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Friday December 19: OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Indices
December 19th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for December 19, 2014 The S&P 500 pushed higher on the day breaking past resistance at 2020 and clearing the 2050 level with ease. Yesterdays price action suggests that downswing/correction phase likely to be over ...
Friday December 19: OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Commodities
December 19th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for December 19, 2014 Gold continues to consolidate hovering about the $1200 level. Momentum for either side remains subdued at the moment with little interest both from buyers and sellers. Range bound action likely to ...
Statement of the National Bank of Ukraine on the legal status of Bitcoin
December 19th, 2014
Ukraine’s local chapter of the Bitcoin Foundation has spoken out against a recent statement by the central bank concerning the legal status of bitcoin in the country. In a document issued last month, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) ...
IMF holds back Cyprus bailout funds
December 19th, 2014
International Monetary Fund says expected tranche of €88m will not be paid after parliament suspended new foreclosure law The International Monetary Fund has said it will not release a further €88m (£69m/US$108m) in bailout money for Cyprus on Friday ...
Luxembourg Agrees to Share Details of Corporate Tax Deals
December 19th, 2014
Luxembourg agreed Thursday to share with the European Commission information on tax deals secured by multinational companies with operations in the small nation. Xavier Bettel, Luxembourg’s prime minister, said the decision came after the European Union’s executive also asked ...
KPMG pre-tax profits dip 9% as tax regulation bites
December 19th, 2014
KPMG has reported a 5% growth in revenues but pre-tax profits fell as the firm made a series of investments in new business lines, while its tax practice felt the impact of an increased regulatory burden Revenues for the ...
Global crude oil prices slump further as traders bet on sell-off
December 19th, 2014
Global crude oil prices slumped further on Thursday, as traders placed fresh bets that the market would resume a six-month sell-off on worries about a supply glut. Benchmark Brent and US crude tumbled $2 a barrel each in late ...
Yen Weakens Third Day as BOJ Maintains Easing; Aussie, Kiwi Gain
December 19th, 2014
The yen fell for a third day against the dollar as the Bank of Japan maintained unprecedented stimulus that has seen the exchange rate decline for five straight months. Japan’s currency fell at least 0.3 percent versus all 16 ...
FINRA Fines Wells Fargo Advisors and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network $1.5 Million for Anti-Money Laundering Failures
December 19th, 2014
Firms Failed to Subject Over 200,000 New Accounts to Identity Verification The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today announced that it has ordered two St. Louis-based broker-dealers under common control, Wells Fargo Advisors (WFA) and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial ...
IEX equity trading venue chosen kdb+ software for its data platform
December 18th, 2014
Kx Systems, a leader in high-performance database and time-series analytics, today announced that IEX, a rapidly growing equity trading venue, has officially chosen kdb+ software for its data platform. Kdb+ is a database system with a built-in time-series query ...
