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Global Value Chains and Rethinking Production and Trade
September 2nd, 2015
Back in the 1920s and 1930s, manufacturing often meant enormous factories that tried to bring as many activities as possible under one roof–what economists call “vertical integration.” However, the trend in recent decades has been toward “global value chains,” ...
Russia’s Fist Just Clenched Around the Internet a Little Tighter
September 2nd, 2015
A new Russian law imposes restrictions on foreign Internet firms. It’s a feeling locals already know all too well. Global Internet firms operating in Russia wake up on Tuesday to a new era in Kremlin regulation. A law now ...
Asian stocks decline as China twin PMIs sap risk appetite
September 1st, 2015
Asian stocks declined on Tuesday, as losses on Wall Street overnight and new manufacturing data out of the world’s second-largest economy curbed risk appetite. China’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) edged down to 49.7 in August from 50 in July, just ...
Japan reports inflation, household spending soften in July
August 28th, 2015
The backdrop to the wild drama in financial markets over the past few weeks is a less dramatic but more daunting reality: the deep-seated challenges for sustaining long-term growth, especially for aging economies like Japan’s. Japan released data Friday ...
Plus500: Interim Results for the six months ended 30 June 2015
August 27th, 2015
Plus500, a leading online service provider for retail customers to trade CFDs internationally, hereby announces its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2015. Financial Highlights: Revenues up 20% to $127 million (H1 2014: $106.2 million) EBITDA1 down ...
EXANTE’s comment on the hearing of August 24, 2015
August 27th, 2015
Howard Schiffman, a former SEC prosecutor, and Eric A. Bensky of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, represented EXANTE in SEC proceeding last Monday. At the session, EXANTE counsel noted that “EXANTE didn’t trade” and is “not a proprietary trader.” ...
Investors and brokers agree landmark share-dealing code
August 26th, 2015
The investment industry has taken a major step to improve client returns by agreeing a new code of conduct with brokers to help large share deals complete at the best possible price. The code will help to ensure that ...
U.S. banks moved billions in trades beyond CFTC’s reach
August 24th, 2015
This spring, traders and analysts working deep in the global swaps markets began picking up peculiar readings: Hundreds of billions of dollars of trades by U.S. banks had seemingly vanished. “We saw strange things in the data,” said Chris ...
Bitnet and PAY.ON Enter Strategic Partnership to Enable PSPs Globally
August 19th, 2015
Bitnet and PAY.ON Enter Strategic Partnership to Enable PSPs Globally to Offer Simplified Bitcoin Acceptance Bitnet, an enterprise bitcoin payments processor, and PAY.ON, a leading provider of white label global payment gateway solutions, today announced a strategic partnership that ...
Another Monday, Another Batch Of Brutal Numbers
August 17th, 2015
The global recovery meme got another series of jolts this morning, as pretty much everything suprised on the downside. In no particular order: ” Japan economy shrinks in second quarter in setback for ‘Abenomics’ China’s economic ...
