Many analysts believe that the only way to reconcile the immediate energy needs of an ever growing global population and curb carbon emissions at the same time is to turn to nuclear power.
A leaked research report from Goldman Sachs suggests that going forward Ethereum may be a much better crypto bet for the long term. Ethereum is the number two most popular crypto asset in the space and it differs from Bitcoin in a variety of ways.
One of the biggest concerns on Wall Street these days is the fact that bonds are no longer providing diversification for stocks.
Bitcoin was down more than 8% in overnight trade hitting a low of 38,500 after Chinese regulators directed banks and financial payment firms not to offer clients any services involving cryptocurrency including currency exchanges, registration, trading, clearing and settlement.
Yesterday’s inflation data shocked the market with core CPI readings hitting a 26 year high as base effects, supply shortages and resurgence of demand created this biggest jump in price conditions in decades.
But while the public health emergency remains a terrible cost of stress to those societies and economies the region may soon see an unexpected boom in economic activity and investors are beginning to take notice.
In yesterday’s FOMC presser Fed Chair Powell in responding to a question about central bank digital currencies made an offhand remark about a new program that could change the financial services industry as we know it.
In recent weeks the media focus on central bank digital currencies has become quite intense as many of the world’s central banks including ECB, BoE and BoJ all stated that they are exploring the possible uses of this technology. So what are the pros and cons and policy implications of CBDCs?
This weekend the crypto market experienced what many in the media ara calling Black Sunday as a variety of instruments including Bitcoin and Ethereum dropped nearly 20% before recovering somewhat.
The markets are anticipating a massive rebound in Retail Sales this month but some economists predict that that number may be even bigger than forecast.
Ever since the announcement of vaccines late last year the single best pair trade in the market was to go long small cap stocks and sell the high tech stocks (long IVM/short QQQ).
The capital markets have a busy week of data ahead with both macro and micro reports likely to affect everything from equities to bonds to commodities. The week ahead boils down to three questions.