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Audi fined 800 million euros; What prosecutors said
October 17th, 2018
German law enforcement authorities added another chapter to Volkswagen’s diesel scandal Tuesday by fining the company’s luxury division Audi 800 million euros ($925 million) for selling cars rigged to cheat on emissions tests. Prosecutors in Munich said Tuesday that ...
Sterling rises before EU summit
October 17th, 2018
The pound rose towards $1.32 on Tuesday as investors prepared for a European Union summit where diplomats will try to pave the way for an agreement on Brexit. Traders have been unwinding short positions on sterling, in part because ...
Cryptocurrencies suffer $18 billion drop in value over three days
October 15th, 2018
Bitcoin finally began to stabilize Friday, but not before the total cryptocurrency market lost $18 billion of its already waning value in the course of a few days. The entire market capitalization for cryptocurrencies fell by $18 billion over ...
Suspects arrested in international action against large-scale VAT fraud
October 15th, 2018
During a joint action day in seven EU Member States, an international organised crime group was tackled, involved in large-scale VAT fraud with a damage of more than EUR 20 million, related to sales of second-hand vehicles. At the ...
The CySEC innovation Hub for FinTech and RegTech developments welcomes applicants
October 15th, 2018
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued an announcement to invite prospective applicants to apply for participation in the Hub’s programme. This announcement follows the announcement dated 27 July, 2018, when CySEC announced the establishment of its ...
EU weighs screening member states over tax avoidance
October 15th, 2018
The European Union is considering screening its own member states to assess whether they should be included in the bloc’s blacklist of tax havens, a senior EU official said on Wednesday. In December 2017 the EU drew up a ...
European stocks are set to open lower Monday morning
October 15th, 2018
European stocks are set to open lower Monday morning, as concerns over Brexit talks, a potential slowdown in the Chinese economy and higher U.S. borrowing costs limited investor appetite. The FTSE 100 is seen little changed from the previous ...
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 ...
House prices in the euro area rose; These are the countries with the highest increases
October 9th, 2018
House prices, as measured by the House Price Index, rose by 4.3% in both the euro area and the EU in the second quarter of 2018 compared with the same quarter of the previous year. These figures come from ...
Emergency action filed against a Swiss-based company for microcap fraud scheme
October 9th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed an emergency action and obtained an asset freeze against two individuals and their companies in a scheme that generated more than $165 million of illegal sales of stock in at least 50 ...