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Financial technology: Money finds new paths
August 12th, 2016
Africa may be slowest to embrace fintech, but the continent is ripe for disruption. WHAT IT MEANS: Australia’s progress a benchmark for Africa. Africa’s unbanked are an opportunity for tech firms. Disruption of the banking sector is well on ...
SEC announced fraud charges against Investment Adviser for stealing money from investors
August 12th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against a San Francisco man and his investment advisory firm accused of pretending to manage millions of dollars in assets and then stealing money from the first client who invested ...
Fitch: Negative-Yielding Sov Debt in Japan Down, Europe Up
August 11th, 2016
The global stock of negative-yielding sovereign debt fell modestly to $11.4 trillion as of August 2, compared with $11.5 trillion on July 15, according to Fitch Ratings. Japanese yields moved higher in late July in response to the latest ...
European stocks move higher as focus shifts to Wall St; Oil firms slide
August 11th, 2016
European stocks moved higher in midday trade Thursday as investors shifted their attention to Wall Street, where stocks looked set to open up ahead of the release of another series of earnings and new jobs data. The pan-European STOXX 600 was ...
Elliott Wave Analysis On USDCAD And USDCHF
August 11th, 2016
USDCAD USDCAD turned lower in the last two days, making a new bearish impulse that we see it as wave C of a flat in wave 4). Wave C should be made by five waves so another short-term decline ...
TradeFx fired 80 workers in Israel; Playtech Cyprus Ltd looking to reduce the space planned to rent
August 11th, 2016
Sources inform “Globes” that following a wave of layoffs, Playtech Cyprus Ltd. (LSE:PTEC), managed by CEO Mor Weizer, notified Azrieli Group Ltd. (TASE: AZRG) last week that it was reducing the amount of space it had planned to rent in the new business tower ...
Asia mostly lower as oil retreats further; BOK keeps rates steady
August 11th, 2016
Asia markets were mostly lower on Thursday following U.S. losses, with sentiment likely driven by Wednesday’s oil price falls and anticipation of another data deluge from China on Friday. In Australia, the benchmark ASX 200 slid 35.71 points, or 0.64 percent, ...
Saving the system
August 10th, 2016
Monetary policy, we are told, is all about staving off recession and stimulating economic growth. However, not only is monetary debasement in any form counterproductive and destroys the personal wealth of the masses, but the economists who devised today’s ...
Dollar Weakens as Muted Prospects for Fed Rate Hike Boost Gold
August 10th, 2016
Bonds gain as odds of a 2016 U.S. rate increase stay below 50% Asian stocks near one-year high as Hang Seng Index climbs The dollar weakened on speculation the Federal Reserve will be slow to raise interest rates amid ...
Goldman Sachs’s Fight to Avoid Paying Employees’ Legal Fees
August 9th, 2016
We know that paying for a lawyer can be an expensive proposition. The New York Times reported recently that a Turkish gold trader, Reza Zarrab, has hired a veritable who’s who of white-collar defense firms to defend him against charges of ...
