ICAN and PAX’s latest Don’t Bank on the Bomb Report:“Perilous Profiteering: The companies building nuclear arsenals and their financial backers” exposes the financial institutions making $685 billion available to the nuclear weapon producing companies like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Airbus, Northrop Grumman and Leonardo, and shows how divestment is seriously shaking up the industry.
For over a decade he was a trader in fixed income (bonds) and FX (currencies). An inconspicuous and energetic man in his early 30s from northern Europe, he is a fast and slightly restless talker. We are meeting at his home.
Spekulanten verlangen enorme Entschädigungen von EU-Krisenstaaten, als Ausgleich für Verluste. Eine Studie warnt: Kommt TTIP, könnten solche Klagen zur Norm werden.
Mit TTIP wollen die großen Konzerne ganz früh an Gesetzen mitschreiben, sagt Max Bank von LobbyControl. Möglichst noch bevor die Parlamente informiert sind.
A city guide to divestment
Divesting from producers of controversial weapons: a guide for local authorities
More and more people are moving to cities. The growing trend towards urbanization means that the traditional role of Mayors and City Councils is expanding. To protect their citizens, municipal leaders must embrace a wide range of approaches towards securing their cities. This new reality is reflected in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
Mike Whitney, Counterpunch 11-13 Oct: "Absent a debt ceiling deal, the repurchase market–known as repo–would undergo another deep-freeze as it did in 2008 when Lehman Brothers defaulted..." "...The same tragedy will play out again, if congress fails lift the ceiling and reinforce the present value of US debt." "Repo is at the heart of the shadow banking system, that opaque off-balance sheet underworld where maturity transformation and other risky banking activities take place beyond the watchful eye of government regulators." "Keep in mind, the US government does not have to default on its debt to trigger a panic in the credit markets. Changing expectations can easily produce the same result... when people start to doubt that US Treasuries will be liquid cash equivalents in the future" "This is what the Fidelity flap is all about. It’s about the erosion of confidence in US debt."
Shale Gas and its Implications reviews estimates that have been made for shale gas deposits in Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, South Africa and the Western Sahara and highlights the challenges to their development. In a foreword to the report, AfDB President Donald Kaberuka, affirms the Bank’s willingness to support these and any other member countries and sub-regions that have shale gas prospects
Trump's bellicose statements about North Korea and the recent false missile alert in Hawaii have raised global alarm over nuclear war. Now, in an unprecedented step, a draft of the new U.S. Nuclear Posture calls for authorizing nuclear weapons use even in response to a non-military attack
Algoritmisk handel (även "högfrekvenshandel", "high-frequency trading", "robothandel", "algohandel", "algotrading", "algoritmhandel", "algorithmic trading" eller "algoritmisk trading", ofta förväxlat med "programhandel", "program-handel" och "program trading") är en programvarustyrd elektronisk handel av värdepapper (i synnerhet aktier).