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GOLDMAN SACHS: ‘The Blockchain can change… well everything’
December 4th, 2015
Goldman Sachs is a big bull on blockchain, the distributed ledger software that underpins digital currency bitcoin. In an “Emerging Theme Radar” note sent to clients on Wednesday, the bank says: “While the Bitcoin hype cycle has gone quiet, ...
Asian stock markets trade mixed; commodities weigh
December 3rd, 2015
Asian stocks trimmed losses Thursday as oil prices edged up from an over three month low, although the mood remained cautious ahead of key economic events overseas. U.S. crude prices clawed back gains and was up 43 cents or 1.08 ...
Global Crisis: Goldman Sachs Says That Brazil Has Plunged Into ‘An Outright Depression’
December 2nd, 2015
One of the most important banks in the western world says that the 7th largest economy on the entire planet has entered a full-blown economic depression. Brazil’s economy has now contracted for three quarters in a row, and many ...
Over 10,000 people were duped by Bitcoin mining startup, feds say
December 2nd, 2015
SEC: Josh Garza and GAW Miners “robbed one investor to pay another.” On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued the founder of a now-shuttered Bitcoin mining company, alleging that it committed $19 million worth of fraud in a Ponzi scheme. ...
Chinese stocks rally on rumored mortgage tax break
December 2nd, 2015
Chinese markets rallied Wednesday afternoon on speculation of an upcoming incentive to be announced by Beijing to boost the country’s lagging property market. Elsewhere, other Asian equities ended lower on Wednesday as sentiment remained shaky in the region, with ...
Stocks Gain With Copper as Risk Appetite Spreads Across Markets
December 1st, 2015
European, U.S. factory data due after mixed China reports India expected to keep rates on hold after RBA stands pat Asian stocks advanced with commodity-linked currencies and metals as investors focused on the positives in data from the region’s ...
Welcome To The Currency War, Part 20: Corporate Profits Head South, Stock Prices To Follow?
November 26th, 2015
A too-strong currency is, in theory, supposed to make it harder to sell things to cheap-currency countries, thus crimping corporate profits and by implication pretty much everything else. The US dollar has been rising against the rest of ...
Big banks accused of interest rate-swap fixing in U.S. class action suit
November 26th, 2015
A class action lawsuit, filed Wednesday, accuses 10 of Wall Street’s biggest banks and two trading platforms of conspiring to limit competition in the $320 trillion market for interest rate swaps. The class action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court ...
Asia stocks mostly climb on ECB easing prospects
November 26th, 2015
Asian markets were mostly higher on Thursday on the prospect of fresh European stimulus even as new data reinforced expectations for tighter U.S. monetary policy. The euro traded above the $1.06 handle, rebounding after hitting a seven-and-a-half month low of $1.0565 ...
China Said to Ease Control on Brokers’ Proprietary Trading
November 25th, 2015
Regulator issued notice scrapping net long rule, people say CSRC cancels rules as stock market stabilizes after slump China has canceled a rule requiring brokerages to hold daily net long positions in their proprietary trading accounts as the nation’s ...
