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Asian stocks jump to one-year highs as yield hunt spreads
August 8th, 2016
Asian stocks rose to one-year highs and the Australian dollar climbed on Monday as investors’ hunt for yield gathered momentum against a backdrop of a recovering U.S. economy and ultra-easy easy global monetary policy conditions. While the strong July ...
Rattled investors seek shining path to gold
August 5th, 2016
Gold prices have surged nearly 30 percent this year, proving the commodity to be a commonly favored safe-haven for investors in the face of increased market volatility and uncertainty. On Wednesday, gold reached its highest level in 33 months ...
China stocks firm on property shares; Hong Kong hit by global weakness
August 3rd, 2016
China stocks edged higher on Wednesday as property shares rallied for a second day and on growing expectations of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reforms. But trading volume in Shanghai, which shrank to a two-month low on Tuesday, remained thin amid ...
SEC: State Street Misled Custody Clients About Prices for Foreign Currency Exchange Trades
July 27th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that State Street Bank and Trust Company has agreed to pay $382.4 million in a global settlement for misleading mutual funds and other custody clients by applying hidden markups to foreign currency ...
Visa Europe Partners for Bitcoin Micropayments Trial
July 27th, 2016
Bitcoin micropayments startup SatoshiPay is developing a new proof-of-concept with Visa Europe’s innovation unit. Work on the project was first disclosed earlier this year, when Visa Europe Collab said that it was exploring bitcoin micropayments for connected devices. At the ...
FTSE 100: Losers of 2015 are Winners of 2016
July 26th, 2016
Mining stocks rose from the bottom to the top in 2016; becoming the biggest FTSE 100 winners of 2016, reversing their losing streak of 2015. Falling commodity prices dragged down mining stocks in 2015, and it is the oil price ...
PayPal and Visa collaborate to accelerate the adoption of digital payments
July 26th, 2016
PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) and Visa (NYSE:V) today announced a U.S. strategic partnership that will result in an improved and more seamless payment experience for Visa cardholders and will offer greater choice in how consumers pay with the PayPal and Venmo wallets. The partnership puts PayPal and Visa ...
UK property price slide creates wave of Chinese interest
July 25th, 2016
Interest among Chinese buyers in buying UK property has surged since Britain voted to leave the European Union last month, as the pound’s slide has created opportunities to buy at a discount, the property website juwai.com said on Monday. ...
Nigeria: Attracting foreign investors to the forex market
July 25th, 2016
Feelers from last week’s foreign investment road-show by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) indicated that Nigeria’s finances and the economy as a whole may be headed to its worst external sector positions. The foreign investors have told the apex ...
Coinbase is adding support for Ethereum
July 22nd, 2016
Since Coinbase was founded in 2012, hundreds if not thousands of Bitcoin competitors (typically referred to as alt-coins) were created. But Coinbase ignored the noise and remained focused on supporting just one currency – Bitcoin. But today that changes, as Coinbase ...