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Tax fraud in Catalonia advances talks
July 28th, 2014
Jordi Pujol, the patriarch of Catalan politics, has admitted conducting tax fraud by hiding money offshore. Mr. Pujol, 84, founded Catalonia’s governing party, Convergence, and was its leader from 1980 to 2003. During that period, he acted as a ...
Oil and Gas Drilling in Britain will expand
July 28th, 2014
The British government considers to make more land available for licensing for oil and natural gas exploration in the first such expansion since 2008. The move, which had been anticipated by the oil and gas industry, could prove to ...
Gold Above $1300 Again
July 28th, 2014
Technical Analysis for Gold, Monday, July 28, 2014 Gold did well at the end of last week to surge higher through the $1300 level back up towards $1310 before easing slightly to start this new week. Throughout most of ...
Asia stocks drop after earnings hurt Wall Street
July 28th, 2014
Asian stocks faced a drop in Wall Street and hovered near three-year highs on Monday, with China taking the lead after data showed a robust jump in profits earned by industrial firms in the world’s second-largest economy. The dollar ...
BSkyB’s £4.9bn Sky Europe deal includes HSF and A&O firms
July 28th, 2014
Herbert Smith Freehills and Allen & Overy are among the firms to advise on BSkyB’s £4.9bn takeover of Rupert Murdoch’s pay TV companies in Germany and Italy. The acquisitions mark a strategic change for BSkyB, which is hoping to ...
Technical Analysis AUD/USD – Retreats below 0.9425
July 28th, 2014
Technical Analysis AUD/USD for Monday, July 28, 2014 The Australian dollar is trading in a small range just below 0.9400 after reaching a three week high just shy of 0.9480 towards the end of last week. During the middle of ...
Your Mind, Your Investment Returns
July 25th, 2014
Regular readers know I enjoy discussing behavioral aspects of investing. The reasons for this are twofold: First, we can’t control the markets, but we can control our own reactions to it (at least we can try). And second, many ...
Russia’s surprise interest rate rise ‘to curb inflation’
July 25th, 2014
Russia’s central bank has unexpectedly raised its key bank interest rate over concerns about inflation and “geopolitical tension”. The bank’s board decided to raise the interest rate by 50 basis points, or half a percent, to 8% per year. ...
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the Fifth Review Mission to Cyprus
July 25th, 2014
Staff teams from the European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited Nicosia during July14-25, 2014 for the fifth review of Cyprus’s economic program, which is supported by financial assistance from the European ...
Wonga-style fake letters means headaches for in-house lawyers
July 25th, 2014
After Wonga and others were caught sending fake legal letters, what are the professional risk implications for in-house lawyers of using pseudo-solicitors to chase debts? The profession needs to grapple with serious legal and ethical issues following recent reports ...
