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EUR/USD faces 200-day SMA
May 15th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook After a precipitous decline EUR/USD now finds itself trapped between two strong levels. From above the currency pair is capped by a combination of the up-trend line and 100-day SMA. From below the price is underpinned by ...
Geithner Must Give S&P Documents in U.S. Fraud Suit
May 14th, 2014
Ex-U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner must comply with Standard & Poor’s demand that he provide documents related to its claim the U.S. sued the company in retaliation for downgrading government debt. Harold W. McGraw III, chairman of S&P parent ...
Futures manipulator sentenced to community service
May 14th, 2014
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has issued a press release informing as follows: The Eastern Magistrates’ Court today sentenced a futures trader, Mr Ernest Fan Kwong Hung, to 200 hours of community service and fined him $59,430 for ...
SFC resolves concerns over Citigroup’s algorithmic trading system
May 14th, 2014
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded Citigroup Global Markets Asia Limited (Citigroup) for its failure to ensure that certain securities orders executed through its algorithmic trading system between April 2009 and May 2010 would not cause undue ...
InstaForex Becomes Latest Online Forex Broker to Launch Bitcoin CFD Trading
May 14th, 2014
The list of online forex brokers entering the bitcoin market and launching CFDs of the digital currency continues to increase during 2014. Starting with Plus500 and AvaTrade in 2013, along with eToro, FXOpen, and Markets.com and many other smaller ...
When Education Doesn’t Pay
May 14th, 2014
When I was in business school, back at the turn of the millennium, a team from my New Venture Strategy class proposed an innovative way to pay for school: sell shares of your future income to investors. I was ...
Stocks: In need of a break?
May 14th, 2014
Wall Street might need a break. The past few days have seen investors push stock markets to all-time highs, but it looks like the pace could slow Wednesday. U.S. stock futures were barely moving ahead of the opening bell, ...
IRS said to make $13B in improper refunds
May 14th, 2014
The U.S. government doled out more than $13 billion last year in improper payments of a tax credit meant to help the working poor, according to a government watchdog. One of the country’s largest cash assistance programs, the so-called ...
Investors May Have Gained Early Word on Fed Policy, Study Finds
May 14th, 2014
Some investors may have gotten early word of changes to Federal Reserve policy between 1997 and 2013 and profited by trading before the policy shifts were publicly announced, according to Singapore-based researchers. Trading records show abnormally large price movements ...
IASB amends IAS 16 Property and IAS 38 Intangible Assets
May 14th, 2014
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), has published amendments to IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment and IAS 38 Intangible Assets. IAS 16 and IAS 38 both establish the principle for the basis of depreciation and amortisation as being the ...
