The biggest of big pictures
October 26th, 2018
I have had a request from Mrs Macleod to write down in simple terms what on earth is going on in the world, and why is it that I think gold is so important in this context. She-who-must-be-obeyed ...
Macroeconomics Has Lost Its Way
August 3rd, 2018
The father of modern macroeconomics was Keynes. Before Keynes there were macro considerations, which were firmly grounded in human action, the personal preferences and choices exercised by individuals in the context of their own earnings and profits. In ...
$27 million in stock sales of purported cryptocurrency company freezes
April 16th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained a court order freezing more than $27 million in trading proceeds from allegedly illegal distributions and sales of restricted shares of Longfin Corp. stock involving the company, its CEO, and three other ...
Facebook has a giant, Europe-sized legal problem
December 28th, 2017
Europe continues to be a giant pain in Facebook’s app. Germany and France this week both hammered Facebook for its data practices, though in different ways. Germany’s competition regulator declared on Monday that Facebook is using its dominance in ...
CFTC announces Clearinghouse liquidity stress test results
October 18th, 2017
Staff of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a report detailing the results of an evaluation of settlement liquidity at clearinghouses. The purpose of the analysis was to assess the impact of a hypothetical extreme but plausible market ...
Twitter rival Gab sues Google
September 18th, 2017
Gab, a Twitter rival popular with the Breitbart crowd, is suing Google. The lawsuit, filed in Pennsylvania federal court on Thursday, argues that Google violated antitrust laws when it rejected Gab’s app from its Android app store. Gab says ...
London Stock Exhange published 6 months interim results
August 7th, 2017
London Stock Exchange Group has issued an announcement to publish results for the 6 months ended 30 June 2017. According the announcement: Strong financial performance with income growth across all business areas and 23% AEPS growth Successful strategy based ...
Clearing houses operator announced appointment of Global Head of Rates
June 12th, 2017
LCH appoints Michael Davie as Global Head of Rates Michael Davie to lead SwapClear, Listed Rates and LCH SwapAgent business LCH, a leading global clearing house, announced today that Michael Davie has been appointed Global Head of Rates for ...
Web Content Manager
May 22nd, 2017
The Web Content Manager will be in charge of content population, translation management and quality testing across the range of FXTM web projects. Although the role does not involve content writing, the candidate will be managing content-related projects across ...
London Stock Exchange reports gross profit up 17%; Q1 Results
April 26th, 2017
Strong start to 2017: Q1 total income from continuing operations up 19% to £458.7 million; gross profit (after cost of sales) up 17% Strong results reflect good headline growth across all core business areas as the Group continues to ...
