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December 14th To 18th: A Week Of Reckoning For Global Stocks If The Fed Hikes Interest Rates?
December 14th, 2015
Are we about to witness widespread panic in the global financial marketplace? This week is shaping up to be an absolutely critical week for global stocks. Coming into December, more than half of the 93 largest stock market indexes ...
Irish regulator nixes Teddy Sagi’s AvaTrade acquisition
December 14th, 2015
Playtech’s dream of becoming a major player in the online foreign exchange trading market has been left in ruins. Online gambling software provider Playtech Cyprus Ltd. (LSE:PTEC), controlled by Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi, has dropped its bid to buy Israeli ...
Tour Operators: Which countries to substitute Turkey, Egypt for Russian tourists
December 10th, 2015
UAE, Thailand, India to substitute Turkey, Egypt for Russian tourists Tour operators have seen an increase in the demand for Middle East and Asia tours following ‘the loss’ of Egypt and Turkey destinations, the newspaper Kommersant wrote on Friday. ...
FBI has lead in probe of 1.2 billion stolen Web credentials: documents
November 25th, 2015
A hacker who once advertised having access to user account information for websites like Facebook (FB.O) and Twitter (TWTR.N) has been linked through a Russian email address to the theft of a record 1.2 billion Internet credentials, the FBI ...
Bitcoin exhange allegedly owned by bank hack mastermind pleaded not guilty to money laundering
November 18th, 2015
Murgio pleads not guilty to charges of money laundering Bitcoin exchange allegedly owned by bank hack mastermind A man accused of operating a bitcoin exchange allegedly owned by the mastermind of a criminal enterprise that hacked at least nine ...
JPMorgan’s 2014 Hack Tied to Largest Cyber Breach Ever
November 11th, 2015
Online gambling, bitcoin scam, money laundering among charges Hackers took data on 100 million customers, U.S. alleges The U.S. described a vast, multi-year criminal enterprise centering on hacks of at least nine big financial and publishing firms and the ...
Noble Energy on Eastern Mediterranean Gas Shortfalls
November 5th, 2015
Noble Energy: Eastern Mediterranean Gas Shortfalls will more than Double by 2025 Noble Energy Eyes Growing Gas Market Eastern Asia is generating plenty of interest for its future natural gas needs, but Noble Energy (ticker: NBL) believes its own ...
Snapshots of Well-Being Across High-Income Countries
November 4th, 2015
Well-being is a multidimensional concept, for countries as well as for individuals. Thus, in the recent OECD report “How’s Life 2015: Measuring Well-Being,” the emphasis goes well beyond basic one-dimensional measures of well-being like per capita GDP and offers comparisons ...
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 ...
Why Vladimir Putin Won’t Be Helping OPEC to Cut Oil Production
September 11th, 2015
Past attempts at cooperation proved `dismal and disappointing’ Siberian winter makes it difficult to be swing oil producer Few things have more potential to spook the oil market than the prospect of Russia joining forces with OPEC. Speculation that such ...
