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As Brazil Vote Nears, Testimony Ties Top Political Figures to Corruption Scandal
September 8th, 2014
As Brazilians prepare to vote in a national election next month, a scandal involving the state-controlled oil giant Petrobras flared up again this weekend over testimony that implicated dozens of top figures in President Dilma Rousseff’s governing coalition in ...
Russian European food sanctions have consequences
September 5th, 2014
Bas Feijtel has a bumper crop of pears and no place to sell them all, so he’s leaving a quarter of them to rot. That’s because the price he gets for his pears plunged 70 percent from last year after ...
Japan PM’s stance on next tax hike ‘utterly neutral’
September 5th, 2014
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stands “utterly neutral” on whether to decide in December to raise the sales tax again next year but he will be very cautious in his decision given the potential blow to the economy, Japan’s economy ...
The world is marching back from globalisation
September 5th, 2014
There is a mood abroad that says history will record that sanctions against Russia marked the start of an epochal retreat from globalisation. The case for calling a halt to business as usual with Moscow is self-evident to anyone ...
Promise From European Central Bank Is Also a Gamble
September 5th, 2014
By promising to rev up the printing presses, the European Central Bank has created hope in the markets that Europe may finally start to overcome its economic challenges. Yet the central bank is taking a big gamble in directing ...
Australia 200 – Eases Away from Multi Year High Under 5650
September 5th, 2014
Australia 200 for Friday, September 5, 2014 After spending the last week consolidating and trading in a very narrow range right around 5620, the Australian 200 Index has surged higher again to achieve a new multi-year high around 5660, ...
Gold Drops Sharply Below $1260 as U.S. Dollar Rallies
September 5th, 2014
Gold prices settled lower on Thursday as brighter prospects for the U.S. economy and the dollar dimmed the metal’s appeal. Bullion got little impetus from the European Central Bank’s dramatic decision to cut three separate interest rates, as well ...
Bitcoin trader admits unlicensed money transfers
September 5th, 2014
The operator of an exchange for the virtual currency Bitcoin has pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed money transmitting business. Charlie Shrem from BitInstant.com admitted the charges in a New York federal court hearing. Another Bitcoin trader, Robert Faiella, ...
At Trial, Arab Bank’s Lawyer Spars With Witness
September 5th, 2014
For three days, the former chief of the Israeli military’s Palestinian Affairs Department delivered important, if a bit dry, testimony in the terrorism financing trial of Arab Bank in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. The witness, Arieh Spitzen, had ...
No Matter the Outcome, Scottish Vote Will Shake U.K.
September 5th, 2014
Until this week, almost nobody outside Scotland took very seriously the possibility that Europe’s most stable and durable nation, the only big country on earth not to have suffered invasion, revolution or civil war at any time in the ...
