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Oracle, SAP settle long-running TomorrowNow lawsuit
November 14th, 2014
Oracle Corp and SAP SE have settled long-running copyright litigation for $356.7 million over improper downloads of Oracle files, ending a fierce legal battle between the two enterprise software rivals. The case involved SAP’s TomorrowNow unit, which the German company bought to ...
Gold Heads for Weekly Loss as SPDR Assets Extend Drop, Oil Slips
November 14th, 2014
Gold headed for a weekly decline as investors assessed the timing of higher U.S. borrowing costs amid slumping energy prices, with assets in the SPDR Gold Trust posting the longest period of decrease since May 2013. Bullion for immediate ...
Madoff Trials in Geneva Loom Six Years After Fraudster Confessed
November 13th, 2014
Almost six years after Bernie Madoff admitted his investment firm was based on “one big lie,” two European criminal cases linked to the convicted fraudster are working their way to trial in Geneva. Prosecutor Marc Tappolet is finishing an indictment of ...
SEC Seeks $329 Million From Wylys in Illegal Trading Case
November 13th, 2014
Samuel Wyly and the estate of his brother Charles should pay $329 million for using offshore accounts to hide stock holdings and engage in illegal trading, regulators argued in seeking to increase the penalty ordered by a judge. Wyly ...
Technical Analysis: Currency pairs – Nov 13
November 13th, 2014
Technical Analysis for November 13, 2014 EUR/USD The last movement from the market was holding the price around 1.242, Currently EUR/USD still moving sideways at 1.24 – 1.25 level. The last movement from the market can’t break 1.251 resistance ...
Apple must face U.S. lawsuit over vanishing iPhone text messages
November 12th, 2014
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) was ordered to face a U.S. federal lawsuit claiming it failed to tell consumers that its messaging system would block them from receiving text messages if they switched to Android-based smartphones from iPhones. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ...
The Two New Tools of Monetary Policy
November 12th, 2014
Every basic exposition of how monetary policy is conducted before about 2008 is soon to become obsolete. The three basic monetary policy tools that used to be taught in almost every introductory economics course were changing reserve requirements, changing ...
Suit Accuses Banks of Role in Financing Terror Attacks
November 11th, 2014
The suit accuses banks — including HSBC and Barclays — of helping to finance the violent activities through their ties to Iran, painting Wall Street as a sort of middleman of terror. Those acts of terrorism occurred a world away ...
Embezzler back in court: Ronda Nixon to answer accusations Thursday
November 11th, 2014
A former law firm bookkeeper who was convicted of embezzlement in 2009 and served time in prison is scheduled to appear in federal court Thursday to answer accusations she has violated the terms of her probation, according to court records. ...
Most Asian Stocks Climb as Topix Advances on U.S. Rally
November 11th, 2014
Most Asian stocks rose as Japan’s Topix index climbed after the yen extended losses and corporate earnings beat estimates. Nissan Motor Co. (7201), which gets 43 percent of its revenue in North America, gained 1.4 percent. Amorepacific Corp. surged 9.3 percent in ...
