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Gold Flat As Markets Eye US Housing, Employment Data
July 23rd, 2014
Gold is flat on Wednesday, as the spot price stands at $1307.44 per ounce late the European session. There is just one event on today’s schedule, Crude Oil Inventories. Investors are waiting for new economic data, and on Thursday ...
Bank of England unease grows despite keeping rates at 0.5%
July 23rd, 2014
Bank of England policymakers are growing increasingly uneasy at leaving interest rates at a record low of 0.5%, minutes of their latest meeting revealed. The public record of the July meeting of the Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) showed ...
New York Fed Censured Deutsche Bank Over Inaccurate, Unreliable Financial Reporting
July 23rd, 2014
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York found several deficiencies in the way German lender Deutsche Bank AG’s (NYSE:DB) U.S. unit was reporting its financial data, which, according to a Wall Street Journal report Tuesday, the company had known ...
Watch what markets don’t do as world politics turns nasty
July 23rd, 2014
Like so much in the investment world of late, it’s what financial markets are not doing right now that is most intriguing. Over the course of the past month, conflicts, superpower standoffs and economic sanctions have flared in ...
Here’s Yet Another Problem in Platinum Supply
July 22nd, 2014
It’s no secret the platinum mining industry has been suffering of late. With mineworker strikes in South Africa having caused significant losses of production. And now there’s another problem. In the world’s third-largest platinum producing nation: Zimbabwe. The news ...
The Real Reason Banks Don’t Like Bitcoin
July 22nd, 2014
Banks are reluctant to work with bitcoin, that fact has been well known in the community for some time. Until now, though, few concrete reasons have been given as to why. New statements from a senior banking practitioner in ...
LinkedIn hires former Yahoo legal chief as its new general counsel
July 22nd, 2014
LinkedIn has hired former Yahoo general counsel Michael Callahan to head the global professional networking site’s legal function. Callahan will take on the mantle of vice president, general counsel and secretary on 28 July, reporting into the company’s CEO ...
IA ANALYSIS: FATCA is stranger than fiction
July 22nd, 2014
FATCA was implemented worldwide at the beginning of this month, but the impact (and costs) are only now just beginning to filter through to the financial services community. Part of the US Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (HIRE), ...
Technical Analysis Gold Stable Ahead of Key US Data
July 22nd, 2014
Gold has edged lower on Tuesday, as the spot price stands at $1306.09 per ounce in the European session. On the release front, it’s a busy day in the US, highlighted by Core CPI and Existing Home Sales, the ...
Sweden Calls For EU Ruling On Bitcoin Taxation
July 22nd, 2014
Sweden has asked the European Union to provide definitive rules on the Value Added Tax treatment of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, after concerns raised by the nation about the UK’s revised position, issued in March. On June 2, 2014, ...
