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Friday data on the labour market were surprisingly weak. The increase in the number of new jobs by 134K has been minimal for the last 12 months. Same as a year ago, the employment rate was affected by hurricanes, leading.

Brent crude oil prices fell more than 1 percent on Monday after Washington said it may grant waivers to sanctions against Iran’s oil exports next month, and as Saudi Arabia was said to be replacing any potential shortfall from Iran..

China paced declines in Asian stocks and the yuan fell as investors assessed the latest move by the People’s Bank of China to loosen monetary policy. Chinese shares bore the brunt of selling as traders returned from a week-long holiday.

The U.S. unemployment rate sank to a 48-year low of 3.7% in September as the economy added 134,000 new jobs, setting the stage for a strong holiday season to finish out what’s been stellar year for the U.S. economy. The.

Throughout 2018’s price slump, investors in digital assets hoped for an influx of institutional investors to rescue crypto prices. Retail investors pinning their hopes on large investors breaking digital assets out of their price slump are beginning to make peace.

Asian shares wobbled on Friday after benchmark U.S. Treasury yields surged to a fresh seven-year high and strong economic data fanned concerns about the risk of faster-than-expected interest rate rises. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.6.

A report that the Chinese government embedded secret spy chips on U.S. computer servers continued to resonate on Friday, with Beijing-based Lenovo Group Ltd. coming under heavy selling pressure in Asia. Shares of laptop maker Lenovo 0992, -15.10% finished the.

Stock markets declined on Thursday amid U.S. bond yields, but it is also worth paying attention to a sale-off of currencies in Australia and New Zealand as a sign of problems with the demand in China. Last year was marked.

The rout that started Wednesday sent European government bonds lower, while the surge in yields weighed on other assets. The Stoxx Europe 600 and MSCI Asia Pacific gauges fell, and emerging-market shares were hit particularly hard. The greenback fell for.

The fire around the budget of Italy have gone away, but it does not spare the common currency from weakening against strong U.S. data. The agreement of the Government of Italy to reduce the budget target to 2.0% in 2020-2021.

Element Digital Asset Management (EDAM) has been analyzing a number of theories as to why this has been the case — only to come up with a boring conclusion. Over the past few years, the price chart for Bitcoin (BTC).

After months of speculation, institutional investors have finally stepped into the cryptocurrency market by becoming the biggest buyers through over-the-counter (OTC) transactions. According to a report by Bloomberg, these investors have bought over $100,000 cryptocurrencies via private sales.