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 […]
Charles Schwab, one of the largest asset managers in the U.S., is going all-in on crypto. CEO Rick Wurster has announced that the company plans to offer direct Bitcoin trading to clients by April 2026. With this move, the publicly traded financial giant, which manages over $10 trillion, is finally entering the world of spot […]
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 […]
If we look at crypto prices after the most irregular stock market week of the last decade, we notice that Bitcoin has remained fairly stable while Ethereum incurred a loss of some 10%. That is striking. Furthermore, Ethereum could never get close to its 2021 ATH in recent months, while Bitcoin did. Where did it […]
The DXY, also known as the dollar index, has fallen through its support line this week. In just a few days, it lost about 4% against the Euro. That’s a massive move. This is mainly because investors expect the trade war between China and the United States to affect the latter’s trade most of all. […]
