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Britain’s Fraud Office launches probe into Tesco accounting scandal
October 30th, 2014
Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has opened a formal criminal investigation into accounting errors at Tesco (TSCO.L), raising the stakes in a scandal that has hammered the reputation of the country’s biggest grocer. Already battling challenges on multiple fronts, ...
Laiki and the European Central Bank in the New York Times
October 27th, 2014
The bankruptcy and accumulated debts of the Laiki Bank were a key element of the Cyprus financial crisis. A recent article (“To Restore Confidence in Economy, A Test of Europe’s Bank’s”, October 17) in The New York Times discusses ...
MetaQuotes Software obtains representative in South Africa
October 16th, 2014
MetaQuotes Software announced its further expansion with Derivative System Technologies act as its agent in South Africa. Recently, MetaQuotes Software has also introduced MetaFintech as its new representative office in the UAE. The new representative office will be responsible for the promotion of ...
WTO rules for U.S. in India trade dispute
October 15th, 2014
A World Trade Organization ruling Tuesday could help U.S. farmers increase exports to India. India violated numerous trade rules when it banned imports of American poultry, meat, eggs and live pigs, the World Trade Organization ruled Tuesday in a ...
Twitter sues U.S. Government over user’s data reporting
October 8th, 2014
The social media giant wants to loosen restrictions on what it is allowed to tell users about government information requests. Twitter filed a lawsuit against the United States government on Tuesday, seeking to ease restrictions on public disclosures of ...
Russian lawmaker drafts bill on Foreign-Asset Freeze
September 26th, 2014
A member of Russia’s ruling party proposed a law that would allow the seizure of foreign states’ assets in the country after the U.S. and its allies targeted President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle including a childhood friend with asset ...
China and India’s growing strategic weight
September 15th, 2014
The visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to India this week, so early in the term of India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi, underlines the growing strategic weight of the relationship between the two countries. Modi’s prime ministership, with ...
Brent Oil Below $100 as Ample Supplies Weigh
September 10th, 2014
Brent crude oil prices fell below $100 per barrel in volatile trade on Tuesday, a fourth straight daily decline as ample supplies weighed, while U.S. crude rose on the expectation of dwindling fuel stockpiles. Prices were not far above ...
Rosneft struggles to grow as sanctions hit Russia’s oil champion
September 9th, 2014
The Kremlin’s prized oil firm Rosneft is cutting staff and production and selling stakes in Siberian fields in the strongest evidence to date that Western sanctions are hurting what was the world’s fastest growing oil firm in recent years. ...
Brokers Battle Deutsche Bank Over Selling In-House Products
September 9th, 2014
Since the market collapse of 2008, scrutiny has intensified on the way large banks and securities firms treat their brokerage customers, particularly when it comes to steering them into the firms’ own products. One possibility raised in the 2010 ...
