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MIT Explores Cryptographic Heritage Solutions With Bitcoin And Blockchain
April 25th, 2016
Bitcoin and the blockchain could be an attractive ally in this regard, as it would allow for the creation of cryptographic heritage. Cultural heritage is one of the most important cornerstones of our society these days, yet we are ...
Bank of Israel keeps the interest rate for May 2016 unchanged at 0.1 percent
April 25th, 2016
Inflation data: The Consumer Price Index for March declined by 0.2 percent, a slightly greater decline than the average of forecasters’ predictions for a decline of 0.1 percent. There was a seasonal price decline of 3.9 percent in the fruit ...
Asian Stocks Retreat as Oil Falls With Copper; Yen Strengthens
April 25th, 2016
Japanese currency advances after steepest drop since 2014 Crude retreats from five-month high; British pound gains Asian shares were set for the first back-to-back declines in a month as commodities prices retreated and the yen strengthened, reflecting investor caution ...
China’s biggest tax reform for 20 years set to buoy growth
April 22nd, 2016
China’s biggest tax overhaul in more than two decades starts on May 1, with changes set to reduce the burden on services companies and encourage factories to upgrade and innovate. Under the new system, taxes in the construction, property, finance and ...
How bitcoin’s sister technology could change the future of healthcare
April 22nd, 2016
The larger world didn’t start paying much attention to bitcoin until 2013. That was the year mainstream companies like Microsoft, Expedia and Dell, among others, began to accept the alternative, electronic payment method. That was also the year the ...
Asian Stocks Retreat as BOJ Negative-Rate Proposal Weakens Yen
April 22nd, 2016
Microsoft, Alphabet, Sony profits fall short of estimates Topix rebounds as currency weakens; Shanghai Composite falls Asian stocks retreated from a four-month high as companies including Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp. reported earnings that missed estimates. Japanese shares rose ...
Moscow & Shanghai seek to dominate gold trade
April 21st, 2016
The Bank of Russia and the People’s Bank of China want to create a joint platform that would unite gold trading by the world’s two biggest gold buying countries. “BRICS countries are large economies with large reserves of gold ...
European Stocks Little Changed as ABB, Miners Offset Energy Drop
April 20th, 2016
Crude prices retereat as Kuwait workers agree to end strike Miners advance as BHP Billiton cuts iron ore output forecast European stocks were little changed as miners advanced and investors focused on companies that posted better-than-expected earnings, offsetting a ...
Saudi $10 Billion Financial District Is Missing One Thing: Banks
April 20th, 2016
Saudi Arabia’s $10 billion financial hub in Riyadh will have gleaming towers connected by sky bridges, cutting-edge climate technology and a monorail that can circle the whole area in 11 minutes. What it doesn’t have yet are banks. Not ...
This Is How They Fool Us, China Edition
April 20th, 2016
So it seems that China’s economy, caught in the grip of a credit crisis just a few months ago, is all better. And so, by extension, is everyone else. As the Wall Street Journal explains it: ...
