Having suffered losses due to the COVID-19 led market onslaught, both Bitcoin and the United States stock market have had a good month. However, one analyst has pointed out how Bitcoin’s recovery has been entirely driven by market forces, while stocks have been rallying on the back of government intervention. Bitcoin Recovered Without External Intervention...Read More
Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari wrote Thursday that banks should cancel dividends and sell shares to raise cash. Kashkari said these measures would be necessary to create a cash buffer going into a potentially drawn-out recession. Because should the banks fail to have enough cash on hand, a wave of defaults could trigger a...Read More
On Friday, U.S. bureaucrats passed the 2020 stimulus bill, which has become the largest cash injection package ever created by the federal government. However, following the bill making it through the Senate and House, Republican representative Thomas Massie told the public the stimulus bill bolsters a shroud of secrecy surrounding the Federal Reserve. Moreover, within...Read More
The US Federal Reserve announced a new set of measures to help the market in the current ongoing crisis. Among these moves is an open-ended commitment to keep buying assets under the quantitative easing measures. The markets responded with an uproar, and Bitcoin followed, charting a quick 13% increase before retracing to its current levels....Read More
The Federal Reserve made an unexpected announcement at 5 PM U.S. Time Sunday afternoon. Along with another $700 billion immediate injections – $500 billion in treasuries and $200 billion in mortgage-back securities, the Fed is cutting the rate to zero. Donald Trump fires all the guns he has at an early stage of the coronavirus...Read More
As a seemingly endless stream of reports continues to pour in surrounding the coronavirus, many are becoming increasingly concerned over the effect this global pandemic could have on the global financial system in the future. The outbreak is shaping up to potentially cause one of the worst financial crashes of all time. The current pandemic...Read More
The constant expansion of the coronavirus continues to harm the global economic markets. Monday’s severe stock sell-off pushed the UK to cut the interest rates, a week after the US did the same. As a result, Europe stocks are in the green as of writing these lines. Wall Street’s major indexes opened Wednesday’s trading in...Read More
The Federal Reserve’s policies are fueling deflation, not inflation, according to a well-known hedge fund manager. A deflationary environment could send bitcoin sharply higher. | Image: KAREN BLEIER / AFP The growing U.S. workforce and retirement of the boomers will force the Fed to double its balance sheet. The expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet...Read More
The U.S. Federal Reserve is experimenting with blockchain technology to establish potential use cases for a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Fed’s Governor Lael Brainard said this in a recent speech, but she also noted that risks still exist, and they have to be addressed before launching a digital currency. The U.S. Contemplating A CBDC...Read More
At its first policy meeting of 2020, the Federal Reserve didn’t change much. As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee decided not to raise interest rates. The Fed will keep repo operations in overnight money markets going until April. But Fed Chair Jerome Powell did walk somewhat of a tightrope trying to explain what the...Read More
While Bitcoin is an asset independent of central banks, of banks, and of Wall Street, the cryptocurrency’s strength and underlying value proposition have become increasingly dependent on events in the traditional financial world as this fledgling industry has grown.Related Reading: Bitcoin Fixes This: Top Bank Chief Says Monetary Policy is FailingOne such pro-Bitcoin event, or...Read More
It is a well-known fact that US politicians don’t like bitcoin very much. Particularly the Federal Reserve governor still sees plenty of problems, primarily due it facilitating illicit activities. In a recent meeting, the bitcoin debate was reopened once again. The Fed Still Hates Bitcoin As regulators prepare to take a closer look at cryptocurrencies,...Read More
China’s Hengfeng Bank is set to get a $14.2 billion bailout from both Chinese government and foreign investors. An emergency decree has been approved to bail out southern Italy’s biggest lender, Banca Popular di Bari. Germany continues to struggle with bailout pains, as regional bank Nordlb finds itself now depending on another capital injection. None...Read More
Nearly one-third of Americans falsely believe that the US dollar is backed by gold, and 70% don’t know what is backing it. That’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to US financial illiteracy, however. A new study reveals just how little Americans know about how their money works. An eye-opening new study...Read More
This year, Bitcoin (BTC) has done astonishingly well. Year to date, the cryptocurrency’s price has gained some 200%, surging off an influx of positive news and the start of a new hype cycle.Simultaneously, central banks have put their noses to the grindstone, activating dovish monetary policies across the board. There is now over $17 trillion...Read More
The US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) aggressive easing might support Bitcoin’s bullish price trend at least up to 2020. Meanwhile, the cryptocurrency might also get a parallel boost from the upcoming halving event. Fed Cuts Interest Rates for First Time in Over a Decade At the latest meeting in July, the Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee...Read More
Crypto exchange OKEx believes the bitcoin price will surge 34% to $14,000 this year, thanks to a little help from the Federal Reserve. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: Crypto exchange OKEx isn’t concerned that the bitcoin price appears to have hit a wall just above the $10,000 mark. In fact, the industry giant believes...Read More
