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China’s factory activity expanded for the sixth straight month in October as business confidence grew to its strongest in years, a private survey showed on Monday. The Caixin/Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index for Chinese manufacturing came in at 53.6 for October,.

Ben Simkin was hardly a model student. At 16, he was kicked out of high school for hacking their computer systems. But that didn’t hold him back. At 20, the self-taught computer programmer launched an IT and software company which.

Bitcoin (BTC) has spent nearly 100 days above $10,000 — and if history repeats itself, further price gains could be astronomical. As noted by various social media users this week, as of Oct. 30, Bitcoin was just five days away.

Stocks fell on Friday, led by major tech shares, as Wall Street wrapped up a difficult week in which coronavirus cases rose, U.S. fiscal stimulus talks broke down and traders braced for volatile swings during next week’s election. The Dow.

As of Wednesday, the mean fee per transaction, or the average transaction cost, was 0.00086764 BTC (BTC, +1.09%), the highest since June 2018, according to data source Glassnode. In dollar terms, the average transaction fee was $11.66. Average fees in.

Stronger-than-expected GDP data curbed losses on European stock markets on Friday, but US stock futures pointed to a continued sell-off on Wall Street. European stocks had looked set for a fresh rout on Friday as infection rates and new lockdown.

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) abruptly dropped 4% from the day’s peak on Oct. 30 as the uncertainty in the stock market intensified. With five days left to the U.S. presidential election, Bank of America, or BofA, suggested a 20%.

World markets did not manage to find enough buyers on Thursday to return to growth. Most indices were again under pressure by the end of the day, which remains in force on Friday morning. Futures on US indices are losing.

Oil and gas companies worldwide are taking an axe to their employment rolls, shedding workers to survive what is expected to be a prolonged stretch of weak demand. Exxon Mobil Corp said it will cut its workforce by 15%, or.

Gold demand in India fell 30% in the previous quarter, but a sense of “cautious optimism” has returned to the market, according to the World Gold Council. India is one of the largest markets for gold. Jewelry demand in India.

U.S. stock futures fell in early morning trading Friday after some of the technology heavyweights came under pressure following their quarterly reports. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 482 points. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq-100 also traded in.

Chinese financial technology giant Ant Group looks set to make the world’s largest stock market debut. Ant, backed by Jack Ma, billionaire founder of e-commerce platform Alibaba, is to sell shares worth about $34.4bn (£26.5bn) on the Shanghai and Hong.