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Moody’s: Middle East investment grade companies face $91 billion in refinancing needs
July 23rd, 2014
According to Moody’s Investors Service, Middle East investment grade companies face refinancing needs of about $91 billion from bank and bond debt due to mature over the next four years. This accounts for approximately eight per cent of total ...
Sweden Calls For EU Ruling On Bitcoin Taxation
July 22nd, 2014
Sweden has asked the European Union to provide definitive rules on the Value Added Tax treatment of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, after concerns raised by the nation about the UK’s revised position, issued in March. On June 2, 2014, ...
Stock futures higher Tuesday
July 22nd, 2014
Despite mixed corporate earnings reports on Monday and ongoing tensions in Ukraine and the Middle East, investors were pushing U.S. stock futures higher Tuesday ahead of the opening bell. Here is where major market index futures stood ahead of ...
Asia stocks mostly higher, optimistic on U.S. earnings
July 21st, 2014
Most Asian stock markets edged higher on Monday as investors set aside geopolitical concerns for the moment to focus on the generally upbeat flow of U.S. corporate earnings ahead of a host of results due this week. Volumes were ...
BitXatm to Launch 1,000 Bitcoin ATMs in US
July 21st, 2014
Germany-based digital currency bitcoin ATM and point-of-sale (POS) solution provider BitXatm has announced a new partnership that will find the company shipping 1,000 units to the US in a bid to build the country’s largest bitcoin ATM network. For ...
Implementing the new European accounting directive
July 17th, 2014
In implementing the New European Accounting Directive, the Member States have choices which give them the chance to improve accounting in their country and those choices should be more evidence-based. This was the main conclusion of a roundtable facilitated ...
New sanctions cause Russian shares and rouble to tumble
July 17th, 2014
The United States imposed its toughest sanctions yet on Moscow on Wednesday, and Russian stocks and the rouble tumbled on Thursday. Safe-haven assets such as gold, yen and German bonds rose. The rouble-traded MICEX stock market dropped 2.5 percent ...
Asia follows Wall St. higher, euro probes lows
July 17th, 2014
Asian equities gained on Thursday, lifted by another record-high close on Wall Street, while the euro probed recent lows against the dollar amid speculation the U.S. Federal Reserve is tilting toward tighter monetary policy in light of a stronger ...
EUR/USD: Dollar Rally Continues on Yellen Remarks
July 16th, 2014
EUR/USD continues to point southward on Wednesday. In the European session, the pair is trading in the low-1.35 range. The dollar is broadly higher following remarks from Janet Yellen on Tuesday concerning an interest rate hike. The Fed chair ...
European Stocks Climb on Chinese Economic Growth Report
July 16th, 2014
European stocks advanced, rebounding from yesterday’s decline, as a report showed China’s economy expanded in line with the government’s target. U.S. index futures and Asian shares were little changed. Gtech SpA gained 3 percent after agreeing to buy International ...
