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Thursday December 18: OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Currency pairs
December 18th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for December 18, 2014 Attempts to close above the 20 DMA failed. Pair looking to bounce higher. Further consolidation and retesting of 1.25 area. A close above extends to 1.2635. Selling pressure continues to push ...
Brent steady above 61 dollars
December 18th, 2014
Brent crude held steady above $61 a barrel on Thursday, bringing a sharp drop in prices to a temporary halt as companies are forced to cut upstream investments around the world. Chevron Corp has put a plan to drill ...
Russia’s economic crisis: five key charts
December 18th, 2014
Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, have been left out in the economic wilderness as sanctions imposed by the west, a tanking oil price, and plunging rouble take their toll. Here are five key charts. Growth in Russia is ...
U.K. regulators hit hurdles on fixing benchmarks
December 18th, 2014
U.K. regulators are expected to report in coming weeks on plans to fix global financial benchmarks. But efforts so far under way are already running into difficulties. Some market participants are worried that a new benchmark silver price isn’t ...
UK Government to resume sell-off of its stake in Lloyds Banking Group
December 18th, 2014
The government is to resume the sell-off of its stake in Lloyds Banking Group over the next six months, potentially disposing of a further £3bn worth of shares in the run-up to the general election. Chancellor George Osborne took ...
Hong Kong-based audit firm and two accountants charged by SEC
December 18th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission imposed sanctions against a Hong Kong-based audit firm and two accountants for failing to properly audit year-end financial statements of a company that the SEC has charged with fraud. An SEC investigation found that Baker ...
Who Are the Winners of Russia’s Ruble Meltdown?
December 18th, 2014
The Russian ruble‘s spectacular falls this year have been relentlessly portrayed as bad news. But with the ruble now down some 45 percent against the U.S. dollar since January, are there no winners? Companies that produce in Russia but sell abroad are bound ...
Dollar Gauge 0.1% From Five-Year High After Fed as Won Slides
December 18th, 2014
A gauge of the dollar was 0.1 percent from a five-year high amid speculation the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next year after removing a pledge to keep them low for a “considerable time.” The U.S. currency matched ...
A Full-Blown Economic Crisis Has Erupted In Russia
December 17th, 2014
The 8th largest economy on the entire planet is in a state of turmoil right now. The shocking collapse of the price of oil has hit a lot of countries really hard, but very few nations are as dependent ...
Accounting fraud
December 17th, 2014
Global Economic Crime Survey 2014 Financial statements are a fundamental barometer of a business — and a traditional starting point for analyses relating to credit decisions, contract awards, and capital raising in public markets. They are the bedrock of ...
