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Don’t Sweat The Election. The Next Crisis Is Already Baked Into The Cake
November 1st, 2016
Friday was one of those days where you walk away from the screen for a minute and come back to find a completely different market. All it took was the FBI finding a trove of new Clinton emails, thus ...
The price of bitcoin has risen by 19% in October
November 1st, 2016
In a year of monster hackers, the rise of new cryptocurrencies, and its own unresolved “civil war” over how to enlarge its transaction capacity, bitcoin has not only survived, but thrived. The price of bitcoin has risen by 19% ...
New vehicles affected worldwide by car airbag scandals; Toyota expands its recall
October 31st, 2016
An airbag defect responsible for nearly a dozen deaths in the United States and many other injuries led Toyota on Wednesday to recall nearly 6 million more vehicles worldwide. The defect affects 5.8 million airbags manufactured by Takata Corp. ...
Chinese lawyers ordered to ‘support’ the Chinese Communist Party
October 31st, 2016
The Chinese government’s tough stance on its own legal community just got a little bit tougher. The Chinese Ministry of Justice has handed down two new directives which require all lawyers in the country to ‘support the leadership of ...
Asian Energy Stocks Fall as OPEC Split Hits Oil; Dollar Gains
October 31st, 2016
Crude drops after OPEC talks end without individual quotas Gold rises after FBI reopens probe of Clinton’s emails Asian energy stocks fell with oil after the world’s biggest crude producers failed to agree on supply cuts, while rising metals prices ...
India to overtake US as ecommerce superpower
October 29th, 2016
India is set to overtake the US as the world’s second largest ecommerce market within the next 20 years thanks to a young, connected and growing middle class, according to research from Worldpay. While India accounts for less than ...
Middle East economies rise in doing business rankings; UAE and Bahrain among top 10 improvers
October 27th, 2016
A record 137 economies around the world have adopted key reforms that make it easier to start and operate small and medium-sized businesses, says Doing Business 2017: Equal Opportunity for All, the World Bank Group’s annual report on the ...
Asia shares extend losses, dollar off highs
October 27th, 2016
Asian shares extended losses on Thursday after disappointing earnings from technology giant Apple dragged on Wall Street, while the dollar remained shy of this week’s nearly nine-month highs. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS was down ...
Asian Stocks Rise With Industrial Metals as Fed Bets Buoy Dollar
October 25th, 2016
Nidec, SK Hynix rally after earnings; Apple reports Tuesday Kospi drops as South Korea tourism threatened by China spat Asian stocks rose to a two-week high and industrial metals advanced, buoyed by a generally upbeat corporate earnings season and ...
Bulls and Bears: An Introduction to Important Market Terminology
October 24th, 2016
The financial markets are a struggle between two competing forces: fear and greed. On the battlefield, this tug-of-war is waged between the bulls and the bears. What they are and how they operate are crucial in understanding the financial ...
