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Global markets ‘living on borrowed time’: Wilbur Ross
November 17th, 2014
Global financial markets are living on borrowed time with geopolitical crises and deflationary risks still a concern, private-equity billionaire Wilbur Ross told CNBC. “I think are living on borrowed time because investors have no alternatives,” the chairman and ...
Purse.io Immune to Brawker Amazon Wishlist Scam;”What Happens Under the Hood Actually Matters”
November 17th, 2014
Following recent coverage of a potential exploit on services that rely on Amazon Wishlist for order fulfillment, Purse.io, a Bitcoin service that allows users to “buy” goods on Amazon using Bitcoin at a heavily discounted price, has clarified that ...
Iraq and Kurds Reach Deal on Oil Exports and Budget Payments
November 14th, 2014
Iraq’s central government and the autonomous region of Kurdistan reached an interim agreement on Thursday over oil exports and budget payments, at least temporarily easing a bitter dispute that has threatened the government’s stability. The standoff began earlier this ...
Standard Chartered to close MidEast branches
November 13th, 2014
Standard Chartered is set to cull an unspecified number of branches in the Middle East, as part of plans to cut up to 100 locations in emerging markets next year in a bid to save $400 million. The global ...
Suit Accuses Banks of Role in Financing Terror Attacks
November 11th, 2014
The suit accuses banks — including HSBC and Barclays — of helping to finance the violent activities through their ties to Iran, painting Wall Street as a sort of middleman of terror. Those acts of terrorism occurred a world away ...
Over 1,000 business leaders support fundamental change to UK’s relationship with the EU
November 10th, 2014
More than 1,000 business leaders have signed up to the campaign group Business for Britain, which lobbies for significant change to Britain’s relationship with the EU. An advert with all the signatories was published in today’s Sunday Telegraph. The ...
No Longer Business as Usual in China
November 10th, 2014
With heads of state and corporate chieftains in Beijing for a major economic summit meeting this week, China’s increasing economic nationalism is expected to be heavily debated. China is changing the rule book for business, forcing multinational companies to ...
Brothers slammed for forex ‘gamble’
November 10th, 2014
Two financial advisers and a company of which they are both directors have been ordered to repay a couple who lost more than R700 000, because they invested most of their savings – including the proceeds from the sale ...
Platt’s $50 Billion Hedge-Fund Dream Deferred
November 10th, 2014
When billionaire Michael Platt flew to the Middle East in September 2013, he was running one of the world’s largest hedge funds. He wanted to make it bigger. He told investors at the region’s sovereign-wealth funds that his BlueCrest ...
E.C.B. Threatened to End Funding Unless Ireland Took Bailout, Letters Show
November 10th, 2014
Newly released documents suggest that Ireland was pressured into a controversial 67.5 billion euro bailout that left taxpayers rescuing crippled banks, reigniting a fierce debate about the international aid that Dublin accepted after the financial crash. An exchange of letters, ...
