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SEC Charges Hedge Fund Advisory Firm
June 24th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a West Palm Beach, Fla.-based hedge fund advisory firm and its founder with fraudulently shifting money from one investment to another without informing investors. The firm’s founder and another individual later ...
Post-Crash Economics
June 19th, 2014
In last month’s European Parliament election, euroskeptic and extremist parties won 25% of the popular vote, with the biggest gains chalked up in France, the United Kingdom, and Greece. These results were widely, and correctly, interpreted as showing the ...
EUR/USD Daily Chart – Technical Analysis
June 12th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook The currency pair closed below the weekly S1, but seems to be already losing its downward momentum ahead of the main support at 1.3481/75. Moreover, less daily technical indicators are giving ‘sell’ signals than yesterday, meaning there ...
Microsoft fights U.S. search warrant for customer e-mails held in overseas server
June 11th, 2014
Microsoft, one of the world’s largest e-mail providers, is resisting a government search warrant to compel the firm to turn over customer data held in a server located overseas. In what could be a landmark case, the Redmond, Wash., ...
EUR/USD Daily Chart – Technical Analysis
June 11th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook EUR/USD closed below the weekly S1 yesterday, meaning there are no significant supports left to guard the key level at 1.3481/75—monthly S1 and, more importantly, the 2014 low. Depreciation of the Euro beyond this point in the ...
Will Russia’s friendship with China work?
June 6th, 2014
When Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping signed a huge gas deal last month, the timing couldn’t have been better. It was on the eve of the Putin’s St Petersburg Forum, and just weeks after ...
EU to Decide Next Week on Irish, Dutch Tax-Breaks Probe
June 6th, 2014
The European Union may open a formal probe as soon as next week into tax breaks that Ireland and the Netherlands use to attract international companies, according to people familiar with the case. The European Commission is scheduled to ...
Xiaomi’s Phones Have Conquered China. Now It’s Aiming for the Rest of the World
June 6th, 2014
On May 15, behind the curving, imperial facade of the China National Convention Center in Beijing, a veteran technology executive named Lei Jun walks onstage before a thousand raucous fans and members of the media. It’s a familiar scene ...
Commodities markets summary
June 4th, 2014
ENERGY US oil prices edged higher in quiet trade, a day ahead of a key weekly report on US petroleum inventories, while Brent prices slipped in London. The US benchmark futures contract, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for delivery in ...
GBP/USD Daily Chart – Technical Analysis
June 4th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook Perhaps not at the initially estimated speed, but GBP/USD is nevertheless moving south. Accordingly, soon there is going to be a test of the 100-day SMA. If this support remains intact, there is likely to be a ...