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China and the dollar
October 9th, 2015
With the benefit of hindsight, the two-day devaluation of the yuan in mid-August might have been a masterstroke of strategy. China executed a financial move that appeared to undermine its own position but instead created trouble for the US; ...
Shareholder lawsuit against Volkswagen in Germany
October 9th, 2015
US litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has been instructed in a shareholder lawsuit against car maker Volkswagen (VW) after the company lost as much as $33bn in market value in ten days after it admitted to cheating emissions tests. ...
Accounting Firms movements: Agreements, Acquisitions and additions
October 9th, 2015
EY’s member firm Ernst &Young Advisory has acquired Bluestone Consulting, an analytics and big data consultancy based in France. Bluestone provides data visualization, statistical engineering techniques and expertise to businesses’ operations in the marketing, finance and risk domains. The additional resources ...
We Aren’t Nearly As Worried About The Middle East As We should Be
October 7th, 2015
What’s the opposite of a gift that keeps on giving? A mistake that keeps metastasizing. Which pretty much sums up the US role in the Middle East. Beginning with the CIA’s 1953 overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected president and ...
Thomson Reuters Releases Innovative Tool that Streamlines the Classification Process for International Trade Professionals
October 7th, 2015
Thomson Reuters has announced the release of Checkpoint Global Harmonized Schedules (HS), a tool that makes the harmonized schedule classification process simpler, faster, and more accurate. The Thomson Reuters Checkpoint Global HS tool is a powerful classification engine that contains ...
Asian shares firm on resurgent oil, Nikkei falls on BOJ
October 7th, 2015
Asian stocks hit a seven-week high on Wednesday as oil prices showed some signs of life, supporting battered resource shares and emerging economy currencies, while Tokyo shares fell after the Bank of Japan stood pat on policy. MSCI’s broadest ...
Volkswagen tells German parliament 8M cars have been fitted with emissions cheat device in EU alone
October 6th, 2015
Volkswagen has admitted that eight million cars in the European Union alone have been fitted with software to cheat emissions tests. The carmaker sent a letter to German parliament members on 2 October, co-signed by VW’s current chief lobbyist, and former government spokesperson, ...
PwC FY15 global revenues increase 10% to US$ 35.4 billion
October 6th, 2015
Strongest revenue growth in eight years Double-digit growth in Middle East and Africa (16%), North America and the Caribbean (12%) and Australasia and Pacific Islands (11%) Total workforce tops 208,000 a record number, with 53,000 people joining in FY15 ...
Crude prices steady in Asian trade, Russia mulls oil talks
October 6th, 2015
Crude oil held steady in Asia on Tuesday, following big gains in the previous session after Russia signaled it was prepared to discuss the global oil market with other big producers. Brent crude LCOc1, the global crude benchmark, edged ...
EBS BrokerTec acquires Molten Markets
October 5th, 2015
Acquisition completes EBS’s offering for all customer segments EBS BrokerTec, ICAP‘s market-leading electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, announces today that it has acquired Molten Markets Inc., a foreign exchange technology provider for asset managers and pension ...
