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Chinese Debt Snowball Gaining Momentum
November 30th, 2015
Financial crises can happen quickly, like the bursting of the tech stock bubble in early 2000, or slowly, like the late-1980s junk bond bust. The shape of the crash depends mostly on the asset in question: Equities can plunge ...
EU Parliament Calls For ‘Corporate Tax Makeover’
November 30th, 2015
Members of the European Parliament have called on European Union (EU) member states to agree on mandatory country-by-country reporting for multinationals, a common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB), common definitions for tax terms, and more transparency on national tax ...
Bitcoin Price Surges by 12%, Setting Weekly High
November 27th, 2015
The price of bitcoin jumped 12% today, setting a weekly high of $368.51 at 12:30 (UTC). According to the CoinDesk USD Bitcoin Price Index (BPI), the digital currency opened the day at $328.98 before increasing $40. The price has shed about $20 from its intra-day peak, trading around ...
Russia Takes Aim at Turkish Economy Amid Fighter-Jet Spat
November 27th, 2015
Turkish officials reject Vladimir Putin’s call for an apology Russia announced plans to impose sanctions on an array of Turkish economic interests in response to Turkey’s shootdown of a Russian warplane, as Ankara called for calm. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri ...
Big banks accused of interest rate-swap fixing in U.S. class action suit
November 26th, 2015
A class action lawsuit, filed Wednesday, accuses 10 of Wall Street’s biggest banks and two trading platforms of conspiring to limit competition in the $320 trillion market for interest rate swaps. The class action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court ...
FBI has lead in probe of 1.2 billion stolen Web credentials: documents
November 25th, 2015
A hacker who once advertised having access to user account information for websites like Facebook (FB.O) and Twitter (TWTR.N) has been linked through a Russian email address to the theft of a record 1.2 billion Internet credentials, the FBI ...
Big Oil: Which Are The Top 10 Biggest Oil Companies?
November 25th, 2015
Energy analysts are paying a lot of attention to which companies are cutting back on drilling, which are going bankrupt, and who will be able to survive the downturn. At least 37 oil and gas companies have filed for bankruptcy so ...
Oil prices rise after Turkey shoots down jet claimed by Russia
November 24th, 2015
Oil prices rose on Tuesday after news that Turkey shot down what is likely to be a Russian jet over Syria and a softer U.S. dollar supported prices across the commodity spectrum. Turkish authorities didn’t give the nationality of ...
Cyprus and Athens Exchange signed MoU
November 23rd, 2015
An opening bell ceremony, took place on the 20th of November 2015 at the Athens Exchange premises during which, the Chairman of the Cyprus Stock Exchange, Mr. Marios Pilavakis, rang the traditional bell. The ceremony was held following the ...
HSBC cuts UAE retail, commercial bank jobs
November 23rd, 2015
HSBC has cut jobs in its retail and commercial banking units in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the bank prepares for lower growth in the Gulf Arab state next year, a source familiar with the matter said on ...
