Andrew Parker, Director General of Britain’s Security Service MI5, spoke about the international counter terrorism threat and how MI5 works to tackle it. “Islamist extremists (…) threat is multi-dimensional, evolving rapidly, and operating at a […]
The Dow (DJIA) slipped by almost 23 percent on Black Monday, October 19, 1987. 30 years later, the DJIA has just set a new record high at 157.60 points above 23,000 points, up 5,000 points […]
Although the US Treasury has put China on its monitoring list along with Germany, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland, it announced that no major trading partner of the United States, including China, manipulated their currencies. […]
Latin America’s recovery is on track and growth pickup provides opportunity for reforms in Asia, wrote analysts with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Their conclusions corroborated the IMF’s October 2017 World Economic Outlook that pointed […]
“Cryptocurrencies are a fact of life… We need to create a legal framework for these operations, we need to control these operations if these operations contravene the law, including money laundering legislation,” Anton Siluanov, the […]
The electoral cycle in France and Germany ended a period of increased political risk and brought more stability to Europe for at least the next four years. If after the vote in favor of the […]
World Trade Organization (WTO) economists have issued a strong upward revision to their forecast for this year trade expansion following a sharp acceleration in global trade growth in the first half of the year 2017. […]
“In August 2017, the Commission learned that an (cybersecurity) incident previously detected in 2016 may have provided the basis for illicit gain through trading,” wrote the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a press […]