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 »Why IMF’s Worries About Cryptocurrencies
The International Monetary Fund is concerned about cryptocurrencies, chiefly because the promising market is growing at a noteworthy pace and regulation is not coping with such a pace.The total market value of all crypto assets surpassed USD 2 trillion in September this year, representing a 10-fold jump from levels seen …
Read More »Bitcoin Surges Above USD 50000 In Holidays Week
Bitcoin moved above $50,000 for the first time since 13 December though the cryptocurrency trading on Friday around USD 50870.90, continued to take investors on a roller coaster ride in 2021.One thing that stood out was how crypto went mainstream. The biggest change was El Salvador becoming the first country …
Read More »Listing, Trading Shares of Vaneck Bitcoin Trust Disapproved
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday rejected rule changes that would have allowed the listing and trading of the VanEck bitcoin exchange traded fund.In March, the Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. filed a proposed rule change to list and trade shares of the VanEck Bitcoin Trust under BZX Rule.The …
Read More »Why Bitcoin Jumped on Monday
Bitcoin has been climbing since early Saturday morning. Truth to say regulation and taxation are on the way with steady steps, but that may be also good news, not only for Bitcoin, but also for , Ethereum, and Dogecoin as well.The value of cryptocurrencies jumped over the weekend and the …
Read More »U. S. banks tried to kill crypto but failed
Seven years ago, as regulators in New York were exploring ways to control Bitcoin, executives at Wall Street’s biggest banks were afraid that regulation would also legitimize cryprocurrencies. At the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2014, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank, called …
Read More »BoE: Crypto growth could create risk
Cryptocurrency market is double the size of the sub-prime debt in the U.S. on the eve of the financial crisis posing a threat unless urgently regulated according to the Bank of England.Crypto assets are worth $2.3 trillion, about 200% more than at the start of 2021. While that represents a …
Read More »Can Bitcoin bounce back after China’s ban?
China took its strongest action so far against cryptocurrencies; and according to the PBOC, Bitcoin, ether and tether are not legal and should not and cannot be used as currency in the market because they’re issued by non-monetary authorities and use encryption technology.But the government didn’t ban possession of cryptocurrencies, …
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