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Price Deflation, Asset Prices, and Threats to Growth
April 3rd, 2015
When I read media discussions about deflation,” three separate meanings are often used more-or-less interchangeably. One meaning is the way that economists use the term, in which “deflation” means “inflation happening at a negative rate.” Inflation means that the ...
Antitrust and Other Inquiries in Europe Target U.S. Tech Giants
April 3rd, 2015
It is not a good week to be a giant American tech company in Europe. The European antitrust investigation into Google appears to be heating up. More European countries are looking into Facebook’s privacy settings. And Apple, which already is ...
Oil retreats from large jump as focus returns to Iran talks
April 2nd, 2015
Oil prices fell on Thursday as attention returned to nuclear talks with Iran, with the prospects for a deal and an increase in Iranian crude exports helping to keep pressure on prices. Major powers and Iran have stretched talks on Tehran’s nuclear ...
Banks Are Poised to Profit From Forex Tumult
April 2nd, 2015
Swiss central bank’s surprise January move led to volatility that can help Wall Street The big currency swings of the past three months have whipsawed many investors. Wall Street may end up loving the action. As U.S. banks closed ...
Chinese shares end mixed after volatile trading session
March 31st, 2015
Markets in China ended mixed following a volatile trading session on Tuesday in spite of moves by the government to boost its economy. The Shanghai Composite closed down 1% at 3,747.90, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rose 0.2% to 24,900.89. ...
Aequitas NEO Exchange goes live in Canada using full suite of MillenniumIT trading Technology
March 31st, 2015
Next generation MillenniumIT platform provides technical innovation, versatility and reliability Rapid development and delivery in less than 12 months underlines MillenniumIT reputation for agility and efficiency MillenniumIT, a provider of agile and resilient capital markets solutions and part of ...
IBM says to invest $3 billion in ‘Internet of Things’ unit
March 31st, 2015
International Business Machines Corp said on Tuesday it will invest $3 billion over the next four years in a new ‘Internet of Things’ unit, aiming to sell its expertise in gathering and making sense of the surge in real-time ...
Should Individual Tax Returns Be Public Information?
March 30th, 2015
My guess is that if you asked Americans if their income taxes should be public information, the answers would mostly run the spectrum from “absolutely not” to “hell, no.” But the idea that tax returns should be confidential and ...
KPMG Announces New Strategic Collaboration with Microsoft
March 30th, 2015
Strategic collaboration to deliver new generation of data and analytics, cloud and business solutions. KPMG today announced an expansion of its strategic relationship with Microsoft to include a global collaboration to jointly deliver new suites of innovative solutions and ...
Dollar Watchers Look to IMF
March 30th, 2015
Data on central banks’ holdings of greenbacks are expected to fuel the rally A roaring dollar rally could get a boost this coming week with the release of data that many investors expect to provide fresh evidence that central ...
