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Société Générale offers UK and US recovery products
Société Générale has issued two new UK-listed structured products based on UK and US equity market volatility "and any potential nearside recovery in the UK equity market", says the French bank.
Class action filed on Lehman principal protected notes
A class action has been filed on UBS Financial Services and the officers and directors of Lehman Brothers on losses from investments in principal protected notes issued by the defunct US bank.
Walker Crips bags second issue of Fixed Income Plan
Walker Crips Structured Investments (WCSI) has launched the second issue of its five-year Fixed Income Plan, offering an annual income of 7.6% or a quarterly income of 1.85%. The plan repays capital in full, providing that the FTSE 100 index does not…
Add risk from spring 2009, Barclays Wealth
Investors should stay defensive in the short term, but add risk from spring onwards, says Barclays Wealth Signpost Annual Outlook, entitled 'A long, hard slog'. "We are looking to build overweights in investment-grade credit in Q2, and in equities from…
Global oil demand to slump
Global oil demand is set to fall this year and next, marking the first consecutive two-year decline in three decades, according to the Energy Information Agency (EIA).
UniCredit offers US strategy to Germany, Austria and Luxembourg
UniCredit subsidiary HypoVereinsbank has presented investors in Germany, Austria and Luxembourg with the 4Keys Macro Strategy SI US Fund, which offers profits from both rising and falling markets. Issued by Structured Invest SA in Luxembourg, the…
FSA plans reverse stress tests
According to the Financial Services Authority, stress testing at UK financial firms is too weak to prevent another Northern Rock crisis. It recommends firms perform "reverse stress tests" to identify high-risk scenarios.
UK pensions fell further into deficit in November
UK defined-benefit pension schemes are now £136 billion in deficit as of the end of last month, significantly worse than the £97.3 billion deficit at the end of October.
Kashkari details Tarp oversight plans
Assistant secretary for financial stability Neel Kashkari defended the US Treasury against accusations of poor oversight of the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief (Tarp) programme in front of the House of Representatives' financial services committee…
China set to provide funding to foreign banks
Chinese authorities may introduce their own version of the Federal Reserve's term auction facility (TAF) to help foreign banks get through their toughest test yet in dealing with China's still-developing interbank market.
Fed seeks comment on proposed changes to Regulation Z
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Joe Gold
Joe Gold, MD and co-head of commodities at Barclays Capital, talks to Katie Holliday about weathering the financial market turmoil
LNG fundamentals - Natural selection
The LNG market for Europe and Asia has been traditionally tight, but new supply looks set to change market dynamics. Katie Holliday reports
The sum of all parts
The recent financial crisis has put enterprise-wide risk management firmly in the spotlight. Pauline McCallion looks at how this increased interest could advance ERM, and asks whether total ERM can ever be fully achieved
Cultural exchange
EEX and Powernext's agreement to share their electricity spot and derivatives markets represents groundbreaking Franco-German energy market co-operation. The CEOs of both exchanges talk to Roderick Bruce about the challenges involved and what the merged…
LNG pricing - Moving forward
While the bulk of global LNG volumes remain locked up in opaque long-term deals, attempts are being made to introduce price transparency and a forward curve to the market. Roderick Bruce investigates
US carbon market addresses known unknowns
The election of Barack Obama as President has made a federal cap-and-trade emissions scheme in the US almost certain. Pauline McCallion reports on how stakeholders are coping with the remaining uncertainties
Demise of UK suppliers hits end-users hard
The near-simultaneous bankruptcies of the UK's only two independent energy suppliers has exposed problems in market frameworks and added to challenging operating conditions for end-users, finds Roderick Bruce