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Toshiba says it is not considering ending PC production
February 16th, 2016
A Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday it was not considering withdrawing from personal-computer production and selling its Hangzhou factory in China. The comment by a Toshiba spokesman followed a report by the Sankei newspaper that said the Japanese conglomerate ...
IBM Bets on Bitcoin Ledger
February 16th, 2016
International Business Machines Inc. is becoming the biggest backer of a technology that underpins the Bitcoin digital currency. In the coming year, IBM will begin testing its own variation on the transactional software known as blockchain, aiming to simplify life for ...
Iran resumes oil export to Europe after 5-year-halt
February 15th, 2016
Iran has shipped crude oil to Europe for the first time in five years just a month after world powers lifted sanctions on Tehran in step with the landmark nuclear deal reached last July. The oil shipment to Europe ...
Europe open: Stocks rally on strong Asian cues; IAG flies higher on upgrade
February 15th, 2016
European stocks kicked the week off on an upbeat note, taking their cue from a strong session in Asia, despite the release of disappointing Chinese and Japanese data. At 0840 GMT, the benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 index was up ...
Nikkei surges 7%, Topix up 8.3%; China lose ground
February 15th, 2016
Asian stocks mostly climbed on Monday, with Japan shares surging after last week’s sharp selloff. But China’s shares lost ground as its markets re-opened after the week-long Lunar New Year holiday. The Nikkei 225 retraced losses some of Friday’s losses, jumping ...
Gold outlook improves
February 12th, 2016
There is a conflation of three related events that materially alter the prospects in favour of a higher gold price. The change in the outlook for US interest rates has probably put an end to the dollar’s four-year bull ...
Reversal Of Fortunes: Capital Pours Out Of Banks And Into Gold
February 12th, 2016
For banks, the recent news is pretty grim. But it’s about to get much worse, based on the following: Yield Curve Flattens: Now 10-Year Yields Just 1% More than 2-Year (Barrons) – Ye olde yield ...
Dollar on track for steep weekly losses
February 12th, 2016
The dollar nursed losses on Friday that have put it on course for steep weekly drops against major currencies, with many investors favouring the perceived safe-haven appeal of the yen amid sinking global markets. Japanese markets were closed for a ...
Goldman Sachs Abandons Five of Six ‘Top Trade’ Calls for 2016
February 11th, 2016
New York bank closes bet on dollar strength versus euro, yen Divergent-rates policy still favors greenback, Himmelberg says Goldman Sachs to clients: whoops. Just six weeks into 2016, the New York-based bank has abandoned five of six recommended top trades for the ...
Day Of Reckoning: The Collapse Of The Too Big To Fail Banks In Europe Is Here
February 11th, 2016
There is so much chaos going on that I don’t even know where to start. For a very long time I have been warning my readers that a major banking collapse was coming to Europe, and now it is ...
