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InstaForex Becomes Latest Online Forex Broker to Launch Bitcoin CFD Trading
May 14th, 2014
The list of online forex brokers entering the bitcoin market and launching CFDs of the digital currency continues to increase during 2014. Starting with Plus500 and AvaTrade in 2013, along with eToro, FXOpen, and Markets.com and many other smaller ...
Asian Stocks Advance After U.S. Gauges Rally to Records
May 13th, 2014
Asian stocks rose, with the regional benchmark gauge on course for its biggest increase in seven weeks, as investors weighed earnings and after U.S. equity indexes climbed to records. Nissan Motor Co., Japan’s second-biggest carmaker, jumped 5.1 percent after ...
Territory confrontations escalate among China, Vietnam and the Philippines
May 8th, 2014
Tensions escalated in the South China Sea region this week after China, Vietnam and the Philippines were involved in a series of potentially explosive confrontations over disputed territory. Vietnamese officials say Chinese military and civilian ships have been intimidating ...
Military pact between U.S and Philippines
April 28th, 2014
US President Barack Obama says that a new US-Philippine military pact will promote stability in the region. The deal, signed in Manila hours before Mr Obama touched down, allows a bigger US military presence in the country. Mr Obama ...
Europe Stock Futures Follow Asia Down on Tech; Lira Falls
April 11th, 2014
European index futures and emerging-market currencies slid as a gauge of Asian stocks dropped the most in three weeks amid a selloff in technology shares that’s cut demand for riskier assets. Nickel extended its longest rally since 2010. Contracts ...
Asian Stocks Rise on Stimulus as Oil Drops With Copper
April 3rd, 2014
Asian stocks rose for a seventh day in the longest rally this year as the Japanese yen reached a two-month low and China’s government announced stimulus measures. European equity index futures, copper and oil fell. The MSCI Asia Pacific ...
Europe Index Futures Rise With Asia as Yen Retreats
April 2nd, 2014
European index futures climbed with Asian stocks, Treasuries fell and the yen retreated before reports that may signal the U.S. economic recovery is gathering pace. New Zealand’s dollar weakened and gold rebounded. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index added 0.4 ...
Flight 370: When facts are few, imaginations run wild
March 24th, 2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, simply vanished from the sky on March 8. In the two weeks since, the mystery of what happened to its 227 passengers and 12 ...