Economic data obtained by International Business Times revealed that the USD80 billion bond-buying program of the US Federal Reserve had only benefited those who can afford to hold on to their investments.
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China set to overtake Japan in this year's outbound M&A deals
China is set to become Asia's leader in outbound corporate acquisitions this year, ending Japan's two-year reign, as the country's appetite for overseas targets expands beyond natural resources and into areas such as food and banking.
Do people work harder when God is at play?
Research suggests that religion is becoming more acceptable at the work place, which in fact, is a good thing for both workers and employers. Employees felt more safer, are more likely to be engaged in the work and at the same time, have a better working relationship with their employers.
Eagle Genomics gets an additional USD 1.6 million in funding
Eagle Genomics, a Cambridge, UK-based provider of bioinformatics software and services covering life science and other sectors, has successfully raised an additional USD 1.6 million in funding.
Sitari Pharmaceuticals successfully raises USD 10 million in Series A funding
Sitari Pharmaceuticals, a San Diego, CA-based developer of multiple disease indication treatments with a focus on celiac diseases, raised USD 10 million in Series A funding. The fund would be used to continue supporting research and development of novel treatments for celiac diseases.
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As emerging markets were becoming too volatile for some bond and stock investors, a report said majority of them had turned to frontier markets to generate better returns.
German enterprise software group SAP announced on Friday that it was debating internally whether to accelerate moving more of its business to the cloud, a quick change in its overall strategy that could have a small impact on its target to grow sales to more than EUR20 billion.
Thirty-one percent of investors said the settlements with regulators and fines issued by regulators against banks for selling shoddy mortgages were not enough to cause a change in the behavior of the lenders, the Bloomberg Global Poll revealed.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, for the first time, closed above the psychological threshold of 16,000, extending a stock rally that had already experienced a 22% spike so far this year.
A recent survey by analytics company Worthworm found that 46% of Angel investors regretted the investments they made in 2013 because of overly optimistic financial projection and unrealistic pre-money valuations.
A report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization revealed that political will and farmer involvement are crucial for biotech research and innovation to succeed in reducing poverty in developing countries.
China has accounted for as much as 80% of global growth in metal demand in recent years, driven by its extensive investments in infrastructure and real estate projects.
The Philippines' state-run pension fund Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) allotted PHP2 billion of its cash for additional investments in local stocks, according to the firm's president Robert Vergara.
Reforms made in the financial services industry through the retail distribution review or RDR implemented in January by a UK regulator has brought private equity to the arms of wealth managers, according to a report from Citywire.
