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Guess What Happened The Last Time The Price Of Oil Crashed Like This?…
December 3rd, 2014
There has only been one other time in history when the price of oil has crashed by more than 40 dollars in less than 6 months. The last time this happened was during the second half of 2008, and ...
Russia warns of recession in 2015
December 2nd, 2014
The Russian government has warned the economy will fall into recession next year as Western sanctions, in response to its role in eastern Ukraine, and falling oil prices begin to bite. Russia’s economic development ministry estimates the economy will ...
Bitcoin: Luxembourg Researchers find a way to unmask Bitcoin users
December 1st, 2014
According to CryptoCoins News, one of the stated strengths of Bitcoin has, from the beginning, been its ability to provide anonymity and a sense of security on the same level that cash transactions do. When one spends and is ...
Ruble Jumps on Rising Oil Prices and Stimulus Hopes
November 24th, 2014
The ruble rose sharply on Monday, lifted by Russian exporters buying to meet tax payments and as oil prices stabilised at around $80 a barrel. At 1356 GMT, the ruble was around 1.7 percent stronger against the dollar at ...
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 ...
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 ...
World Bank: Bitcoin is not a “Ponzi Scheme”
November 19th, 2014
Ponzi scheme: A fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator. Many of the ...
Japan PM to seek fresh mandate for ‘Abenomics’ with snap poll
November 18th, 2014
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday that he would call an early election to seek a fresh mandate for his economic policies, and postpone an unpopular sales tax rise, a day after data showed the economy had slipped back ...
Moody’s: Cyprus Government Bond Upgraded to B3
November 17th, 2014
Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded Cyprus’ government bond rating to B3 from its previous rating of Caa3. The rating agency has also changed the outlook on the government bond rating to stable from positive and affirmed Cyprus’ Not-Prime (NP) ...
Russia ready to join G20 tax data exchange plan from 2018
November 17th, 2014
Russia will be ready to join the G20 automatic tax information exchange program from 2018, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told reporters Monday after a G20 summit. “Now we have already prepared an order on automatic tax information exchange. Countries ...
