China has delivered its plan to upgrade manufacturing by inspiring innovation and raising efficiency in an attempt to boost economic growth. "The key to creating a new driver of economic growth...lies in the manufacturing sector," said the State Council...
Regulators eye leverage cap in FX by Solomon Teague The convulsions after the SNB’s decision to cease pegging the Swiss franc to the euro are still being felt, with regulators in Europe and Australia debating the merits of tougher controls on leverage in FX markets for retail investors...
Heres a Long position im taking based on a few factors. 1. RSI is in oversold territory 2. Price is near support zone 3. Signs of rejection from lower price. I do think we could see lower prices in near future however a 50 to 100 pip move up would not be unexpected from my view...
March 24, 2015 Santiago, Chile French paper Le Parisien didn't mince words in the headline: "La chasse au cash est lancee". Basically 'hunting season on cash is launched'...
The European Commission has unveiled its Tax Transparency Package as part of its agenda to tackle corporate tax avoidance and harmful tax competition in the EU...
How to Keep the Foxes Out of Your Financial Hen House Bernd Struben, Managing Editor, Albert Park Investors Guild What do ANZ, NAB, Storm Financial, CBA, Macquarie Bank and Timbercorp all have in common? If you answered that they all have vowels in their names, you’re of course right...
Russia's central bank has cut its key interest rate by one percentage point to 14%, as concerns over inflation ease...
James Bullard, head of the Reserve Bank of St Louis, told the Financial Times that the Federal Reserve risked holding fire too long on rate hikes given the plunging unemployment rate and that even after the central bank starts tightening, monetary policy will remain easy by normal standards...
The Bank of England governor reiterated February comments saying that the drop in prices was temporary and mostly caused by the sharp fall in oil prices. The governor noticed he expected inflation to fall to around zero and stay there for much of the rest of the year...
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has flashed its regulatory teeth again, warning against another unauthorized binary options broker that seeks to lure investors from the Canadian province...
Brazil's central bank has raised interest rates to a six-year high of 12.75% to restrain inflation. The bank said in a statement: "In assessing the macroeconomic scenario and the outlook for inflation, the Copom [the bank's monetary policy committee] decided unanimously to raise the rate by 0...
The Reserve Bank of India has lowered its policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.5% after making a similar cut in mid-January...
This is an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal: U.S. officials are investigating at least 10 major banks for possible rigging of precious-metals markets, even though European regulators dropped a similar probe after finding no evidence of wrongdoing, according to people close to the inquiries...
January 14, 2014 Santiago, Chile Well at least someone finally had the candor to just come out and say it. In the wake of recent terror attacks in Europe, British Prime Minister David Cameron has called for an end to secure communications technology...
The Coming Greater Depression By Vern Gowdie, Editor, Gowdie Family Wealth Hockey can’t do it. Obama couldn’t do it. Abe thinks he can do it. Merkel is going to find out she can’t do it. Hollande knew he couldn’t do it, but said otherwise...
Cameron's government intends to raise 1 billion pounds with the help of 'Google tax' recently announced by George Osborne, the Chancellor...
According to Citigroup Inc., the initiative requiring the Swiss National Bank to hold a fixed portion of its assets in gold makes no sense, as the metal was the equivalent of the cryptocurrency bitcoin...
Adding to the long list of suits against downed Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, all of which have to wait for Japanese court action to finish in 2015, three Japanese creditors of Mt. Gox have filed a lawsuit against their former Bitcoin exchange...