MOSCOW--The Bank of Russia has intervened to shore up the ruble, shifting the currency's trading corridor again following its drop to record lows Monday on foreign-exchange markets, according to latest data from the central bank...
Samsung Electronics Co. gained on Tuesday and led technology companies higher causing emerging-market stocks climb for a third day. Chinese mobile companies rebounded, according to Bloomberg...
Crude-oil futures remained subdued on Tuesday with prices moving in a narrow trading range. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in November CLX4, +0.11% traded at $90.27 a barrel, down 7 cents in the Globex electronic session...
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- The Bank of Japan kept its policy unchanged Tuesday as widely expected, adding no new easing...
One of the worst days in the history of cryptocurrency trading: leading digital currency Bitcoin fell to the session’s lowest figures, altcoins like Litecoin, Dogecoin and Darkcoin also crashed by huge margins...
In a few weeks, we reach the beginning of that six-month stretch when stocks over the decades have tended to perform at their best. But looking ahead, David Kotok, chairman of Cumberland Advisors and a respected value investor, is decidedly cautious...
There are 101 reasons why oil has fallen as hard as it has, hitting a two-year low. The main reason in the back of it all is U.S. oil production...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The U.S. stock market turned negative on Monday as key benchmarks relinquished early morning gains. Small-cap and tech stocks led the losses...
Speaking at the Institute of Directors’ annual convention in the Royal Albert Hall, Jon Matonis, executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation claimed that “When it clicks, we’re going to reach an inflection point and Bitcoin will become the new gold...
(Reuters) - Silicon Valley stalwart Hewlett-Packard Co, which has struggled to adapt to the new era of mobile and online computing, plans to split into two companies as it looks to put more focus on the faster-growing corporate services market, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Sunday...
This weekend Financial Secretary John Tsang admitted that the government was not psychologically prepared for such scale of the protests...
(Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday there are both positive and negative factors to a weak yen, stressing that he will closely monitor the effects on the economy. "I won't comment on specific exchange-rate levels...
won’t comment on specific yen levels; in general weak yen pushes up import costs and hurts small companies while exporters; Japanese PM giving us a quick lesson in basic economics; export declines have stopped due to weak yen since Abenomics introduced; hopes firms are beginning to shift investme...
Bill Gates believes that the digital currency is a revolutionary technology and key. He was participating in SIBOS 2014 at Boston. Talking to Bloomberg TV’s Erik Schatzker, Bill Gates admitted said that the Bitcoin technology is key...
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. I'm going to discuss my newest indicator the ABSAV; why I made it and why I think every trader should use it. The idea that volume and price and interconnected isn't a new one...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Third-quarter earnings season ramps up this week, and based on some initial metrics, tech, financials, and health care companies are investor favorites, while consumer staples and consumer discretionary stocks are being snubbed...
Economy The crowds of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong decreased sharply today after the territory's chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, agreed to meet with demonstrator leaders over their demands for electoral reforms...
PayStand, an e-commerce gateway for alternative and traditional forms of payment, announces that is bringing up its API (Application Programming Interface) which according to it supports payments with credit cards, e-checks and Bitcoin...
BrightScope, a La Jolla, Calif.-based firm that analyzes retirement plans, estimates that 28,000 401(k) and other employee savings accounts have $88 billion invested in Pimco Total Return...
Look Who’s ‘Trading’ Commodities In the government’s bid to crack down on risky trading, charities and other nonprofit organizations may become collateral damage. That is causing alarm in the nonprofit world and should be a concern for donors...
