Germany’s Deutsche Bank dodged over $100 million in federal taxes, according to allegations in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York Monday afternoon. “Through fraudulent conveyances involving shell companies, Deutsche Bank tried to make its potential tax liabilities disappear. This was nothing more than a shell game,” said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. The lawsuit alleges ...
One of the main key's to successful trading is the preservation of capital. Beyond the obvious point here that if you loose your trading capital then you will be out of the game, is the fact that it takes much more to come back from a loss than it does to take the loss you are trying to come back from. As an example here lets say you start with $10,000 and loose $5000 from a string of bad trades. That $5000 loss represents a 50% loss on ...
EUR/USD's rebounded last week indicated short term bottoming at 1.2246. Further recovery could be seen back to 1.2599 resistance. Considering bullish convergence condition in daily MACD, break of 1.2599 will be the first sign of medium term bottoming and bring stronger rebound to 1.2886 key resistance next. On the downside, break of 1.2246 is needed to confirm fall resumption. Otherwise, we'd expect more corrective trading ahead. ...
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Although there has been much press recently about the US Dollar loosing its status, there is no doubt that as of this lesson and most likely for the foreseeable future, the US Dollar still reigns supreme over all other currencies of the world. The price for the majority of traded commodities such as oil is quoted in US Dollars and the US Dollar represents over 60% of the worlds currency reserves (the currency held by central banks to back their liabilities). These facts combined with the fact that ...