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SEC Charges Fake Filer With Manipulating Fitbit Stock
May 22nd, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed fraud charges against a Virginia-based mechanical engineer accused of scheming to manipulate the price of Fitbit stock by making a phony regulatory filing. According to the SEC’s complaint, Robert W. Murray purchased ...
Asian stocks post biggest rise in a month; dollar weak
May 22nd, 2017
Asian stocks posted their biggest daily rise in a month on Monday following modest gains in U.S. shares, though the greenback came under renewed pressure as Washington’s political turmoil undermines confidence in U.S. economic policy. MSCI’s broadest index of ...
Update on Brexit
May 14th, 2017
This article looks at the background to Brexit negotiations and concludes that Britain is negotiating from a position of strength, while the EU is increasingly in a position of financial difficulty. Not only will the European Commission be forced ...
$25 Billion in 30 Days: Are Cryptocurrencies in a Bubble?
May 11th, 2017
The combined market capitalization of all public cryptocurrencies has surged nearly 80% over the last month, as more than $20bn worth of new investment dollars has flooded the nascent market. In roughly 30 days alone, the market cap for ...
What’s happening in the labour market?
May 10th, 2017
The rate of youth unemployment peaked at above 24% in the euro area in 2013 for the age group 15-24. Since then, the youth unemployment rate has declined faster than the total unemployment rate and remained around 21% in ...
Altcoin Surge Ends; Bitcoin Continues to Shine toward $1,800
May 10th, 2017
The altcoin surge has ended. After climbing for the past seven days, the majority of altcoins fell today while bitcoin has continued to rise. Ripple, which yesterday replaced Ethereum for the number two cryptocurrency based on market cap, fell ...
Breaking: BaFin restricts CFD trading
May 9th, 2017
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – BaFin) today issued a General Administrative Act pursuant to section 4b of the German Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandelsgesetz – WpHG). The General Administrative Act restricts the marketing, distribution and sale ...
Oil prices rise on expectation of output cut extension
May 8th, 2017
Oil prices rose on Monday as Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said an OPEC-led production cut scheduled to end in June would likely be extended to cover all of 2017, although a relentless increase in U.S. drilling capped gains. Brent ...
Business cycles are credit cycles
May 7th, 2017
This article gets to the heart of why central banks’ monetary policy will never succeed. The fundamental error is to regard economic cycles as originating in the private sector, when they are the consequence of fluctuations in credit. It ...
The European Commission proposes simpler and more efficient derivatives rules
May 7th, 2017
The European Commission is today proposing some targeted reforms to improve the functioning of the derivatives market in the EU. The reforms provide simpler and more proportionate rules for over-the-counter derivatives to reduce costs and regulatory burdens for market ...
