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Bloomberg: Stocks Mixed; Dollar Rises in Best Week Since 2016: Markets Wrap
Asian stocks traded mixed Friday as plans for U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports revived concerns about global trade growth. The dollar extended gains, heading for its best week since 2016 after the Federal Reserve signaled further tightening in 2018 while the European Central Bank indicated it won’t raise interest rates for more than a year. [more...]
Bloomberg: Millionaires Now Control Half of the World's Personal Wealth
The rich are getting a lot richer and doing so a lot faster. Personal wealth around the globe reached $201.9 trillion last year, a 12 percent gain from 2016 and the strongest annual pace in the past five years, Boston Consulting Group said in a report released Thursday. [more...]
Bloomberg: Trump Approves Tariffs on $50 Billion of Chinese Goods
President Donald Trump has approved tariffs on Chinese goods worth about $50 billion, said a person familiar with the decision, ratcheting up a confrontation on trade that’s set to prompt retaliation from Beijing. [more...]
Bloomberg: Crypto Coins Surge as SEC Spares Ether From Securities Rules
Ether investors got a reprieve Thursday when a top U.S. regulator said transactions involving the token aren’t subject to federal securities rules, ending months of speculation that had weighed on the second-most valuable digital currency. Ether and other coins surged on the news. [more...]
Bloomberg: Crypto Unicorns Clash While Bitcoin Droops
The Hong Kong market is low-hanging fruit for shy but hungry unicorns. Bitmain Technologies Ltd., the world’s dominant producer of cryptocurrency-mining equipment, is mulling a public listing, founder Jihan Wu told Blake Schmidt of Bloomberg News. [more...]
Bloomberg: Euro Falls as ECB Signals Rates to Be Frozen Through Summer 2019
The euro slumped, European stocks rose and German bunds rallied after the European Central Bank countered the tapering of its bond-buying program with a plan to hold down interest rates through at least the summer next year. [more...]
Bloomberg: Bitcoin Climbs as Bulls Wager This Month's Drop Has Gone Too Far
Bitcoin climbed on Thursday, erasing some of its 18 percent plunge since Friday as investors signaled the sell-off may have been overdone. Hours after the world’s largest cryptocurrency closed at a fresh low for the year, buyers began pushing up the price, which reached $6,483.95 as of 8:49 a.m. in New York. [more...]
Reuters: Asian shares falter as U.S. readies China tariffs, euro at two-week low on ECB
Asian shares wobbled on Friday as investors braced for U.S. tariffs against China, while the euro flirted with two-week lows after a cautious European Central Bank indicated it would not raise interest rates for some time. [more...]
Reuters: Volcker 'fix' may cause new headaches for Wall Street
A proposal to simplify a rule banning banks from proprietary trading, rather than making life easier for Wall Street, could ensnare billions of dollars’ worth of assets not currently caught by the regulation. [more...]
CNBC: A fourth Fed hike this year could trigger economic slowdown, strategist warns
While many may welcome the more hawkish stance from the Federal Reserve after a decade of record-low interest rates, one economist warned that it may actually lead to an economic slowdown. [more...]
CNBC: Trump looks set to go ahead with tariffs on China — ignoring Beijing's influence on North Korea
China's cooperation is critical in pushing North Korea to give up its nuclear and missile programs, but that's not likely to stop U.S. President Donald Trump from pressing ahead with additional tariffs on Chinese products. [more...] |
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