Before 2000, most traditional institutional investment portfolios did not allocate to commodities and traditionally balanced portfolios of stocks (60 percent) and bonds (40 percent) were the prevalent norm with no alternatives across the board. Given that diversification is a significant catalyst for investment, portfolios started greater diversification into alternatives and …
Read More »Fed’s Meeting Pulls Bitcoin Lower
The more speculative assets have dropped ahead a host central bank meetings, as markets began to consider a world of tighter monetary policy.Bitcoin was not an exception, falling below USD 47,000, more than 30% off its all-time high reached just last month. Bitcoin tumbled 3.77 per cent, while Ethereum was …
Read More »Bitcoin Continues to Decline More Than 3%
Bitcoin continued its decline after a strong decline on Saturday and fell on Monday by more than 3% to settle around $47,700 levels. Bitcoin lost about a fifth of its value during trading on Saturday, and some attributed this strong decline to profit-taking and global fears, but then managed to …
Read More »Bitcoin Below $50K After a Tough Weekend
Bitcoin hovered near $49,000 on Monday, down 1.5% on the day, as traders took losses after a grueling weekend when the world’s most popular cryptocurrency at one point lost more than 20% of its value. This trajectory brought the price of Bitcoin and the amount invested in its futures contracts …
Read More »Bitcoin Typically Acts As Risk Asset
Bitcoin fell 8% Friday, on the same day, the S&P 500 index retreated by 2.3%, that is to mean the most famous cryptocurrency is not the ideal hedge against volatility in the financial market as may be claimed by its backers.The hedge today was bonds, similar to much of market …
Read More »XAU/EUR Reaches Fresh High
Gold against the EUR is trying to extend its weekly uptrend for seven successive days, trading at €1,627 during the New York session.Early in the Asian session, the precious metal retreated to give back some of its weekly gains, as bears pushed gold towards the 50-simple moving average on the …
Read More »Gold is Heading to Record The Largest Weekly Jump in 6 Months
Gold prices fell on Friday, under pressure from the strength of the dollar, but it is heading towards recording the largest weekly jump in 6 months, as concerns about the rise in consumer prices in the United States led to the demand for the yellow metal as a hedge in …
Read More »Gold surpasses cryptos as cheap inflation hedge
Gold has shifted after the latest round of hot than expected U.S. inflation data and here’s what to watch with the latest surge higher.There’s a fundamental change of language as solid CPI data previously meant faster tapering schedule, consequently lower gold, the new prevalent language has become: strong CPI = …
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