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Twitter Debt Rated as Junk
November 14th, 2014
Twitter Inc. ’s debt was rated as junk on Thursday by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a sobering grade that comes a day after executives of the social media service tried to reassure skeptics on Wall Street of its long-term ...
U.S. stocks slip from records; oil falls
November 13th, 2014
U.S. equity prices edged off record highs on Wednesday led by weakness in the financial sector after six global banks were fined a total of $4.3 billion for currency rigging, while the oil market sagged on concerns about a ...
OPEC’s Colluders Are in a No-Win Situation
November 12th, 2014
Economists will tell you that cartels are hard to keep alive. They work when everyone in the cartel holds down production to keep the price artificially high (and punish customers). But there’s a huge incentive to exceed one’s quota. ...
Exponential and XE.com announce two-year exclusive partnership for mobile web, in-app monetisation
November 12th, 2014
Exponential Interactive, the global provider of advertising intelligence and digital media solutions, today announced an expansion of their exclusive partnership with online foreign currency and rate exchange resource XE.com, enabling XE to monetise their in-app and mobile web inventory ...
Adco investing up to $7bn in commitment to meet 2017 oil production target
November 11th, 2014
The Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (Adco) is set to invest a further US$5 billion to $7bn to meet its production target of 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) by the end of 2017, the company’s chief ...
EY announces participation at the World Congress of Accountants
November 11th, 2014
EY marks the 2014 World Congress of Accountants (WCOA) in Rome on 10-14 November 2014 by reinforcing its long-standing commitment to the audit profession and its importance. The 2014 Congress takes place at a time of great change, challenge ...
Putin seeks to reassure world amid ‘perfect storm’
November 11th, 2014
The Russian ruble strengthened against the dollar on Monday after President Vladimir Putin said there were no “fundamental economic reasons” for the currency’s slide, but analysts –and the country’s central bank — beg to differ. Speaking at an Asia ...
Accountant arrested over suspected £2m VAT fraud
November 7th, 2014
An accountant is among four people arrested in dawn raids yesterday on suspicion of a £2.2m VAT fraud. The four men, three from Essex and one from Hertfordshire, allegedly set up an elaborate scheme of subcontractors within the civil ...
ASIC announces financial report
November 7th, 2014
ASIC today announced its areas of focus for 31 December 2014 financial reports of listed entities and other entities of public interest with many stakeholders. ‘Directors and auditors should focus on values of assets and accounting policy choices, which ...
Texas man charged in first-ever bitcoin Ponzi scheme
November 7th, 2014
In the first federal securities case involving a Ponzi-scheme using the digital currency, a Texas man was charged Thursday in New York with defrauding investors of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin. Trendon Shavers, 32, was arrested at his ...