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China Fiscal Spending Jumps 26.1% in June
July 14th, 2014
China’s fiscal expenditure surged 26.1 percent in June from a year earlier to 1.65 trillion yuan (155.3 trillion pounds), reflecting government efforts to speed up spending to shore up the economy. Spending growth accelerated from a rise of 24.6 ...
UAE regulator approves new brokerage companies’ regulation
July 14th, 2014
The board of directors of the UAE’s Securities and Commodities Authority, SCA, has approved a new regulation for brokers and amended two other regulations. The new 34-article regulation classifies brokerage firms into (1) those which engage in trading only ...
PwC must face $1 billion lawsuit over MF Global collapse
July 11th, 2014
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected PricewaterhouseCoopers’ request to dismiss a $1 billion lawsuit accusing the auditor of providing bad accounting advice that contributed to the October 2011 collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd, a brokerage run by former ...
CySec: acquisition of CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms) licence
July 11th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that “AMFF Ltd” has successfully obtained the CySec license for CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms). The firm is now authorised to operate legally under the supervision ...
Alibaba’s Behemoth IPO Making Few Ripples in Washington
July 11th, 2014
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA)’s proposal for what could be the largest initial stock offering in U.S. history is sailing through Washington with few bumps. While a federal commission has warned that the offering by the world’s biggest Internet ...
Technical Analysis USD/JPY breaks major up-trend
July 11th, 2014
Technical Analysis USD/JPY for 11/07/2014 Pair’s Outlook USD/JPY is getter farther and farther away from recovery, since it has just closed beneath one of the major trend-lines. This support has kept the upward momentum intact since the first months ...
Eurex Enters FX Trading Business, Could Force CME To Reduce Prices
July 11th, 2014
In its recent monthly volumes breakdown, CME Group reported a decline in trading volumes in the last several months over the year-ago period across almost all derivative classes, other than interest rate derivatives, after a solid start to 2014. ...
Netagio Launches Exchange for Gold, Sterling and Bitcoin Traders
July 11th, 2014
Bitcoin storage firm Netagio has today launched an exchange that allows users to trade bitcoin, pounds sterling and gold. The exchange offers users three order-books, allowing trades between bitcoin and gold, bitcoin and sterling, and gold and sterling. “ ...
Asian shares track Wall St. lower, yen gains
July 11th, 2014
Asian shares recouped early losses on Friday as sentiment in the region proved resilient to Portuguese bank concerns amid signs offshore funds were returning to emerging world assets. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan recovered to be ...
Amazon Sued Over Billing for App Store Purchases
July 11th, 2014
Settling isn’t the Amazon way, whether the dispute is with book publishers or the federal government. The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday filed a suit in a Federal District Court in Seattle, contending that Amazon improperly billed customers for ...
