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The House moved closer Monday to impeaching President Donald Trump an unprecedented second time, this time for inciting his supporters who invaded the U.S. Capitol during Congress’ electoral vote count last week. Democrats introduced an article of impeachment Monday that.

Global markets are under increased pressure after recent highs, and as is often the case, the first signs of the reversal were seen in debt markets. Since the beginning of last week, yields on US long-term government bonds have steadily.

A student has claimed to have found private keys accidentally HODLed starting as early as 2011 which will unlock more than $4 million in Bitcoin. According to a throwaway account from BitcoinHolderThankU, the Reddit user was able to cash out.

The dollar gained broadly on Monday as widening U.S. Treasury yields and expectations of more fiscal stimulus lifted the greenback against its rivals, with the euro falling to a two-week low. President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on Jan. 20.

Worldwide coronavirus cases surpassed 90 million on Monday, according to Reuters tally, as nations around the globe scramble to procure vaccines and continue to extend or reinstate lockdowns to fight new coronavirus variants. The new COVID-19 variants discovered initially in.

China plans to push tech giants including Ant Group, Tencent and JD.com to share consumer loan data to prevent excess borrowing and fraud, two people with knowledge of the matter said, in Beijing’s latest tightening of scrutiny. The plan, if.

Stock futures fell in early morning trading Monday as investors assessed the outlook for more Covid-19 relief stimulus. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 180 points. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures both traded in negative territory..

Bitcoin and other digital coins tanked on Monday wiping off some $170 billion from the entire cryptocurrency market. The market capitalization or value of the cryptocurrency market was $959.53 billion at 12:10 p.m. Singapore time, down from $1.1 trillion a.

France is currently lagging far behind other European nations with its Covid-19 vaccine rollout, which could potentially hurt the re-election chances of President Emmanuel Macron. As of Friday, 80,000 French citizens had been vaccinated against the coronavirus so far. In.

Health care systems around the world are struggling to cope with rising numbers of Covid-19 infections as they race against the clock to vaccinate the vulnerable. The three vaccines currently approved for use by major Western economies all require two.

The US lost 140K jobs in December, noticeably worse than the expected 60k gain. The service sector took the biggest hit, shedding 188K jobs after a 350K hike a month earlier. This sharp decline is due to an intensification of.

The US dollar got a break in its decline thanks to the optimism of market participants. The dollar index is up 0.5% in the last 24 hours, the biggest gain in two months. This is also a sign of how.