After weeks of downward pressure, the crypto market has come back to life. Bitcoin skyrockets to a peak of nearly $96,000, driven by institutional interest in Bitcoin ETFs. It’s the strongest ETF inflow week in years, and that impact is being felt across the entire market. Institutional capital inflow moves the market Over the past […]
Howard Lutnick, the US Secretary of Commerce, has been in the news quite a lot in recent weeks. He was the man standing next to Donald Trump when the latter presented his famous graph of worldwide import tariffs on ‘Liberation Day’. After that, almost all stock markets crashed. In the days that followed, Lutnick tried […]
Crypto enthusiasts had been hoping for another epic bull run for Dogecoin after Elon Musk announced last year that he would lead a “department of Government Efficiency” or DOGE in the Trump administration. However, as we reported earlier this year already, the opposite happened. With Doge negatively in the news every day, the price of […]
The beginning of this post-Easter week will be dominated by news of the death of Pope Francis, while economically the focus will be on the Federal Reserve’s comments on the state of the US economy. The White House is hoping for any sign from the Federal Reserve that it is ready to lower short-term interest […]
The crypto craze of 2024 and 2025 is growing in the Asian metropolises of Seoul (9 million inhabitants) and Tokyo (10 million inhabitants). In Japan, the government is not intervening yet, but since several South Korean influencers on social media are advising young people to convert all their savings into crypto, the government in Seoul […]
Although ECB President Christine Lagarde decided earlier this week to cut interest rates for the seventh time in two years already, Jerome Powell of the Federal Reserve is not doing that just yet. For the time being, US short-term interest rate remain untouched. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is calling for Powell to be fired and […]
Hacking a celebrity’s account on X to commit a crypto scam is nothing new. But when you do it to a well-known politician in the UK, the payoff can be much smaller than you think. This week, the X account of Lucy Powell, Speaker of the House of Commons, one of the two branches of […]
It was foretold long ago, but due to the rising trade war between China and the United States, it is now a fact: the government in Beijing has ordered its local municipalities to sell all their cryptocurrencies in the short term in order to fill the local treasuries. This is causing a lot of Bitcoins […]
The fact that the largest digital currency is increasingly doing the very opposite of the dollar is bad news for the latter. Gold and crypto attract new investors who would otherwise very clearly go to the safety of US dollar investments. Bond market There has been a lot of talk about the correlation between stocks […]
Bitcoin easily crossed the $85,000 price point and is likely to charge higher (if someone can at least take away US President Donald Trump’s smartphone this week). Markets rallied on Monday after the White House announced over the weekend that laptops, smartphones and chips would not be subject to tariffs. The dollar continues to trade […]
