Search Results for: mining
Precious metals funds ride gold trade to 120% rally
August 8th, 2016
Gold mining stocks continue to leverage rising gold prices If you have been a gold investor this year, you can be pleased with the 26% gain for the precious metal. But if you had the foresight to leverage that ...
New global tax rules are ‘just a sticking plaster’
August 5th, 2016
New international rules to tackle global tax avoidance will not work properly until tax secrecy is swept away, a report released by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on responsible tax has found. The failure to introduce full transparency ...
Could bitcoin change the game in Africa?
August 4th, 2016
In the wildest of claims, bitcoin – the virtual paperless and stateless currency transacted on the borderless internet – was going to tear apart traditional money transfer companies and help alleviate poverty. Accessing the multibillion-dollar remittance flows to Africa certainly has ...
Greek Government Reports Nearly EU 1 Billion in Tax Evasion Fines, Asset Seizures
August 3rd, 2016
The Government of Greece has opened hundreds of tax-evasion cases against citizens suspected of hiding assets outside of country borders, already assessing some EU 810 million in fines from suspected scofflaws, according to Special Financial Prosecutor Panagiotis Athanasiou. The government, which began ...
Bitcoin Startup Founder Resigns Board Position Amid Fraud Charges
August 1st, 2016
The former executive chairman of a publicly listed Australian digital currency startup has been indicted by the US government for his alleged involvement in a fraudulent text messaging scheme. Zhenya Tsvetnenko was among three parties named in a superseding indictment ...
Police in India nab “3gcoin cryptocurrency” head
July 29th, 2016
Reacting to a complaint lodged by a victim, who was working in a reputed software company that the agents of “3gcoin cryptocurrency” lured him to invest in Virtual mining firm having their website with URL:www.3gcoin.eu by offering 180 times returns ...
ACCA reports increase in reach and influence as membership grows
July 28th, 2016
Leading professional body strengthens global reach and influence through innovation and new partnerships • Membership and student growth tops 5% worldwide as a result of strong membership admissions • Reflects the growing prominence of the industry within economies and ...
Dollar Extends Drop as Japan Leads Stocks Lower; Metals Rise
July 28th, 2016
Odds of Fed rate increase this year remain below 50% South Korean won climbs to October high; yen rebounds The dollar extended losses after the Federal Reserve reiterated its gradual approach to raising interest rates, despite acknowledging risks to ...
FTSE 100: Losers of 2015 are Winners of 2016
July 26th, 2016
Mining stocks rose from the bottom to the top in 2016; becoming the biggest FTSE 100 winners of 2016, reversing their losing streak of 2015. Falling commodity prices dragged down mining stocks in 2015, and it is the oil price ...
The real message from asset inflation
July 22nd, 2016
The earliest signs are developing of hyperinflation, more correctly described as a collapse of the purchasing power of all the major government currencies. Central bankers are almost certainly unaware of this danger, partly because their chosen statistics fail to ...