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European regulators act as markets show “exceptional volatility”
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New SocGen commodities strategy expected by year-end
Société Générale plans to have fully integrated a new power and gas trading strategy by the end of 2010 after announcing the sale of its 49% stake in the 10-year Gaselys partnership with GDF Suez yesterday.
IEA cuts global oil demand for 2009 and 2010
The International Energy Agency (IEA) slashes global oil demand for 2009 and 2010, following questions over the health of the global economy, weaker-than-expected data from Asia and the Middle East, and repercussions from the volcanic ash cloud and the...
Natural gas: a story of surplus
Oversupply in the natural gas market looks set to keep prices soft in the near term. Pauline McCallion speaks to the experts about the price outlook for this year and next and what that means for the arbitrage with oil
A return to domestic inflation
Activity in Europe’s domestic inflation derivatives markets dropped away after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Now, dealers report buyers and sellers are starting to return. But there is likely to be less warehousing of risk by banks and a greater...
Conference warns of rising complexity in leveraged ETFs
Investors searching for good value and transparency have flocked to exchange-traded funds. But this demand is now driving increasing complexity, and speakers at the first Art of Indexing Europe conference in Frankfurt warned of the pitfalls of messing...
Morgan Stanley ETF lending book helps boost market liquidity
Morgan Stanley has created a European exchange-traded fund (ETF) lending book across multiple issuers, which will allow investors to express market views by shorting ETFs and increase liquidity in the market. Create-to-lend involves borrowing the constituent...
CBI: Quarter of UK power plants face closure
Independent business lobby group the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has warned the latest draft of the European Union Directive for Industrial Emissions could force at least a quarter of the UK’s power plants to close, which would raise a major...
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