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BVI Receives 2014 Offshore Estate Planning Gong
September 9th, 2014
The British Virgin Islands has been awarded the 2014 Offshore Excellence Award in Estate Planning by publishers Acquisition International. Receiving the award on behalf of the territory, Executive Director of the BVI International Financial Center, Sylvia Moses, said the ...
Asian Equities Mixed on Soft Lead
September 9th, 2014
Asian indices were mostly higher on Tuesday amid light volumes as markets in South Korea and Hong Kong were closed for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Overnight in the U.S., Wall Street closed mixed with energy producers leading losses on oil’s ...
Shifting Polls in Scotland Send Investors Rushing for Shelter
September 9th, 2014
Scotland, home to just five million people, has never weighed on the minds of currency traders and market investors the way that Russia or China or the eurozone has — until now. A poll this weekend showed Scottish voters ...
EU to adopt new Russia sanctions soon
September 8th, 2014
The EU says new sanctions against Russia should be adopted shortly and take effect on Tuesday, despite a Kremlin warning of retaliation. But an EU spokeswoman said the sanctions would be “reversible”, depending on the situation in Ukraine. Pro-Russian ...
Gold Steady Below $1270 on Weak Jobs Data
September 8th, 2014
Gold extended gains to a second session on Monday, boosted by a disappointing U.S. non-farm payrolls report that eased concerns about an early interest rate increase, with investors also eyeing developments in the Ukraine crisis. Spot gold had ticked ...
The Billionaires Are All Quietly Preparing For The Stock Market To Plunge
September 8th, 2014
Billionaire 1: Sam Zell “The stock market is at an all-time high, but economic activity is not at an all-time,” explains billionaire investor Sam Zell to CNBC on Thursday morning. “People have no place else to put their money, ...
No Matter the Outcome, Scottish Vote Will Shake U.K.
September 5th, 2014
Until this week, almost nobody outside Scotland took very seriously the possibility that Europe’s most stable and durable nation, the only big country on earth not to have suffered invasion, revolution or civil war at any time in the ...
Poroshenko Flummoxes Investors With About-Face on Truce
September 4th, 2014
Ukraine’s leader sent financial markets into turbulence as he backtracked on talk of an end to five months of violence in his nation’s east. President Petro Poroshenko announced yesterday that he’d hammered out a deal with Vladimir Putin to ...
The Exaggerated Death of Inflation
September 3rd, 2014
Is the era of high inflation gone forever? In a world of slow growth, high debt, and tremendous distributional pressures, whether inflation is dead or merely dormant is an important question. Yes, massive institutional improvements concerning central banks have ...
U.S. Stock Futures Are Little Changed Before Output Data
September 2nd, 2014
U.S. stock-index futures were little changed, after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index recorded its biggest monthly gain since February, before data that may show manufacturing in the world’s biggest economy continued to expand in August. Apple Inc. and ...
