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America gearing up for digital war according to documents leaked by Snowden and released by der Spiegel magazine

The Iraqi energy minister has just said in Davos that oil prices have bottomed out. For more RT is joined by financial journalist and author, founder of the Commodity Discovery investment Fund; Willem Middelkoop.

Here's how the Swiss National Bank just screwed the European Central Bank, and how it plays into the battle against Fed dollars. The currency war just got bigger.

A former German intelligence officer has reportedly sold the identities of three and a half thousand German spies operating abroad - to another, unnamed, foreign agency. The same man was unmasked last summer as a CIA double agent at the center of a spy scandal between close allies the US and Germany. In Berlin, the Parliament is continuing hearings on how America's National Security Agency spied on Germany. But as RT's Peter Oliver found out, the government is trying to downplay the whole thing.

A train loaded with 17 US military vehicles, including Strykers, Humvees, and SUVS was seen rolling through the city of Klaipeda, Thursday, as American troops resume NATO training in the region. The 2nd Cavalry Regiment arrived in Lithuania from their base in Vilseck, Germany, on Janary 8th. The US troops have since resumed allied training under 'Operation Atlantic Resolve', with the Lithuanian military.

The new Universal Credit Rating Group (UCRG) is being set up to rival the existing agencies Moody's, S&P and Fitch, and its first rating will be issued this year.

Ivan Lo gives you his thoughts on the direction of the market and what the primary focus for 2015 should be. He also talks about American debt, what is required to pay that debt, and the Fed's true plan on how it will unwind the enormous amount of bonds held in reserves.

Gunmen opened fire on the offices of French satirical cartoon magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday. Bloomberg's Brendan Greeley looks at what Charlie Hebdo is and why it was the target of France's worst terrorist attack in decades.

Leaking top-secret information and staying anonymous is hard enough. But what about making profit of it? Well, it might be easier then you think. An anonymous online bitcoin marketplace will open soon, where registered users can put up for sale all types of information. And whoever bids the most, wins it...

In today's "Single Best Chart," Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu displays how the growth of wealth for the top 0.01 percent of the U.S. has outpaced that of the one percent. She speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance."

Lithuania accession to the ECB's Governing Council will force Germany's Bundesbank president to sit out some votes. Bloomberg's Hans Nichols reports.

Oil's dramatic crash has caused a wave of financial panic across the world. But what's really happening? Here's a look at the secrets of bank involvement in oil and what to expect for oil in 2015.