The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)’s main index hit a new record high in the first trading day of 2018 by closing at 1,778.53 points, the highest closing level since its inception in 1975, while gaining 24.82 points or 1.42 percent from end-2017. Combined market capitalization of SET and Market for Alternative Investment (mai) rose…
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The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has published and ‘goes live’ with a number of enhancements to its “Prudential – Investment, Insurance Intermediation and Banking” (PRU) Rulebook. This follows a successful public consultation which completed on 7 December 2017. The new enhancements cover the prudential supervision of banks, insurance…
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Germans continue investing heavily in gold / Increase of 57 tonnes over previous year / Europe's largest physically-backed gold security The gold holdings of the Xetra-Gold physically-backed bearer note of 175.04 tonnes at the end of 2017 marks a new all-time high. That figure stood at just 117.59 at the end of 2016. The reserve…
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The Spanish Stock Exchange has released its volumes report for the year 2017. The highlights include: The trading volume in December reached €47.6 billion The ETF trading volume in 2017 totalled €4.4 billion The number of contracts registered in MEFF in 2017 was 44.6 million New issues on MARF in 2017 grew 74.1% to €3.9…
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In December 2017, the European Energy Exchange (EEX) announced that it has achieved a total volume of 234.5 TWh on its power derivatives markets (December 2016: 287.4 TWh). The December volume comprised 160.8 TWh traded at EEX via Trade Registration with subsequent clearing. Clearing and settlement of all exchange transactions was executed by European Commodity…
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Deutsche Börse's cash markets record second highest trading volumes since 2012 / Four Deutsche Börse Venture Network start-ups have been listed on the stock exchange so far The shares of Siemens, Covestro, Rocket Internet and Wirecard were the most traded securities in the German benchmark indices DAX, MDAX, SDAX and TecDAX, as announced by Deutsche…
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The Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE), Mr. Bassam Abu Abbas, said that the trading value at the ASE increased during 2017 reaching JD (2.9) billion; an increase of (25.6%), compared with JD (2.3) billion for the year 2016. The number of traded shares reached (1.7) billion shares, traded through (717)…
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Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced that it has today welcomed Olive Tree Estates Limited to its Catalist under the stock code “1H2”. Olive Tree Estates Limited is a Singapore-based real estate company specialising in property development and investments, with growth ambitions in Singapore and the region. It has developed and invested in two light industrial properties…
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Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) has published a proposal to grant an activity period exemption to companies engaged in infrastructure investment. At present, the activity period exemption that is required under Alternative B in TASE’s listing alternatives is granted to a company that is a real estate investment trust (REIT) fund. TASE believes that a company…
Read moreEGX starts trading today on Altawfeek Leasing Company (ATLC.CA), which is the listed company number 222 in its main market, the ceremony took place in the presence of Mr. Mohsen Adel vice chairman of EGX, Mr. Mohamed Abdel Salam, Chairman of MCDR with Chairman of Altawfeek Leasing Company and representatives of Pharos Holding, the IPO…
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