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The price of bitcoin just surged to a 20-month high

30/05/2016(0)
Bitcoin is having a great weekend. Since Friday morning, the price of bitcoin has increased 15% and briefly reached $530. That’s the cryptocurrency’s highest price since August 2014, when ... Read More
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Chinese fintech startups receive $2.4 billion from VC firms

27/05/2016(0)
Now that the Chinese stock market is falling to levels last see a year and a half ago, one fertile area for Chinese venture capitalists (VC) and others is ... Read More
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Asian stocks get a lift from higher oil prices

20/05/2016(0)
A bounce in oil prices supported major Asian benchmark indexes on Friday, though the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates again weighed on some markets in the region. China-related ... Read More
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Asia trades mixed; Chinese shares under pressure

16/05/2016(0)
Asian markets ended mostly higher on Monday, as traders shrugged off data released over the weekend that revived concerns over the Chinese economy. Japan’s Nikkei 225 pared some of its over ... Read More
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Oil prices jump as Goldman Sachs says market flips into deficit

16/05/2016(0)
Oil prices jumped over 1 percent on Monday after long-time bear Goldman Sachs said the market had ended almost two years of oversupply following global oil disruptions and flipped ... Read More
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Europe Stocks Rise for 2nd Day as Credit Suisse Leads Bank Gains

10/05/2016(1)
Carmakers climb as China auto sales increased in April Pandora jumps on better-than-forecast profit, raised outlook European shares rebounded further as investors speculated a selloff that spurred their worst ... Read More
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Oil prices dip as strong dollar outweighs supply disruptions

06/05/2016(0)
Oil prices fell on Friday, dragged down by a surging dollar and sliding Chinese commodities which at least temporarily outweighed crude supply disruptions in Canada as a result of ... Read More
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The fintech sector in Asia Pacific is booming

05/05/2016(0)
The fintech sector in Asia Pacific is booming, according to Accenture’s ‘Fintech and the evolving landscape’ report. The study found that fintech investment in the region more than quadrupled ... Read More
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Volkswagen (VOW) Overtakes Toyota In Q1 Car Sales For Global Top Spot

27/04/2016(0)
Even though an emissions-cheating scandal has rocked German car maker Volkswagen AG — expected to cost the company upward of $18 billion — the company’s sales were buoyed by ... Read More
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Xiaomi partners with UnionPay in online payments service

27/04/2016(0)
Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi is rolling out its own mobile payment service on the Chinese mainland in collaboration with China UnionPay, which had earlier partnered with Apple and Samsung ... Read More
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