Several major mergers and acquisitions in the field of high technology were announced in November in the United States. Some experts hope that a surge in activity in the technology market can stimulate the rather weak dynamics of the M&A market in 2017. However, other observers note that the uncertainty of the prospects for Donald Trump’s tax reform still prevents many companies from announcing...

Everyone was talking about the collapse of Bitcoin course by 30% literally a few days ago, but now nobody remembers it. The quotes have updated the historical maximum. A small correction has traditionally followed the maximum price, and now Bitcoin is trading just below $ 8 thousand. Thus, it took the most popular crypto currency only four days to recover from the sensational collapse. At the...

According to experts, the US will overtake Russia (the current leader) and will become the world leader in oil production by 2025. IEA specialists predict that world demand for oil will increase by about 10 percent by 2040. At the same time, the United States will become the undisputed leader in the world oil and gas market. It is expected that by 2025, oil production in the United States will...

Businessman and former Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg believes that London will remain the global financial capital after Brexit. "New York is the financial center of the United States. London will long remain the financial center of Europe in the foreseeable future. It has what the financial industry needs", - quoted by BBC. According to Bloomberg, Britain's withdrawal from the EU is likely...

OPEC and Russia called on the world's leading oil producers, both member and non-members of the cartel, to support an agreement to limit production to the end of 2018. It is expected that OPEC will announce a consensus at the next meeting, which will be held at the end of November. It's time to remember the top 10 oil-producing countries, on which the future of the agreement depends. 10. Norway...

A real "butter crisis" has erupted in France: buyers of French hypermarkets will face a sharp deficit of butter in the near future. Refrigerating sections in the French supermarkets became especially gloomy. Clients, still spoiled with a choice between butter from Normandy, salty butter from Brittany, low-fat diet and flavored products, will now face a dramatic shortage of even plain butter, Der...

Black Friday in the US is around the corner, and retailers and record labels are planning to release new music albums on cassette tape. This audio format came from the 1980s and 90s. Now, its popularity has reached such a scale that superstars like Metallica, Eminem and Justin Bieber have long included cassette tapes in the media for their albums, and some, like the White Stripes, have just...

On Tuesday, the European Central Bank (ECB) tried to tame a conflict with European and Italian authorities about its plans to deal with problem loans by opening the doors to work with other institutions and adapting its approach to each individual bank, Reuters writes. The ECB has been heavily criticized for setting general rules on how much money banks should allocate for new unpaid loans. This...

Immediately four German cities entered the top 10 of the new rating from the Urban Land Institute and PwC, which ranks European real estate markets on the prospects of their development and investment attractiveness. In the first place is Berlin, followed by Frankfurt and Copenhagen. By contrast, London after the Brexit referendum began to rapidly lose ground and is now only on the 27th place out...