Investors are looking beyond Bordeaux
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Amateur buyers of fine Burgundy fear a speculative bubble
Investors are looking beyond Bordeaux
Amateur buyers of fine Burgundy fear a speculative bubble
EVERY YEAR Berry Bros & Rudd, Britain’s oldest wine merchant, issues a pocket-sized price list. Reading old copies makes amateurs of quality quaff want to time-travel. In 1909 a case of 12 bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 1891, Burgundy’s most famous Grand Cru, cost 180 shillings (about £1,000, or $ 1,300, in today’s money). […]
Spectre, Meltdown researchers unveil 7 more speculative execution attacks
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Back at the start of the year, a set of attacks that leveraged the speculative execution capabilities of modern high-performance processors was revealed. The attacks were named Meltdown and Spectre. Since then, numerous variants of these attacks have been devised. In tandem, a range of mitigation techniques has […]
Intel’s SGX blown wide open by, you guessed it, a speculative execution attack
Foreshadow explained in a video. Another day, another speculative execution-based attack. Data protected by Intel’s SGX—data that’s meant to be protected even from a malicious or hacked kernel—can be read by an attacker thanks to leaks enabled by speculative execution. Since publication of the Spectre and Meltdown attacks in January this year, security researchers have […]
New Spectre-like attack uses speculative execution to overflow buffers
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) When the Spectre and Meltdown attacks were disclosed earlier this year, the expectation was that these attacks would be the first of many, as researchers took a closer look at the way that the speculative execution in modern processors could be used to leak sensitive information and undermine […]
YELLEN: Bitcoin is a ‘highly speculative asset’
Susan Walsh/AP The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate 25 basis points to a range between 1.25% and 1.50% at the conclusion of Wednesday’s meeting. At the accompanying press conference, Fed Chair Janet Yellen was asked about bitcoin. Yellen called the cryptocurrency a “highly speculative asset” and said the Fed is not seriously considering […]
Janet Yellen says bitcoin is a highly speculative asset — but the Fed played a key role in its rise
Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Bitcoin came into existence in 2009 in part as a response to fears about financial intermediation and banking following the financial crisis of 2008. Aggressive rate cuts from the Federal Reserve and other central banks sparked fears, which proved unfounded, of high inflation that would sharply devalue major currencies. More […]
Genetic differences between straight and gay found by new ‘speculative’ study
Gay and straight men have different variations of at least two genes that somewhat correlate with their sexual orientation, a new study appears to show, lending credence to the theory that sexual preferences are inherited, not chosen. The study appeared Thursday in the Scientific Reports journal. Scientists at the North Shore University in Illinois compared the […]
Bitcoin is a ‘dangerous speculative bubble’ – Yale expert
Published time: 5 Dec, 2017 13:33 The bitcoin buying frenzy is a ‘toxic concept for investors,’ according to Stephen Roach, who’s described by Yale Univesity as one of Wall Street’s most influential economists. Read more “This is a dangerous speculative bubble by any shadow or stretch of the imagination,” Roach told CNBC. The Yale University […]
