23 May, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Japan’s Yamaguchi says Abe not thinking about dissolving Lower House "at all"
Japan’s Yamaguchi says Abe not thinking about dissolving Lower House "at all"
Head of Japan’s junior coalition party speaking to reporters after meeting with PM Abe 24 May 2016
– Abe says he will raise sales tax as planned next year unless there was a major financial or natural disaster
Reuters reporting from the Kyodo news agency. Nothing we haven’t heard before. Posting for info.
23 May, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Report: US Postal Service Could Create its Own Digital Currency
Report: US Postal Service Could Create its Own Digital Currency
The US Postal Service has released a new report outlining how it could adopt blockchain technology within its operations.
23 May, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Delinquency Rates Surge in 2016, Poised to Head Higher
Delinquency Rates Surge in 2016, Poised to Head Higher
New data on delinquency rates for commercial and industrial loans for the first quarter of 2016 has just been released and shows a surge heading into this year, after steadily rising throughout 2015. Based on forward-looking data, delinquencies may continue to increase well into…
23 May, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The Wall Street Journal: Facebook to tweak trending topics over bias concerns
The Wall Street Journal: Facebook to tweak trending topics over bias concerns
Facebook Inc. told a U.S.
23 May, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The Fed’s Loss Of Credibility Is Real: This Is What It Looks Like
The Fed’s Loss Of Credibility Is Real: This Is What It Looks Like
Asset markets aren’t prepared for a hawkish Fed. As Bloomberg’s Richard Breslow notes Fed speakers have even taken to the Sunday talk shows to beat the rate-rise drum as economics is morphing into punditry. They’re going to raise rates because they can, are independent, apolitical and can’t be bullied by foreigners. The numbers notwithstanding…
Hallelujah
23 May, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The CME Admits Futures Trading Was Rigged Under Old System
The CME Admits Futures Trading Was Rigged Under Old System
Ask any trader what they believe to be the hallmark feature of any “rigged market” and the most frequent response(in addition to flagrant crime of the type supposedly demonstrated every day by Deutsche Bank and which should not exist in a regulated market) will be an institutionally bifurcated and legitimized playing field, one in which those who can afford faster, bigger, more effective data pipes, collocated servers and response times – and thus riskless trades – outperform everyone else who may or may not know that the market is legally rigged against them.
23 May, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on How Will Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.’s Zen Compare With Intel Corp.’s Chips?
How Will Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.’s Zen Compare With Intel Corp.’s Chips?
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) recently updated its investor-presentation slide deck. Although it has since been modified, the company previously included the following slide, comparing its first-generation eight-core Bulldozer-based PC processor, codenamed Orochi, to its upcoming Zen-based, eight-core Summit Ridge processor:
Image credit: AMD.