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Monday, April 15, 2013

Gold plunges to two-year low

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Gold plunged nearly 9% to its lowest level in over two years Monday as a global sell-off in commodities gave new impetus to last week'...

Gold plunges

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On The Forced Sale... Via Ross Norman of  Sharps Pixley , The gold futures markets opened in New York on Friday 12th April to a monume...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

Yuan reaches record high against the US dollar

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The yuan jumped to 79.775 Hong Kong dollars per 100 yuan, just near the record of 79.729 on Wednesday. The yuan re...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Bitcoin bubble may have burst

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The price of Bitcoins has plunged more than 75% in the past two days, sparking a rush of activity that overwhelmed trading platforms and s...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

JPMorgan Analysts Say Big Investment Banks Are ‘Uninvestable’

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) , the largest U.S. bank by assets and the top investment bank by fees, is questioning the so-called univers...

Former KPMG partner charged

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Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles filed criminal charges Thursday against a former KPMG LLP partner who has admitted to passing on inside...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

FXCM tries to take over Gain

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In a move which has shocked the FX world, FXCM has made an offer to acquire Gain Capital (Forex.com) for $5.35 per share, or a total of $210...

Forex trading platform for Bitcoin gets funding

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Today,  Coinsetter , a New York City-based startup looking to launch a new Forex trading platform for Bitcoin, announced today that it has...

First Bitcoin fund launches from Malta

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Ever since the bitcoin cryptocurrency first launched and achieved initial success, institutional investors and hedge fund managers have se...
Monday, April 8, 2013

The bizarre banking loophole that has opened up in Malta

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The bizarre banking loophole that has opened up in Malta Malta throws a spotlight on how secure our bank accounts really are – or aren...

Obama targets wealthy IRAs

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President Obama’s budget, to be released next week, will limit how much wealthy individuals – like Mitt Romney – can keep in IRAs and othe...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Beyond the Post-Cold War World

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By George Friedman Founder and Chairman An era ended when the Soviet Union collapsed on Dec. 31, 1991. The confrontation between the Uni...

Bill Gross "Man in the Mirror" - What if rates go up, prices go down?

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Investors should be judged on their ability to adapt to different epochs, not cycles. An epoch may be 40-50 years in time, perhaps longer. ...

BOJ to pump $1.4 trillion into economy in unprecedented stimulus

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(Reuters) - The Bank of  Japan  unleashed the world's most intense burst of monetary stimulus on Thursday, promising to inject about $...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

The Four Traits Of Monetary Union Collapse

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There are  four traits  that UBS identified as  common trends around the breakup of a monetary union . So has Cyprus (as is tirelessly poi...