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China Slowdown Deepens
May 13th, 2014
China’s industrial-output, investment and retail-sales growth unexpectedly slowed, suggesting the government’s efforts to counter an economic slowdown have yet to gain traction. Factory production rose 8.7 percent in April from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said ...
Asian Stocks Advance After U.S. Gauges Rally to Records
May 13th, 2014
Asian stocks rose, with the regional benchmark gauge on course for its biggest increase in seven weeks, as investors weighed earnings and after U.S. equity indexes climbed to records. Nissan Motor Co., Japan’s second-biggest carmaker, jumped 5.1 percent after ...
Physically protecting data – the forgotten IT security problem?
May 12th, 2014
The innovative collection and use of data is developing rapidly and has the potential to be highly beneficial, helping businesses to better understand their markets, identify where to make savings and ultimately grow their client base. However, approaches to ...
Three Signs the Best Days of Private Equity Are Over
May 12th, 2014
Lest the buyout industry feel left out of the regulatory crackdown that has recently been visited upon hedge funds and major banks, the Securities and Exchange Commission indicated it’s taking a close look at the fees and compliance structures ...
Old, Fired at IBM: Trendsetter Offers Workers Arbitration
May 12th, 2014
For at least a decade, International Business Machines Corp. gave fired employees information detailing a severance package that asked them to waive age-discrimination claims and also included a page listing the job titles and ages of workers being let ...
IASB agrees standard-setting charter of co-operation
May 12th, 2014
The IASB has published an updated charter establishing key principles of co-operation between the IASB, national standard-setters and other accounting standard-setting bodies, represented by the International Forum of Accounting Standard Setters (IFASS). The principles established by the charter are ...
Bitstamp Agrees to Implement $5 Minimum Trade Size
May 12th, 2014
Bitstamp has agreed to implement a minimum trade value of $5 following allegations by a Bitcoin trader of an “exploit” in their fee structure. The change will be effective May 15. The trader contended as follows: Bitstamp claims to ...
KPMG retains long-standing Greggs audit work
May 12th, 2014
The long-standing auditors of pie and sandwich chain Greggs have retained their role after a tender. KPMG has served as Greggs’ auditors since the retailer listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984, during which time no tender has ...
Polls close in eastern Ukraine amid allegations of fraud and double-voting
May 12th, 2014
Polls closed Sunday after voters streamed into polling stations in eastern Ukraine to vote in controversial referendums held by pro-Russian activists eager to declare independence from Kiev, an official said. Voters in the city of Donetsk faced this question ...
Oracle wins in copyright ruling against Google
May 12th, 2014
U.S. appeals court finds Oracle is entitled to copyright protection for parts of Java programming language. A U.S. appeals court has ruled in favor of Oracle (ORCL) in its ongoing legal battle against Google (GOOG) over Java programming language ...
