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Institutional Investors Shift Trading Desk Spending to Technology and Fixed Income
March 1st, 2017
Institutional investors in 2016 increased budgets to fixed-income trading desks in preparation for shifts in the interest-rate environment, and continued to ramp up IT budgets to keep pace with the dramatic changes technology is triggering in financial markets around ...
Eurozone Private Sector Expands Most Since 2011
March 1st, 2017
Eurozone manufacturing activity gathered further momentum in February but the pace of growth was slightly slower than the initial estimate, final data from IHS Markit showed Wednesday. The manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to 55.4 in February from 55.2 ...
Singapore launched multimillion programme to help law firms to adopt technology
March 1st, 2017
A S$2.8 million programme was launched on Monday (Feb 27) to help small- and medium-sized Singapore law firms adopt technology, announced the Ministry of Law, the Law Society of Singapore and SPRING Singapore. Small and medium firms – those ...
Japanese Giant Hitachi Tests Blockchain Tech for 150 Million Member Rewards Program
February 28th, 2017
Hitachi, a major and decades-old Japanese conglomerate and multinational is implementing a blockchain platform onto its popular point management and rewards platform, PointInfinity. Japanese blockchain developer and bitcoin exchange Tech Bureau is providing ‘Mijin’ its private blockchain solution to ...
Russian economy to grow 2% this year – economic development minister
February 28th, 2017
Russia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is due to return to sustainable growth in 2017, according to Economic Development Minister Maksim Oreshkin. “The recent data about freight turnover, electricity consumption and other things which we see at the beginning of ...
Accountants confident Donald Trump to accelerate U.S. economic growth
February 28th, 2017
More than two-thirds of CPAs and accountants expect President Donald Trump to accelerate U.S. economic growth, according to a recent survey. Thirty percent of public accountants in a recent Accounting Today poll are “very confident” and 39 percent are ...
Domain name legal disputes hit record high
February 28th, 2017
The number of legal disputes worldwide over domain names has reached a record high in the past year as companies fight off overseas cyber squatters. Analysis from EMW released today has revealed that the number of domain name dispute ...
U.S. oil ticks up for 2nd day on record OPEC output cut compliance
February 28th, 2017
U.S. crude oil edged higher for a second day on Tuesday, underpinned by high compliance with OPEC’s production cuts even as the market remains anchored by rising U.S. production. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has so ...
Asian Stocks Rise, Bonds Slip Before Trump Speech: Markets Wrap
February 28th, 2017
Odds for U.S. interest rate hike in March rise to 50% Trump speech Tuesday to be scrutinized for spending plans Asian stocks erased gains as a rally in Tokyo faltered and the yen strengthened ahead of Donald Trump’s address ...
Global (economic) warming
February 26th, 2017
If the economy was on its uppers, Trumpenomics could be reasonably compared with Reaganomics. But that is not the case. The economy is operating close to capacity, ….any further fiscal and monetary expansion will begin to create …. economic ...
