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Google acquires developer platform Fabric and team from Twitter
January 19th, 2017
Google is taking over Twitter’s mobile app developer platform Fabric, as well as its Crashlytics crash reporting system, Answers mobile app analytics, Digits SMS login system and FastLane development automation system. Twitter launched Fabric as a modular SDK in ...
Oil Resumes Advance as Report Shows U.S. Crude Stockpiles Drop
January 19th, 2017
Nationwide supplies fell 5.04 million barrels last week: API OPEC making “tremendous efforts” to reduce output: Barkindo Oil resumed gains after the biggest drop in more than a week as industry data showed U.S. crude stockpiles declined, while OPEC ...
Gold Falls With Yen as Haven-Asset Flight Eases: Markets Wrap
January 18th, 2017
Asian emerging-market currencies rise on dollar weakness Yen retreats as the currency ends seven days of strength The flight to haven assets eased following the biggest drop in the dollar since July with moves in the yen, Treasuries and ...
Gold and Yen Extend Rallies on EU, Trump Concerns: Markets Wrap
January 17th, 2017
May said ready to announce U.K. will leave EU single market IMF lifts its growth forecast for China to 6.5% in 2017 Lingering concern over Donald Trump’s policies and the U.K.’s position in the European Union accelerated a move ...
CBOE Launches Second In Series of Social Media-Based Strategy Benchmark Indexes
January 16th, 2017
CBOE-SMA Large-Cap Weekly Index Revised Every Friday Like Daily CBOE-SMA Large-Cap Index, Weekly Index Uses Social Media Metrics as Input Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) announced today that it has launched the CBOE-SMA Large-Cap Weekly Index (SMLCWSM Index), the ...
Gold price boosted by hard Brexit fears
January 16th, 2017
Prospect of leaving single market – plus doubts over Donald Trump effect in US – sees traders rush to ‘safe haven’ Gold is being boosted this morning as concerns over a hard Brexit dominate the market commentary. Reports indicate ...
Investors yanked $106 billion from hedge funds last year
January 16th, 2017
Investors yanked more than $100 billion from hedge funds in 2016, according to a new report from eVestment. Investors redeemed $23.7 billion in December, bringing the total of redemptions for the fourth quarter to $43.2 billion. For the full ...
Deloitte Global 2017 TMT Predictions
January 14th, 2017
Over 300 million smartphones to have built in machine learning capabilities in 2017 By 2022 autonomous braking will help to reduce fatalities from motor accidents by 16 percent (6,000) in the US alone IT-as-a-Service expected to become nearly a ...
BNY Mellon has agreed to pay a $6.6 million penalty
January 13th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that BNY Mellon has agreed to pay a $6.6 million penalty to settle charges stemming from miscalculations of its risk-based capital ratios and risk-weighted assets reported to investors. An SEC investigation found ...
How Did We Get 2016 So Wrong?
January 12th, 2017
Go through the late 2015/early 2016 articles published on this and similar sites and you’ll find a consensus that 2016 was going to be a really bad year. Corporate profits were falling, business inventories had spiked, and deflation was ...
