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How Future Bitcoin Can Prevent a Future Greece
July 14th, 2015
The digital currency is at a turning point, evolving much more quickly than some observers realize Bitcoin, the volatile digital currency, cannot help the Greeks of today. But it could mean a great deal to those caught up in ...
EU Demands Complete Capitulation From Tsipras
July 13th, 2015
European leaders gave Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras a straightforward choice: ditch his principles or quit the euro. Tsipras was presented with a laundry list of unfinished business from Greece’s previous bailouts at an emergency summit that stretched in ...
Dirty Dealing: China and International Money Laundering
July 13th, 2015
In the midst of turmoil in the Chinese stock markets, one serious problem that may appear is increased currency outflows created by current and potential investors who would rather move their assets to foreign countries viewed as safer havens. Money laundering should be under close surveillance. ...
Greek Limbo Sets Up Another Monday to Watch in Markets
July 13th, 2015
Prospects for deal unsure after weekend negotiations Investors were facing another potentially manic Monday after the latest in a series of weekend twists and turns in Greece’s debt crisis. A wave of optimism buoyed stocks in Europe and the U.S. at the ...
Orderly Grexit Poses a Puzzle for EU Lawyers Gaming Out Doomsday
July 10th, 2015
Grexit on Sunday? Not so fast, say the lawyers. Even if the creditors pull the plug, Greece will remain legally part of the euro zone on Monday. It could hang on in a half-out, half-in state indefinitely, creating legal ...
Capital Markets Union should ease cross-border investment and finance for SMEs
July 10th, 2015
The EU Capital Markets Union (CMU) should provide a new, more efficient way to channel savings into small business ventures and protect cross-border investors in the EU, says a non-binding resolution voted on Thursday. MEPs want CMU building blocks, ...
Greece debt crisis: Eurozone receives economic reform plan
July 10th, 2015
The Greek government has submitted economic reform proposals to try to secure a further bailout from its creditors, eurozone officials say. They say they received the plan late on Thursday – just two hours before a midnight deadline. They ...
China Shares Rise but Uncertainty Hovers
July 10th, 2015
Greece inches closer to deal with creditors, but investors are wary of sustained China recovery China shares rose Friday, and other Asian markets made tentative gains, as investors assess whether a recovery in Chinese stocks proves sustainable. The Shanghai ...
China stocks rise after Beijing slaps curbs on selling
July 9th, 2015
Chinese stocks rallied on Thursday after the securities regulator banned shareholders with large stakes in listed firms from selling, in Beijing’s most drastic step yet to stem a sell-off that has roiled global financial markets. As the daily drumbeat ...
European Stocks, Chinese Stocks And Commodities Are All Crashing – Are U.S. Stocks Next?
July 8th, 2015
A global stock market crash has begun. European stocks are crashing, Chinese stocks are crashing, and commodities are crashing. And guess what? All of those things happened before U.S. stocks crashed in the fall of 2008 too. In so many ways, it seems like we ...
