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Crypto Assets Outshine Most Traditional Investments in 2019
29.5.2019
Last year, cryptocurrency proponents either complained about the low prices or celebrated the fact they could obtain cheaper coins. 2019 has been an entirely different story, however, as digital assets have started to gain significant value in comparison to traditional assets like stocks, oil,...
South Korean Won Gets Hammered With Increase In Foreign Investments
27.5.2019
The rise in trade by South Korean investors in foreign stocks and bonds in the previous quarter is threatening to push the Won currency further down. An increase of 51 percent was observed in foreign stocks and bond trades by Korean investors in the last three months alone according to data...
Trading App Robinhood Set to Raise at Least $200 Million: Report
26.5.2019
A new funding round, worth at least $200 million, is set to be raised by trading app Robinhood, Bloomberg reports
As Deutsche Bank Shares Hit New Lows, CEO Promises Tough Cuts
23.5.2019
At one point of time, German banking giant Deutsche Bank was looked upon as being in the same category of some of the biggest banks of the world like Goldman, JP Morgan, and Barclays among others, as it set its sights on international domination. However, the financial crisis of 2008 burned...
US Reprieve for Battered Huawei Helps in Recovery of Tech Sector Stocks
22.5.2019
Huawei is the world’s biggest supplier of telecom equipment, but over the past few months, the company has been in absolute turmoil as the American authorities accused that the company’s equipment was a vehicle for Chinese spying and eventually banned it. Additionally, the US also reached out...
In for the Long Haul — How the New Long-Term Stock Exchange Can Help the Crypto Industry
18.5.2019
Could a newly approved stock exchange be of use to the crypto industry?
Japan’s Topix May Increase By 15% In 2020: Morgan Stanley
17.5.2019
Morgan Stanley, a leading investment bank, is expecting the Japanese Topix to increase by close to 15% by mid of 2020. As per a report published last week, it says that the Japanese stocks are the opposite of American stocks. While the American stocks are loved, the Japanese stocks are ‘oversold...
Microsoft Partnership and Buyback Announcements Send Sony Shares Soaring to New Highs
17.5.2019
When it comes to large corporations like Sony, a lot of effort needs to be made in order to send its shares soaring, and that is what happened yesterday as the company made some major announcement. While stock buybacks have been the flavor of the season for many of the biggest corporations in...
Chinese Giant Baidu Records First Quarterly Net Loss Since Listing, Stock Dips
17.5.2019
The fact that Google and many other tech giants are not allowed to ply their trade in China has proven to be a huge book for local tech companies, and over the years, many of those homegrown companies have gone on to become behemoths in their own right. The primary reason behind that hyper-growth...
Amazon or Bitcoin: Who is Spawning More Wealth?
16.5.2019
Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. Amazon went public on 15 May 1997, 22 years ago today. When Amazon first went public in 1997, its stock was priced at just $18 per share. But in the 20-plus years...
Automobile Stocks in the US Show Mixed Signs as Trade Concerns Hit
16.5.2019
When Donald Trump became the President of the United States, one of the most important policy initiatives that the administration had pushed was that of reducing the country’s trade deficit with a range of nations. The administration had decided to raise tariffs as a way of bringing nations to...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reveals its Gigantic Stake in Amazon
16.5.2019
Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors in history and over the years, he has been known to make large bets on companies that he believes in, and eventually, he ends up holding them for years. However, at the same time, Buffett is also known to have strong opinions about stocks...
Asian Stocks Show Upward Trend as Trade War Worries Ease
15.5.2019
The US President Donald Trump seems to have softened his stand and is looking for a compromise from China that resulted in the Asian stocks rising from a 14 week low. The Asian stocks also rode high on the optimism that the Beijing government will inject more stimulus to the Chinese economy as they...
Senior SEC Official Amy Starr: Securities Laws Are ‘Written to Be Dynamic’
14.5.2019
Securities laws are “written to be dynamic,” a senior SEC official has said, expressing the regulator’s willingness to interact with crypto players to develop better regulation
Bitcoin Breaks $8,000 for First Time Since July 2018, Stocks and Oil Report Losses
14.5.2019
Bitcoin passes $8,000, while some top 20 cryptocurrency assets report double-digit gains
Germany’s Second-Top Exchange Börse Stuttgart Lists Ripple and Litecoin-Based ETNs
13.5.2019
Germany’s second-top stock exchange Börse Stuttgart launched trading of XRP and LTC-based exchange-traded notes
Markets Update: Crypto Bulls Outpace Stocks and Gold
11.5.2019
Cryptocurrency markets have been doing extremely well over the last 48 hours, making a lot of prior skeptics think the bearish crypto winter may have ended. Since our last markets update three days ago, the entire cryptoconomy has gained close to $33 billion in value and trading sessions over...
Uber Sets $82 billion As Floating Price of the Company
11.5.2019
Uber, the ride-hailing company has valued its initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange at $82.4 billion which is the lower end of the target range. The company is hoping to not make the same mistake as its competitor Lyft which had priced its shares at $72 for a share, but its price...
Crypto Markets Turn Red After Binance Hack, US, EU Stocks Steady as Asian Equities Falter
8.5.2019
Crypto markets have evidently tipped into red in the wake of yesterday’s $40 million hack of major exchange Binance
Nasdaq-Powered EU Digital Exchange DX Adds Tokenized ETFs
6.3.2019
EU-regulated digital trading platform DX.Exchange adds tokenized ETFs to its services