by JD Lasinger | Aug 28, 2016 | Featured Posts
Slowly but surely, banks around the world are noticing the advantages that blockchain technology – the distributive ledger technology that underpins bitcoin – has for their business. Many of them have already started investing in blockchain technologies to settle...
by JD Lasinger | Aug 25, 2016 | Featured Posts
Despite fears about the wider fallout of Brexit, it seems that Continental Europe is not suffering from any economic slowdown caused by the vote in the UK. Quite on the contrary, private sector growth continued this month, and it even delivered a pleasant surprise in...
by JD Lasinger | Aug 24, 2016 | Featured Posts
From bears to bulls to bears again, it seems like oil’s wild ride has found an interesting pivot point on which it see-saws from one week to the next. Over the past 2 weeks, oil prices recovered and touched the $50 USD per barrel psychological barrier. At this point,...
by JD Lasinger | Aug 22, 2016 | Market News
Major Events of Last Week With global bankers convening for their annual meeting at Jackson Hole USA, next week, investors will now once again start focusing their attention on the timing of the next interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserve. In Europe, equities...
by JD Lasinger | Aug 18, 2016 | Featured Posts
One of the most marvelous economic stories of the last 2 decades seems to be running into murky waters. Experts are increasingly pointing to the excess of credit in China, and decreasing economic growth as the driving forces behind the next global financial meltdown....
