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Tesco and China Resources Enterprise agree on retail deal
May 29th, 2014
Tesco has come into a deal with the state-run China Resources Enterprise (CRE) in order to start the largest food retailer in China. The joint venture will combine Tesco’s 131 outlets in the country with CRE’s almost 3,000 stores, ...
Gox bankruptcy judge rejects CoinLab complaints over Sunlot Bid
May 29th, 2014
The U.S. judge presiding over the MtGox bankruptcy proceedings has rejected complaints by CoinLab that proposals to save the exchange are being unfairly executed. Last year, Seattle-based Coinlab had sued MtGox for $75 million over a botched deal. It ...
SAC Prosecutor Tells SEC Cohen’s Case Should Be Delayed
May 29th, 2014
An administrative proceeding filed against SAC Capital Advisors LP founder Steven A. Cohen by the Securities and Exchange Commission should be put on hold because prosecutions of his former employees aren’t fully resolved, the government told an agency judge. ...
FCA warning against clone firm
May 28th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British financial regulatory authority, has issued a warning informing the investors that “Assiprime Euro Brokering” is the clone firm of “Assiprime Euro Brokering Srl”, thus, is not permitted to provide any financial services or ...
Facebook seeks to buy WhatsApp
May 28th, 2014
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) has asked the European Union to review its plan to buy Internet messaging service WhatsApp. The Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday that instead of risking long-term delay to individual country review of the deal, that ...
Levine on Wall Street: Wise Rabbits and Philosophical Regulators
May 28th, 2014
Paul McCulley is back. Pimco’s new chief economist is Paul McCulley, back for his third stint at the firm that he previously left in 1992, returned to in 1999, and left again in 2010. So he knows what the ...
Stocks break more records
May 28th, 2014
Wall Street celebrated the unofficial start of summer with a sizzling performance. Stocks raced to all-time highs on Tuesday as investors cheered positive economic reports in the U.S. and a wave of buying in Europe over the long weekend. ...
Nasdaq Nears 13-Year High as Technology Goes From Hated to Loved
May 28th, 2014
Technology stocks are back. A four-day rally in the Nasdaq 100 Index has pulled the gauge within 0.1 percent from erasing a 7.5 percent selloff from earlier this year. Exchange-traded funds that buy computer and software shares absorbed $1.1 ...
CySec fines Sheltons Services Ltd
May 28th, 2014
Announcement from CySec The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘CySEC’) wishes to inform all interested parties that: 1. On March 27, 2014 CySEC decided to impose a €5.000 fine to Sheltons Services Ltd (the Company) as it provided administrative services ...
Former Barclays New York Trio Face Libor Charges in U.K. Court
May 27th, 2014
Three former Barclays Plc (BARC) New York derivatives traders appeared at a London court after being charged with manipulating Libor by U.K. prosecutors, in the second group from the British bank to face U.K. criminal action. Ryan Reich, Alex ...
