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Enforcement actions against two affiliate marketers for Binary options fraud
October 8th, 2019
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today that it filed a pair of enforcement actions against two affiliate marketers, David Sechovich and Peter Szatmari for creating and disseminating millions of fraudulent solicitations to open and fund retail binary options ...
British pound broke a two-day rising streak
October 8th, 2019
The British pound broke a two-day rising streak and edged lower on Monday as concerns rose that sizeable differences between Britain and the European Union remained for striking a Brexit withdrawal deal. British lawmakers have passed a law requiring ...
An Inflationary Depression
October 4th, 2019
Financial markets are ignoring bearish developments in international trade, which coincide with the end of a long expansionary phase for credit. Both empirical evidence from the one occasion these conditions existed in the past and reasoned theory suggest ...
U.S Dollar steadied or fell against most major currencies
October 2nd, 2019
Worries about a slowing U.S. economy and the possibility of further interest rate cuts in the wake of weak U.S. manufacturing data kept the dollar pinned down on Wednesday, as investors sought shelter elsewhere. The greenback steadied or fell ...
Pound Sterling plunges on Brexit uncertainty
September 26th, 2019
“The pound has fallen below $1.24 on Brexit uncertainties, more than offsetting initial gains following the Supreme Court ruling.” Lloyds The Pound to Euro exchange rate is +0.04% higher @ €1.12899 on 26.09.2019 The Pound to US Dollar exchange ...
ICO incubator and founder charged for unregistered offering and unregistered broker activity
September 20th, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued ICOBox and its founder Nikolay Evdokimov for conducting an illegal $14 million securities offering of ICOBox’s digital tokens and for acting as unregistered brokers for other digital asset offerings. According to the ...
$125 million offering fraud; ongoing international trading program
September 20th, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has filed an emergency action and obtained a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against three individuals and three entities in connection with an alleged fraudulent, ongoing international trading program ...
Measuring Recession
September 20th, 2019
Using nominal GDP, or GDP deflated by the CPI, as the principal guide to the state of the economy is a common mistake which will eventually prove very costly. Having convinced themselves that GDP measures economic progress, government ...
Dollar gives up gains against most major currencies
September 20th, 2019
The dollar drifted lower on Friday after central banks in Switzerland and the UK refrained from following the Federal Reserve in cutting rates, and risk appetites ebbed on caution about U.S-China trade talks. Sterling hits two-month high on Brexit ...
Bank rally leads European stocks higher
September 19th, 2019
A rally in bank stocks for the first time in four sessions lifted European shares on Thursday, after the U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates but set a higher bar for further reductions. European banks rose 1.4%, the most ...
