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China stocks are giving investors a nasty case of whiplash
June 30th, 2015
China stocks resumed their volatile decline on Tuesday, compounding losses that have erased trillion of dollars in market value in recent weeks. The Shanghai Composite dropped as much as 6% in morning trading, before bouncing back. The performance pushed ...
Asia stocks bounce back but Greece uncertainty still looms
June 30th, 2015
Asian stock markets bounced back Tuesday, recouping some of the previous day’s sharp losses, but investors remained worried the crisis in Greece could spread to other financially weak countries. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.4 percent to 20,189.02 after ...
Top Stories of the day June 29
June 29th, 2015
News of the day are around Greek crisis and what is the next day. Trading firms are on alert regarding currency volatility where National Bank of Switzerland confirmed that intervened in markets. 1. In wake of MPs approving plebiscite, ...
Greek referendum is a Machiavellian plot
June 29th, 2015
Alexis Tsipras gambles on Greece’s future with a sham referendum. A few days ago, in the euro summit on June 22, all indications were that Europe’s political beasts and IMF representatives were ready to accept the latest proposal of ...
Capital controls: How Greeks and tourists will be hit
June 29th, 2015
For the average Greek, capital controls have now gone from threat to reality. But what does this mean in practice? On Monday morning, employees of the National Bank of Greece, the country’s largest commercial bank, were continuing to go ...
The Greek Bank Run is real – Bitcoin an option?
June 29th, 2015
So, as it turns out, people are trying to get all of their money out of the banks in Greece. We suspected this might happen. Everyone in the Bitcoin community is saying these people should convert to Bitcoin. Is ...
Bank of Israel imposed financial sanctions on an Israel bank regarding prohibition on Money Laundering and Terror Financing
June 29th, 2015
The Bank of Israel has issued a press release to inform that: On June 28, 2015, the Banking Corporations Sanctions Committee regarding the prohibition on money laundering and terror financing decided to impose a financial sanction of NIS 4.2 ...
On Monday, It’s China Versus Greece
June 29th, 2015
Fear and greed are both getting a serious workout lately, but Monday will be even more fun than usual because of two big stories that hit over the weekend. First, Greece decided to put the draconian demands of its ...
UAE among priority countries for Standard Chartered
June 26th, 2015
Standard Chartered has outlined a plan to spend more money growing its business in emerging-market countries including the UAE, where the fallout from lower commodity prices has not been as crippling as it has been in countries such as ...
Regulatory Fine
June 26th, 2015
Global Regulators Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) Fines Imposed for Year 2015 and 2016