Market Update

U. S. President Joe Biden torched Senate Republicans on Monday, calling them “hypocritical, dangerous, and disgraceful” for blocking Democrats’ efforts to renew the nation’s ability to pay its bills.Biden accused Republicans of refusing to do their job and abusing their power to prevent the administration from doing its duties of …

Compared to its Friday morning values, Bitcoin has gained more than 9%, regaining its previous high of $47,000.The flagship digital asset is trading at $47,762, down 0.23% on the day but up 9.08% in the last seven days.In this fourth quarter of 2021, the digital asset market has transitioned from …

Several world leaders have issues official statements denying any involvement in wrongdoing after a huge leak of millions of documents that reveal secret financial dealings of the global political elite.The Pandora Papers investigation, which involved a consortium of 600 journalists from a variety of global media outlets, is based on …

Facebook Inc. services experienced widespread outages Monday morning, adding to the social network’s worst and most miserable day.Facebook FB shares dropped as much as 6% to an intraday low of USD 323, which would be their worst single day decline since a 6.3% fall logged on 30 October 2020. The …

The reversal of New Zealand’s dollar from 0.0.6980 high has found support at 0.6955.The NZD/USD pair was able to maintain its near-term positive tone amid broad-based USD weakness. Therefore, the NZD/USD remains close to 0.7000 resistance area.The New Zealand dollar’s rejection at the 0.7000 area, seen during Monday’s earlier US …

The Business Confidence Index in Australia has increased for the first time since May.The Index’s report cites following the outlining of re-opening plans in September in both NSW and Victoria, business confidence data gained +3.1% m/m to 104.6 on Monday, and +22.2% y/y. Business confidence in September 2021 was 9.2pts …

The massive Chinese real estate company Evergrande is unable to pay its debts. This crisis has ignited some rare protests in China and is raising concerns all over the international financial markets.A key question now is whether or not the government of China will let Evergrande collapse and whether or …

Oil prices on Monday hit seven-year high after OPEC+ opted to adopt their gradual approach to restoring output slashed during the pandemic, agreeing to add only 400,000 barrels per day in November. Crude prices jumped by three per cent, or $2.32, to $78.17 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the …

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and a handful of other apps suddenly crashed Monday afternoon, turning up error messages to its millions of users around the world. All of the apps that went down are owned by Facebook. The major outage comes as Facebook finds itself in hot water over its role …

Wall Street’s main indexes fell on Monday as investors shifted interest in technology shares in the face of rising Treasury yields, while new concerns over trade erupted on U.S.-China trade relations providing another reason for caution.U.S. Treasury yields have been supported by recent data showing increased consumer spending, accelerated factory …