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Nestle loses legal fight to trademark four-fingered KitKat bars
May 22nd, 2017
Nestle has lost the latest stage of its legal battle with Cadbury to trademark Kit-Kat’s four-finger shape in Britain. The Swiss company has been fighting Mondelez – the US business that has owned Cadbury since a hostile takeover in 2010 – for ...
Asian stocks post biggest rise in a month; dollar weak
May 22nd, 2017
Asian stocks posted their biggest daily rise in a month on Monday following modest gains in U.S. shares, though the greenback came under renewed pressure as Washington’s political turmoil undermines confidence in U.S. economic policy. MSCI’s broadest index of ...
European Union to launch legal case against Italy over Fiat
May 18th, 2017
The European Union will launch legal action against Italy on Wednesday (17 May) for failing to police allegations of emissions-test cheating by Fiat Chrysler properly following the Volkswagen dieselgate scandal, EU sources said. EU officials have become increasingly frustrated ...
Facebook face EU regulators fines; why?
May 18th, 2017
Facebook suffered a setback on Tuesday over how it uses the reams of information it collects about users worldwide, after two European privacy watchdogs said that the social network’s practices broke their countries’ data protection rules. The announcement by ...
Dow Falls 370 Points, Bonds Rally on Trump Turmoil
May 18th, 2017
Risk off sentiment grips markets with Washington on edge Volatility comes roaring back, as gold surges on haven demand The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 370 points, Treasuries rallied the most since July and volatility spiked higher ...
Volkswagen to recall nearly 600,000 vehicles in China over headlight concerns
May 17th, 2017
Volkswagen is to recall hundreds of thousands of cars in China amid fears of a headlight fuse defect. The German motor giant will recall 577,590 Golf and Sagitar vehicles produced between September 2009 and May 2014. Volkswagen operates a ...
Prosecutor’s search of Volkswagen Group’s law firm was legal, court rules
May 16th, 2017
Searching the offices of Volkswagen Group’s law firm was not illegal, a German regional court said on Monday. VW said it would lodge an appeal with Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court. In March, Munich prosecutors searched the offices of Jones ...
How to protect yourself and your business from the massive ransomware attack
May 15th, 2017
An aggressive new strain of ransomware is shutting down Windows operating computers all over the world. Although the virus known as WannaCry has already infected over 75,000 PCs in 99 countries, it is actually not that hard to secure ...
Private equity fundraising in Europe hits 8-year high
May 15th, 2017
Private equity fundraising across Europe hit its highest level last year since 2008 at €74.5bn, a 37 per cent year-on-year increase, as investors hunted for value in a low interest rate environment, a new report shows. Invest Europe’s 2016 ...
Euro to US Dollar: Forecast for next five days
May 15th, 2017
Euro to US Dollar looks like it is cycling lower after the sharp drop from the 1.1000 highs. We still see a risk of a breakdown to fill the gap left after the jump higher following the first round ...
