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, in his capacity as the Ruler of Dubai, has enacted the DIFC Laws Amendment Law, DIFC Law No. 1 of 2018 (Law).

United Kingdom Parliament Treasury Committee Calls For Brexit Analysis To Be Published

Date 31/01/2018

Rt Hon. Nicky Morgan MP, Chair of the Treasury Committee, has written to Rt Hon. David Davis MP, Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, to express the Committee’s full support for calls to make the leaked document entitled 'EU Exit Analysis—Cross Whitehall Briefing' available to Parliament and the public.

Gary Katz To Receive Joseph W. Sullivan Award At 2018 Options Industry Conference

Date 31/01/2018

The Options Industry Council (OIC), an industry resource funded by OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced that Gary Katz, former President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Securities Exchange (ISE), will receive the 2018 Joseph W. Sullivan Options Industry Achievement Award.

Overstock.com And tZERO Advisors Launch Robo-Advisor Digital Investment Platform

Date 31/01/2018

Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) announces the launch of a digitally driven investment platform, powered by tZERO Advisors, within the online retailer’s FinanceHub™.