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As Israeli bill to ban binary options stalls, Canada prepares law of its own
May 8th, 2017
Binary options are not legal in Canada, but new legislation will make that fact explicit. Official vows endless battle, as some Israeli firms move operations overseas. Fed up with the large-scale theft, much of it emanating from Israel, known ...
Gulf countries will return to economic growth
May 8th, 2017
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast the return of GCC countries to faster economic growth starting next year, supported by a fundamentally strong financial services sector and improved growth in the non-oil private sector as well as a ...
CFTC charges individual with fraudulently soliciting commodity futures customers
May 3rd, 2017
CFTC Charges Pennsylvania Resident William H. Powderly IV with Fraudulently Soliciting Commodity Futures Customers and Distributing False Account Statements The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed an enforcement action in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, ...
Unemployment rates in the EU regions ranged from 2.1% to 31.3%
May 2nd, 2017
More than 80% of the NUTS 2 regions of the European Union (EU) saw their unemployment rate fall in 2016 compared with 2015, and around 60% recorded a decrease of at least 0.5 percentage points. However, regional unemployment rates ...
Toshiba Is Replacing Its Auditor PwC Over Irreconcilable Differences
April 26th, 2017
Toshiba Corp (TOSBF, +1.24%) has decided to replace its auditor after less than a year as the troubled electronics conglomerate struggles to win its approval on full-year financial statement, the Nikkei business daily reported. Earlier this month, the company ...
Gulf states are spending billions to attract tourists
April 24th, 2017
Gulf states are spending billions of dollars creating ambitious strategies to attract visitors as tourism becomes a stronger plank of their economies. This week’s Arabian Travel Market in Dubai will show the changing face of the industry as entertainment ...
Russian hacker, son of a Russian lawmaker sentenced in US prison
April 24th, 2017
Roman Seleznev, the son of a Russian member of parliament, hacked credit card data from restaurants in Washington and across the U.S. Roman Seleznev, the son of a member of Russian Parliament, was sentenced to 27 years in federal ...
The US$200 million investment scam; hunt is on
April 13th, 2017
Investigators looking into a financial scam that took Dubai residents for tens of thousands of dollars have shifted their focus to recovering about US$200 million (Dh734.5m). The sum is believed to have been siphoned from a Dubai branch of ...
Where the majority of EU population live? flats or houses
April 13th, 2017
House or flat: where do you live? In 2015, 42% of the EU population lived in flats and 57% in houses. The share of persons living in flats was highest in Spain (66%), Latvia (65%) and Estonia (63%), and ...
EU Justice Scoreboard 2017: justice systems becoming more effective, but challenges remain
April 13th, 2017
The European Commission publishes the 2017 EU Justice Scoreboard which gives a comparative overview of the efficiency, quality and independence of justice systems in the EU Member States. Its aim is to assist national authorities to improve the effectiveness of ...
