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Fed’s Dislike of Negative Interest Rates Points to Limits of Stimulus Measures
August 29th, 2016
Federal Reserve officials are content to watch others’ experience of negative rates from a distance Federal Reserve officials are turning a cold shoulder to a controversial idea being tried in Japan and much of Europe to boost anemic economies: ...
Accountant in UK jailed from fraud
August 26th, 2016
A Financial Controller who defrauded his company by nearly £25,000 has been jailed for 18 months. Gurmukh Shehri, 33, from Woolwich, had day-to-day oversight of his company’s salary payment function when he committed the offences. He was sentenced at ...
SEC fined 13 Investment Advisory Firms
August 26th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced penalties against 13 investment advisory firms found to have violated securities laws by spreading the false claims made by an investment management firm about its flagship product. An SEC enforcement sweep of ...
Playtech announced total revenues of H1 2016 up 18%
August 26th, 2016
Playtech (LSE: PTEC) announces its results for the six months ended 30 June 2016, together with a trading update for the period to 24 August 2016. Financial summary H1 2016 H1 2015 Change(reported) Change (const.currency)3 Revenues €337.7m €286.0m +18% ...
Fintech CurrencyFair poaches ex-AO World chairman to supercharge growth
August 25th, 2016
Peer-to-peer online money exchange platform CurrencyFair has poached Richard Rose, the former chairman of AO World, to be its new chairman, hoping Rose can help CurrencyFair grow to a similar size as the listed white goods retailer. Veteran businessman ...
What Are the Odds that the 2020-2022 Olympics Will Be Cancelled?
August 25th, 2016
It’s tough to pay for an Olympics when 95% of your supposed “wealth” has vanished. In the modern era (1896-present), the Olympics have only been cancelled in wartime: 1916 (World War I), 1940 and 1944 (World War II). But ...
Elliott Wave Analysis: S&P500 Aiming For The 2300 Mark
August 24th, 2016
Stocks recovered very nicely and sharply since mid of February so a new bullish reversal is here. Reason for a bullish trend was a five wave rise in black wave I so obviously we are looking much higher now ...
Elliott Wave Analysis: Cable Looking For A New Bullish Run
August 23rd, 2016
Elliott Wave Analysis: Cable Looking For A New Bullish Run GBPUSD fell sharply lower a few weeks back after vote counts for EU membership showed that UK wants to leave the Euro zone. Pair fell to a new low ...
Asian Shares Mixed as Oil Prices Fall and Dollar Drops
August 23rd, 2016
Markets await policy details from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s annual meeting at Jackson Hole Shares in Asia were mixed Tuesday, as oil prices fell and the U.S. dollar weakened ahead of a key meeting of Federal Reserve officials and ...
Samsung is planning to re-sell refurbished phones at a lower price
August 22nd, 2016
Samsung plans to launch a programme to sell refurbished used versions of its premium smartphones as early as next year, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The South Korean technology firm is looking for ways ...
