Despite the fact that the Swiss share market has grown insignificantly this year, one subject has showed a staggering profit, which puzzled market experts trying to explain this phenomenon. This is the Swiss National Bank (SNB). The SNB’s price per share increased by more than 3 thousand francs in...

"Very high risk" and speculative was how the Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) described initial coin offerings (ICOs), the practice of creating and selling digital currencies to finance start-up projects, and warned customers against this trend.   With issuers accepting Bitcoin or...

Americans are slow to declare the income received from operations with crypto-currencies, and therefore the IRS is now looking for ways to track the crypto community and intends to "tighten the screws". According to media reports, the IRS has been using software to identify users of bitcoin since...

Helped by healthy expansion in the world’s second-largest economy, Chinese first-half net profits surged by nearly a quarter, and therefore China Inc’s earnings are off to a roaring start to 2017 at first glance. Last year, the rise was a mere 6 percent.   The Shanghai index was pushed to...

Apple has threatened Western Digital that it will not buy its products in the future with the aim of stopping Western Digital from taking control of Toshiba chip business, reported the media quoting people with knowledge of the deal.   The sources reportedly said on...

Some analysts are pointing out just how crucial South Korea is to global technology even as President Donald Trump threatens to renegotiate trade with Seoul and tensions with North Korea continue to rise. South Korea took 17 percent of the global semiconductor market...

Companies should always be aware of changes made to labor legislation. However, cost of these changes has increased dramatically when Trump came to power, and American small businesses was the first to suffer from it. Kronos Workforce Institute recently conducted a survey of more than 800 leaders...

Investment banker Goldman Sachs has said in a research note that North Korea tensions aren't actually what's driving the rally in gold despite many claims to the contrary.   Instead, the demand and value of the yellow metal has been inspired by the uncertainty over trade and business...

France will stop issuing new permits for exploration of hydrocarbon deposits next year, as the country seeks to complete all oil and gas production by 2040, according to a bill submitted on Wednesday, Bloomberg writes. Such a step would allow the government to abandon already more than 40 requests...