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Brent crude has risen about 33 percent this year and is close to the highest in six months. While higher prices due to strong demand typically reflects a robust world economy, a shock from constrained supply is a negative. 1..

The dollar is in retreat from the recent highs. Futures on S&P500 has just touched the all-time peaks. Brent remains at $71 since the drop on Friday. Stocks S&P500 and Nasdaq continue their climb to the historic highs. Particularly encouraging.

You can now spend your bitcoin on giant Amazon, thanks to an ingenious lightning network solution, Moon. Moon is a crypto payment-processing start-up that works by allowing lightning network-enabled wallets to be used through Moon’s browser extension. The extension allows.

Important upcoming events and publications for April 29 (GMT): 08:10 BOE Governor Mark Carney Speaks at Innovate Finance Global Summit. The attention of market participants will be focused on possible comments related to current estimates of economic growth and plans.

Chinese stocks have taken investors on a ride this year. Shanghai and Shenzhen have been the best performing global markets this year, with the Shanghai composite index rallying nearly 24% and the Shenzhen Component Index Fund ETF up over 34%..

The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the first quarter and posted its best growth to start a year in four years. First-quarter GDP expanded by 3.2% in the first quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Nike is launching a blockchain product. Telegram is launching a blockchain. Samsung is reportedly planning to launch its own token platform; building with Ethereum for the S10 wasn’t enough. Facebook is getting into blockchain. Google still hasn’t done much with.

Cryptocurrencies fell amid reignited regulatory worries and questions around the legitimacy of so-called “stablecoin” tether. The entire market shed about $10 billion in value in the space of an hour late Thursday, CoinMarketCap data showed. This after the New York.

The stock markets growth has stalled by the end of the week. Friday’s profit-taking could save EUR and GBP from further decline. Stocks The S&P 500 futures lost 0.6% from their peak levels earlier in the week. China A50 Index.

Important upcoming events and publications for April 26 (GMT): 08:00 Swiss SNB head Thomas Jordan set to deliver a speech that can affect the pairs with the franc. The Swiss currency declined in April, sinking to a more than two.

Germany and Poland have suspended imports of Russian oil amid contamination concerns, prompting a rare crisis over supply from the world’s second-largest exporter. The sudden suspension of imports from the Soviet-built Druzhba pipeline, which runs from Russia via Belarus to.

Ripple’s XRP is having a disastrous start to 2019. In a year when bitcoin is storming back towards bull territory, XRP has crashed 16 percent. The third-largest cryptocurrency is now the worst-performing digital asset in the top ten. Ripple’s woes.