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By Masayuki Kitano and Vidya Ranganathan SINGAPORE | Tue May 21, 2013 2:33am EDT SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar inched up against major currencies but stayed well off highs on Tuesday as investors cautiously traded expectations of whether Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke w...
By Masayuki Kitano SINGAPORE | Sun May 19, 2013 9:36pm EDT SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The yen pulled up from a 4-1/2 year low against the dollar on Monday after Japan's economics minister said a further steady drop in the yen could have negative effects on households, pushing the dollar to...
By Brett Wolf Fri May 17, 2013 12:34pm EDT ST. LOUIS, May 17 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) - U.S. authorities have seized two accounts linked to a major operator in the booming Bitcoin digital currency market, Tokyo-based exchange Mt. Gox. The move may prevent the firm from facilitating t...
By Brett Wolf Fri May 17, 2013 12:34pm EDT ST. LOUIS, May 17 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) - U.S. authorities have seized two accounts linked to a major operator in the booming Bitcoin digital currency market, Tokyo-based exchange Mt. Gox. The move may prevent the firm from facilitating t...
By Masayuki Kitano SINGAPORE | Fri May 17, 2013 12:36am EDT SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar held firm near a 10-month high versus a basket of currencies on Friday after a U.S. Federal Reserve official said the central bank may begin to taper its asset buying this summer, while Asian ...
By Vidya Ranganathan and Umesh Desai SINGAPORE | Tue May 14, 2013 1:59am EDT SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Investors are becoming increasingly picky about which bonds and stocks they buy in Southeast Asia's fast-growing economies as the risk of policy bungling makes them more discerning. The ...
By John O'Callaghan SINGAPORE | Thu May 9, 2013 8:58am EDT SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The parents of Shane Todd, an American engineer found dead in Singapore last year, intend to prove at a coroner's inquiry that he was murdered over a project they say involved the illegal transfer of sens...
By Douwe Miedema WASHINGTON | Mon May 6, 2013 6:32pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. derivatives regulator is considering whether the Bitcoin virtual currency should be subject to its rules, a top official at the agency said. Bart Chilton, one of five commissioners at the Comm...
