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After the Dollar
July 28th, 2014
It is symbolic that the recent BRICS summit in Fortaleza, Brazil, took place exactly seven decades after the Bretton Woods Conference that created the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The upshot of the BRICS meeting was the ...
Oil Mixed With West TX reaching $102
July 28th, 2014
Brent crude oil reversed losses jumping back above $108 a barrel on Friday, as fighting in Ukraine and deteriorating relations between Russia and the United States ignited new fears of supply disruptions in the market. A Russian security official ...
Tax fraud in Catalonia advances talks
July 28th, 2014
Jordi Pujol, the patriarch of Catalan politics, has admitted conducting tax fraud by hiding money offshore. Mr. Pujol, 84, founded Catalonia’s governing party, Convergence, and was its leader from 1980 to 2003. During that period, he acted as a ...
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 ...
Microsoft’s Xbox One in China to be sold from JD.com
July 28th, 2014
China’s second-biggest e-commerce company by market share, JD.com Inc, will accept pre-orders for Microsoft Corp’s Xbox One games console in China from July 28 to July 30, the firm said on Monday. The pre-orders will be taken via Tencent Holdings’ ...
JP Morgan questioned on private bank wrongdoing
July 28th, 2014
JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) executives came across regulators’ questions on whether private bank advisors guide clients to buy the firm’s own financial products, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Following the questioning regarding potential conflicts ...
Gold Above $1300 Again
July 28th, 2014
Technical Analysis for Gold, Monday, July 28, 2014 Gold did well at the end of last week to surge higher through the $1300 level back up towards $1310 before easing slightly to start this new week. Throughout most of ...
Asia stocks drop after earnings hurt Wall Street
July 28th, 2014
Asian stocks faced a drop in Wall Street and hovered near three-year highs on Monday, with China taking the lead after data showed a robust jump in profits earned by industrial firms in the world’s second-largest economy. The dollar ...
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 ...
Your Mind, Your Investment Returns
July 25th, 2014
Regular readers know I enjoy discussing behavioral aspects of investing. The reasons for this are twofold: First, we can’t control the markets, but we can control our own reactions to it (at least we can try). And second, many ...
