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Oil Market Showdown: Can Russia Outlast The Saudis?
October 19th, 2015
“Two men enter, one man leaves, two men enter, one man leaves, two men enter…” Oil consuming countries will celebrate the first anniversary of the Saudi decision to let market forces determine prices. This decision set crude prices on ...
Silver as money
October 16th, 2015
Gold is money, admittedly not often circulating as such today. Fiat currencies issued by governments have driven gold out of circulation. But where does this leave silver? Money-substitutes, bank notes and bank deposits, were originally backed by physical silver, ...
CySec announced an administrative fine to CLR Overseas Ltd
October 16th, 2015
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission ( CySEC ) has notified the public that at the meeting held on February 16th, 2015, decided to impose an administrative fine of €10.000 to CLR Overseas Ltd for the violation of section ...
Goldman Sachs profits plunge while Citigroup prospers
October 16th, 2015
US banking giant Goldman Sachs has reported a sharp fall in profits as trading activity slowed owing to concerns about global economic growth. Net profits for the three months to 30 September were $1.43bn (£927m), down more than a third ...
Asia stocks rise, dollar sags as weak U.S. data dents rate hike prospects
October 15th, 2015
Asian shares rose to 2-month highs on Thursday and the dollar struggled near multi-week lows after weak U.S. economic data added to expectations that the Federal Reserve will delay hiking interest rates. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside ...
JP Morgan profit misses expectations
October 14th, 2015
Wall Street banking giant JP Morgan Chase reported higher profits in the three months to September but still missed analysts’ expectations. The largest US bank by assets posted a net income of $6.8bn (£4.5bn), up from $5.5bn during the same period ...
Where Is the First Helicopter Drop of Money Likely to Land? (Video)
October 13th, 2015
So what’s left in the toolbag of central banks and states to stimulate recessionary economies if QE has been discredited? The answer: Helicopter Money. We all know helicopter money of some kind is coming as the global economy spirals into recession. Quantitative ...
The Eurozone Crisis: Crystalizing the Narrative
October 13th, 2015
The economy of the eurozone makes the US economy look like a picture of robust health by comparison. Richard Baldwin and Francesco Giavazzi have edited The Eurozone CrisisA Consensus View of the Causesand a Few Possible Solutions, a VoxEU.org book ...
Volante Technologies launches VolPay Hub
October 12th, 2015
VolPay Hub is a highly scalable, high performance, configurable, next generation payments hub. VolPay Hub is channel and payment type agnostic and designed to dramatically reduce time to revenue for digital payment processing by centralizing and accelerating the integration ...
What will Happen to Bitcoin when the Economy goes Bust?
October 12th, 2015
Many people interested in Bitcoin have a less than optimistic view about the health of the global economy. This skepticism — in some cases pessimism — is fueled by a controversial business cycle theory that is fairly popular in ...
