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U.S. Federal Court enters $14 Million Judgment against Options Trader
October 12th, 2018
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Judge John Robert Blakey of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a Consent Order for Permanent Injunction (Consent Order), which resolves charges against Defendant Thomas ...
British pound is facing continued pressure on Friday morning
October 12th, 2018
The British pound is facing continued pressure on Friday morning after Liam Fox, Michael Gove and Dominic Raab spoke out against the UK PM at a senior ministers Brexit meeting in Downing Street last night. The Pound to Euro ...
We should ditch GDP as a measure of economic activity
October 10th, 2018
This article exposes the false economic concepts behind GDP, which is only the visible tip of a large iceberg of economic deceit. Describing an increase in GDP as economic growth owes its meagre validity to imprecise definition. An ...
Global stocks extended declines Tuesday
October 10th, 2018
Global stocks extended declines Tuesday, taking European markets past a six month and pulling U.S. equity futures into the red, following a downbeat assessment of world economic growth from the International Monetary Fund and a renewed rise in U.S. ...
U.S. District Court finds that virtual currencies are commodities
October 9th, 2018
On September 26, 2018, Senior Judge Rya W. Zobel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, entered an order holding that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has the power to prosecute fraud involving virtual currency ...
Italy Calls Europe’s Bluff — And The Euro Loses Either Way
October 4th, 2018
When Italy elected a bunch of rowdy populists back in March, the rest of the eurozone assumed (or at least hoped) that the weight of responsibility would bring Rome back into line. But so far the Italians appear to ...
Early Stocks Review: Shares in Europe moved higher on Wednesday
October 4th, 2018
The pan-European Stoxx 600 was 0.3 percent higher with almost every sector in positive territory. In Italy, the FTSE MIB, jumped 1.2 percent in early deals. The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported Wednesday that the government is planning ...
Individuals and entities charged in global retail binary options fraud
September 28th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it filed two complaints in federal district courts in Florida against four individuals and three entities and issued seven administrative Orders filing and simultaneously settling charges against seven individuals and two ...
12 Rules For Investing In Junior Miners
September 27th, 2018
Stock discussion boards can be exhausting places, with nuggets of wisdom and occasionally actionable information buried in mountains of invective and aimless meandering. But the nuggets are sometimes worth the search. Here — courtesy of a poster called doourdiligence ...
Euro short-squeeze stage set as currency tests three-month high
September 27th, 2018
Euro bears are holding tight, setting the common currency up for a potential short squeeze that could turbocharge a burgeoning rally. Hedge funds and other large speculators have been adding to their euro short positions, according to the latest ...