Anyone looking to invest in bitcoin or any other form of cryptocurrency has surely spent some time researching and reading about it. Entering the crypto world without any knowledge would be a crazy and reckless thing to do, especially if you are planning to invest money into it. While blogs, forums, and the many available
Month: November 2018
Market capitalization gets a lot flack for being a poor metric to measure the value of a cryptocurrency – and perhaps rightly so – but that shouldn’t stop traders from using it as a tool to generate a market bias. To summarize: the market capitalization of a cryptocurrency is a function of market price multiplied
GettyGetty Selling a home is an emotional process, one that can make sellers susceptible to all sorts of pitfalls along the way. In an effort to help make the transition easier, we asked top real estate agents to point out the biggest mistakes that sellers make. Read them over so you don’t fall into the
Sears Holdings is planning to shut 40 more stores early next year. The new closures are in addition to the 142 unprofitable stores the department store chain is already expected to close toward the end of 2018. When it filed for bankruptcy in early October, the company had roughly 700 Sears and Kmart stores still
The contentious nature of the ecosystem around cryptocurrencies is partly what gives them value – academics call it “belief heterogenity.” But discord and personal sentiment alone isn’t enough to keep prices above zero, according to research from Wang Chun Wei, Ph.D., a finance lecturer at the University of Queensland in Australia. According to Wei, if it
Square Inc.: “I’ve going to give you the two Squares. There’s the Square from the point of view of the businessperson, and they are spending a lot of money to be able to win in the arms race. And then there’s the Square from the point of view of the stock, and people say they’re
Much of Wall Street is worried that sliding oil prices could be a sign of global economic weakness, but CNBC’s Jim Cramer offered a counter-theory on Friday as he prepared investors for the week ahead. “I read the decline in oil as an issue of supply overwhelming demand, not demand waning,” he said on “Mad
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: General Electric – J.P. Morgan Securities analyst Stephen Tusa cut his price target on the stock to $6 from $10, saying the most recent earnings report was worse than expected on “almost all fronts.” Walt Disney – Walt Disney reported adjusted quarterly profit of $1.48 per
Forecasts of a more extended November cold snap across the U.S. sent natural gas prices to a near two-year high, as investors worry about rising demand at a time when supplies are at the lowest level to start the winter heating season in 15 years. Natural gas futures for December spiked more than 6 percent
Teachers Mine for Ethereum: Mining for cryptocurrency comes with its controversy. Energy consumption is already the most eyebrow-raising aspect. So what about using the local school’s computers to mine for Ethereum… during school time? Oh, and you’re the principal of the school. This is exactly what happened in Hunan Province, China. Teachers Mine for Ethereum:
Zachary Coburn, the founder of EtherDelta, has just been charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with operating an unregistered securities exchange. The SEC released the news via a press release yesterday. EtherDelta Charged According to the report by the SEC, over the course of 18 months, EtherDelta users placed over 3.6 million orders
Three weeks after being assured that everything was running smoothly, some customers of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex are wondering why they still can’t withdraw their money. On Oct. 15, the cryptocurrency exchange published an announcement saying, “all cryptocurrency and fiat withdrawals are, and have been, processing as usual without the slightest interference.” It continued, for emphasis, “all
Richard Malish is General Counsel at NICE Actimize where he counsels on global anti-money laundering, fraud, trading compliance and banking regulatory matters. The New York Attorney General (“NY AG”) recently issued a report on its fact-finding enquiries to multiple virtual currency trading platforms believed to be operating in New York. One of its many interesting
Crystal City, Virginia looks like a strong contender. photo credit:Getty According to recent news reports, Amazon is reportedly now considering splitting its much anticipated HQ2 headquarters between two cities. Those in the news cycle include Crystal City, in Northern Virginia (about 3 miles south of downtown DC), New York City (Long Island City in Queens)
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, of the Qatari ruling family, has just splashed out on a $270-million stand-alone mansion, at 10 Harkin Street in the heart of London’s Belgravia, a stone’s throw from Buckingham Palace. The Sheikh’s new 20-plus-bedroom pied-a-terre is one of those rarest-of-the-rare listed houses in London, set back from the road on
Ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort was in default on a multimillion-dollar mortgage for his Trump Tower condo at the time he forfeited that property to the U.S. government as part of his guilty plea, lawyers for Manafort’s lender said in court papers. And now the lender, UBS Bank, is asking a federal judge for a
The homebuilders are getting crushed this year. The XHB homebuilders ETF and ITB home construction ETF are both tracking for their worst years since 2008, the middle of a housing crisis that demolished the group. They now face a make-or-break level, said Todd Gordon, founder of TradingAnalysis.com. “We are deeply into oversold support here. We
US financial service company Square (NYSE:SQ) just announced that its Q3 Bitcoin (BTC) revenue jumped up from its previous earnings in Q2. Square detailed its full company earnings in a shareholder letter released yesterday. In the third quarter of 2018, we continued to drive strong growth at scale. $SQ https://t.co/HPhSMfVgac — Square IR (@SquareIR) November
Bitcoin is painting a less bullish picture than 24 hours ago, following a drop out of an ascending price channel. Stepping back, the leading cryptocurrency picked up a strong bid at $6,200 on Oct. 31, keeping the crucial 21-month EMA support intact. Further, it witnessed a symmetrical triangle breakout earlier this week, signaling that bulls
Bitcoin’s reversal of the recent uptrend in prices is gathering pace and a drop into a bearish territory below $6,200 is now a possibility, technical charts indicate. The leading cryptocurrency found acceptance below the lower edge of the rising channel yesterday, invalidating the bullish price action witnessed earlier this week. Essentially, the rally from the
If CNBC’s Jim Cramer knows one thing about the United States Congress, it’s that “a house divided against itself can produce some amazing profits” for investors, he said one day after the 2018 midterm elections. On Tuesday, the Democratic Party regained control in the House of Representatives, while the Republican Party maintained its majority in
Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Roku shares plummeted as much as 13 percent during after-hours trading Wednesday despite beating on its top and bottom lines. The company reported a smaller than expected loss per share of 9 cents, vs. an expected loss of 12 cents. Roku posted revenue of $173 million,
On October 30th, Ernst & Young (EY) announced a world-first for distributed ledgers. Called the Ernst & Young Ops Chain Public Edition, the company created a new blockchain prototype that combines the security of the public ledger model with the privacy of the private ledger model—thus a private blockchain. It does this by using zero-knowledge proof
Six of the top 10 crypto exchanges by bitcoin cash (BCH) trading volume have announced plans to support the cryptocurrency’s upcoming hard fork on Nov. 15. Bitcoin cash’s roadmap includes upgrades to its core code every six months, but disagreement over some changes to the network have raised the specter that two distinct branches of
Disgraced hedge fund investor Edward S. Lampert was once lauded by the press as a financial genius. Then he embarked on a crusade to revive Sears. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File) As a long-term bear on Sears, I was not surprised to see the iconic retailer file for bankruptcy. I first recommended shorting the stock years
Wynn Resorts shares declined more than 12 percent during after-hours trading as the company missed estimates in its quarterly earnings. The hotel and casino company reported earnings of $1.68 a share, while analysts expected $1.69 a share. However, it did beat on revenue, coming in at $1.71 billion versus an estimate of $1.66 billion. The
Bitcoin (BTC) looks likely to inch higher toward $6,800 in the near-term, as the technical indicators have grown increasingly bullish in the last 24 hours. Notably, the 14-day relative strength index (RSI), which measures the speed and change of price movements, has jumped to 59.04 – the highest level since Sept. 4. A reading above 50
CNBC’s Jim Cramer is such a passionate supporter of the stock of Apple that, sometimes, even he knows it’s worth getting a second opinion. So, on Tuesday, he got technician Carolyn Boroden’s take. After inspecting Apple’s charts, Boroden, who runs FibonacciQueen.com and is Cramer’s colleague at RealMoney.com, came out “cautiously optimistic” on the stock’s near-term
I can’t be the only person who has a problem with the consensus on the election and the markets. The consensus view is that the Democrats will take the House and the Republicans will keep control in the Senate, and that this combination will be good for stocks because gridlock is traditionally good for stocks.
Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Wendy’s stock fell 6 percent in the extended session after the company reported a decline in North America sales, when analysts had projected growth. Same-store sales for the third quarter fell 0.2 percent, while analysts polled by StreetAccount had expected a 1.7 percent increase. Still, Wendy’s
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