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Yen Set for Fifth Weekly Loss on Elections
November 21st, 2014
The yen rose, paring the sharpest five-week drop since 1995, after Japan’s Finance Minister Taro Aso said the currency had depreciated too rapidly. Japan’s currency has fallen against all except one of its 31 major counterparts this week before Japan ...
Best Buy profit beats, sending shares higher
November 20th, 2014
Best Buy reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat analysts’ expectations on Thursday, sending shares sharply higher in premarket trading. Following the report, shares of Best Buy rose more than 8 percent in trading prior to the opening bell. The ...
Cheap-Oil Era Tilts Geopolitical Power to U.S.
November 20th, 2014
A new age of abundant and cheap energy supplies is redrawing the world’s geopolitical landscape, weakening and potentially threatening the legitimacy of some governments while enhancing the power of others. Some changes already are evident. Surging U.S. oil production enabled America ...
As Ruble Falls Even Teeth Cost Too Much to Fix
November 19th, 2014
In Rostov-on-Don, a Russian port city of 1.1 million people just east of the Ukrainian border, signs of the fallout from the ruble’s collapse are everywhere. There’s the 27-year-old entrepreneur whose storage facility is packed to the ceiling with ...
Dollar hits seven-year high vs yen ahead of Fed minutes
November 19th, 2014
The dollar hit a seven-year high against the yen on Wednesday ahead of minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting, as investors bet on an increasingly divergent outlook for the world’s major economies. European stock markets turned ...
Permits Rise to Six-Year High as U.S. Housing Starts Decrease
November 19th, 2014
Residential-construction permits in the U.S. climbed in October to a six-year high, pointing to a pickup in homebuilding after activity cooled because of a slowdown in multifamily projects. Groundbreakings for single-family homes, condominiums and apartments fell 2.8 percent to a ...
Chief legal ombudsman quits after accounts probe
November 19th, 2014
The chief legal ombudsman has resigned from his £161,000 post following a dispute in relation to the unpublished annual accounts of the complaints service. A spokesman for the ombudsman’s office said this morning: ‘We can confirm that Adam Sampson ...
Technology In Accounting: Banks Should Mind the Gap
November 19th, 2014
Financial institutions often turn to technology to meet increases in regulatory and reporting demands, dedicating large and ever-increasing portions of their budgets each year to investments in tools and solutions that promise to help meet new regulatory requirements and ...
Blackstone chases Buffett with ‘core’ private equity
November 19th, 2014
Blackstone Group LP has reached out to its biggest fund investors about investing in a new investment vehicle with a longer investment horizon than the typical 10-year private equity fund, according to people familiar with the matter. Dubbed “core” ...
Japanese shares lose steam, Asian shares slip
November 19th, 2014
Japanese shares gave up early gains on Wednesday as investors booked profits after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delayed a tax hike and said he would call a snap election to seek a fresh mandate for his economic policies. Asian ...
