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EUR/USD tests monthly S2
May 29th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook The selling pressure is likely to somewhat subside, considering that the currency pair is approaching a potentially tough support at 1.3582, consisting of the monthly S2 and weekly S1. Nevertheless, EUR/USD is expected to preserve the bearish ...
Facebook seeks to buy WhatsApp
May 28th, 2014
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) has asked the European Union to review its plan to buy Internet messaging service WhatsApp. The Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday that instead of risking long-term delay to individual country review of the deal, that ...
Credit Agricole Said to Accuse EU of Bias in Euribor Case
May 28th, 2014
Credit Agricole SA (ACA), which refused to settle an antitrust probe over Euribor manipulation, accused European Union regulators of bias and said they should step down from the case, according to two people with knowledge of a letter the ...
Levine on Wall Street: Wise Rabbits and Philosophical Regulators
May 28th, 2014
Paul McCulley is back. Pimco’s new chief economist is Paul McCulley, back for his third stint at the firm that he previously left in 1992, returned to in 1999, and left again in 2010. So he knows what the ...
Japanese Lawmakers to Lobby Abe for Russian Gas Pipeline
May 28th, 2014
Japanese lawmakers are reviving efforts for a 600 billion yen ($5.9 billion) natural gas pipeline from Russia, which last week signed a supply deal with China, to cut energy costs after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. A group of 33 ...
Former Barclays New York Trio Face Libor Charges in U.K. Court
May 27th, 2014
Three former Barclays Plc (BARC) New York derivatives traders appeared at a London court after being charged with manipulating Libor by U.K. prosecutors, in the second group from the British bank to face U.K. criminal action. Ryan Reich, Alex ...
European Central Bank comes down against Bitcoin
May 27th, 2014
Yves Mersch, a member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB), speaking at the Bargeld-symposium of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt, has come down firmly against Bitcoin. Whereas, this will probably not come as much of ...
CIPA announces naturalization Scheme
May 27th, 2014
The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus (ICPAC) has announced the Scheme for Naturalization of Investors In Cyprus By Exception, as published by the CIPA (Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency). The paper includes all the necessary information for the Naturalization ...
Dear Investors: China’s Problems Are Your Problems
May 27th, 2014
I have long argued that it will take a sizable shock to switch the current “risk on” investment climate to one of “risk off.” The robust U.S. stock market persists even though the housing recovery has stagnated, labor markets ...
Hello Binary Opens representative Office in Cyprus
May 27th, 2014
Hello Binary is expanding its operations, opening a representative office in Cyprus. This will be the company’s second expansion this year, having previously opened its first representative office in Shanghai. As part of the Hello Binary service package, a ...
