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Apple investors: Buy the phone, sell the watch
September 10th, 2014
Apple shares on Tuesday were generally bought on the rumor but sold on the news — a broad range of it, in fact — raising the question of whether the late-day drop was a reflection of new investor concerns ...
Jack Ma, ‘capital-lite’ model impress at Alibaba’s Boston IPO event
September 10th, 2014
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has two major things going for it as it prepares for an initial public offering that could raise more than $21 billion: founder Jack Ma and a “capital-lite” business model. While corporate governance remains a ...
GSK China consumer healthcare unit linked to DOJ probe in 2012
September 9th, 2014
A U.S. anti-bribery probe into GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L) touched on the firm’s Chinese consumer healthcare business in 2012, internal documents show, suggesting the drugmaker’s compliance problems in China could go wider than previously revealed. GSK confirmed it had conducted ...
The Reasons Bankers Weren’t Busted
September 9th, 2014
“There Were No Convictions of Bankers for Good Reason” is the headline of a post by Mark F. Pomerantz, a lawyer and retired partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in the New York Times’s Room for Debate ...
BVI Receives 2014 Offshore Estate Planning Gong
September 9th, 2014
The British Virgin Islands has been awarded the 2014 Offshore Excellence Award in Estate Planning by publishers Acquisition International. Receiving the award on behalf of the territory, Executive Director of the BVI International Financial Center, Sylvia Moses, said the ...
Africa likely to experience oil and gas boom
September 9th, 2014
A study released by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) concluded that Africa had the potential to experience a major mid-term energy boom. The survey forecast demand for oil on the continent would “rise significantly” over the next two decades, driven by larger ...
Fed Research Shows Investors Underestimate Path of Rate Rise
September 9th, 2014
Low volatility across financial markets may signal investors are underestimating how quickly the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates, according to researchers at the San Francisco Fed. “Surveys, market expectations, and model estimates show that the public seems to ...
ASIC cancels margin forex company’s AFS licence
September 9th, 2014
The Australian regulator, ASIC, has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Global Derivative Services Pty Ltd (GDS) after an investigation found it failed to comply with a number of its AFS licence obligations. According to its website, ...
Brent Oil Drops Below $100 after Chinese Data
September 9th, 2014
Oil tumbled by $1 on Monday, with Brent sliding below $100 a barrel for the first time in more than a year and West Texas Intermediate tumbling to near its lowest of 2014, as Chinese and U.S. data pointed ...
Gold Remains Under $1260 on U.S. Dollar Strength
September 9th, 2014
Gold hovered near its lowest in three months on Tuesday after sharp overnight losses as the dollar traded at 14-month highs against a basket of major currencies, dimming the metal’s appeal as a currency hedge. Spot gold had slipped ...
