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Extra Rights Should Mean Extra Responsibilities
April 15th, 2014
Ordinary people have suffered huge disruption to their lives through a loss of jobs & opportunity because of the colossal mistakes of self-declared ‘Masters of the Universe’ chasing ever-bigger financial rewards within the banking industry. To add insult to ...
GBP/USD may re-test Feb high
April 15th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook Though the Cable has just encountered the Feb high, the sell-off from this level turned out to be short-lived. Accordingly, if the weekly PP at 1.6704 stays intact today, there will be an elevated chance of a ...
To Be Results Focused, Stop Focusing On Results
April 14th, 2014
For many entrepreneurs, success is measured by profitability and achieved by increasing revenue and decreasing expenses. But just focusing on those desired outcomes is a mistake that will yield little change to the bottom line. The reason being is ...
JPMorgan Chase Earns 19 Percent Less to Start the Year
April 14th, 2014
JPMorgan Chase (JPM), the largest but no longer the most profitable U.S. bank, announced a 19 percent decline in first-quarter earnings this morning, with weaker income from trading and sluggish mortgage activity. Shares fell as much as 3.7 percent ...
Chinese Property Developers Stake Out Shares In Commercial Banks, Intensifying Systemic Risks
April 14th, 2014
Major Chinese property developers have in recent months been buying increasingly large stakes in regional banks, posing risk that an unravelling in the real estate market could leave both lenders and builders confronting losses big enough to pose a ...
Is Wal-Mart Heading to An Organic Empire To Fuel Its Wild Oats Rollout?
April 14th, 2014
Wal-Mart’s bold entry into the booming organic food market sets a lofty goal for the company: offering a wide range of products bearing the coveted USDA certified organic seal at stores across the United States. But experts say that ...
Heartbleed Compromises Bitcoin Wallets: Digital Currency Also Built Using OpenSSL
April 14th, 2014
Bitcoin is the latest digital entity to be added to a growing list of organizations compromised by the Heartbleed bug. The Bitcoin Foundation said on Friday that the latest version of Bitcoin Core, the open source software that enables ...
Exclusive: Microsoft, Apple diverge on bankrolling big patent buyer
April 11th, 2014
Patent buyer Intellectual Ventures has persuaded Microsoft and Sony to invest in its latest acquisition fund while Apple and Intel, which invested with IV previously, declined to participate, according to people briefed on the fundraising. The investment decisions by ...
The billion-dollar bash – how post-crisis investigation work is changing the way law firms advise banks
April 11th, 2014
With banks setting aside eye-watering sums of money to meet liabilities generated by the fallout from the financial crash, in-house legal departments and law firms are having to rethink their business models. Alex Newman reports By any standards, $23bn ...
HMRC unable to disclose figures for civil fraud investigations
April 10th, 2014
Only six taxpayers a month voluntarily acknowledge that they have committed fraud using a disclosure facility set up by HMRC at the beginning of 2012 The facility, which encourages people who have committed tax fraud to admit their offences ...
