en_il-hotdailynews: 2015-01-23 Israel Business

Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank announced the central bank ...
NEWS.com.au
THE European Central Bank (ECB) began 2015 with a bang Thursday, launching a massive program to stimulate an economy that's gone off the boil. The ECB will undertake a trillion-euro bond purchase program to ward off deflation and end stagnation in the ...

ECB's stimulus boost lifts Asian markets, euro wallows near 11-year low   Reuters India
PRECIOUS-Gold near 5-month top after ECB boost, eyes 3rd weekly gain   Reuters
Dow Soars 1.5% After ECB Embarks on Bond Purchases   NDTV
Irish Independent
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IBNLive

Amazon agrees to buy Israel's Annapurna Labs for AWS cloud unit
The Seattle Times
Amazon agreed to acquire Israeli semiconductor company Annapurna Labs, seeking to improve performance within its Amazon Web Services cloud unit. By Jack Clark. Bloomberg News. Related. Reader Comments. Read all comments · Post a comment.
Two Israeli startup companies to be bought for a combined $570 million   Haaretz
Amazon gobbles chips firm Annapurna to speed up cloudy data centers   The Register
Amazon to buy Israeli start-up chipmaker   iT News
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Mortgage slack poses more headwinds for Brazilian banks
Reuters
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Already grappling with a sluggish economy, Brazil's largest banks are likely to face additional headwinds as home buyers pull back and more borrowers fall behind on their mortgages. Mortgage lending, which grew at an average of ...

Brazilian portal calls Netanyahu 'major global terrorist'   Jerusalem Post Israel News (blog)

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CNBC

Harman CEO: Driverless cars are security nightmare
CNBC
Jim Cramer is circling back to a company for a product that you probably used on your way to work this morning. Harman International Industries develops, manufactures and markets high-end speakers for car stereos and infotainment systems that integrate ...

Harman dives into the 'Internet of things'   Greenwich Time
Harman deals strengthen automotive, software businesses   Investor's Business Daily
Harman spending almost $1 billion on software acquisitions   Chicago Tribune
Reuters
Jewish Business News
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Polish Banks Warned of Backlash by Szczurek If Franc Plan Defied
swissinfo.ch
(Bloomberg) -- Polish Finance Minister Mateusz Szczurek is nudging banks to abide by a pain-sharing agreement to help borrowers with $35 billion in Swiss-franc home loans or face pressure for more sweeping measures that may inflict losses. Banks should ...

Polish central bankers expect prolonged deflation - minutes   Reuters
Swiss ski resorts cutting prices by up to 20% after surge in the franc   Daily Mail
Investors Flock To Swiss Assets   Seeking Alpha

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Commerzbank cuts back its London business
The Times (subscription)
Commerzbank is expected to make about 100 staff redundant in its London office and relocate more than 300 to its Frankfurt head office as it cuts back on the size of its investment banking operations in the City. The job cuts and relocations are part of a move ...

Exclusive: Commerzbank May Relocate 70 London Trader Jobs from London to ...   Forex Magnates
Lose your job at Commerzbank, or migrate to Eastern Europe?   eFinancialCareers
Commerzbank to cut 100, move 340 London jobs   Business Recorder

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Leverage Cripples a Currency Broker
Businessweek
Drew Niv built his brokerage firm, FXCM, into a profit machine by turning the global foreign-exchange market into a playground for day traders. Using leverage to amplify their bets, customers could profit from even minuscule currency moves. Of course, they ...

NFA Imposes New Leverage Limits on US Brokers   DailyForex.com (blog)
US NFA tightens leverage rules for retail FX transactions   Reuters UK

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Fortune

Chalk up another two customers for IBM's cloud business
Fortune
Less than one day after proclaiming a $7 billion annual revenue milestone for cloud services, IBM's newly formed Cloud division disclosed two fresh contracts. One, a $500 million services agreement with healthcare benefits company Anthem, adds to the ...

IBM Teams With Anthem To Strengthen IT Performance   StorageReview.com
IBM Nets $7B with Cloud; Signs $500M Deal with Anthem   CloudWedge
IBM to provide operational services to Anthem   Infotech Lead (registration) (blog)

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Nested virtualisation firm Ravello scores $28m from Qualcomm, SanDisk among ...
Business Cloud News
Ravello Systems, a firm specialising in nested virtualisation technology, has secured $28m in its latest round of funding. The firm, founded in 2011 by some of the original KVM team, said the funds will be used to redouble its bid to penetrate the cloud market.
Ravello promises enterprises cross-Cloud app flexibility   ARNnet
Ravello Raises $28M for Nested Virtualization on Public Clouds   Converge Network Digest (subscription) (blog)

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You Can't Transform Bond Trading Without Dealers, Greenwich Says
Bloomberg
As new trading platforms seek to change how business is done in the $7.7 trillion U.S. corporate bond market, a research firm has a warning: Don't shun the banks that traditionally facilitated transactions. Eighteen electronic trading systems are currently ...

MarketAxess and BlackRock Expand Strategic Trading Alliance into Europe   MarketWatch
European Fixed Income Markets Open Trading Platform - BlackRock ...   Forex Magnates
MarketAxess Holdings Inc.: MarketAxess and BlackRock Expand Strategic ...   The Wall Street Transcript
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