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Market overview FX: The dollar index added 0.2% on Wednesday morning to 98.0 after 0.4% decline the day before. EURUSD has returned to 1.1500. Yielding currencies (ZAR, TRY, RUB) strengthen against the dollar, while AUD, NZD, CHF declined. The volatility.

XRP was rising on Tuesday as investors flew out of the bitcoin market amid growing uncertainties regarding its safe-haven status. The Ripple blockchain’s native asset climbed 1.73 percent to $0.00455 on BitFinex exchange. That brought its week-to-date gains up by.

Yesterday, we saw a nice upward move in ETH price above the $185 resistance against the US Dollar. Moreover, we discussed the chances of more upsides and a test of the $200 level. The price did climb higher, broke the.

The risk of a global recession is at its highest since August 2009, according to a survey of fund managers, as slowing growth, trade and political uncertainty takes its toll on investor sentiment. Some 38% of investors polled in the.

Stocks fell on Monday amid fears that a surge in oil prices following an attack in Saudi Arabia could slow down global economic growth. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 155 points, or 0.6%. It would be the first decline.

The computing power dedicated to mining bitcoin has hit yet another new high, suggesting that more than 600,000 powerful new machines may have come online in the last three months. According to data from crypto mining pool BTC.com, bitcoin’s two-week.

Facebook is set to go through another round of extreme questioning as it goes ahead with the plans to launch its controversial cryptocurrency Libra. The tech giant will face representatives of twenty-six central banks, including the Federal Reserve and the.

Gold and silver prices jumped more than 1% on Monday as investors fled to safe-haven assets after an attack on Saudi oil facilities raised concerns over global energy supply and ratcheted tensions in the Middle East. Spot gold jumped 1.27%.

If you follow the markets, there’s been recent reason for optimism about a U.S.-China trade deal. Some investors are buying it — literally — with recent gains in stocks attributed to positive signals from the U.S. and China after a.

The shape and size of the European Central Bank’s new bond-buying program caught market participants off guard, with some now predicting it’ll be years until the euro zone is back to anything approaching normality. Starting in November, the ECB will.

The hash rate of the Bitcoin network (BTC), which represents the amount of computing power securing the blockchain protocol, has increased by around eight-fold since hitting its record high at $20,000 in 2017. According to data provided by Blockchain, the.

Sterling could soar as high as $1.50 if lawmakers agree a Brexit deal before the U.K. leaves the European Union, one strategist has told CNBC. Speaking on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Thursday, Hans Redeker, global head of FX strategy.