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Web sales of EU enterprises
January 5th, 2018
16% of all enterprises located in the EU and employing at least 10 people received orders via a website or apps (web sales) in 2016. Using their own website or apps largely prevailed among these EU businesses. More than ...
FCA released a statement on transitional arrangements for trading venues under MiFIR Article 54(2)
January 4th, 2018
Under Article 54(2) of the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (“MiFIR”), an EU Central Counterparty (CCP) or trading venue may apply to its Competent Authority for a transitional arrangement in relation to exchange-traded derivatives, under which the open access ...
Grant Thornton fined $1.5 Million
January 4th, 2018
PCAOB Announces $1.5 Million Settlement with Grant Thornton for Quality Control Violations and Audit Failures. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board today announced a $1.5 million civil penalty and censure against Grant Thornton LLP for violations of quality control ...
Investors review: Asian stocks headed toward fresh historic highs; Euro was little changed
January 4th, 2018
Asian stocks headed toward fresh historic highs, with Japan’s markets coming back from New Year holidays to see solid gains in the wake of U.S. records. Oil rose, while gold slipped. With Japanese benchmarks heading for the biggest one-day ...
The Bank of England is Entertaining its Own Official Cryptocurrency
January 3rd, 2018
As originally reported by The Telegraph, the Bank of England may approve the creation of a state-sponsored cryptocurrency within the year. Just last year, the bank announced it had commissioned a theoretical currency, RS Coin, which could be used ...
Oil prices close to mid-2015 highs, but doubts over further rises loom
January 3rd, 2018
Oil prices were stable on Wednesday, not far off mid-2015 highs reached the previous session, as strong demand and ongoing efforts led by OPEC and Russia to curb production tightened the market. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures ...
This is the currency that performs best at the start of a new year
January 3rd, 2018
If you are wondering which currency, other than the U.S. dollar, to hold at the start of a new year, past trades show you’ll be better off with euros. Using data analytics platform Kensho, CNBC looked at the average ...
U.S. oil prices hit highest since mid-2015
December 29th, 2017
U.S. oil prices hit their highest levels since mid-2015 on the final trading day of the year as an unexpected fall in American production and a fall in commercial crude inventories stoked buying. In international markets, Brent crude oil ...
Investment prospects for 2018
December 29th, 2017
Predicting the future is a mug’s game, and in financial markets we simply cannot know tomorrow’s prices. All we can do is make assessments of the factors that can be expected to influence them. Economists’ forecasts today, with ...
Facebook has a giant, Europe-sized legal problem
December 28th, 2017
Europe continues to be a giant pain in Facebook’s app. Germany and France this week both hammered Facebook for its data practices, though in different ways. Germany’s competition regulator declared on Monday that Facebook is using its dominance in ...
