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Dubai Financial Market Welcomes High Level Delegation Of Senators From The Republic Of Nigeria - The Visit Stemmed From Nigeria’s Enthusiasm To Replicate Dubai’s Success Story As An International Financial Hub

Date 03/06/2013

Dubai Financial Market (DFM) received a high level delegation of senators from The Republic of Nigeria, who met with Mr. Rashid Al Shamsi, Vice Chairman of DFM (PJSC) and other DFM senior officials. The visit aimed to explore areas of mutual cooperation.

Dubai Financial Market Market Holiday - Al Isra Wa Al Miraj

Date 03/06/2013

On the occasion of Al Isra Wa Al Miraj, it has been decided that Thursday, 06 June 2013 is an official holiday for the market & will resume on Sunday 09 June 2013.

NASDAQ Dubai Welcomes Listing Of US Dollars One Billion Emirates NBD Bond

Date 03/06/2013

NASDAQ Dubai, the Middle East’s international financial exchange, welcomed the listing today of a one billion US Dollar conventional Tier 1 bond issued by Emirates NBD, one of the region’s leading banking groups. 

Tokyo Commodity Exchange: Final Settlement Price Of Crude Oil For May 2013 Contract

Date 03/06/2013

Final settlement price of Middle East Crude Oil for May 2013 contract is 63,840 yen.

Speech By U.S. Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet L. Yellen At The International Monetary Conference, Shanghai, China - Regulatory Landscapes: A U.S. Perspective

Date 03/06/2013

Thank you. I don't want to delay what I expect to be a lively discussion, so my opening remarks will be brief. I'll summarize the considerable progress since 2008 to make the global financial system more resilient, and then offer my views on what more should be done.

BIS June 2013 Quarterly Review: Markets Under The Spell Of Monetary Easing

Date 02/06/2013

• Further monetary easing boosted asset prices despite negative macroeconomic news.
• Cross-border claims of BIS reporting banks fell in the fourth quarter of 2012 as a sharp reduction in cross-border interbank lending more than offset higher cross-border credit to non-banks.
• Paul Melaschenko and Noel Reynolds (BIS) propose a mechanism to recapitalise banks that are too big to fail.
• Mathias Drehmann (BIS) finds that the reliability of credit gap indicators as an early warning signal for incipient systemic crises can be improved by using data on total credit to the private sector rather than bank credit data only.
• Chen Zhou (Netherlands Bank) and Nikola Tarashev (BIS) measure banks' systemic importance on the basis of information about rare events that they compute using tools from extreme value theory.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At The Baccalaureate Ceremony At Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, June 2, 2013, The Ten Suggestions

Date 02/06/2013

It's nice to be back at Princeton. I find it difficult to believe that it's been almost 11 years since I departed these halls for Washington. I wrote recently to inquire about the status of my leave from the university, and the letter I got back began, "Regrettably, Princeton receives many more qualified applicants for faculty positions than we can accommodate."

Tehran Stock Exchange To Hold AGM

Date 02/06/2013

Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE)’s Annual General Meeting for the fiscal year ended 20th March 2013 will be held on Tuesday 11th June at 15:00 local time, stated Mr. Habib Reza Haddadi, TSE’s financial director.

Burgundy On Millennium Exchange - GO!

Date 01/06/2013

Oslo Børs and Burgundy are pleased to confirm our announcement to go-live on the Millennium platform on the Burgundy market as of start of trading Monday 3 June 2013.

IMF Completes Third Review Under Extended Fund Facility Arrangement For Greece, Concludes 2013 Article IV Consultation

Date 01/06/2013

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday completed the third review of Greece’s performance under an economic program supported by an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement. The completion of this review enables the disbursement of SDR 1.5 billion (about €1.74 billion or US$2.26 billion), which would bring total disbursements under the arrangement to SDR 5.7 billion (about €6.57 billion or US$8.55 billion).