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Royal Bank of Scotland to Pay $85 Million Penalty
February 6th, 2017
CFTC Orders The Royal Bank of Scotland to Pay $85 Million Penalty for Attempted Manipulation of U.S. Dollar ISDAFIX Benchmark Swap Rates In Total, the CFTC Has Imposed $570 Million in Penalties for Attempted Manipulation of ISDAFIX Benchmark The ...
Visa reports net income of $2.1 billion for Q1 2017
February 3rd, 2017
GAAP net income of $2.1 billion or $0.86 per share, an increase of 7% and 7%, respectively Adjusted net income and earnings per share growth of 23% and 23%, respectively Net operating revenue of $4.5 billion, an increase of ...
Yen fell as the central bank moved to reassert control over rising yields
February 3rd, 2017
Shanghai shares slip as trading resumes after holiday Focus turns to U.S. jobs as investors seek clues on economy Japanese government bonds swung and the yen fell as the central bank moved to reassert control over rising yields, while ...
Bitfinex’s ‘Hack Credit’ Token Reaches All-Time Price High
February 2nd, 2017
Investors who lost bitcoin in Bitfinex’s high-profile August hack may be feeling more optimistic about the likelihood of recovering their funds. The price of BFX tokens – the digital assets the exchange issued as a way to provide a ‘notional credit’ to users who ...
Virtual reality lawsuit costs Facebook $500m
February 2nd, 2017
Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus has been ordered to pay out half a billion dollars to rival games company ZeniMax. The lawsuit between Oculus and ZeniMax centred on allegations that Oculus chief executive officer Palmer Luckey had violated a ...
The honeymoon is over: Wall Street is finally taking Trump literally
February 2nd, 2017
By itself, the 230-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.16% this week wasn’t earth shattering: 1% gains and losses happen all the time. But the clattering sound accompanying it wasn’t hard to diagnose: It was the ...
IBM gives Watson a new challenge: Your tax return
February 2nd, 2017
In its first steps toward commercialization, IBM’s Watson took on grand, science-laden challenges like helping doctors diagnose cancer. But that is changing as IBM strives to build its artificial intelligence technology into a multibillion-dollar business. Today, companies including Geico, ...
Pound to Euro Exchange Rate: February Should be an Up-Month
February 2nd, 2017
Pound Sterling trades back above 1.17 against the Euro ahead of the all-important Bank of England event due at mid-day on Thursday, January 2. We saw GBP/EUR jump notably on the first day of what we believe could well ...
Mastercard reports Fourth-quarter net income of $933 million
February 1st, 2017
Fourth-quarter net income of $933 million, including a special item, or $0.86 per diluted share Fourth-quarter net income of $940 million, excluding a special item,1 or $0.86 per diluted share Fourth-quarter net revenue increase of 9%, to $2.8 billion ...
Tokyo Financial Exchange published Trading Volumes for January 2017
February 1st, 2017
The Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has issued a press release to publish its Trading Volume for January 2017. According the press release, TFX published the below Trading Volume: The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures in January was 125,959 ...