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FCA UK warns about a clone investment firm
October 8th, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of UK has issued a press release to warn public for a clone firm that fraudsters use as part of their tactics to scam people in the UK. The Clone firm’s details are: Equerry ...
Saxo Bank sees opportunity in emerging markets amid falling global growth and a tumultuous start to Q4
October 7th, 2015
The plunge in the price of oil and other commodities has scores of emerging markets under severe pressure. And yet, it is in emerging markets that Saxo Bank sees most hope. As risks to global growth increase, the timing ...
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 ...
EU Court Says Data-Transfer Pact With U.S. Violates Privacy
October 7th, 2015
Decision will affect about 4,500 companies that move, store personal data The European Union’s highest court on Tuesday struck down a trans-Atlantic pact used by thousands of companies to transfer Europeans’ personal information to the U.S., throwing into jeopardy ...
IMF: Uncertainty, Complex Forces Weigh on Global Growth
October 7th, 2015
Global growth moderate and uneven, forecast at 3.1 percent this year, 3.6 percent in 2016 Disparate fortunes between the advanced and emerging market and developing economies Lower commodity prices weigh on commodity exporters The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) foresees ...
Wake Up to U.K. Exit Risks, Banks Tell Investors as Polls Shift
October 6th, 2015
Societe Generale sees risk of U.K. leaving EU as high as 45% Europe threatens to overshadow Conservative Party conference Investors are being urged to tune into the looming political battle over the U.K.’s membership of the European Union amid signs ...
Japan Leads Asian Shares Higher
October 6th, 2015
Markets across Asia rallied Tuesday, with shares in Japan rising on bets that its central bank may further loosen monetary policy at its meeting this week. Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average was up 1%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index and ...
NIRP, its likelihood and effect on commodities
October 5th, 2015
In last week’s article I pointed out that negative interest rates should lead to a general shift in consumer preferences from money towards essential goods. Central bankers may wish for this outcome on a controlled basis to allow them ...
Asia Stocks Jump With Won After Weak U.S. Data; Glencore Surges
October 5th, 2015
Odds of 2015 liftoff pared as U.S. payrolls trail estimates Copper leads metals, commodities higher; China still closed Asian stocks jumped with emerging-market currencies and commodities after U.S.employment and factory reports came in well below estimates, undermining the case ...
The Global Economic Outlook
September 29th, 2015
Global markets have endured a tough summer, hit by a financial crisis that had its origins in China, but spread quickly to other parts of the world. Trillions of dollars have been wiped out in equity values and some ...
