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Emerging currencies hit 17-month low over fears of trade war escalation
September 12th, 2018
The sell-off in emerging markets deepened on speculation the US and China trade war will escalate. Currencies slumped to their lowest level since April 2017 as Goldman Sachs said its models signaled further declines for some developing nations. Stocks ...
Online payment services make big IPO waves this year; Global IPO rankings in 2018
September 11th, 2018
The over $5 billion initial public offering in Hong Kong of Xiaomi, the world’s No. 4 smartphone maker, may have made the biggest splash in the global initial public offering market in the first half of the year, but ...
Oil prices rose as U.S. drilling for new production stalled
September 10th, 2018
Oil prices rose on Monday as U.S. drilling for new production stalled and as the market eyed tighter conditions once Washington’s sanctions against Iran’s crude exports kick in from November. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at ...
European Markets Review: European shares dropped to their lowest level in five months
September 7th, 2018
European shares dropped to their lowest level in five months on Thursday as worries over trade weighed and tech stocks came under pressure. In a volatile session which saw the STOXX 600 seesaw in and out of positive and ...
Gold And Silver Are Acting Like It’s 2008. They May Be Right
September 6th, 2018
2008 has special significance for gold bugs, both because of the money they lost in August of year and the money they made in the half-decade that followed. Today’s world is beginning to feel eerily similar. Let’s start with ...
Property investment scam: Affected investors lost millions, feel “unprotected by the law”
September 5th, 2018
“The only thing that is left for us now is to file a complaint and pray that the money hasn’t been spent on casinos and luxury hotels.” Around 60 people who have been affected by an alleged scam in ...
European stocks finished deep in the red; The biggest losers in Europe
September 5th, 2018
European stocks finished Tuesday deep in the red, amid fears of a crisis in emerging markets and trade tensions between the U.S. and major economies. The pan-European Stoxx 600 slipped to a two-month low during trade, finishing the session ...
Rakuten e-commerce giant buys a bitcoin exchange
September 3rd, 2018
Rakuten, Inc., the largest e-commerce site in Japan and among the world’s largest by sales, announced that it decided to acquire everybody’s bitcoin Inc. (hereinafter “everybody’s bitcoin”) through its subsidiary, Rakuten Card Co., Ltd. The acquisition is based on ...
Global economy is facing a ‘perfect storm’, warns BIS chief
August 29th, 2018
The problem with the current US policy of using tariffs to pursue trade and economic strategies is that they are such a crude tool to use within such a complex, sophisticated and global ecosystem. The Bank of International Settlements’ ...
Swiss watchdog to propose looser anti-money laundering rules for fintechs
August 29th, 2018
Swiss financial regulator FINMA is planning to loosen anti-money laundering rules for smaller financial technology firms, part of a drive to boost innovation and shore up the country’s position as a leading money management hub. The revisions, prompted by ...
