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• JPMorgan launches blockchain trial project: FT

  31-01-2016 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase is partnering with start-up Digital Asset Holdings to launch a trial project using blockchain technology that could reduce the cost and complexity of trading, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The agreement comes as another sign that blockchain, which is best known as the basis of the digital currency Bitcoin, has wide-ranging applications for some of Wall Street's biggest banks. One potential use for the technology is addressing liquidity mismatches in some of J
  
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• Ackman, Herbalife unscathed by probes: WSJ

  31-01-2016 21:34
  (Reuters) – Two government probes into the conduct of longtime antagonists Pershing Square Holdings and Herbalife have failed to find sufficient evidence of criminal wrongdoing by either party, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.The probes included an investigation of claims that Herbalife, a nutrition and weight loss company, has a fraudulent business model, and an inquiry into allegations that investment firm Pershing Square manipulated Herbalife’
  
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• Bernie Sanders Could Nuke Hillary, But Won’t Do It

  31-01-2016 12:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Friday, the U.S. Department of State released a slate of Hillary Clinton’s emails that was so plainly a gift to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, her chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, that it probably ought to have been reported to the Federal Elections Commission. Clinton surrogate have been ripping into Sanders for what one spokesperson laughably called the “most negative” Democratic primary campaign in history, mainly on the basis of a single 30-second ad
  
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• Australian Dollar May Move on US Data After Static RBA

  31-01-2016 10:07
  The Australian Dollar may find volatility in US new-flow’s impact on risk trends as the RBA maintains the status quo and Chinese economic data passes with little fanfare.
  
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• Weekly Trading Forecast: Fresh Stimulus, Tentative Recoveries and Heavy FX Event Risk

  31-01-2016 09:13
  The BoJ refreshed the global central bank discussion this past week after announcing negative rates. And, risk-oriented markets gained as they have in years past. Is this a return to familiar trends or a false dawn?
  
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• Dollar Hits a 12-Year High, But Can NFPs and Sentiment Maintain Lift?

  31-01-2016 09:10
  The USDollar closed at a fresh 12-year high this past week. Yet, the occasion of breaching such exceptional heights has repeatedly disappointed over the past year.
  
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• Gold Boosted by Softer Fed Stance- Resistance at 1130

  31-01-2016 09:05
  Gold prices are higher this week with the precious metal rallying nearly 1.8% to trade at 1117 ahead of the New York close on Friday.
  
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• UAE’s Dana Gas says pipeline rupture hits Khor Mor plant

  31-01-2016 07:23
  DUBAI, Jan 31 (Reuters) – United Arab Emirates-based DanaGas said on Sunday that a gas pipeline between powerplants in the Kurdistan region of Iraq had ruptured,interrupting supply from its Khor Mor gas plant. The Jan. 29 rupture between the Chemchemal and Erbil powerstations meant the Khor Mor plant was offline for a few hours,and Chemchemal was operating at around 50 percent of itsproduction capacity, Dana Gas said in a filing to the Abu Dhabistock market. No injuries were reported beca
  
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