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President Donald Trump has floated the idea of buying Greenland multiple times. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has called the notion “absurd.” It has triggered a diplomatic row of sorts. Yet Trump’s interest in Greenland is just the latest indication.

The published minutes of the Federal Reserve Board’s previous meeting showed a serious split in opinions on monetary policy. Markets were cautious about the wording that a “couple” of Fed members favoured 50 points rate cut while “several” preferred no.

Market overview FX: Dollar index runs around 92.10 for the fourth day. EUR, GBP failed to develop the offensive, having lost about 0.2% on Wednesday. The volatility of the main currency pairs decreases during the week, but today there is.

Markets are choppy this week, avoiding sustained impulses and strong movements. After three days of growth, the U.S. markets turned to decline yesterday, losing about 0.8%. At the same time, it is difficult to say whether the news background has.

Market overview FX: The dollar index is adding 0.1% in the morning on Wednesday after falling 0.2% the day before. EUR and GBP are gaining ground, moving away from local lows. Turkish Lira (TRY) lost 2.7% in two days. The.

Facebook-owned messaging service, WhatsApp, is purportedly in preliminary talks with multiple digital payments firms as well as a state-owned bank to launch digital payment services in Indonesia.  Reuters reported that they had learned of this development from anonymous sources on.

Overnight, the bitcoin price has dropped from $10,959 to $10,068 against the U.S. dollar, recording an 8.13 percent slip within a 24-hour span. The short term downside price movement of bitcoin is speculated to be largely technical caused by the.

There could be an “explosion” in goods sold via the grey market in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to a British retail expert. The term “grey market” refers to legitimate products sold via unauthorized — though legal —.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has reported a crude oil inventory draw of 3.45 million barrels for the week ending Aug 15, compared to analyst expectations of a 1.889-million barrel draw. The inventory build this week compares to last week’s.

Treasuries climbed as investors assessed the latest developments on U.S.-China trade negotiations and awaited more clues on monetary policy. Stocks retreated.  Benchmark 10-year yields extended their slide after U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo told CNBC that Huawei Technologies Co..

The Bitcoin (BTC) hash rate has broken yet another new all-time high, according to Aug. 19 data from monitoring resource Blockchain.com. The top coin’s hash rate has continued to break previous records throughout summer, today hitting an whopping 82.5 TH/s..

The U.S. Federal Reserve will cut interest rates five more times by April 2020, according to analysts at Danske Bank. The Fed cut rates by 25 basis points in July, but comments from Chairman Jerome Powell suggesting the cut was.