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...On Wednesday, the price of bitcoin climbed to a fresh record high of more than $13,000. Institutional investors have been keen to trade the asset but only via a regulated market....
...Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 13,184 Currencies €/$ 1.22 (1.22) $/¥ 111.28 (111.28) £/$ 1.38 (1.38) €/£ 0.8825 (0.8811) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.11 at 69.27 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.06...
...(+0.20%) at 6,876 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -4.66 (-0.30%) at 1,538 FTSE100 down -3.90 (-0.05%) at 7,497 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 5,399 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 13,126 Currencies...
...London and the wealthiest catchment areas in the United States....
...Also in the US, payrolls data is due to be released later on Friday. Economists expect US hiring cooled in August with forecasts of 178,000 jobs created in the month....
...Average selling prices have exceeded £273,000 per unit for the first time in the company’s history....
...(+0.36%) at 6,629 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +3.72 (+0.24%) at 1,534 FTSE100 up +0.19 (0.00%) at 7,523 CAC 40 up +4.09 (+0.08%) at 5,372 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 12,991 Currencies €/$ 1.18...
...(FT) Discover more Davos news from WEF It’s a big day for The US Donald Trump will be inaugurated 45th president of the United States. Here is the (48-hour) schedule....
...Akzo Nobel has warned of a “challenging” market environment as the Dutch paints and chemicals company said revenues were down 4 per cent to €3.43bn in the first quarter, because of “adverse currency effects...
...At their peak in 2013, private prisons housed approximately 15 per cent of the US’s federal prison population, or nearly 30,000 out of 22,000....
...The banks, hedge funds, farmers and others who trade day and night set reference prices for US interest rates, currencies, stock indices and commodities in deals worth $1,100tn last year....
...(+0.21%) at 1,438 FTSE100 down -25.71 (-0.40%) at 6,352 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 4,704 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 10,164 Currencies €/$ 1.13 (1.13) $/¥ 119.42 (119.48) £/$ 1.55 (1.55) €/£ 0.7324...
...(-0.47%) at 5,083 Dax down -84.13 (-0.72%) at 11,521 Currencies €/$ 1.09 (1.09) $/¥ 124.00 (124.06) £/$ 1.56 (1.56) €/£ 0.7003 (0.7002) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.02 at 56.11 Light Crude...
...At the same time, August housing starts should fall to to a 1,160,000 rate from a previous 1,206,000....
...(As of Tuesday, a deal agreed but not ratified by individual countries) A) Japan B) Mexico C) The United States D) Australia E) China 11....
...(FT) In the news Markets ride monetary easing wave Chinese stocks hit a seven-year high and Japanese equities reached a 15-year peak after theGerman Dax yesterday broke through and closed above the 12,000...
...Just because, you know, not everyone was around during Dotcom bubble V.1. Beenz.com TAKEOFF From a trade rag called Revolution, (June 9, 1998): “Don’t say loyalty, say currency,” says Letts....
...A Pentagon think-tank spends roughly $300,000 a year interpreting the body language of foreign leaders while the US has spent $900m since 2007 trying to read the body language of passengers in airports....
...Egypt also invited Israel and the Palestinians to attend high-level talks in Cairo aimed at securing a longer-term deal to end a war that has claimed nearly 2,000 lives....
...(+0.20%) at 6,820 CAC 40 up +15.00 (+0.34%) at 4,381 Dax up +7.61 (+0.08%) at 9,470 Currencies €/$ 1.31 (1.31) $/¥ 104.15 (104.05) £/$ 1.66 (1.66) €/£ 0.7904 (0.7915) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE)...
...In 2002, a jury in Los Angeles landed Philip Morris USA with a $28bn fine in a similar case in 2002. This was later reduced to $28m on appeal....
...US secretary of state John Kerry and Ban Ki-Moon, secretary-general of the UN, said in a statement that an “unconditional humanitarian ceasefire” had been agreed by all parties and would begin at 8am local...
...To be precise, 155,000 people in Benin got a vaccination against meningitis, with a vaccine kept in temperatures of up to 39°C....
...(-1.07%) at 1,307 FTSE100 down -64.62 (-0.97%) at 6,621 CAC 40 down -43.46 (-1.00%) at 4,306 Dax down -119.10 (-1.28%) at 9,189 Currencies €/$ 1.39 (1.39) $/¥ 102.75 (102.75) £/$ 1.67 (1.66) €/£ 0.8365...
...(Financial Times) “U.S. prosecutors are seeking more than $13 billion from Bank of America to resolve federal and state investigations of the lender’s sale of bonds backed by home loans in the run-up to...
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