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Japanese Lawmakers to Lobby Abe for Russian Gas Pipeline
May 28th, 2014
Japanese lawmakers are reviving efforts for a 600 billion yen ($5.9 billion) natural gas pipeline from Russia, which last week signed a supply deal with China, to cut energy costs after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. A group of 33 ...
What Obama and Abe Didn’t Talk About
April 25th, 2014
As New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently reminded readers, the dirtiest word an economist can call you is “Japanese.” Swedes must be stewing with regret for giving Krugman that Nobel Prize, after one of his columns likened the ...
Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload Sued By US Record Labels, Following Movie Studios’ Lawsuit, For Copyright Infringement
April 11th, 2014
Four major U.S. record labels have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit Thursday against file-sharing website Megaupload and its founder, Kim Dotcom, three days after the company was sued by Hollywood’s major movie studios and the Motion Picture Association of ...
European stocks rose
January 26th, 2024
European stocks rose on Friday, bucking weakness in US equity futures and in Asian markets, as an update from the world’s largest luxury retailer showed that spending among the wealthiest consumers remains resilient. Europe’s Stoxx 600 index advanced as ...
Bitcoin and Ethereum turn volatile
July 26th, 2022
Uncertainty is mounting around Bitcoin and Ethereum ahead of this week’s Federal Open Market Committee. Furthermore, upcoming earnings reports from America’s five biggest tech companies and other reports could impact crypto prices over the next few days. Bitcoin and ...
Commission starts legal action against 23 EU countries over copyright rules
August 4th, 2021
France, Spain, Italy and 20 other EU countries may be taken to court for their tardiness in enacting landmark EU copyright rules into national law, the European Commission said on Monday as it asked the group to explain the ...
Technical analysis and market psychology
June 16th, 2021
This article examines the relevance of technical analysis to today’s financial markets. Its genesis springs from two branches, Dow theory and the Elliott wave principal. Originally, Dow theory sprang from an attempt to discern the state of the ...
European stocks dipped slightly on Tuesday
April 27th, 2021
European markets are following the trend seen overnight Asia-Pacific, where stocks mostly declined as concerns about the spread of Covid-19 lingered. Elsewhere, U.S. stock futures held steady in early premarket trading on Tuesday as investors braced for another batch ...
Why interest rate management fails
April 23rd, 2021
This article explains why attempting to achieve economic outcomes by managing interest rates fails. The basis of monetary interventionist theories ignores the discoveries of earlier free-market thinkers, particularly Say, Turgot and Böhm-Bawerk. It also ignores Gibson’s paradox, which ...
Brexit: Extended period for personal data freely flow
December 30th, 2020
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ico), the UK’s independent body set up to uphold information rights, has issued a statement in response to UK Government’s announcement on the extended period for personal data flows, that will allow time to complete ...
