Month: December 2022

The major US stock indices are trading mixed/little changed at the open. A snapshot of the market is showing: Dow Industrial Average up 65.91 points or 0.19% at 34174.56 S&P index up 4.91 points or 0.12% at 4024.55 NASDAQ index up 3.29 points or 0.03% at 11260.10 Russell 2000 up 0.11 points or 0.01% at
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The arrest of the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) by the Bahamian authorities served as a cue for anti-crypto proponents to reignite discussions around the dangers of cryptocurrencies. While some political leaders blame the crypto ecosystem for SBF’s frauds, others find no point in blaming an entire industry for one man’s action. During an FTX hearing in front of
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Commodity Participant Association of India (CPAI) has urged capital markets regulator Sebi to facilitate uninterrupted hedging and trading in cotton futures contracts to market participants. This comes after Sebi in August suspended trading in all cotton futures contracts on commodity exchange for one month to align the contract specifications with that of the market. Later,
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Dollar is recovering slightly today as focus turns to FOMC rate decision and, more importantly, new economic projections. While the greenback was sold off overnight following consumer inflation data, traders are still holding the larger bets for now. As for the week, Euro and Sterling are the strongest ones so far, followed by Yen. Commodity
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Visa says that Ryan McLenerney will become CEO effective from February 1, 2023, and the present CEO Alfred Kelly will become executive chairman. At the end of November, Visa said that US payments rose 9%y/y while it noted November credit grew 10% and debit increased 8%. Will these developments and news help lift Visa’s share
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Within the past 24 hours, the Binance cryptocurrency exchange has seen outflows of over $1.14B due to rising fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) within the crypto ecosystem.  According to Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, the exchange has seen this before and believes “it is a good idea to ‘stress test withdrawals’ on each CEX [Centralized
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Dollar falls sharply together with treasury yield after US data showed consumer inflation cooled more than expected. Stock futures also jump as reaction. Australian and New Zealand Dollar appear to be leading the way up, followed by Yen and then European majors. The question now is on whether current wave of selloff would sustain pass
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