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The recent news that Pfizer and Moderna have working COVID-19 vaccines hit investment markets like a bolt from the blue.
Investors everywhere rushed to figure out who would prosper most in a...
Last month, the People’s Bank of China gave its new digital yuan a trial run in Shenzhen, the border city adjacent to Hong Kong. It was a huge success.
More than 2 million people queued up for a...
“Frankly,” said Jim Druckenmiller on CNBC last Monday, “if the gold bet works, the Bitcoin bet will probably work better because it’s thinner, more illiquid and has a lot more beta to it.”
In...
By Sean Brodrick On November 9, 202012:47 PM Eastern
The nightmare scenario I predicted last week has officially come to pass!
The 2020 election looks to be contested. And if the president and his team follow through on their legal threats,...
Last Monday, we wondered whether Bitcoin (BTC, Tech/Adoption Grade “A-”) had “decoupled” from traditional financial asset markets.
That was when the crypto market’s biggest player was rolling...
Strange as it may seem, the cryptocurrency markets couldn’t care less who wins the White House. Or the Senate. Or the U.S. House of Representatives.
Why? Because both sides have sworn to print...
By David Dittman On October 27, 202005:04 PM Eastern
The headline numbers for Monday were bad.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 800 points. The S&P 500 Index shed more than 2%. And the average number of new daily cases of coronavirus in the...
By Sean Brodrick On October 27, 202005:56 AM Eastern
What a year 2020 has been, right? And it’s shaping up to get even weirder with the upcoming election.
Historically, volatility in the stock market increases in the months leading up to an...
By Sean Brodrick On October 20, 202005:40 AM Eastern
His name was Nikolai Kondratieff.
He wrote a 23-page tract called “The Long Waves in Economic Life.”
It contained an idea so incendiary, he was sent to the gulag … before being...
By Kelly Green On October 8, 202004:19 PM Eastern
There’s less than a month until the presidential election. I’m not going to say much more than we are sure to be in for a wild ride of market volatility.
Not that we’ve really seen volatility...