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Europe grew faster than U.S.
May 15th, 2014
European economic growth was weaker than expected in the first three months of 2014, but still managed to outpace the U.S. for the first time in three years. Gross domestic product across the 18 countries in the eurozone grew ...
Interview with Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, Peter Praet
May 15th, 2014
Mr Praet, business activity is picking up in Europe. Hasn’t it become time to prepare increases in interest rates – rather than to ease monetary policy further, as the European Central Bank (ECB) indicated rather clearly last week? That ...
Bitcoin’s Intergration to PayPal is under consideration
May 15th, 2014
John Donahoe, CEO of ecommerce giant eBay, said he is actively considering an integration of popular digital currency bitcoin with the company’s payment processing service PayPal. In a Q&A session at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on 13 May, ...
Tax Reform Is Not a Fantasy
May 15th, 2014
U.S. companies are stockpiling a record amount of foreign earned profits abroad, roughly $2.1 trillion. The amount of cash held overseas by U.S. multinationals is up 93 percent since 2008. And Uncle Sam receives a near-zero return on foreign ...
Telefonica-KPN Review Said to Focus on Small Operators
May 15th, 2014
The European Commission’s review of the proposed merger of Telefonica SA (TEF) and Royal KPN NV (KPN)’s German wireless units focuses on bolstering smaller competitors that lease capacity rather than attracting a new network operator, according to people familiar ...
CySec: acquisition of Administrative Services Providers (ASP) licence
May 15th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that the following firms have successfully obtained the CySec license to operate as Administrative Services Providers (ASP): AK Orion Trust Limited Stradlic Ltd Therefore, they ...
CySec imposes administrative fine
May 15th, 2014
The Council of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) informs the investors that has decided to impose the administrative fine of € 10.000 in total to the company AFX Capital Markets Ltd (‘ the Company’) for the infringements of: – ...
Sony has fallen 7% after company forecasts more losses
May 15th, 2014
Shares in Japanese electronics giant Sony have fallen by as much as 7% after the company forecast its second straight year of losses. The stock sell-off came after Sony reported a loss of 125bn yen (£732m; $1.3bn) for the ...
USD/JPY contained by 102.35/10
May 15th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook As suspected, USD/JPY failed to gain a foothold above 102.35/10, which is a necessary condition for the long-term sustainable recovery. But at the same time the currency pair is currently well-supported (mainly by the 200-day SMA and ...
GBP/USD headed towards up-trend support
May 15th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook None of the nearest supports were able to negate the bearish momentum yesterday. Consequently, we are now left only with 1.6736/26 (55-day SMA and up-trend line) that may prevent further sell-off and thus keep GBP/USD within the ...
