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Bank of America on Monday reported mixed results for the second quarter of this year, as its profits fell as expenses related to regulatory issues rose, while revenue rose better than expected. The bank reported a 32% drop in earnings to $6.25 billion, or 73 cents a share, for the …

The Research Center at Bank of America expected the price of Brent crude oil to reach the level of 120 dollars per barrel by the middle of this year. Today, the price of oil rose to its highest level since 2014, following Russia’s recognition of the separatist republics in eastern …

US Treasury yields have been the deciding factor in the price action in global financial markets over the past week. The yield on US ten-year bonds fell to 1.792% from last week’s close of 1.761%. The markets have been moved by the US Treasury yields over the past week. The …

A Wall Street firm sees a bumpy yet rewarding wave with semiconductor stocks in 2022 and named Nvidia stock its top pick. Several analysts are still optimistic about semiconductor stocks, despite their recent downturn. Some go further to call semiconductors the new oil of the rapidly digitizing global economy.Semiconductors do …

The last trading week ended with a decline in the US dollar as risk appetite improved with optimism around Omicron, in addition to data out of the USA. As a result, the dollar index, which measures the strength of the US currency against a basket of currencies, fell to 95.7. …

The financial markets closed the trading week ending on December 24, with the progress of risk assets, led by global stocks, over the rest of the safe-haven assets, led by the US dollar. Over that week, the main drivers of the markets were the economic data and positive developments regarding …

It has been a big week for a number of major central banks worldwide. Central banks continuing to raise interest rates in an effort to tame inflation, largely dismissing for now the threat to economic growth posed by the spread of the Omicron variant. On ‘Super Thursday’ for central banks, …

Central bank decisions, Omicron developments, and US inflation data were the past week’s highlights. The Reserve Bank of Australia decided to keep the interest rate at as low as 0.10% but left the door open to expectations of a rate hike earlier than previously thought in 2022. It indicated that …

America and Germany decided to adopt stricter restrictions to circumvent COVID-19 on Thursday, away Austria, there are tailored or modified lockdowns elsewhere all over the globe to combat the emergence of the new Omicron strain. Such measures provoked turmoil across financial markets, lest it could ignite severe global economic slowdown …

The metaverse is a massive opportunity for the crypto space, according to a Bank of America strategist; Haim Israel who predicted that cryptocurrencies will finally be used widely for transactions in virtual worlds.He said crypto-based platforms will need developing, creating “a big opportunity for this entire ecosystem.”The metaverse is a …