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How a $5,000 IRA Can Grow to $196 Million in Six Years: GAO
November 21st, 2014
Individual retirement accounts were created to help ordinary Americans build a nest egg for later life. But the IRA has also enabled some affluent investors to accumulate multimillion-dollar tax-sheltered accounts, often by using assets that aren’t publicly traded. Unless ...
Draghi throws door to QE wide open as recovery wanes
November 21st, 2014
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi threw the door wide open on Friday for more dramatic action to rescue the euro zone economy, saying “excessively low” inflation had to be raised quickly by whatever means necessary. Draghi said there was now ...
Obama unveils U.S. immigration reform, setting up fight with Republicans
November 21st, 2014
President Barack Obama imposed the most sweeping immigration reform in a generation on Thursday, easing the threat of deportation for some 4.7 million undocumented immigrants and setting up a clash with Republicans who vow to fight his moves. In a White ...
Wall Street Used Commodities Storage, Tankers for Unfair Gain, Senate Panel Finds
November 20th, 2014
Wall Street’s biggest banks have used their ownership of metals warehouses, oil tankers and other commodities businesses to gain unfair trading advantages and dominate markets, according to a U.S. Senate investigation. In a report on Goldman Sachs Group Inc., ...
Switzerland To Join Multilateral Convention On AEOI
November 20th, 2014
The Swiss Federal Council has approved plans for the nation to join the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (MCAA) on the Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information, describing it as a logical step, after it agreed in principle in May ...
RBNZ releases Brighter Money designs
November 20th, 2014
New Zealand’s banknotes are getting brighter and better, with the RBNZ today unveiling more vibrant and secure banknote designs which will progressively enter circulation later next year. The Bank today also launched a Brightermoney.co.nz website which contains basic information about the ...
Yahoo to replace Google as default search engine on Firefox in US
November 20th, 2014
Yahoo will replace Google as the default search engine on the Firefox web browser in the US, signalling Yahoo’s resolve to regain some of the ground that it has lost in the most lucrative part of the internet’s ad market. The ...
World Bank: Bitcoin is not a “Ponzi Scheme”
November 19th, 2014
Ponzi scheme: A fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator. Many of the ...
Japan Elections Bring Noise, White Gloves and Stock Gains
November 19th, 2014
When an election is called in Japan, this is what happens: candidates with megaphones roam streets in minivans, party leaders give speeches outside Tokyo train stations, and stocks gain until polling day. In 11 elections since 1980, the Topix ...
Apple Told to Pay $23.6 Million Over Pager Technology
November 18th, 2014
Apple Inc. (AAPL) was told to pay a Texas company $23.6 million after a jury found its iPhone and other devices used pager technology from the 1990s without permission. Six patents owned by Mobile Telecommunications Technologies LLC are valid and ...
