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Gazprom to build new 63 bcm Black Sea pipeline to Turkey instead of S. Stream
December 2nd, 2014
Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller said the energy giant will build a massive gas pipeline that will travel from Russia, transit through Turkey, and stop at the Greek border – giving Russia access to the Southern European market. The pipeline ...
Russia Enacts Russian CFC Bill
November 26th, 2014
On November 18, 2014, the Lower House of Russia’s Parliament, the State Duma, approved at second and third readings Bill No. 630365-6, which would introduce a new controlled foreign corporation (CFC) regime in the country. The new CFC regime ...
Bolster your digital defences
November 25th, 2014
Cyber criminals have the financial services sector firmly in their sights, but there is much that organisations and employees can do to protect themselves from the threat Cyber crime is on the rise, and the financial services sector is ...
Cheap-Oil Era Tilts Geopolitical Power to U.S.
November 20th, 2014
A new age of abundant and cheap energy supplies is redrawing the world’s geopolitical landscape, weakening and potentially threatening the legitimacy of some governments while enhancing the power of others. Some changes already are evident. Surging U.S. oil production enabled America ...
As Ruble Falls Even Teeth Cost Too Much to Fix
November 19th, 2014
In Rostov-on-Don, a Russian port city of 1.1 million people just east of the Ukrainian border, signs of the fallout from the ruble’s collapse are everywhere. There’s the 27-year-old entrepreneur whose storage facility is packed to the ceiling with ...
3 Of The 10 Largest Economies In The World Have Already Fallen Into Recession – Is The U.S. Next?
November 19th, 2014
Are you waiting for the next major wave of the global economic collapse to strike? Well, you might want to start paying attention again. Three of the ten largest economies on the planet have already fallen into recession, and ...
Lufthansa signs $1.25 billion outsourcing deal with IBM
November 18th, 2014
IBM (IBM.N) has won an outsourcing contract from Germany’s Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) worth 1 billion euros ($1.25 billion) that will see the U.S. company take over the airline’s information technology infrastructure services division and staff. The move is part of ...
Further economic sanctions on Russia not planned, Merkel says
November 11th, 2014
Germany’s Angela Merkel said on Tuesday there were no plans at present for further economic sanctions on Russia over Ukraine but she was unhappy that a ceasefire agreement was being broken and that pro-Russian rebels had gone ahead with ...
China deal sends shares to one-month high, rouble surges
November 10th, 2014
A landmark deal to give global investors easier access to China’s $3.9 trillion stock market helped lift world shares to their highest in over a month on Monday, as renewed tensions in Libya and Ukraine pushed up oil prices. ...
Microsoft busts down $400B barrier
November 7th, 2014
Technology giant Microsoft (MSFT) Thursday surpassed $400 billion in market value, marking its return to the top tier of the most valuable companies in the world. Powered by news the company is making its popular Office suite of products more widely available on ...
