The strong franc hurts Swiss companies, as it made their products more expensive in foreign markets and reduced the franc value of repatriated earnings. Bühler AG, which makes industrial food-processing machines in northeast Switzerland, exemplifies the problem...
Games firm Valve has made its long-anticipated move into virtual reality, teaming up with HTC for the Vive VR headset. Standalone device will go head-to-head with Facebook’s $2bn VR headset by the end of 2015, when both will have released commercial editions, says The Guardian...
Below are listed the events due in the period from March 2 till March 6, which are likely to influence market sentiment this week...
Tech companies LG and Huawei have unveiled a range of new smartwatches featuring metal-framed circular designs. The announcements were made on the eve of the Mobile World Congress trade fair in Barcelona...
On Sunday Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled its premium S6 and S6 Edge Galaxy smartphones, with a three-sided screen, as well as a payment software which is compatible with about 90 percent of card readers. The company tries to reverse profit declines and market-share losses to Apple Inc...
The latest MetaTrader 4 Android version features re-designed interface revised according to Google Style Guide recommendations in the same way as it was done to MetaTrader 5 Android. The mobile application functionality was not overlooked either...
Zynga announced the decision while publishing its performance report for the fourth quarter of 2014. The company said that they will cut the 71 jobs in Beijing office and the related expense of USD7 million will be included in the first quarter of 2015...
The announcement has been received by the trader community well as they realize that it will give impetus to Bitcoin’s popularity...
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On Friday, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda reiterated his estimate that a moderate rebound in crude oil prices will help anchor 2% inflation "around fiscal 2015" but outlined a slip in longer-term public inflation expectations...
On Thursday Samsung Electronics Co. announced it will freeze its employees' salaries this year as part of an effort to cut costs while profits are shrinking...
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Morgan Stanley drew a line under claims that it mis-sold mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the financial crisis, as the bank has reached a $2.6 billion settlement with the US Department of Justice...
UK state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has reported £3.5bn loss for the previous year, down from £9bn loss for 2013, says BBC...
This is an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal: U.S. officials are investigating at least 10 major banks for possible rigging of precious-metals markets, even though European regulators dropped a similar probe after finding no evidence of wrongdoing, according to people close to the inquiries...
After the extension was granted to Greece, yields on the country's bonds dropped sharply, while shares on the country’s stock market jumped. Athens’s main stock exchange closed almost 10% higher, primarily led by banks...
China's sixth largest lender by assets, Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC), is seeking an initial public offering (IPO) in 2016 that could outplay Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s record, state media reported Wednesday...
Inflation stood at 0.3% in January, well below the Bank of England's 2% target, marking the lowest rate of UK Consumer Prices Index inflation since estimates of the measure began in 1988...
Apple Inc. was told to pay $532.9 million, as a federal jury said the company’s iTunes software used a Texas company’s patented inventions without permission...
On Tuesday Janet Yellen announced that the Federal Reserve can still be patient before raising interest rates, though she has prepared the ground for an increase as early as mid-year...
