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Enlarge / HUAINAN, CHINA – JUNE 16: A smokestack from a coal fired power plant is seen next to an abandoned former paper factory near the site of a large floating solar farm project under construction by the Sungrow Power Supply Company on a lake caused by a collapsed and flooded coal mine on June […]
Red Sparrow is less than a month away from theaters. In anticipation of the new spy thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence, a Red Sparrow featurette goes behind-the-scenes and reveals the real-life inspirations for the story. Watch it below. Are you excited for Red Sparrow? There is no real buzz for the film, but it has potential. Perhaps it’ll […]
Mike Segar/Reuters The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will reportedly fine UBS, HSBC, and Deutsche Bank millions of dollars each for “spoofing” and manipulation in the U.S. futures market. For the first time, the CFTC launched a multi-agency investigation with the Justice Department and the FBI. Spokesmen for HSBC, Deutsche Bank and UBS declined to […]
Published time: 25 Aug, 2017 14:31 Two former managers at the French bank Societe Generale have been accused of participating in a scheme to manipulate the global US dollar Libor benchmark interest rate. Read more According to the US Justice Department, Danielle Sindzingre and Muriel Bescond allegedly used their positions at the bank’s offices in […]
Published time: 20 Mar, 2017 17:28 World football’s governing body FIFA has slapped Ghanaian match referee Joseph Odartei Lamptey with a life ban after finding the official guilty of manipulating the outcome of a World Cup qualifying match. Lamptey took charge of the South Africa versus Senegal World Cup qualifying match on November 12, 2016, […]
SINCE his election as president, Donald Trump has not softened his criticism of China over its alleged meddling to control the value of its currency, the yuan. On the contrary, he has called China “the grand champion” of currency manipulators. The kindest interpretation of this is that Mr Trump is out of date, as his […]
In one of several antitrust investigations launched today, the European Commission has begun probing tech brands ASUS, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer for suspected price manipulation. As the press release explains, the Commission believes the companies may have broken competition rules by stopping online retailers in Europe from setting their own prices for products […]
