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Shell ditches $6.5bn Qatari petrochemicals project
January 14th, 2015
Royal Dutch Shell has scrapped plans for a $6.5bn petrochemicals project with Qatar Petroleum, citing “the current economic climate prevailing in the energy industry”, the oil major said on Wednesday. The Al Karaana petchems project, an 80:20 joint venture of ...
Markets mixed as oil slide continues
January 14th, 2015
World markets were mixed on Tuesday as oil continued falling. US stock market started the trading session with a rally but the early gains were reversed by midday and the market ended the session slightly lower, recording triple-digit swings ...
IRS Sets Up FATCA Data Exchange Service
January 14th, 2015
FATCA Data Exchange Service The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has begun International Data Exchange Service (IDES) enrollment. The platform will enable the secure transmission of client data under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Foreign financial institutions (FFIs) ...
Deutsche Bank Sued by TPV Founder Over $32 Million Loss
January 14th, 2015
Deutsche Bank AG was sued in Singapore by Stanley Pan Fang-Jen, a co-founder of Hong Kong-based TPV Technology Ltd. (903), over a $32 million trading loss due to alleged false representations. The bank denied wrongdoing. The bank advised the ...
Apple Sues Ericsson Over Patents Related to LTE Connectivity
January 14th, 2015
Apple Inc. sued Ericsson , alleging the patents being asserted by the Swedish networking giant aren’t “essential” to high-speed wireless technology the iPhone maker uses in its mobile devices. In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court for Northern ...
IronFX Global announces the top winner of the IronFX Intergalactic Trading Competition
January 14th, 2015
IronFX Global announces the top winner of the IronFX Intergalactic Trading Competition, where traders could “Make History” by competing for a flight aboard a suborbital spacecraft, or win $100,000 in cash. IronFX the Global Leader in Online Trading is ...
OPEC vs. U.S.: Who will blink first on oil?
January 14th, 2015
The Merriam-Webster dictionary offers this definition for the word capitulate: “to stop fighting an enemy or opponent; to admit that an enemy or opponent has won.” I’m not sure who oil companies are fighting, whether it’s oil traders, OPEC, ...
Fraudsters exploit aura of authority
January 14th, 2015
Fraud cases in UK The volume of fraud cases going through British courts has climbed in the past 12 months, according to an audit firm’s latest Fraud Barometer. According to KPMG, fraudsters increasingly are hiding behind cloaks of respectability ...
Oil prices extend slide in commodities sell-off
January 14th, 2015
Oil prices fell more than 1 percent on Wednesday after touching their lowest in nearly six years the previous session, extending losses alongside a sell-off in other commodities. Commodities came under pressure after the World Bank cut its forecasts for global ...
Most Asian Stocks Drop; Commodities Slump, Yen Extends Advance
January 14th, 2015
Asian stocks declined, led by a retreat among materials producers, as the slump in crude prices spread to copper and the yen rose a fourth day against the dollar. BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s largest mining company, lost 2.8 percent in ...
