Christophe de Margerie’s last act as chief executive officer of Total SA (FP) left no room for doubt about his feelings toward Vladimir Putin’s Russia. In a Moscow speech hours before the plane crash that took his life two days ago, de Margerie said U.S...
Can you put a price tag on digital paradise? Of course.You can even get paid in real money. How much would you pay for a piece of imaginary real estate? Anshe Chung has made millions renting it. Maybe your investment portfolio needs to include more fake property...
Hong Kong stocks are beating every other developed market in the world this month as lower valuations shelter shares from a global selloff and the city’s worst political unrest since the 1960s. The MSCI Hong Kong Index rallied 3...
Second Life's First Millionaire Posted by: Rob Hof on November 26, 2006 Anshe Chung, the virtual land baroness that I highlighted in my cover story earlier this year, My Virtual Life, has apparently become the first millionaire in Second Life. That’s millionaire in real U.S. dollars...
NEW DELHI: After rallying over 28 per cent in the Samvat 2070, investors are bracing for a yet another stellar performance by Indian markets in Samvat 2071. Samvat 2071 is set to begin from October 24th 2014 and is highly regarded as the fresh beginning of a new year,... Read more -> Sources...
London (AFP) - European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso argued Monday that Britain is better off in the EU and warned that alienating its allies would be a "historic mistake...
"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh." - Lord Chesterfield. A while ago, I reported on the proposed sale of the Balkan assets of the nationalized Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria...
If you're having a bad week, consider that Warren Buffett has lost $2 billion and it's only Tuesday. Buffett is known for shunning the quick buck and focusing on the long-term performance of his investments. He'd best not change that this week...
“too early to say” on more ECB measures ECB’s gov council member and Belgian central bank head Luc Coene quoted in L’Echo newspaper and on the wires a few moments ago EURUSD posted 1.2740 but back to 1...
Heineken, the world's third largest brewer, reported lower than expected beer sales in the third quarter as wet weather reduced drinking in Europe, but retained its full-year outlook...
The European Commission will on Wednesday tell five euro zone countries, including France and Italy, that their budget plans risk breaching EU rules, say three officials briefed on the decision...
Probes into allegations that traders rigged foreign-exchange benchmarks could cost banks as much as $41 billion to settle, Citigroup Inc. (C) analysts said. Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) is seen as probably the “most impacted” with a fine of as much as 5.1 billion euros Read More -> Sources...
Answering why prices of bitcoins have been declining recently, having traded near $650 to begin July only to drop to just above $300 earlier this month, Coinsetter CEO Jaron Lukasiewicz recently provided his explanation on Quora as well as posting them on the company’s blog...
Swarm has announced its first selection of startups for decentralized crowdfunding on its platform. Swarm launched earlier this year and uses the Counterparty protocol to manage its Swarmcoin, a medium for exchange for issuing equity in startups...
Bitcoin derivative exchange BTC.sx has partnered with bitcoin exchange itBit to track the latter’s BTC/USD pair as a tradable instrument in its platform. Until now, BTC.sx had only tracked prices on Bitstamp, which replaced MtGox. BTC...
BitPay has issued a document outlining its concerns with the BitLicense proposal, joining a chorus of Bitcoin enthusiasts and businesses worried that it would adversely impact Bitcoin. Two months ago, China’s three largest bitcoin exchanges penned a joint open letter doing the same...
Citi has introduced significant enhancements to Dagger, its leading liquidity-seeking algorithm for equity markets...
Citi has launched a full suite of algorithmic and direct market access trading products providing clients electronic access to the Turkish equities markets...
Europe's largest stock exchange, BATS Chi-X Europe (BATS) is launching a new offering that grants exposure to Turkey’s most liquid stocks in the form of the BIST30 index, which is slated to begin in early November...
