Nigerians can now trade Bitcoin as South African Bitcoin exchange ICE3X has launched Bitcoin trading in the country for the first time. Thus, the organization has opened up a potentially huge market for Bitcoin in Africa’s most populous country...
GetGems, the social messaging app with a built-in Bitcoin wallet, have announced that it has raised $400,000 from venture capitalist Magma Venture Partners...
On Thursday the greenback hit 12-year highs versus its peers, as growing optimism over the strength of the U.S. economic recovery lent broad support to the dollar. The U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, was up 0.46% at 92...
On Thursday the UK currency dipped to 18-month lows against the U.S. dollar, as demand for the greenback continued to receive broad support, while investors eyed the Bank of England's upcoming policy statement due later in the day...
Japan's currency fell for a second day against the greenback as global stocks rose before U.S. reports this week that economists said will show an improving labor market. Australia’s dollar climbed against all its 16 major peers...
Bitstamp, one of the largest exchanges for the digital bitcoin currency, announced it expected to resume trading within 24 hours after suspending operations because of a security breach occurred on Sunday. The breach resulted in the loss of around 19,000 bitcoins with a value of some $5 million...
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Following are the major Bitcoin news of the day BitStamp mailed his customers to inform them about a persisting issue in their platform, saying that their transaction server is detecting problems with their hot wallet, as a result of which they cannot process withdrawal requests...
On Wednesday the greenback hit fresh nine-year highs versus the other major currencies, as disappointing euro zone inflation data pressured the single currency and growing expectations for an upcoming U.S. rate hike continued to boost the greenback. The U.S. dollar index was up 0.31% at 92...
As investors rush to short the euro, some analysts are saying the trade has become overcrowded, which could lead to extreme volatility in the euro-dollar pair...
On Monday the euro dipped against the dollar after data showing German inflation fell to a five year low in December added to pressure on the European Central Bank to implement quantitative easing measures...
"The market was divided over when the ECB (European Central Bank) would undertake QE (quantitative easing)," David Forrester, a foreign-exchange strategist at Macquarie, said...
On Monday the euro fell to nine year lows against the dollar. The European currency has fallen 0.3 percent in the past week, the third worst performer of 10-developed nation currencies tracked by Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes. The dollar gained 1.6 percent and the yen rose 1.9 percent...
With the start of a new year and during the first Monday of 2015, EURUSD did fall in a super fast way after the gap from 1.195 to 1.1861 Where ECB Ex President Jean-Claud Trichetsaved the EURO in 2010. Who know maybe Trichet before leaving the ECB placed pending orders at 1...
The governor of the US state of California has approved Bitcoin; thus, the digital currency can now be accepted and used for transactions in the US state. This has been made possible by the ratification of a new finance bill which has made it possible for users to pay in Bitcoin...
A decision by a new Greek government to leave the eurozone would set off devastating turmoil in financial markets even worse than the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, a leading international economist warned Saturday...
Singapore is going to be in news for the country is going to organize the first major cryptocurrency event. Nonetheless, continuing the largest Bitcoin event worldwide, Inside Bitcoin is headed to Singapore on January 29-30, 2015...
She Short Sells Shoes On A Shopping Site (Medium) China is Planning to Purge Foreign Technology and Replace With Homegrown Suppliers (Bloomberg) Market Fundamentalism & the Power of Bad Ideas (Boston Review) see also Slavery and Capitalism (Chronicle of Higher Education) The Army Is Building...
The start of 2015 looks very familiar to the end of 2014 for many markets around the world as the USD continues to dominate the spectrum and commodity prices fall even further. Or as my colleague Matt Weller so poetically stated already this morning, “New Year, Same Result...
VILNIUS, Lithuania — If anyone still has good reasons for joining the euro, it is the people bundled against the cold of this snow-dusted capital. The plunge of the ruble and economic sanctions have all but destroyed Russia as a market for Lithuanian dairy products and other goods...
