Spain is urged by Nato allies not to allow refuelling of Russian warships bound for Syria.
Russia is reinforcing its Baltic Fleet in Kaliningrad with two small warships armed with long-range cruise missiles to counter what it sees as a worrying NATO build-up in the region, Russia's daily Izvestia reported on Wednesday.
Russia reveals photos of a new highly advanced liquid fuelled heavy ICBM capable of evading anti-missile defences and hitting US territory with 10 tonne nuclear payload.
Russia’s most advanced tactical missile complexes deployed near the Estonian border. According to the website of Ministry of Defense of the Russian
Roughly 75% of all financial market volume comes from automated trading. Here's how algorithms caused the flash crash in the British pound in early October.
the company has hit its first real bump in that remarkable run, and 2016 marked the first year since 2001 that Apple posted an annual decline in revenue and profit (Apple’s fiscal year ended Sept. 24).
The US election is now only about two weeks away. The winner of this election is likely to be… gold. Here’s why:
Some sort of Black Swan event will come out of nowhere and cause an explosive move in gold and silver
Growing silver out of sludge left from copper production
Bullion consumption in China may also rise “as a way of diversifying away from the property market"
Stay away from the dollar/gold thing. Most analysts are dead wrong about it. The best bull markets in Gold occur with a rising dollar.
The US election is now only about two weeks away. The winner of this election is likely to be… Gold. Here’s why:
The owner was given the coin by his grandfather and experts have now told him it was one of 20 made of gold seized from Spanish treasure ships in Vigo Bay, Spain, in 1702
One thing we know about Central Bank monetary policy: they did lots of it (zero interest rate policy and quantitative easing or QE). The Federal Reserve is an excellent example. If we look at the duration (weighted average life) of global sovereign debt, we can see the duration declining from 1997 through 2008, then rising…
Nomi Prins gives her take on the latest news out of Deutsche Bank and how Too Big to Fail has become institutional.
If you’ve ever finished a game of monopoly with a frustrated player overturning the board and scattering the pieces, then it’s possible that Lizzie Magie accomplished her original goal.
Shares in Italy’s Monte dei Paschi di Siena bank have been temporarily suspended from trading after a 23 percent price drop. This followed the stock's initial rally on Tuesday after the bank announced its latest plan to secure survival.
There are constant bank runs. The bond markets panic, and governments along its southern perimeter need bail-outs every few years. Unemployment has sky-rocketed and growth remains sluggish, no matter how many hundreds of billions of printed money the European Central Bank throws at the economy.
Long-term sterling bonds suggest investors are quickly losing confidence in the Bank of England’s ability to support debt markets through the U.K.’s departure from the European Union.
Central banks’ large-scale quantitative easing takes them into uncharted territory, where the boundary between monetary and fiscal policy is blurred, and where negative interest rates create political pressures and protests from savers. Central bankers will have to address these concerns, or risk a political backlash.