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J.P. Morgan to Increase Deposit Rates for Some Big Clients in January
December 29th, 2015
Bank is among first of big peers to boost deposit rates after Fed decision on interest rates J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. will raise deposit rates for some of its biggest clients in January, according to a person familiar with ...
Cisco wins U.S. patent dispute over wifi technology
December 29th, 2015
Cisco Systems Inc did not infringe a patent holding company’s wifi technology, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday, reversing a near $64-million judgment against the networking equipment maker in the long-running patent dispute. After eight years of litigation ...
Major Asian markets close higher after Nikkei, Kospi erase early losses
December 29th, 2015
Asian equities closed higher on the second day of 2015’s final week, after the Japanese and South Korean markets erased morning losses and the Australian market totted up a more than 1 percent gain. That’s a turnaround from earlier ...
Commerzbank sues BNY Mellon, Wells Fargo, HSBC over mortgage losses
December 28th, 2015
Commerzbank AG has sued four banks in the United States, claiming that they failed to properly monitor billions of dollars in toxic mortgage-backed securities acquired by the German lender before the 2008 financial crisis. Bank of New York Mellon ...
Visa: Why 2015 was the year for payments
December 28th, 2015
2015 was definitely the year for payments. The sector saw transaction volumes grow an average of nine percent. New players like Apple joined the game. Others like Samsung and Google limbered up on the touchline. The fintech trend really swept the ...
Analysis – Record highs predicted for bitcoin in 2016 as new supply halves
December 23rd, 2015
2016 could prove to be the year that the price of bitcoin surges again. Not because of any dark-web drug-dealing or Russian ponzi scheme, but for an altogether less sensational reason – slower growth in the money supply. Bitcoin ...
The Recession And Bear Market Of 2016, In Two Charts
December 23rd, 2015
Good friend Michael Pollaro just sent a couple of charts that show the US economy heading for a brick wall. The first illustrates what happens when business sales (the green line) turn negative. In the previous two boom/bust cycles, ...
PayPal Touts Growth Of One-Touch Payments
December 23rd, 2015
The payments giant said Monday that more than 10 million consumers have enabled its universal digital payments service, One Touch. One of the key challenges to mobile and web payments is being able to carry your payments information across ...
Asia equities gain; New Zealand hits record high
December 23rd, 2015
Asia stocks followed their Wall Street peers higher on Wednesday as investors cheered strong U.S. data, a pause in the greenback’s rally and higher oil prices. Markets in Japan were shut for the Emperor’s Birthday. The region is expected ...
U.S. Third-Quarter GDP Revised Down to 2.0% Growth
December 22nd, 2015
The economy expands at a slightly slower pace than initially estimated in the third quarter The U.S. economy expanded at a slightly slower pace than initially estimated in the third quarter, as companies spent less stockpiling their inventories. Gross ...
