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Indonesia Ex-Central Banker Gets Jail for Bank Bailout Graft
July 17th, 2014
Former Bank Indonesia deputy governor Budi Mulya was sentenced to 10 years in jail for corruption, the latest high-profile conviction that shows how policy making in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy is undermined by graft. Mulya was handed a 500 ...
Australia repeals controversial carbon tax
July 17th, 2014
Australia’s government repealed a much-maligned carbon tax on the nation’s worst greenhouse gas polluters on Thursday, ending years of contention over a measure that became political poison for the lawmakers who imposed it. The Senate voted 39 to 32 ...
Technical Analysis USD/CHF jumps higher
July 17th, 2014
Technical Analysis USD/CHF 17/07/2014 Pair’s Outlook As there was no opposition from the 55-day SMA and weekly R1, the U.S. Dollar continued to gain ground. But further advancement is expected to be more difficult, considering that there is the ...
Wall Street stock futures decline
July 17th, 2014
U.S. stock futures were seeing slight declines early Thursday. Dow futures were off 0.02%, S&P 500 futures fell 0.33% and Nasdaq futures dipped 0.26%. In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index fell 0.06% to 15, 370.26. Wall Street closed higher ...
FBI sentences man for a $3.4 Million Forex trading fraud
July 17th, 2014
The American Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) has announced that a Quincy man swindled more than two dozen investors out of $3.4 million in an exotic foreign exchange fraud run from his Quincy home. Marcellus Lopes Lee was indicted in ...
U.S. sanctions set to slow Rosneft’s dollar debt, not oil deals
July 17th, 2014
President Barack Obama aimed a direct blow at Russia’s economic heart on Wednesday with sanctions on Rosneft, the flagship oil giant that generates more than 4 percent of the world’s crude and over 8 percent of the country’s GDP. ...
U.S. foreclosure activity hits lowest level since 2006: RealtyTrac
July 17th, 2014
Foreclosure activity in the United States dropped last month to the lowest level since July 2006, before the housing bubble burst, and likely will continue to drop through the first half of next year, an industry group said on ...
China urges U.S. not to abuse trade system for own advantage
July 17th, 2014
China’s commerce minister urged the United States on Thursday not to abuse the global trade system by imposing duties on Chinese goods to protect its own economy, following a rebuke to Washington by the World Trade Organization. WTO judges ...
Yellen Says Restraining the Fed’s Oversight Would Be a ‘Grave Mistake’
July 17th, 2014
The Federal Reserve’s chairwoman, Janet L. Yellen, said on Wednesday that it would be a “grave mistake” for Congress to adopt legislation proposed by House Republicans constraining the Fed’s management of monetary policy. Ms. Yellen and Republican lawmakers traded ...
G20 must shape a new world trade regime
July 17th, 2014
Over the past decade global trade and investment discussions have moved far away from the formal global trade regime. The multilateral system has been mired in the Doha Development Round — defined by a single undertaking and a fixed ...
