Search Results for: currency market
Cryptocurrency in Europe set to double in interest
July 9th, 2018
The number of Europeans with cryptocurrency is set to double in the near future according to research from ING Bank. Currently, 9% of users have cryptocurrency in Europe, but ING reports that another 16% want to invest in the ...
Irrational Beliefs Are Ruling Markets
July 4th, 2018
To understand the consequences of the credit cycle, we must dismiss pure opinion, and examine the evidence rationally. This article assesses the fate of the dollar on the next credit crisis, a subject of increasing topicality. It concludes ...
Is China part Of the “Emerging Market Crisis”?
June 29th, 2018
Being huge, consequential and technologically advanced, China isn’t normally lumped into the “emerging” category with Brazil and Argentina. To most observers they’ve already left the kids table and are now seated with the developed-world adults. But that might be ...
Oil, the petrodollar, and the next emerging market crisis
June 21st, 2018
Oil prices are up over the past year, which is bad if you’re, say, a developing country that imports a lot of the stuff. But the US dollar (aka the petrodollar) is also up, which compounds the problem because ...
Beware of several Cryptocurrency providers
June 19th, 2018
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), France’s financial markets regulator, has issued an announcement to warn the public against several cryptocurrency websites proposing atypical investments without being authorized to do so in France. On the report, AMF has published ...
Cryptocurrency tether used to boost bitcoin prices, study finds
June 18th, 2018
There is evidence that tether, a digital currency pegged to the U.S. dollar, may have been used to manipulate the price of bitcoin BTC and other cryptocurrencies, according to a research paper released by the University of Texas on ...
Australian tourist town has declared itself the first “digital currency town”
June 7th, 2018
Agnes Water, a tourist town located in central Queensland, Austrailia has become one of the first locations to accept digital currency. In a collaboration with TravelByBit (a start-up company native to Queensland) one town hopes to increase the flow ...
Scotland has a rehab clinic for people addicted to cryptocurrency trading
June 1st, 2018
If you find yourself taking the “hold on for dear life,” or HODL, stance toward cryptocurrency to the extreme, and can’t help yourself when it comes to buying cryptocurrency, you may be addicted. That’s the view of experts at ...
A Spiking Dollar = Emerging Market Chaos
May 31st, 2018
The dollar collapse thesis – which ends with all fiat currencies achieving their intrinsic value of zero — doesn’t preclude some thrills and chills along the way, in which some currencies fall faster than others and wreak havoc on ...
Stocks take battering as Italian crisis roils financial markets
May 30th, 2018
Asian stocks extended a global sell-off on Wednesday as Italy’s political crisis rippled across financial markets, toppling the euro to a 10-month low, pushing up Italian borrowing costs and sending investors rushing to safe-haven assets such as U.S. Treasuries. ...
