Switzerland is one of the richest countries in the world, and while its economic policies and practices largely conform with EU standards, the country's population rejected accession negotiations with the EU in March of 2001...
When Professor Kevin Dowd, a professor of Economics and Finance at Durham University, wrote a piece titled “Bitcoin is bust: Why investors should abandon the doomed cryptocurrency,” a lot of debate took place whether this libertarian and fierce advocate of private money over government-issued and...
The benchmark BSE Sensex on slumped by nearly 300 points at 27,208.61 due to heavy profit-booking, chiefly in IT, oil & gas and power shares, ignoring government approving the ordinance route to implement insurance and coal reforms. The broader NSE Nifty also dipped by 92.90 points or 1...
Saxo Bank is still working on their 2015 annual forecasts but Kitco News spoke with Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategist for the Danish bank to get his preliminary thoughts on the gold market for 2015. “Major investing firms are still lukewarm on gold,” he said...
Online payments expert Stripe added Bitcoin payment support to its API, following which users will able to accept payments in digital currency alongside credit cards. The new-feature is scheduled to come out of beta testing in January 2015 and will charge a fee of 0.5% per transaction...
Bloomberg recently voted Bitcoin as the 2014’s worst investment, thus beating Russian Ruble and Ukrainian Hryvnia in terms of maximum drop...
US DOLLAR TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Prices edged past December’s swing top to establish a new five-year high. Near-term resistance is at 11577, the 38.2% Fibonacci expansion, with a break above that on a daily closing basis exposing the 50% level at 11648...
Most emerging-market stocks climbed; Chinese equities posted the biggest two-day retreat in 18 months while Russia’s ruble stopped a three-day gain. Hyundai Motor rose 2 percent in Seoul after Yonhap News said the carmaker may boost dividends...
Oil slid from the highest close in more than a week due to worries that the strengthening U.S. economy will not boost demand enough to clear a global surplus...
Located inside Mission Market Express in the station’s Grand Foyer, ZenBox gives the station’s 10,000-plus daily commuters a familiar way to acquire digital currency...
Copper and industrial metals recovered after data showed the economy of the U.S., the second-biggest consumer of the metal, grew at the fastest pace since 2003 last quarter...
Hong Kong stocks ended flat on a holiday-shortened session on Wednesday, while Japanese Nikkei closed higher...
Charlie Shrem Found Guilty of Abetting Illicit Transactions Charlie Shrem (founder of BitInstant and former board member of the Bitcoin Foundation) was found guilty of abetting illicit transactions to online drug bazaar Silk Road...
The key points: 1. Oil crash coincided with the introduction of economic sanctions against Russia 2. 80% of shale oil production in the US economically unviable at $60 per barrel 3...
Arab OPEC producers expect global oil prices to recover to between $70 and $80 per barrel by the end of 2015 as a global economic recovery revives demand, OPEC delegates said this week in the first indication of where the group expects oil markets to stabilise in the medium term...
On Tuesday U.S. stocks were poised for a higher open, putting the Dow and S&P 500 on track to extend a four-day rally after an unexpectedly strong GDP report. In general, trading volume is expected to be light this week due to the Christmas holiday...
On Tuesday the greenback was soaring near nine-year highs versus the other major currencies, ahead of highly anticipated U.S. third quarter growth data and as expectations for a U.S. rate hike by next year continued to lend broad support to the dollar. The U.S...
We know that “money printing” distorts the level of relative prices in an economy because, at certain times, some prices may increase faster than other prices...
According to data compiled by International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ukraine cut gold reserves for a second month to the lowest since August 2005 as Russia bought bullion for an eighth month to take its holdings to the highest in at least two decades...
