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Asian shares slump as Yellen speech awaited
March 29th, 2016
Asian shares struggled to find their footing on Tuesday and the dollar clawed back ground lost after downbeat U.S. economic data contributed to an uninspiring session on Wall Street. European equities were expected to open around 0.5 percent higher ...
Greece Economic Crisis Enters Year 9
March 28th, 2016
Greece’s fledgling economy fell back into recession in the fourth quarter of 2015, as the combination of sky-high unemployment, weak inflation and a shaky financial sector ended a turbulent year defined by political crisis and uncertainty. Gross domestic product ...
IBM blockchain leader Jerry Cuomo using ‘shadowchains’ to launch moonshots
March 28th, 2016
IBM has been building momentum behind blockchain by championing the Linux Foundation’s Hyperleder Project and creating its own Open Blockchain (OBC) among other things. IBM’s vice president of blockchain Jerry Cuomo, who recently gave testimony before US Congress about ...
Virtual Currency that is rival to Bitcoin, attracts attention and has soared in value
March 28th, 2016
A new virtual gold rush is underway. Even as Bitcoin, riven by internal divisions, has struggled, a rival virtual currency — known as Ethereum — has soared in value, climbing 1,000 percent over the last three months. Beyond the ...
Low Oil Prices Forcing Saudi Arabia To Modernize Economy
March 28th, 2016
The collapse in oil prices is forcing Saudi Arabia to undertake some deep and fundamental changes to its economy, reforms that no amount of browbeating from organizations like the IMF could induce. A new report from The Atlantic Council finds that ...
Oil prices tumbled 4 percent; U.S crude settling below the key $40 per barrel
March 24th, 2016
Oil prices tumbled 4 percent on Wednesday, with U.S crude settling below the key $40 per barrel mark after a sixth straight week of record highs in stockpiles that traders warned could cut short the market’s two-month long rally. ...
Asia markets slip amid Fed concerns, oil fall
March 24th, 2016
Asia markets ended lower Thursday, amid fresh declines in oil prices and concerns the U.S. Federal Reserve may hike interest rates sooner than expected. Japan’s Nikkei 225 ended down 108.65 points, or 0.64 percent, at 16,892.33, while South Korea’s Kospi index fell 9.15 ...
LCCA sets standard for cloud computing in legal industry
March 23rd, 2016
The Legal Cloud Computing Association has released the first set of 21 cloud security standards crafted specifically for the legal industry. They are intended to help law firms and attorneys choose software providers that meet basic security measures and ...
What actually is … Blockchain technology?
March 23rd, 2016
A new technology is causing a stir in the FinTech community: Blockchain has many market experts believing that it is the greatest achievement of the past decade for financial technology and the most important digital innovation since the internet ...
J.P. Morgan Executives Say Regulators Should Approve IEX as Exchange
March 23rd, 2016
The country’s largest bank is siding with upstart market IEX Group Inc. in its effort to create a new stock exchange that pledges to be a haven for long-term investors. Executives at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. say regulators should approve IEX’s ...
