CME Group Announces Record Open Interest of 117 Million Contracts - Interest...
CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced it set a total open interest record of 116,999,368 on Nov. 23, 2016. The new record surpassed the previous open...
View ArticleBM&FBOVESPA Publishes The 12th Portfolio Of The Corporate Sustainability...
BM&FBOVESPA announced yesterday the 12th portfolio of the Corporate Sustainability index (ISE), effective from January 02, 2017 to January 05, 2018. The new portfolio is composed of 38 stocks of 34...
View ArticleNigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Report For Week Ending 25 November 2016
A turnover of 639.439 million shares worth N6.455 billion in 11,799 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 823.547 million shares valued at...
View ArticleBME: RREF II Al Breck SOCIMI To Start Trading On MAB On 30 November
The Coordination and Admissions Committee of the Mercado Alternativo Bursátil (MAB) has submitted to the Board of Directors a favourable report on RREF II AL BRECK SOCIMI,stating that the company is...
View ArticleCompetition And Savings: The Regulator’s Perspective - Speech By...
Speaker: Christopher Woolard, Director of Strategy and CompetitionLocation: TISA Annual Conference, LondonDelivered on: 24 November 2016read more...
View ArticlePlatform Capitalism
What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide...
View ArticleUnderstanding Business Valuation: A Practical Guide to Valuing Small to...
Written by Gary Trugman, Understanding Business Valuation: A Practical Guide to Valuing Small-to Medium-Sized Businesses, simplifies a technical and complex area of practice with real-world experience...
View ArticleFear of Fracking? The Impact of the Shale Gas Exploration on House Prices in...
Shale gas has grown to become a major new source of energy in countries around the globe. While its importance for energy supply is well recognized, there has also been public concern over potential...
View ArticleDo Good Reports Mean Higher Prices? The Impact of Hospital Compare Ratings on...
Previous research found that the initiation of Hospital Compare (HC) quality reporting had little impact on patient outcomes. However little is known about its impact on hospital prices, which may be...
View ArticleIs the American Public Corporation in Trouble? -- by Kathleen Kahle, Rene M....
We examine the current state of the American public corporation and how it has evolved over the last forty years. There are fewer public corporations now than forty years ago, but they are much older...
View ArticleA Shadow Rate New Keynesian Model -- by Jing Cynthia Wu, Ji Zhang
We propose a New Keynesian model with the shadow rate, which is the federal funds rate during normal times. At the zero lower bound, we establish empirically the negative shadow rate summarizes...
View ArticleLaws, Educational Outcomes, and Returns to Schooling: Evidence from the Full...
This paper uses a new dataset on state compulsory attendance, continuation school, and child labor laws with the 1940 full count Census of Population to estimate the returns to schooling for...
View ArticleFrom "Made in China" to "Innovated in China": Necessity,...
After more than three decades of high growth that was based on an exploration of its low-wage advantage and a relatively favorable demographic pattern in combination with market-oriented reforms and...
View ArticleLeaving Big Money on the Table: Arbitrage Opportunities in Delaying Social...
Recent research has documented that delaying the commencement of Social Security benefits increases the expected present value of retirement income for most people. Despite this research, the vast...
View ArticleImmigrants and Firms' Outcomes: Evidence from France -- by Cristina...
In this paper we analyze the impact of an increase in the local supply of immigrants on firms' outcomes, allowing for heterogeneous effects across firms according to their initial productivity. Using...
View ArticleJoint Deutsche Bundesbank And Deutsche Börse Blockchain Prototype
Today the Deutsche Bundesbank and Deutsche Börse jointly presented a functional prototype for the blockchain technology-based settlement of securities. The innovative prototype is designed to provide...
View ArticleThinkLiquidity Introduces Patent Pending Transaction Scoring System
ThinkLiquidity Managing Director Jeff Wilkins announced the launch of a transaction scoring system featured in its new web application QuantView. The patent pending system delivers robust performance...
View ArticleDoes the tone of central bank announcements have an effect on asset prices?
Joint research from Cass Business School and the Copenhagen Business School has found that the toneof central bank communications has a significant effect on prices in equity, fixed income and option...
View ArticleCME Group Chief Financial Officer And Global Head Of Commodities &...
CME Group announced today that John Pietrowicz, Chief Financial Officer, and Derek Sammann, Global Head of Commodities & Options Products, will present at the J.P. Morgan Fintech & Specialty...
View ArticleSmart Contracts Symposium Draws Financial Services And Blockchain Leaders To...
The Smart Contracts Symposium, the industry’s first event fully dedicated to smart contract technologies, is being held on December 5, 2016 at the Microsoft Technology Center in Times Square, New York....
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