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Major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and EOS have been on fire lately. Over the last seven days, Bitcoin is up 21.80%, Ethereum is up 39.36%, Ripple is up 40.89% and EOS 51.84%. Some cryptocurrency experts aren’t surprised by the renewed interest in cryptocurrencies. Matthew Spoke, CEO of AION and Founding Board Member of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is one of them. “The fundamentals have not changed,” says Spoke. “A ...
This was a brutal week for the stock market. The Dow was down over 1,400 points to close at 23,553, declining 5.7% which puts it in negative territory for the year, down 4.8%. The S&P was down 6% for the week and is now down 3.2% for the year. The NASDAQ had the worst week, down 6.5%, but is still up 1.3% for the year. Facebook and Amazon both lost $75 billion in market cap last week. While Amazon and Netflix also declined last week they ...
Could a bear market in stocks bolster Bitcoin and gold? Bitcoin will likely benefit if stocks suffer a "major pullback," stated Tim Enneking, managing director of Crypto Asset Management. Many market observers are closely watching the relationship between the stock market and Bitcoin, noted Mati Greenspan, senior market analyst for social trading platform eToro. "So far we haven't seen any flows from the stocks into Bitcoin," he stated, ...
Investors have a short memory when it comes to stock market crashes. For a simple reason: crashes do not last long, as central bankers come to the rescue with lower interest rates that make alternative investments less appealing. The trouble is that central bankers don’t lower interest rates, forever. In fact, they raise them as soon as there are signs that the economy is overheating and inflation heads above official targets. In either ...
The ‘inflating parabolic bubbles’ for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite reached their all-time intraday highs of 26,616.71, 2,872.87 and 7,505.77 on Friday, Jan. 26, as the ‘melt-up’ to these closes warned of potential market peaks. Dow Transports and Russell 2000 were laggards setting their highs of 11,423.92 on Jan. 16 and 1,615.52 on Jan. 24, respectively. The correction ended two weeks later, on Feb. 9, ...