It has taken a long time to Saudi Arabia to embark on a reform wave, but it seems that after eight decades of oil dependency, and under the current context of sustained low crude oil prices that pushed Saudi Arabia into a budget deficit of nearly $100bn last year (15% of GDP), the time has come for the kingdom to think of a post-oil era.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published a peer review on how national regulators assess compliance with MiFID's suitability requirements when firms provide investment advice to retail clients...

“A UK exit from the European Union would in all likelihood damage the UK's world standing, throw into question the European project and have the potential to generate a global shock that would spark significant volatility across risk assets,” says Ariel Bezalel, manager of the Jupiter Dynamic Bond SICAV fund.

A US government shutdown would not have a direct impact on the sovereign's 'AAA'/Stable rating, Fitch Ratings says. Its main implication for the US's sovereign creditworthiness would depend on whether it foreshadowed a destabilisation of US budget policymaking, including brinkmanship over the federal debt limit.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won a resounding mandate to reject the package of austerity measures on the table in Greece's referendum yesterday. This is but the latest twist in a road that increasingly seems to be leading towards Greece's departure from the eurozone.