© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Sheets of Lincoln five dollar bill are seen through magnifying glass at Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar edged higher on Tuesday, helped by a pick-up in U.S. Treasury yields, while riskier currencies dipped,Read More →
The company may have included “outdated information” in U.S. trial results for its COVID-19 vaccine, providing an “incomplete view of the efficacy data,” a U.S. federal health agency said in a highly unusual statement released after midnight. AstraZeneca AZN, -2.48% AZN, -3.10% said Monday that interim data from aRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A U.S. Dollar banknote By Saikat Chatterjee LONDON (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar held firm at a four-week high against its rivals on Monday as an undercurrent of risk aversion swept through currency markets in the backdrop of weak U.S. economic data, knocking the AustralianRead More →
EUR/USD traded directionless above the 1.18 handle on Tuesday. Next up will be EMU’s flash Q2 GDP data and employment changes. After the holiday on Monday, the US markets will resume normal activity. The single currency trades cautiously and holds. EUR/USD. It was above the 1.18 level at theRead More →
© Reuters. The spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York By Medha Singh (Reuters)-The U.S. stock market rose on Wednesday as data showed that the expansion of the service industry last month intensified optimism, which stemmed from Disney’s surprising quarterly profit and the optimistic performance of multipleRead More →
DXY sticks to the daily recovery although below the 94.00 mark. Markets’ sentiment keeps favouring the safe haven demand on Tuesday. S&P/Case-Shiller Index came in below estimates at 3.7% in May. The greenback, in terms of the US Dollar Index (DXY), remains on the positive note around the 93.70Read More →
There are few indicators capable of accurately detecting professional traders’ sentiment on Bitcoin (BTC). To ascertain whether or not market participants are positioned in a bullish or bearish manner, analysts usually rely on technical analysis and derivatives markets, although those usually mix retail flow. More recently some exchanges createdRead More →
In the last three weeks, $150,000 worth of $50,000 Bitcoin Call Options (BTC) for the June and December 2021 strikes have been traded. The LedgerX Derivatives Exchange was used as an intermediary for these ultra bullish trades, but what could be the reason for this? There are good reasonsRead More →
A source close to Plaid – the company that serves as the “data plumber” at Coinbase, Robin Hood, Square’s Cash App and many others – denied all allegations in the class action complaint that was recently filed. The entire complaint is based on the allegation that Plaid is sellingRead More →
Reuters. An SGX panel is shown on the Singapore Stock Exchange By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Global equities rose for a fourth straight day Thursday as encouraging coronavirus vaccine trials kept investors upbeat ahead of what was expected to be a record rebound in U.S. employment figures later.Read More →
The joint blockchain cloud computing venture of computing giant AMD and Ethereum-focused development firm ConsenSys has received $20.5 million in funding. According to a June 25 announcement, AMD and ConsenSys’ W3bcloud joint venture obtained the funds through the sale of convertible notes to the founding firms and several family officesRead More →
Telegram, a major privacy-focused messaging app, has suffered a data leak that exposed some personal data of its users on the darknet. A database containing the personal data of millions of Telegram users has been posted on a darknet forum. The issue was first reported by Russian-language tech publication Kod.ruRead More →
© Reuters. By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com – The Dow swung between gains and losses on Thursday, as hopes the labor market had turned corner were thrown into doubt following mixed economic data. But that did little to cool reopening optimism as cyclical stocks held firm. The fell 0.26%, or 67Read More →
CME Bitcoin (BTC) futures and options markets expired on May 29, and despite a $100 hiccup, the price of the largest digital asset on CoinMarketCap held up nicely around the $9,400 level. As the market entered this last trading session, open interest for CME Bitcoin futures expiring in May wasRead More →
European stocks extended gains for a third day on Wednesday as investors looked past domestic unrest in the U.S., and took inspiration from data indicating more economic strength as global pandemic lock downs unwind. The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +1.42% rose 1.1% to 363.81, after closing up 1.6% onRead More →
Last week, Bitcoin (BTC) miners sold 11% more coins than they generated over the same period, June 1 data from on-chain analysis portal ByteTree suggests. According to the portal’s metric that tracks Bitcoin wallet addresses associated with miners, around 5,800 BTC was generated over the past seven days, compared withRead More →
© Reuters. A woman counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange shop in Beirut By Kate Duguid NEW YORK (Reuters) – Speculators’ net bearish bets on the U.S. dollar increased in the latest week, according to calculations by Reuters and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released on Friday.Read More →
© Reuters. European Commissioner for the Internal Market Breton gestures as he communicates on the EU’s 5G plan in Brussels By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – Europe may have lost the battle to create digital champions capable of taking on U.S. and Chinese companies harvesting personal data, but it canRead More →
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) – German fund manager Allianz Global Investors is pushing every company it invests in to improve their climate-related disclosures ahead of the season for annual shareholder meetings. Allianz GI, which manages 557 billion euros ($605.18 billion) as part of insurer Allianz (DE:), said it hadRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: To match Special Report SEC/INVESTIGATIONS By Katanga Johnson and John McCrank WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed on Friday to add more stock price information to public market data feeds and allow other firms to compete against the exchanges in runningRead More →
© Reuters. People walk past an electronic display showing world markets indices outside a brokerage in Tokyo By Hideyuki Sano TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks edged up on Thursday, a day after U.S. S&P 500 hit a record peak following encouraging economic data, while investors keep a wary eye onRead More →
STOCKHOLM/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Fashion retailer H&M (ST:) said on Saturday that data security breaches found at its German unit were unacceptable and it was cooperating with the local data protection supervisory authority in its investigation into the matter. “The local team has taken a range of action and is inRead More →
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The EU plans to adopt more protectionist antitrust rules and encourage businesses to share data as part of an industrial policy overhaul aimed at giving European companies a sharper edge in global markets, a strategy document seen by Reuters shows. Drafted by theRead More →
Long-dated U.S. Treasury yields edged higher Friday after the U.S. Treasury Department announced plans, as had been expected, to issue a 20-year nominal coupon bond in the first half of 2020 to finance a ballooning federal deficit that is nearing 5% of gross domestic product. However, yields have been little-changedRead More →
© Reuters. ‘Gold rush’: Race is on for health data in East Europe’s frontier market By Gergely Szakacs and Alicja Ptak BUDAPEST/WARSAW (Reuters) – Eastern Europe is a new frontier for private medical care, and insurers and tech startups are racing to steal a march on their rivals by harnessingRead More →
