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Crude, Copper and the S&P 500
December 2nd, 2014
Why the Fed Bubble Is Likely to Burst After more than five years of aggressive accommodation from the world’s central banks, there are many charts that suggest the tremendous run-up in the risk assets during this time period is likely to ...
Gold Retreats From Five-Week High on Outlook for Stronger Dollar
December 2nd, 2014
Gold retreated after the biggest one-day rally in more than a year as investors weighed the outlook for a stronger dollar against a rebound in oil prices. Silver, platinum and palladium dropped. Bullion for immediate delivery declined as much ...
Supervisory Authorities issued warnings on unauthorised companies
December 2nd, 2014
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Belgium (Financial Services and Markets Authority – FSMA), Ireland (Central Bank of Ireland), Spain (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores – CNMV) and Holland (Netherlands Authority for ...
Tanzania parliament votes on PM resignation amid corruption scandal
December 1st, 2014
Tanzania’s parliament voted on Saturday to dismiss senior officials, including the attorney general and the minister of energy, following a report released earlier this week implicating public officials in a scandal involving fraudulent payments of public funds. Officials have also ...
UK passes tough new transparency law for oil, gas and mining companies
December 1st, 2014
A historic law came into force in the UK today that will help fight poverty and corruption in resource-rich but poor countries said Global Witness, which has been campaigning for such measures for over 16 years. The new rules ...
Moody’s downgrades Japan on debt worries
December 1st, 2014
Moody’s Investors Service today downgraded the Government of Japan’s debt rating by one notch to A1 from Aa3. The outlook is stable. The key drivers for the downgrade are the following: Heightened uncertainty over the achievability of fiscal deficit ...
Commodities Retreat to Five-Year Low as Oil Tumbles With Bullion
December 1st, 2014
Commodities fell to the lowest in five years as oil sank on prospects for a glut, gold fell after Swiss voters rejected a move to force the central bank to buy bullion and data from China confirmed a slowdown ...
Cyprus Airways through the eyes of potential investors
November 28th, 2014
The sale process of Cyprus Airways (CAIR) has been put on hold waiting for the results of the European Commission investigation on the legality of the aid package of EUR 103m, which was provided by the Cyprus government to ...
Citi Sees Gold as Bitcoin Says Swiss Vote Makes No Sense
November 27th, 2014
The initiative requiring the Swiss National Bank to hold a fixed portion of its assets in gold makes no sense, according to Citigroup Inc., which said the metal was the equivalent of the virtual currency bitcoin. “There is no economic or ...
SABMiller, Coca-Cola merge African bottling arms
November 27th, 2014
Brewer SABMiller, Coca-Cola and the South African Gutsche family have agreed to combine their non-alcoholic bottling operations in southern and eastern Africa, a $2.3bn deal long rumoured to be in the offing. The new combined bottler, Coca-Cola Beverages Africa, ...
