Monday, March 15, 2010
Greek Backstop
Euro Falls on No Immediate
AUD/JPY drop
On March 16 AUD continues trimming recent gains and price just hit a fresh 5-day low at 82.25. The pair encountered support on the 21 EMA to bounce off and is currently hovering around 82.50.
On the downside, support can be found at 82.40 (March 8 high), 82.19 (March 10 low) and 81.99 (March 9). On the upside, resistance lies on 82.48 (March 8 high), 82.69 (March 12 low) and 82.89 (March 15
Forex: NZD/USD gains
The NZD benefited originally from the return of risk appetite. However, the Kiwi may fall as caution returned to the markets. There are fears that China may tighten fiscal policy in response to a jump in consumer prices to 2.7% during February. Minutes from the latest RBA meeting also indicate that it is unlikely that rates will be lifted in Australia once again in April
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Jan-Bart de Vreede was named Vice-chair of Wikimedia Foundation in January 2007 after having joined the board in December 2006.
Working at the Kennisnet Foundation allowed Jan-Bart to spend time promoting the use of wiki software and Wikimedia projects in education, amongst other things. The Kennisnet Foundation is a publicly funded Dutch organisation. At Kennisnet Jan-Bart is responsible for the educational portals and content creation tools. Jan-Bart has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet. He has attended and spoken at all of Wikimania conferences.
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Jan-Bart de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (0), Matthias (5) and Ruben (8).
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The World Stock Exchange (WSE) is a fictional securities exchange created Hope Capital Pty. Ltd. of Melbourne, Australia and managed by CEO, Luke Connell.
The game opened on March 5, 2007 and first appeared in the virtual world of Second Life.[1][2] The game initially used the Linden Dollar currency from Second Life and in July 2007 integrated a new fictional currency[3] Players of the game were not legally protected as with real stock exchange, instead trading was governed by the Linden Labs terms of service and the listing rules created by Connell.[3] Transactions occurred outside of Second Life on the WSE website. called the World Internet Currency (WIC, WICS, W$). In its first 25 days, the WSE generated $200,000 in trading volume.
In July 2007, an avatar with inside information hacked the WSE computers and made off with 3.2 million LD (or about $12,000US).[4] The WSE shut down temporarily to investigate and perform system upgrades. As a result, WSE software development and upgrades were moved in house and positions were no longer available to anonymous Second Life avatars. The incident sparked debate over the WSE's classification as a game since the virtual currency, Linden Dollars, were able to be exchanged for real money.[4] Connell maintained that no crime had occurred since all transactions and companies involved in the game were fictional. He blamed the backlash against the WSE on a few disenchanted companies who's initial stock offerings failed to perform to their expectations.[5] Shania Stewart, who's avatar first reported the theft had her company delisted from the WSE shortly thereafter. She later told BusinessWeek that the delisting occurred because "she believed the exchange had no intention of disclosing what happened". Linden Labs declined to comment on the incident