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SEC Charges Former Professional Football Player With Running $10 Million Fraud
August 11th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Merrill Robertson Jr., a former player for the Philadelphia Eagles, with defrauding investors, including coaches he knew from his time playing football for the Fork Union Military Academy and the University of ...
London no longer world’s most expensive city
August 8th, 2016
The British capital now ranks third behind New York and Hong Kong as the cities with the highest property values, according to luxury real estate broker Savills. The falling pound has accelerated the cooling real estate market following the ...
North Korea’s only foreign-founded law firm suspends operations
August 3rd, 2016
North Korea’s first and only law firm set up by a foreigner, Hay, Kalb & Associates, will suspend operations, the firm’s principal said in a statement on, as the country grows increasingly isolated. The firm is a joint venture ...
Greek Government Reports Nearly EU 1 Billion in Tax Evasion Fines, Asset Seizures
August 3rd, 2016
The Government of Greece has opened hundreds of tax-evasion cases against citizens suspected of hiding assets outside of country borders, already assessing some EU 810 million in fines from suspected scofflaws, according to Special Financial Prosecutor Panagiotis Athanasiou. The government, which began ...
China stocks firm on property shares; Hong Kong hit by global weakness
August 3rd, 2016
China stocks edged higher on Wednesday as property shares rallied for a second day and on growing expectations of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reforms. But trading volume in Shanghai, which shrank to a two-month low on Tuesday, remained thin amid ...
AMF bans Rodeler Limited (24option) from providing financial services in France
August 3rd, 2016
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has issued an announcement to inform that: The service provider Rodeler Limited (regulated by the Cypriot financial regulatory agency) offers access to binary options, particularly Forex, through the website “http://www.24option.com/fr” and does not ...
The Reserve Bank of Australia decided to lower the cash rate by 25 basis points
August 2nd, 2016
At its meeting today, the Board decided to lower the cash rate by 25 basis points to 1.50 per cent, effective 3 August 2016. The global economy is continuing to grow, at a lower than average pace. Several advanced economies have recorded ...
Most European Banks Survive Stress Test
August 1st, 2016
European regulators gave most banks a clean bill of health in “stress tests” despite the Continent’s sluggish growth and low interest rates, saying only a clutch of lenders would struggle to ride out a hypothetical severe economic downturn. The European ...
Morgan Stanley Warns Currency Traders Worst to Come for Dollar
August 1st, 2016
The dollar is set to fall 5 percent in the next few months, the Federal Reserve isn’t raising interest rates anytime soon and U.S. economic data is only going to get worse. That’s what Morgan Stanley chief global currency ...
Brexit post-mortem
July 29th, 2016
It is a month after Britain’s surprise vote to leave the EU. A new Conservative Prime Minister and Chancellor are in place, both David Cameron and George Osborne having fallen on their swords. The third man in the losing ...