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eBay is readying support for “virtual currencies” and “digital collectables” if new promotional adverts are to be believed. Spotted at the Consensus conference in New York, the banners suggest eBay is about to enter the cryptocurrency arena in what would.

Important upcoming events and publications for May 14 (GMT): 08:30 U.K. Employment Report. Risks for GBP: High. Claimant Count Change is expected to rise by 24.2K, which is close to the average for the last 6 months but reflects the.

There’s no shortage of possible catalysts behind the spike in the bitcoin price is. You can now add Jeff Bezos’ Amazon to the list. Whole Foods, which is owned by the e-commerce behemoth, is now accepting bitcoin as a payment.

Market focus At the beginning of the week, risky assets were again under pressure. Last Friday, the United States raised tariffs on $200B worth of Chinese goods and warned that without a trade deal within a month, the remaining imports.

The bitcoin bull market is here, as the price of the flagship cryptocurrency has shot through $7,400 and it seems all set to go higher. Bitcoin bulls estimate that the price of each coin could hit $20,000 very soon thanks.

U.S. equity futures slid, extending the stock market’s biggest weekly decline of the year, as a weekend of back-and-forth trade squabbling kept investors glued to news screens as earnings season wound down. “We not expect China to sell U.S. Treasuries,” ING.

Important upcoming events and publications for the week ended May 17 (GMT): Monday, May 13 13:05, 13:10, 17:20 FOMC members speaks. Risks for USD: Moderate. The speeches of Rosengren, Clarida and Kaplan draw attention in the light of the possible.

No. Way. Bitcoin (BTC) just hours ago moved above $6,700 and even flirted with $6,800 on some crypto exchanges. Although many have been absolutely enamored with this move, some have been left asking: Is the cryptocurrency moving too far too.

Uber began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday at $42 per share, below its IPO price of $45. The stock was down more than 1% toward the start of trading. Uber priced its shares Thursday night toward the.

United States regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is reviewing a new application for a cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETF), documents released on May 9 show. The product comes courtesy of Crescent Crypto Index Services, a subsidiary of benchmarking and.

Crypto markets make a new yearly high; Bitcoin surging to $6.3k, Litecoin lifted but the rest of the altcoins get eaten. The end of the week has seen crypto markets hit another new high for 2019. Bitcoin is pushing things.

A global stock market sell-off started to ease on Friday despite the U.S. fulfilling a promise to ramp up tariffs on Chinese goods. The U.S. hiked tariffs from 10% to 25% on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods at 12:01.