On the morning of 22 January 2013 a story started to develop on Twitter about the imminent and unexpected resignation of Jens Weidmann, the CEO of Deutsche Bundesbank.<\/p>\n
The first documented tweet came at 10.02am and was traced back<\/a> to an anonymous blog profile called \u201cRussian Market\u201d, which currently has just over 23,000 followers.<\/p>\n In 25 minutes the information had been exposed 256,634 times and by 10.20am the euro had fallen from 1,3340 to 1,3267 against the US dollar, dropping 0.55% in value<\/a>. Decimal movements like these may seem insignificant but given the heavy gearing of the international currency markets, vast amounts of money can be made on micro movements if you can control the fluctuations and have this information prior to all other investors.<\/p>\n Read the rest of the article here<\/a> and made the cover of the New Statesman on January 22, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the morning of 22 January 2013 a story started to develop on Twitter about the imminent and unexpected resignation of Jens Weidmann, the CEO of Deutsche Bundesbank. The first documented tweet came at 10.02am and was traced back to an anonymous blog profile called \u201cRussian Market\u201d, which currently has just over 23,000 followers. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t