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Prospects for the UK and the pound
December 15th, 2020
This article assesses the likelihood of the pound following the dollar into monetary hyperinflation. Between March and September, the US Government financed twice as much of its spending by bond sales — mostly through inflationary QE — compared with ...
British pound rose against the dollar
December 15th, 2020
The dollar traded near 2 1/2-year lows against major peers on Tuesday as demand for the safest assets flagged amid progress toward agreeing U.S. fiscal stimulus and optimism for a Brexit deal. The greenback was near its weakest since ...
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission warns regarding unregulated entities
December 10th, 2020
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘CySEC’) has issued a warning s to inform investors that the following websites do not belong to an entity which has been granted an authorization for the provision of investment services and/or the ...
Cookies penalty: AMAZON EUROPE CORE, GOOGLE LLC and GOOGLE IRELAND LIMITED fined multimillion euros
December 10th, 2020
The French data protection authority, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), has issued today two announcements to inform about the imposition of fines to AMAZON EUROPE CORE, GOOGLE LLC and GOOGLE IRELAND LIMITED for Cookies violations. AMAZON ...
European stocks are expected to open lower on Thursday
December 10th, 2020
European stocks are expected to open lower on Thursday as markets track the parlous state of Brexit trade deal talks between the U.K. and EU this week. London’s FTSE is seen opening 10 points lower at 6,563, Germany’s DAX ...
A digital euro
November 19th, 2020
The ECB, as guardian of the euro, provides currency in two forms: we issue banknotes and we transfer electronic deposits to banks and other financial institutions. Digitalisation has spread to every corner of our lives and transformed how we ...
Payment token derivatives: the risks behind the hype
November 19th, 2020
Compared to a direct investment in Bitcoin, for example, an investment in derivatives with payment tokens as underlying assets is more transparent but is by no means risk-free. Many of the risks associated with payment tokens have an impact ...
Waiving VAT and customs duties on vital medical equipment
November 18th, 2020
The European Commission waives customs duties and VAT on the import of medical equipment from non-EU countries. The European Commission had already in April 2020 published a decision helping Member States affected by the coronavirus pandemic to temporarily suspend ...
European stocks closed lower; Travel stocks shedding 1.1%
November 18th, 2020
European stocks closed lower on Tuesday despite a backdrop of more positive coronavirus vaccine news from Moderna. The pan-European Stoxx 600 closed down by around 0.2% provisionally, with travel stocks shedding 1.1% to lead the losses as the majority ...
The monetary logic for gold and silver
November 17th, 2020
A considered reflection of current events leads to only one conclusion, and that is accelerating inflation of the dollar’s money supply is firmly on the path to destroying the dollar’s purchasing power — completely. This article looks at ...
