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China state media announces confessions in probes into stocks plunge
August 31st, 2015
Chinese state media announced a slew of confessions on Monday following investigations into recent stock market gyrations, including from a detained reporter who admitted to spreading false information that caused “panic and disorder”. An official from China‘s securities regulator ...
China probing brokers, regulators for possible stock crimes
August 26th, 2015
Employees of one of China‘s biggest securities firms and one current and one former employee of its market regulator are under investigation on suspicion of illegal stock trading, state media reported Wednesday, amid the collapse of a stock price ...
China chooses her weapons
August 22nd, 2015
China’s recent mini-devaluations had less to do with her mounting economic challenges, and more to do with a statement from the IMF on 4 August, that it was proposing to defer the decision to include the yuan in the ...
The Fed Talks And The Market Tanks. That’s Different
August 21st, 2015
Normally there’s a distinct pattern to the impact of Federal Reserve statements on the financial markets. The tone of equities trading in particular starts to improve as the moment of the announcement approaches; the words turn out to be ...
Russia, China to Create Entirely Different Gold Market
August 20th, 2015
While key Western banks are artificially restraining gold prices to breathe life into the diluted and devalued dollar system, Russia, China and other emerging economies are involved in “the genial move” to establish an entirely different gold market, F. ...
The Technology Behind Bitcoin Could Replace Lawyers, Too
August 20th, 2015
Smart contracts promise to relieve businesses of the costs and lag-time of corporate legal work. This software-based change could affect services firms everywhere. Everyone has heard the hype about Bitcoin, but the real promise of the technology behind cryptocurrencies ...
China About To Make History — Again
August 10th, 2015
Any discussion of China has to open with the now-widely-understood fact that the numbers it reports are not to be trusted. Knowing this makes it easy to dismiss claims of high and consistently-on-target GDP growth, for instance, as a ...
Citigroup’s Sale of OneMain to Springleaf Hits Antitrust Obstacle
August 7th, 2015
Springleaf agreed in March to buy OneMain from Citigroup U.S. antitrust authorities have thrown a wrench into Citigroup Inc.’s plan to divest its subprime lending unit. Five months ago, Citigroup said it would sell the business, known as OneMain Financial, to Springleaf ...
This Precious Metal Needs a Silver Bullet
August 6th, 2015
In the past 12 months alone, the benchmark silver-futures contract has declined 27% Once prized as a precious metal that could be put to practical use, silver is now getting the worst of both worlds. Like gold, silver has ...
7 bitcoin-related court cases
July 24th, 2015
Bitcoin is back in the headlines again this week, but for all the wrong reasons. It surfaced yesterday that two operators of bitcoin exchange Coin.mx were being charged by US prosecutors for working without a money transmission license. This ...
