18 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on ’Tis the season for China to waste government money
’Tis the season for China to waste government money
Recently it seems, every year around this time China’s usually cash-strapped provincial and municipal governments toss money around on things they don’t really need, even as they take sometimes risky loans in other seasons.
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18 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Is Asia’s FX market turning into a ‘fight club?’
Is Asia’s FX market turning into a ‘fight club?’
David Forrester, Senior Vice President, G10 FX Strategy at Macquarie, discusses the relationship between the yen and the South Korean won. He later explains why the renminbi is the next interesting point in Asia.
18 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Is Asia’s FX market turning into a ‘fight club?’
Is Asia’s FX market turning into a ‘fight club?’
David Forrester, Senior Vice President, G10 FX Strategy at Macquarie, discusses the relationship between the yen and the South Korean won. He later explains why the renminbi is the next interesting point in Asia.
18 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on This Crisis Was Foreseeable … Thousands of Years Ago
This Crisis Was Foreseeable … Thousands of Years Ago
We’ve known for 5,000 years that mass spying on one’s own people is always aimed at grabbing power and crushing dissent, not protecting us from bad guys.
18 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The Wall Street Journal: Senate vote on attorney general pick not likely this year
The Wall Street Journal: Senate vote on attorney general pick not likely this year
The White House has said it is ready to wait until next year for Congress to consider its nominee to be the next attorney general, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says.
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18 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Caixin Online: Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect starts as a one-way street
Caixin Online: Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect starts as a one-way street
Trading on the first day of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program sees Shanghai-listed companies receiving much more attention from overseas investors than the other way around, reports Caixin Online.
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18 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Brooklyn Woman On Ebola Monitoring List Drops Dead Bleeding From "Face, Mouth, Nose"
Brooklyn Woman On Ebola Monitoring List Drops Dead Bleeding From "Face, Mouth, Nose"
Just a week after Dr. Craig Spencer was declared ‘Ebola-free’, The Daily Mail reports a woman, who had arrived from Guinea 18 days ago (and was on the NYC Ebola monitoring list), dropped dead in a Brooklyn hair salon this afternoon. FDNY sent their Special Operations and Hazmat units but she was declared dead at the scene.