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Oil jumps on Canadian wildfire, Libyan fighting
May 5th, 2016
Oil prices jumped on Thursday as a huge wildfire in Canada disrupted oil sands production, while escalating fighting in Libya threatened the North African nation’s output. International benchmark Brent crude futures were trading at $45.36 per barrel at 2.54 ...
Lessons from Japan: Decades of Decay, Unavoidable Collapse
April 27th, 2016
Japan has proven that decay can be stretched into decades, but it has yet to prove that gravity can be revoked by central bank monetary games. Japan’s fiscal and monetary extremes are in the news again: this time it’s ...
How bitcoin’s sister technology could change the future of healthcare
April 22nd, 2016
The larger world didn’t start paying much attention to bitcoin until 2013. That was the year mainstream companies like Microsoft, Expedia and Dell, among others, began to accept the alternative, electronic payment method. That was also the year the ...
Italy Forms $5.7 Billion Fund to Shake Off Doubts in Banks
April 12th, 2016
Fund to help weakened banks sell shares and unload bad loans Atlante fund managed by Quaestio Capital investment firm Italian officials and bank executives agreed to create a multibillion-euro fund to help troubled lenders raise capital and offload bad ...
R3 banking blockchain consortium partners with Microsoft Azure
April 5th, 2016
The R3 distributed ledger consortium of 40-plus global banks has chosen Microsoft Azure cloud to host its labs and provide its members with easy access to those firms already added to Azure’s Blockchain as a Service platform. R3 named ...
U.S. succeeds in cracking Apple’s iPhone, drops legal action
March 29th, 2016
The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday it had succeeded in unlocking an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters and dropped its legal case against Apple, ending a high-stakes legal battle but leaving the broader struggle ...
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 ...
Volkswagen Sued for $3.7 Billion in Germany Over Diesel Scandal
March 15th, 2016
Law firm filed case on behalf of 278 institutional investors Lawsuit argues VW disclosures to investors came too slowly Volkswagen AG is being sued for 3.3 billion euros ($3.7 billion) over the cover-up of its polluting diesel engines, its ...
KPMG: Blockchain Could Be ‘Antidote’ to High Cost of Regulation
March 8th, 2016
As institutional interest in blockchain technology increases with bullish market predictions, professional services firms have been among a new wave of companies seeking to adapt existing products and services for the market. To date, Deloitte and PwC have been perhaps the most aggressive ...
The Collapse Of Italy’s Banks Threatens To Plunge The European Financial System Into Chaos
March 8th, 2016
The Italian banking system is a “leaning tower” that truly could completely collapse at literally any moment. And as Italy’s banks begin to go down like dominoes, it is going to set off financial panic all over Europe unlike ...
