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7 bitcoin-related court cases
July 24th, 2015
Bitcoin is back in the headlines again this week, but for all the wrong reasons. It surfaced yesterday that two operators of bitcoin exchange Coin.mx were being charged by US prosecutors for working without a money transmission license. This ...
Morgan Stanley expects oil crisis worse than in 1986
July 24th, 2015
Analysts from Morgan Stanley, who had predicted the 2015 in drop in oil prices to be as steep as in 1986, now say that it may be much worse. The bank’s experts concluded that the recovery in oil prices ...
Asian shares skid as weak China PMI revives demand concerns
July 24th, 2015
Asian equities stumbled on Friday after a survey showed China’s manufacturing activity crumbled to 15-month lows, rekindling concerns for the region’s exports as the world’s second-largest economy struggles to arrest a broad downturn. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares ...
Commodities Collapsed Just Before The Last Stock Market Crash – So Guess What Is Happening Right Now?
July 23rd, 2015
If we were going to see a stock market crash in the United States in the fall of 2015 (to use a hypothetical example), we would expect to see commodity prices begin to crash a few months ahead of ...
The Euro is Destroying the European Movement
July 23rd, 2015
“Terrorists”, “blackmail”, “lack of trust” are just some of the terms voiced during the recent negotiations between Greece and its Eurogroup partners during the recent Greek negotiations. There were even suggestions that Greece should leave the common currency altogether. ...
Hong Kong Asset Management Reaches Another Record Level
July 23rd, 2015
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has released its annual survey, which showed the combined fund management business in Hong Kong sustaining another year-on-year increase to reach a record high at the end of 2014 of almost HKD17.7 trillion ...
Chinese economy concerns wipe $40bn off value of Apple
July 23rd, 2015
Fall in share price of world’s biggest company mirrored by slide in stocks in mining and commodity firms to their lowest level since market crash of 2008 Growing concerns about the health of the Chinese economy helped wipe $40bn off the ...
Does A Commodities Crash Mean Global Depression, Mass-Devaluation Or Both?
July 22nd, 2015
First, precious metals peaked and began drifting lower. Then copper fell, oil plunged and it became obvious that these weren’t isolated events. The entire commodities complex — that is, all the physical inputs a modern economy uses to power, ...
‘Brexit’ fears haunt London’s roaring trade in euros
July 22nd, 2015
If there is a symbol of British ambivalence to Europe then it may be the euro itself. The capital of euro trading prospers outside the euro zone, but London’s dominance of the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market could wane if ...
Singapore fintech startup ApexPeak acquires Netherlands-based Asyx
July 22nd, 2015
Asyx gets long-term financial backing to support expansion ApexPeak gains state-of-the-art financial services platform Singapore-headquartered fintech (financial services technology) startup ApexPeak said it has acquired Netherlands-based supply chain finance and collaboration solutions provider Asyx. Acquisition terms were not disclosed. ApexPeak, founded ...
