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One of the World’s largest Mutual Fund wants to trademark Fidelitycoin
July 27th, 2015
FMR LLC, which is the parent company of Fidelity Investments, has filed with the US Patent Office and Trademark Office to trademark “FIDELITYCOIN.” Application number 86699431 concerns “financial services, namely, financial exchange services for virtual currency; electronic wallets; charitable services in ...
Greece’s headache: how to lift the capital controls?
July 27th, 2015
It is just the headache Greece‘s government does not need right now: how can it loosen the capital controls that are shielding its banks, but strangling the rest of the economy? For the past month, Greece has been financially ...
7 bitcoin-related court cases
July 24th, 2015
Bitcoin is back in the headlines again this week, but for all the wrong reasons. It surfaced yesterday that two operators of bitcoin exchange Coin.mx were being charged by US prosecutors for working without a money transmission license. This ...
Gold turns lower as US data takes pressure off dollar
July 24th, 2015
Gold turned lower on Thursday, dipping back below $1,100 an ounce as a steeper-than-forecast drop in U.S. jobless claims helped the dollar recover from earlier lows, though prices remained under pressure after this week’s plunge. Gold posted its deepest ...
Commodities Collapsed Just Before The Last Stock Market Crash – So Guess What Is Happening Right Now?
July 23rd, 2015
If we were going to see a stock market crash in the United States in the fall of 2015 (to use a hypothetical example), we would expect to see commodity prices begin to crash a few months ahead of ...
5 Ways that Cryptocurrency Improves Lives
July 23rd, 2015
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin can improve lives. That’s an undisputable fact that we have seen evidence for over and over again. Below we have listed five ways cryptocurrency improves lives. Let us know in the comment field how you think ...
FATCA Faces Lawsuit, Taxpayer Advocate’s Criticisms
July 23rd, 2015
As I expected, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and its related controversies have not gone gently into that good political night. For starters, Republican U.S. Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky is part of a legal battle, filed ...
European Banks Face Capital Hit From Second-Quarter Bond Selloff
July 23rd, 2015
The bond market selloff in the second quarter probably dented the capital defenses of many European banks, with lenders in Italy and Spain hit hardest. The extent of the damage will be disclosed when banks report earnings starting this ...
Does A Commodities Crash Mean Global Depression, Mass-Devaluation Or Both?
July 22nd, 2015
First, precious metals peaked and began drifting lower. Then copper fell, oil plunged and it became obvious that these weren’t isolated events. The entire commodities complex — that is, all the physical inputs a modern economy uses to power, ...
A profound change for China’s SOEs
July 22nd, 2015
The rapid rise of China’s outbound direct investment in the past decade is a significant economic phenomenon, one met with a lot of resistance in some destination countries, particularly due to the abundance of state-owned enterprises. But despite concerns over ...