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Gold near 2-week low as Fed puts December rate hike in play
October 29th, 2015
Gold ticked up on Thursday but stayed near its lowest level in two weeks after the Federal Reserve hinted at a possible U.S. rate hike in December, bolstering the dollar and reducing the appeal of non-interest-paying bullion. Spot gold ...
Shanghai, Tokyo stocks buck downtrend in choppy trade
October 29th, 2015
Asian stocks outside China and Japan slipped on Thursday, after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged but signaled that a December rate hike was still on the table. “The market, economists, commentators and the man on the street has combed ...
The Bitcoin Startup Boom Comes Back Down to Earth
October 27th, 2015
Growth in venture capital flowing to bitcoin startups slowed substantially last quarter, and startups are feeling the pinch. Jeff Garzik has spent the past several months pitching investors on a pretty out-there startup idea. He proposed building computer servers ...
Saxo Payments unveils new community for fast, low cost cross border transfers
October 27th, 2015
Saxo Payments Banking Circle Saxo Payments, the global transactions services provider, today at Money 2020 unveils the new brand – Banking Circle – for its international payments community. A marketplace that disrupts the status quo of traditional international B2B ...
London is #1 EU tech city – but Nesta warns on cost of living
October 26th, 2015
London has topped Nesta’s index of top EU tech cities for both starting and scaling up – that’s despite it coming last out of 35 cities on the measurement of its cost of living. The team at Nesta consulted ...
Google Profit, Sales Top Estimates on Robust Web Traffic
October 23rd, 2015
More volume, stable ad prices and cost controls fuel results Company announces new $5.1 billion share buyback program Google parent Alphabet Inc. sold more ads and kept costs under control, fueling better-than-projected sales and profit in the latest quarter. ...
Institutional investor attitudes shifting as environmental and social risks impact investment decisions
October 22nd, 2015
Institutional investors say businesses need to provide them with non-financial information that outlines visible, measurable risks to the company’s performance or risk losing their potential investment. The finding comes from the 2015 annual survey by EY’s Climate Change and ...
5 reasons oil could be nearing a new tipping point
October 22nd, 2015
Oil’s bounce back from the summer’s lows has the look of a bottoming in crude prices, but some strategists say the shakeout is not over. “I’m pretty sure we’re going to see a new low. The probabilities are that ...
Asia shares lag behind Nikkei, euro firm for ECB
October 21st, 2015
Asian shares turned mixed on Wednesday as soft export data kept investors cautious ahead of the European Central Bank‘s policy meeting later in the week, though Japan’s market was having a go at setting a new peak for the ...
London Wants to Become the Center of Chinese Currency Trading
October 20th, 2015
PBOC official said to view London as likely renminbi hub Euronext study expects $5 trillion of Chinese investment Three years ago, Chinese officials said U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron had “seriously damaged” relations by meeting with the Dalai Lama, the ...
