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OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Currency pairs
September 1st, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for September 1st, 2014 EUR/USD Strong downward pressure for the EUR/USD on Friday closing at the lows of the day and below support of 1.3150. The next support level is at 1.31 which is ...
UK manufacturing growth cools as export orders slip
September 1st, 2014
Britain’s main manufacturing trade association trimmed its growth forecast for 2014 on Monday after its members reported the first fall in export orders since early 2013. The EEF association said its quarterly survey of members showed slowing growth in ...
China banks seek new lending horizons as bad debts rise
September 1st, 2014
China’s biggest banks are turning their back on mainstay borrowers like manufacturers and courting high growth industries such as healthcare, food and IT in a bid to boost revenue. For the first half of this year, the banks reported ...
ASIC publishes first report on corporate finance regulation
August 29th, 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has today published the first of a series of regular reports it intends issuing on the regulation of corporate finance issues in Australia. The report, which covers the period January to June ...
SRA scam warnings
August 29th, 2014
Birketts has been exposed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) as the subject of a scam after members of the public received emails purportedly from the UK Border Agency advising them to send money to the firm as well ...
FCA bans and fines former Burlington director
August 29th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Craig Cameron £350,000 and banned him from any involvement in FCA authorised firms, after it found that he lacked honesty and integrity in relation to the promotion of three unregulated collective investment ...
Nation of Privilege Versus Rule of Law
August 29th, 2014
These days, the word “privilege” has been reduced to a trite buzzword. That’s a shame, because it used to mean more than just being born into advantageous circumstances. The word, which means “private law” in old French, originally referred ...
‘Crop tourists’ predict record corn and soyabean harvests
August 29th, 2014
Every August, travellers with a high tolerance for monotony flock to the two-lane highways of the rural US Midwest. Tracing 1,000-mile routes across corn and soyabean fields, these participants in annual “crop tours” stop to measure ears, count bean ...
Businesses Find Ways to Avoid Corporate Taxes, but a Fix Seems Unlikely
August 29th, 2014
A pharmaceutical company moved its headquarters to Ireland, sharply reducing its tax rate. A billboard company reclassified itself as a real estate concern, meaning it will no longer pay corporate taxes. And a big oil producer split itself in ...
Ford, IBM win dismissal of 12-year lawsuit over apartheid abuses
August 29th, 2014
A Manhattan federal judge has dismissed a 12-year-old lawsuit accusing Ford Motor Co (F.N) and IBM Corp (IBM.N) of encouraging human rights abuses in apartheid-era South Africa, reluctantly concluding that the case does not belong in U.S. courts. U.S. ...