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Gold Declines Before U.S. Jobs Report as Investors Weigh Demand
December 5th, 2014
Gold fell before U.S. payrolls data that may show employers added more workers last month, boosting the case for an increase in borrowing costs in the largest economy as the dollar headed for a seventh weekly increase. Bullion for ...
ECB Weighs Further Action As Economic Picture Darkens
December 4th, 2014
The European Central Bank will spell out the scale of economic malaise facing the euro zone after it meets on Thursday under growing pressure to take dramatic action to prevent the bloc going into reverse. With recovery stalled across much of ...
Fall of the Bond King: How Gross Lost Empire as Pimco Cracked
December 4th, 2014
Bill Gross, the 70-year-old king of bonds, rushed through the offices of his $2 trillion empire on a Friday morning distributing hand-written notes. He knew his reign was over. The billionaire co-founder of Pacific Investment Management Co. and its ...
SEC Charges California Resident With Fraudulent Sales of Stock
December 3rd, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the owner of several now-defunct investment entities with fraudulently selling shares of stock that he claimed to own when he had actually purchased them for others a few years before. The SEC ...
Asian shares edge down, oil rises as crude inventories decline
December 3rd, 2014
The dollar marked a fresh seven-year high against the yen on Wednesday, which helped lift the Nikkei to a similar record, while oil prices recovered after data showed a drop in U.S. supply. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares ...
Dollar Rises to 7-Year High Versus Yen as Aussie Slides on GDP
December 3rd, 2014
The dollar strengthened to a seven-year high against the yen before U.S. data this week that economists say will back the case for higher interest rates as Japan and Europe ease policy. The greenback was 0.2 percent from its ...
Apple in the Dock: $1 Billion Antitrust Claim Casts Steve Jobs as Conspirator
December 2nd, 2014
In 2005, Mariah Carey had the number one single, “Grey’s Anatomy” was among the hottest shows on television, and Steve Jobs, and Apple Inc.’s iPod, were king. Customers of rival music players marred this shiny prospect for Apple and ...
Crude, Copper and the S&P 500
December 2nd, 2014
Why the Fed Bubble Is Likely to Burst After more than five years of aggressive accommodation from the world’s central banks, there are many charts that suggest the tremendous run-up in the risk assets during this time period is likely to ...
Prime Trust directors disqualified and fined
December 2nd, 2014
The Federal Court today delivered its penalty judgment against 5 former directors of Australian Property Custodian Holdings Ltd (APCHL) who breached their directors’ duties by making an illegal related party payment of more than $30 million. The judgment follows ...
Hackers launched a destructive cyberattack in the United States
December 2nd, 2014
The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S. businesses that hackers have used malicious software to launch a destructive cyberattack in the United States, following a devastating breach last week at Sony Pictures Entertainment; more details in article: Sony Pictures hires ...
