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Halliburton Agrees To Pay $1.1 Billion To Avoid Future Claims
September 4th, 2014
Halliburton Co. has reached a settlement in U.S. District Court in New Orleans to pay $1.1 billion to resolve most of the claims against it arising from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in a ...
Bank of Japan Stands Pat on Monetary Policy
September 4th, 2014
The Bank of Japan maintained its massive monetary stimulus and its upbeat view on the economy on Thursday, unfazed by recent signs the pain from an April sales tax rise may last longer than expected and make its inflation ...
Apple’s drop below $100 costs investors $26.1 billion
September 4th, 2014
Following news of the latest security attack of Apple’s iCloud service over the weekend and news of a smartphone partnership between Samsung and Facebook (FB), Apple’s AAPL shares were under major pressure. Shares of Apple Wednesday fell $4.36, or ...
The Exaggerated Death of Inflation
September 3rd, 2014
Is the era of high inflation gone forever? In a world of slow growth, high debt, and tremendous distributional pressures, whether inflation is dead or merely dormant is an important question. Yes, massive institutional improvements concerning central banks have ...
Second Trial Approaching for Rowland, Ex-Connecticut Governor
September 3rd, 2014
The accusations are similar. The judge will be different. The last time John G. Rowland, the former governor of Connecticut, appeared at the federal courthouse here as a defendant in a criminal corruption trial, he received a sentence of ...
Bank Seizure Leaves Bulgarians Stranded
September 3rd, 2014
What seemed at first to be a short-term banking crisis is looking more like a chronic condition. But the name of the affliction probably does not matter as much to companies and consumers as the money, about $4 billion ...
U.S. Dollar Gets Stronger
September 3rd, 2014
U.S. dollar bulls are enjoying their moment in the sun after a trying start to the year, and analysts told CNBC the good times could continue. The greenback strengthened to a seven month high against the yen in early ...
WEF: UK moves up global economic list
September 3rd, 2014
The UK has edged up the global rankings in a major annual economic survey by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Its Global Competitiveness Report sees the UK rise one spot to ninth on the list, while Switzerland and Singapore ...
Swedish regulator warns against unauthorised firm
September 2nd, 2014
The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen) has today published a statement in order to warn investors against dealing with unauthorised firms. Stratford Private Equity PLC has not received authorisation from Finansinspektionen and therefore is not entitled to provide financial ...
U.S. Stock Futures Are Little Changed Before Output Data
September 2nd, 2014
U.S. stock-index futures were little changed, after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index recorded its biggest monthly gain since February, before data that may show manufacturing in the world’s biggest economy continued to expand in August. Apple Inc. and ...
