Technology Behind Bitcoin Could Totally Replace the Stock Market Joshua KrauseThe Daily SheepleJuly 6th, 201586 views
Bitcoins may not be the best investment these days, but no matter where you stand on their future potential, you have to admit that the technology behind Bitcoin is pretty impressive. With the exception of gold and silver, never before in history has a currency […]
Capping an extraordinary week of stock market losses that defied state intervention, China decided to double down on Saturday – hoping to avoid a “Black Monday” when trading resumes after the weekend.Meeting in Beijing, 21 major brokerage houses said they would contribute 120 billion yuan – the equivalent of $19.3 billion – to purchase blue-chip “exchange traded funds” to stabilize […]
A brokerage house in Shanghai, China. Official efforts to halt the stock market slide have so far been in vain. Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters
China’s efforts this week to stem the tide of losses on its main stock market failed on Friday when the Shanghai Composite index plunged a further 5.8%, taking the drop in share values to 28% since their June […]
ReutersAn investor stretches in front of a screen with stock information at a brokerage house in Xiangyang, Hubei province, February 22, 2011.See AlsoChina is flooding the US with insane drug ‘flakka’ — and it’s shockingly easy to obtainThere is something that is a bigger drag on US stocks than Greece or ChinaThere is a new ‘ghost town’ in ChinaAs all […]
ReutersAn investor stretches in front of a screen with stock information at a brokerage house in Xiangyang, Hubei province, February 22, 2011.See AlsoChina is flooding the US with insane drug ‘flakka’ — and it’s shockingly easy to obtainThere is something that is a bigger drag on US stocks than Greece or ChinaThere is a new ‘ghost town’ in ChinaAs all […]
Oil markets face a lot of downside risk – high crude oil inventories in both the U.S. and Europe, resilient production from U.S. shale, increasing output from OPEC, a nuclear deal with Iran, the turmoil in Greece – but one has not yet percolated through the markets just yet: the possibility of economic cracks in China, the largest oil importer […]
I have to admit I want one of these. This might be the coolest device ever invented. Introducing The Amazon EchoIt’s like having your very own Government spy right there in your living room, listening to every word you say – tracking everything you do – storing it on the cloud.According to Amazon’s Website:
Amazon Echo is designed around your voice. […]
June 25 Market Close: GovCon Index Down, US Stocks Stutter on Biotech LossesRoss Wilkers June 25, 2015 Financial Report, News 0 ViewsThe GovCon Index closed in negative territory for the third consecutive day Thursday with a loss of 0.264 points to end at 76.030.Losses in the transportation and biotechnology sector sent U.S. stocks slightly down Thursday and many investors attributed […]
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REUTERS/Jim YoungObama in 2009.President Barack Obama says he saved the American economy … and its stock market.Obama did a victory lap on comedian Marc Maron’s podcast, WTF, earlier this week, and he said people’s lives are better today than they were four years ago, which is ultimately the goal of any presidency. “I can answer unequivocally, ‘Are […]
The delay by President Muhammadu Buhari in appointing ministers and other key officials as well as the lack of clear information about his government’s policy direction have been major deterrents to investment in the nation’s capital market.Capital market analysts, who spoke to our correspondent on the recent performance of the market stressed that investors, especially foreigners, were unlikely to make […]
