By Mike Larson On August 8, 201807:55 AM Eastern
All tech, all the time. That’s what most of the financial news coverage is about these days. Heck, even as I was writing this piece a CNBC segment called “The Next Big Tech Names” was running on...
Monero, Dash, Zcash and similar coins use advanced mathematics to protect the privacy of transactions, and the technology underlying these specialized coins can be very beneficial.
It could help...
By Jon D. Markman On August 8, 201804:11 AM Eastern
Stocks pushed higher for the fourth-straight session on Tuesday, with large-caps nearing record highs set in January.
Sure, the trade rift between China and the United States deepened, with the...
By Jon D. Markman On August 7, 201803:26 PM Eastern
Stock rose Tuesday after another round of positive quarterly corporate earnings reports was not countered by any negative economic data releases or new tariff war developments.
Through 3 pm ET,...
By Jon D. Markman On August 7, 201804:22 AM Eastern
Stocks took a while to warm up yesterday morning. But by late afternoon, all the major indexes were blinking green lights in front of blue skies.
The Dow Industrials were down as much as 50...
By Jon D. Markman On August 6, 201803:13 PM Eastern
Stocks took a while to warm up this morning. But through mid-afternoon, all the major indexes were staking our decent gains.
The Dow Industrials were down as much as 50 points in the morning and...
By Juan M. Villaverde On August 6, 201809:40 AM Eastern
At the time of my last update, we did not yet have firm confirmation about the high in Bitcoin’s current 80-day cycle:
A. Was the high already behind us? Or …
B. Was a new high still to come,...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On August 6, 201807:55 AM Eastern
A lot of expert manpower and money has been poured into the technology that underlies cryptocurrencies — Distributed Ledger Technology, or (DLT).
Major global banks are jumping into the space....
By Tony Sagami On August 6, 201807:55 AM Eastern
On July 26, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission again rejected an application from the Winklevoss twins to launch a new Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF).
When the news hit the tape,...
By Jon D. Markman On August 6, 201804:01 AM Eastern
Stocks moped around most of the Friday session before ripping higher into the closing bell, showing surprising sanguinity that the weekend would not bring a new wave of unfriendly headlines.
The...