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Bitcoin: A 21st Century Currency Explained By a Wall Street Veteran
February 8th, 2016
Jason Leibowitz is a former Wall Street professional who pivoted careers in 2014 to focus full-time on digital currency. In this paper, Leibowitz answers questions about how bitcoin was created, how it works and why it matters. It has been ...
Surprises in store…
February 3rd, 2016
The month of January has been a wake-up call for complacent equity investors. From the peaks of last year stock indices in the major markets have fallen 10-20%, give or take. On their own, these falls could be read ...
FTSE 100 index plunges into ‘bear market’ territory as oil price rout wipes another £52bn off top-flight share values
January 21st, 2016
Footsie plunged 203 points or 3.5% to close at 5,673 That means £52bn has been wiped off blue-chip share values today Now more than 20% below April 2015’s 7,103 high – firmly a bear market Panic over oil price after ...
Societe Generale predicts collapse of the eurozone
January 14th, 2016
Societe Generale seconds RBS doomsday prophecy and predicts collapse of the eurozone Albert Edwards, a strategist at Société Générale bank, has warned of an impending global financial crisis similar to the one that occurred in 2008-09. This time, he ...
Multipolarity: The Next Step After Globalization?
January 14th, 2016
The world economy during the last few decades has experienced “globalization,” a broad and admittedly vague term which refers among other factors to a rise in the ratio of world exports to world GDP, as well as the pattern ...
Gold in 2016
January 8th, 2016
Advance signs of a global slump in economic activity emerged in 2015. Furthermore, the dollar’s strength, coupled with widening credit spreads confirms a global tendency for dollar-denominated debt to contract. These developments typically precede an economic and financial crisis ...
Four London-based traders are being investigated by DoJ for possible manipulation
January 7th, 2016
DoJ investigates bond traders over market-rigging “What is Bond: A name for debt which is issued for a specified period of time. Depending the terms of the Bond, the issuer owes the holder/s a debt, and is obliged to pay ...
The 25 financial events that shaped the year 2015
December 30th, 2015
As we are close to move from year 2015 to year 2016, OneStopBrokers has collected and presents the major Financial events happened in 2015. 2015 was a year that the Eurozone was almost collapsed. We all witnessed a possible ...
HKEx Extends Incentives for RMB Currency Futures
December 29th, 2015
Renminbi (RMB) currency futures contracts continue to serve as an effective risk management tool in periods of unexpected USD/CNH* volatility, and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) is extending incentives to solidify the development of its RMB currency ...
Saudi Arabia reveals cuts plan to shrink $98bn budget deficit
December 29th, 2015
Sparked by plunging oil prices, the 2016 budget marks biggest shakeup in years and includes politically sensitive reforms Saudi Arabia has announced plans to cut government spending and reform its finances after plunging oil prices resulted in a record annual ...
