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Bloomberg: Asian Stocks Advance; India Drops on Tax Proposal: Markets Wrap
Asian equities kicked off February with a recovery from a three day sell-off, as investors decided the outlook for growth and corporate earnings was strong enough to quell concerns about the recent jump up in bond yields. [more...]
Bloomberg: Bitcoin's Big Wipeout Erased $44 Billion of Value in January
Bitcoin is proving that cryptocurrencies can erase wealth as fast as they create it. Its January slide knocked $44.2 billion off the $200 billion in market value generated in all of last year, the biggest one-month loss in dollar terms in the short history of digital assets. [more...]
Bloomberg: Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan Sees Bubbles in Stocks and Bonds
The man who made the term “irrational exuberance” famous says investors are at it again. “There are two bubbles: We have a stock market bubble, and we have a bond market bubble,” Alan Greenspan, 91, said Wednesday on Bloomberg.  [more...]
Bloomberg: U.S. Probes Apple Over Updates That Slow Older iPhones
Apple Inc. said it’s responding to government probes into a software update that slowed the performance of older iPhones. The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating whether Apple violated securities laws concerning its disclosures about a software update that slowed some handsets. [more...]
Bloomberg: U.S. Regulators Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether
U.S. regulators are scrutinizing one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges as questions mount over a digital token linked to its backers. [more...]
Bloomberg: America Winning ‘Cold Currency War’ to Weaken Dollar, Pimco Says
The U.S. is fighting - and winning - a “cold currency war” as it seeks to weaken the dollar, according to Pacific Investment Management Co. [more...]
Bloomberg: Buffett, Bezos and Dimon Could Mess Up the Fed’s Inflation Goal
Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon’s plan to start an independent firm to manage health-care services for their 1.2 million employees at a lower cost has the potential to make the Fed’s 2 percent target for the core Personal Consumption Expenditure inflation index even more elusive over the long haul.  [more...]
Reuters: Asian shares bounce back, but rising U.S. yields pose risks
Asian shares eked out modest gains on Thursday, clawing back sharp losses from earlier this week, however, rising U.S. bond yields and interest rates could dampen investors’ optimism toward the global economic outlook. [more...]
Reuters: Oil edges up as OPEC compliance offsets robust U.S. output
U.S. oil prices extended modest gains on Thursday as OPEC’s strong compliance with a supply reduction pact offset news that U.S. production topped 10 million barrels per day for the first time in nearly half a century. [more...]
CNBC: Shell quarterly profit jumps 140% after 'a year of transformation'
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell reported profits more than doubled in the fourth quarter of 2017 on Thursday, supported by a recent rally in oil and gas prices. [more...]
CNBC: Facebook results top estimates, but stock whipsaws after hours
Facebook reported adjusted fourth-quarter earnings and revenue on Wednesday that crushed expectations, as it made more money than expected from each user. [more...]
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