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Asian Equities, Yen Maintain Declines After BOJ: Markets Wrap
April 27th, 2017
Region’s stocks halt five-day rally as China shares drop Investors assess Trump’s U.S. tax plan; peso reverses losses Asian stocks were mostly lower after a five-day rally as the Bank of Japan cut its inflation forecast while keeping stimulus ...
Russian hacker, son of a Russian lawmaker sentenced in US prison
April 24th, 2017
Roman Seleznev, the son of a Russian member of parliament, hacked credit card data from restaurants in Washington and across the U.S. Roman Seleznev, the son of a member of Russian Parliament, was sentenced to 27 years in federal ...
America’s financial war strategy
April 23rd, 2017
America’s renewed desire to escalate military tensions is a front for America’s continual financial war, this time directed at North Korea, Syria and possibly Iran. This is likely to be the opinion of China’s strategic advisors. We analyse the ...
Japan Stocks Tumble, Yen Gains Amid Risk Aversion: Markets Wrap
April 12th, 2017
Gold remains at year’s high as geopolitical concerns linger Treasuries extend gains, oil climbs for seventh session Japanese shares tumbled after the yen jumped to the highest since November as investors avoided riskier assets amid lingering geopolitical concerns. Treasuries ...
The decline and fall of the EU
April 11th, 2017
This article identifies the headwinds faced by the EU in the wake of Brexit. Without the UK, not only does the EU lose much of its importance on the world stage, but the Commission’s budget is left with an ...
A Bitcoin civil war is threatening to tear the digital currency in 2 — here’s what you need to know
March 27th, 2017
There’s a civil war in the bitcoin community over the digital currency’s future. Developers, miners, and other stakeholders are locked in a heated debate over how best to scale the network, with chances steadily rising of irreconcilable differences causing ...
The Russian “Laundromat” exposed; how the complex money laundering scheme worked
March 23rd, 2017
Three years after the “Laundromat” was exposed as a criminal financial vehicle to move vast sums of money out of Russia, journalists now know how the complex scheme worked – including who ended up with the $20.8 billion and ...
Can state spending ever be cut?
March 22nd, 2017
President Trump was elected on several promises, including one that he would fund tax cuts by cutting public spending. Cynics might note that his first action was to increase spending on the military by $54bn, the equivalent of six ...
Japan offers Russia common digital currency on Kuril Islands
March 21st, 2017
Tokyo has prepared a range of offers to Moscow for joint economic projects on Russia’s Kuril Islands, according to Japan’s national broadcaster NHK. The package of proposals, including tourism and fisheries, as well as a common electronic currency, will ...
IBM Goes Live With First Commercial Blockchains
March 20th, 2017
Tech giant IBM is set to unveil what it’s calling the first “commercial application” of Hyperledger’s open-source Fabric codebase. Previously released in beta and scheduled for official release today, the offering – dubbed “IBM Blockchain” – is formally debuting in front ...