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Asia stocks slip, euro hits 11-year low before ECB
March 5th, 2015
Asian stocks slipped on Thursday after Wall Street continued to pull back from record highs ahead of Friday’s closely-watched U.S. jobs data, while the nervous euro languished at an 11-year low prior to the European Central Bank‘s policy meeting. ...
China freezes accounts of metals-trading giant Trafigura
March 4th, 2015
Chinese police have frozen two bank accounts held by Trafigura, one of the world’s three largest private oil and metals traders, as the authorities investigate an alleged $32 million gasoline-trade fraud, according to three sources. Police have held Beijing-based ...
Dollar clings near 11-year high ahead of U.S. data, ECB
March 4th, 2015
The dollar held firm near an 11-year high versus a basket of major currencies on Wednesday, as investors awaited U.S. economic data and a European Central Bank meeting later this week for fresh clues on policy direction. The dollar index edged ...
Six Reasons Why Economists Should Say Less About “Competition”
March 3rd, 2015
A short essay of mine titled “The Blurry Line Between Competition and Cooperation,” was published a month ago at the Library of Economics and Liberty website. I argued that the rule-based competition in economic markets is inextricably intermingled with ...
Gold may take a shine to $1,700 an oz. by 2016
March 2nd, 2015
Don’t expect to see much of a climb in gold prices this year, but a spike to $1,700 an ounce or more could come as early as the summer of 2016. Gold futures prices on Comex closed at $1,210.10 ...
LedgerX Selects Ancoa to provide platform for monitoring bitcoin options trading
March 2nd, 2015
Ancoa has issued a press release informing that: LedgerX Selects Ancoa to Deliver First Real-Time Market Surveillance Capability for Bitcoin Options Trading Ancoa and LedgerX today announced that LedgerX has selected Ancoa to provide the first real-time market and ...
Investors Are Mistakenly Assured By Two Shaky Generalities
March 2nd, 2015
Investors are complacent, even confident, regarding the prospects for 2015. That is in spite of the market being at valuation levels higher than all but one previous market peak of the last 100 years, while the economy appears to ...
International and regional bodies that combat money laundering (part B)
March 2nd, 2015
Introduction Money laundering is a global phenomenon that thrives parasitically on the world’s financial markets. It ignores national boundaries in much the same way that the financial market place does. It has been accepted that this problem requires both ...
Biggest Global Banks Go to Pieces Under Pressure From Regulators
February 27th, 2015
Global regulators have issued dozens of rules aimed at making the biggest banks safer. That’s leading to another result some wanted: making them shrink. HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest bank by market value, said this week it’s considering “extreme ...
Bank of England could issue own digital currency
February 27th, 2015
Like its counterparts in the US, the Bank of England is pondering the implications of issuing its own digital currency. The potential of a central bank-backed digital currency is touched on with the publication of the BofE’s ‘One Bank Research ...
