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U.S. authorities reportedly investigating Bitcoin businesses for connections to Silk Road
May 21st, 2014
Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. authorities are apparently renewing investigations into Bitcoin businesses and any potential connections to criminal activity. Specifically, renewed interest has surfaced in who else may have been connected to Silk Road, the shuttered online ...
German regulator BaFin finds currency manipulation evidence
May 21st, 2014
BaFin, the German regulator, said it had found concrete evidence that traders attempted to manipulate the global currency market, making it the first financial watchdog to confirm that suspicions of wrongdoing have clear grounds. Raimund Röseler, the head of ...
EUR/USD sandwiches between monthly S1 and 200-day SMA
May 21st, 2014
Pair’s Outlook The currency pair remains completely motionless, even though the daily and especially monthly technical indicators imply elevated volatility in the exchange rate. For EUR/USD to return to being active it has to breach either the monthly S1 ...
Eastern dryness mars strong Australia crop outlook
May 20th, 2014
Dryness in eastern Australia is marring otherwise favourable prospects for US growers, and posing an “increasing risk” to a recovery in cattle prices, RuralCo said, as the farm services group unveiled a return to the black. The grain trading-to-farm ...
US pivotal to OECD tax plan
May 20th, 2014
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that the OECD’s plan to reduce tax base erosion and profit-shifting, as laudable as it is, is hugely reliant on the US making significant and drastic alterations to its corporate regime if it is to ...
Bitcoin: guide for tax purposes
May 19th, 2014
Interest in Bitcoin has shot up since the virtual currency’s inception in 2009, and many a contractor is considering how it could play a part in their business, writes James Poyser, co-founder of online contractor accountancy firm inniAccounts. While ...
GBP/USD to try to reach 2009 highs
May 19th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook The Pound continues to recover after an encounter with a cluster of supports around 1.6750. This demand area consists of the monthly pivot point, 55-day SMA and the rising trend-line and is therefore unlikely to be breached ...
SEC Charges Unregistered Securities Salesman
May 16th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Tiburon, Calif.-based securities salesman for selling millions of dollars in oil-and-gas investments without being registered with the SEC as a broker-dealer or associated with a registered broker-dealer. Behrooz Sarafraz has ...
Canada’s international transactions in securities
May 16th, 2014
Canadian investors acquired $7.9 billion of foreign securities in March, the largest such outflow of funds since November 2012. Meanwhile, foreign investors reduced their holdings of Canadian securities by $1.2 billion, the first monthly divestment this year. This activity ...
Election results boost India stocks to another record high
May 16th, 2014
India’s benchmark index surged to a record high Friday after initial election results suggested a sweeping victory for Narendra Modi and the pro-business Bharatiya Janata Party. Investors reacted to the news with marked enthusiasm, sending Mumbai’s Sensex index up ...
