Asia stocks gain after Fed official signals slow rate rises
April 7th, 2015
Asian stocks rose Tuesday after Wall Street gained on a jump in crude prices and expectations the Federal Reserve will put off an interest rate hike until late in the year. KEEPING SCORE: The Shanghai Composite Index rose 1.8 ...
Asia up after dismal U.S. jobs data, dollar pressured
April 6th, 2015
Asian shares rose and the dollar steadied but remained under pressure on Monday, after a dismal U.S. jobs report led investors to pare bets the U.S. Federal Reserve would hike interest rates anytime soon. Major European markets were closed from Friday to ...
IBM hire advisers to deal with restless investors – sources
April 3rd, 2015
Some top shareholders of IBM, disappointed by 11 straight quarters of falling revenues, are seeking help from activist investors to shake up the company, but have been turned down by both Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square and Jeffrey Ubben’s ValueAct, ...
Antitrust and Other Inquiries in Europe Target U.S. Tech Giants
April 3rd, 2015
It is not a good week to be a giant American tech company in Europe. The European antitrust investigation into Google appears to be heating up. More European countries are looking into Facebook’s privacy settings. And Apple, which already is ...
Asian stocks higher after US gains as jobs data awaited
April 3rd, 2015
Asian stock markets were mostly higher in holiday-abbreviated trading Friday following gains on Wall Street as investors awaited American jobs data. Keeping Score: Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 gained 0.3 percent to 19,377 points and Seoul’s Kospi was up 0.5 percent ...
EU Lays Groundwork for Antitrust Charges Against Google
April 2nd, 2015
Regulator seeks permission to publish complaints against Internet giant in long-running probe Europe’s competition regulator is preparing to move against Google Inc. in the next few weeks, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday, setting the stage for charges against the ...
Banks Are Poised to Profit From Forex Tumult
April 2nd, 2015
Swiss central bank’s surprise January move led to volatility that can help Wall Street The big currency swings of the past three months have whipsawed many investors. Wall Street may end up loving the action. As U.S. banks closed ...
Citigroup Report Chides Law Firms for Silence on Hackings
March 31st, 2015
Every month it seems another American company reports being a victim of a hacking that results in the theft of internal or customer information. But the legal profession almost never publicly discloses a breach. The unwillingness of most big ...
Asian stocks mixed as Mideast worries linger, oil eases
March 27th, 2015
Asian stocks were mixed on Friday and the dollar rebounded as rising tensions in the Middle East clouded the investment outlook. Spreadbetters expected Britain’s FTSE .FTSE, Germany’s DAX .GDAXI and France’s CAC.FCHI to tip toe higher while the markets awaited fresh cues from ...
John Rubino
March 26th, 2015
John Rubino John Rubino runs the popular financial website DollarCollapse.com. He is co-author, with GoldMoney’s James Turk, of The Money Bubble (DollarCollapse Press, 2014) and The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit From It (Doubleday, 2007), ...
