Brexit negotiations officially began three weeks ago, and whether the UK will retain access to the European Union’s single financial market once they’re over is unknown. Yet that hasn’t stopped regulators on the Continent from taking a swipe at more than a trillion euros in assets, and thousands of well-paying finance jobs required to manage them, that they think belong on the other side of the English Channel.
Mark Kiesel probably isn't the first name that springs to mind when Pimco's investment strategies are being discussed. That honor, ironically, still resides with Bill Gross even though he departed the firm for Janus over 3 years ago.
Authored by Dave Forest via OilPrice.com,
South Africa’s chamber of mines officially filed suit this week to block the country’s challenging new mining charter. But elsewhere in the world, some of the biggest investors in natural resources are ramping up their financial commitments — to a new target region for mining and energy deals.
Latin America.
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,
Most of us don’t give much thought to what we post on social media, and a lot of what we see on social media is pretty innocuous. However, it only seems that way at first glance. The truth is that what we post online has a frightening potential. According to recent research from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Washington, the things we post on social media could be utilized by software to predict future events.
Authored by Wayne Madsen via The Strategic Culture Foundation,