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Oil and Gas Drilling in Britain will expand
July 28th, 2014
The British government considers to make more land available for licensing for oil and natural gas exploration in the first such expansion since 2008. The move, which had been anticipated by the oil and gas industry, could prove to ...
BSkyB’s £4.9bn Sky Europe deal includes HSF and A&O firms
July 28th, 2014
Herbert Smith Freehills and Allen & Overy are among the firms to advise on BSkyB’s £4.9bn takeover of Rupert Murdoch’s pay TV companies in Germany and Italy. The acquisitions mark a strategic change for BSkyB, which is hoping to ...
FinCEN named FBME Bank Ltd as a foreign financial institution of primary money laundering
July 25th, 2014
On July 17 FinCEN issued a press release taking action to Protect U.S Financial System. On that date, FinCEN named FBME Bank, which transacts 90 percent of its global banking business through branches in Cyprus, as a foreign financial institution ...
Technical Analysis USD/CHF to preserve momentum
July 25th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook USD/CHF seems to be already taking a break in view of the coming weekend, as it is making no progress after setting foot above the resistance at 0.90. This fact should result in the currency pair rising ...
BSkyB to pay $8 billion to create Sky Europe
July 25th, 2014
Britain’s BSkyB has agreed to pay around 4.9 billion pounds ($8.3 billion) to buy Rupert Murdoch’s pay-TV assets in Germany and Italy, responding to the slowing growth at home with a deal to create a European media powerhouse. BSkyB, ...
Amazon reports $126m quarterly loss
July 25th, 2014
Amazon has reported a loss of $126m (£74m) in the second quarter and warned that sales could slow in the current quarter. Amazon forecast third quarter sales of between $19.7bn and $21.5bn, which could mean sales growth of as ...
McDonald’s Growth Troubles Don’t Go Down Well With Analysts
July 24th, 2014
As McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) continued to see its sales suffer in main markets such as the U.S., Germany, Japan and Australia, market analysts downgraded the fast-food giant’s stock on Wednesday, after the Illinois-based company posted a disappointing second-quarter profit, ...
AT&T’s New Device Financing Plan Weighs On Revenue
July 24th, 2014
AT&T Inc’s quarterly revenue rose a weaker than expected 1.6 percent as cheaper service plans offered to customers who forgo subsidized cellular phones cut into margins. Faced with mounting pressure from competitors, AT&T has unbundled service and device charges, ...
Technical Analysis NZD/USD unable to breach 0.87 level
July 23rd, 2014
Pair’s Outlook The New Zealand Dollar is still unable neither to breach the 0.87 mark nor the monthly PP/55 and 100-day SMAs at 0.8654/42. We are pessimistic on the pair’s advance, at least for now we do not see ...
Research: Trends & Conclusions
July 23rd, 2014
The insolvency and restructuring business remains slow-moving thanks to the improving economy and low interest rates. Lawyers note increased competition and a fight for the limited work available. But this period may soon be at an end as the ...
