Sales of Donald Trump’s digital collectibles surged following the news of his indictment in New York on Thursday. Meanwhile, a report revealed that the market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has seen its strongest quarter since early last year, reaching a trading volume of $4.7 billion, despite a weaker March. Trump NFTs Spike as Former President
One of Russia’s most influential pro-Kremlin war bloggers, Vladlen Tatarsky, was killed in a blast at a restaurant in St Petersburg on Sunday. The incident took place at around 6pm local time, in the centrally located Universitetskaya Embankment, according to the ministry of internal affairs, which confirmed Tatarsky’s death. St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov said
Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH), eyes a run-up toward $3,000 in Q2 2023 after wrapping the previous quarter with 55% gains. ETH price nears potential breakout The price of Ether has more that doubled after bottoming out in June 2022 at around $880, weathering a slew of negative events, including the FTX exchange collapse, interest
Famed “Big Short” investor Michael Burry tweeted Thursday, telling his 1.4 million followers, “I was wrong to say sell.” The tweet follows Burry’s warning for months that the U.S. was headed for an “extended multi-year recession” and his decision to dump all of his stocks but one in August 2022. Burry: ‘I Was Wrong to
Saudi Arabia and other members of the Opec+ group announced surprise oil production cuts totalling more than 1mn barrels a day, putting Riyadh on a collision course with the US as the kingdom attempts to boost prices amid fears of weaker demand. Saudi Arabia will implement a “voluntary cut” of 500,000 b/d, or just under
US secretary of state Antony Blinken demanded the immediate release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in a phone call with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday. “Secretary Blinken conveyed the United States’ grave concern over Russia’s unacceptable detention of a US citizen journalist. The secretary called for his immediate release,” State department
Iraqi officials in Baghdad and their counterparts in the Kurdistan Regional Government have reached a preliminary agreement to resume oil exports from the country’s north with a final agreement expected “within days”. The announcement by both governments on Sunday comes just over a week after Iraq said it had won a landmark arbitration case against
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Donald Trump plans to deliver a speech after his arraignment on Tuesday as one of his lawyers said he will move to dismiss the hush money charges against him, telegraphing the ex-president’s early strategy. “I very much anticipate a motion to dismiss coming because there’s no law that fits this,” Joe Tacopina said on CNN’s
The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) during the first week of April is about $50 billion, roughly the same as on March 1. The value locked dropped to $42 billion on March 12 but has since rebounded as protocols such as Lido Finance, Aave, and Justlend recorded double-digit monthly gains. After the
Bitcoin (BTC) is on the road to a new bull market and should deliver serious returns in the process, fresh analysis reveals In a tweet on April 2, Charles Edwards, founder of Bitcoin and digital asset hedge fund Capriole Investments, flagged a “familiar” bull signal on the SLRV Ribbons metric. Edwards: SLRV beginning “new trend”
Ben Rains explores the bullish end to the first quarter and where the stock market stands as we head into April and the start of Q2. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq surged to end March as Wall Street scoops up tech stocks. The wave of buying and the impressive quarter has some pockets of
This is the first in a series of videos covering the basics of the Forex market. We look at a simple example of exchanging currencies and the effect of fluctuations in the exchange rate, before going on to introduce the Forex Market and how it operates as a global, 24-hour market for trading currencies. Test
The writer is a contributing columnist, based in Chicago “It’s wrong. Wrong! That district attorney should be disbarred.” Suzanne Windle, 64, voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 and she leapt to his defence again, hours after he became the first ex-president in US history to face criminal indictment by Manhattan district attorney
Canada’s natural resources minister has warned the US against waging a “carbon subsidy war” with its allies, saying the Biden administration’s $369bn clean energy package creates an “unlevel playing field” in global trade. Jonathan Wilkinson, a senior member of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, said Canada and Europe were seeking to “match” the US Inflation Reduction
Banks are the Achilles heel of the market economy. The combination of risky long-term assets with liquid liabilities redeemable at par is a standing invitation to illiquidity and insolvency. Contagion is also a permanent danger. The events of recent weeks have reminded us of these realities. So, what lessons should be learnt, including in the
UK home secretary Suella Braverman on Sunday insisted that fresh disruption at the Port of Dover was not a consequence of Brexit and would not be a regular occurrence for travellers, after hundreds of people attempting to cross the English Channel were forced to queue for hours. The port, which declared a critical incident on
Warnings continue to pervade market and financial news this week, with Monica Crowley, former assistant secretary for public affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, indicating “catastrophic” consequences if the U.S. dollar loses its status as the world’s reserve currency. In related news, billionaire Bill Ackman warned that the U.S. economy is “heading for
Donald Trump’s battle with New York prosecutors has been playing out over American airwaves for months, with the former US president’s allies decrying what they claim is a “political witch-hunt” by a partisan district attorney’s office. From Tuesday, however, the skirmishes that matter will take place inside a dilapidated courtroom in downtown Manhattan, between two
Switzerland’s Federal Prosecutor has opened an investigation into the state-backed takeover of Credit Suisse by its larger rival UBS. The Bern-based prosecutor is looking into potential breaches of Swiss criminal law by government officials, regulators and executives at the two banks, which agreed an emergency merger last month over the course of a frantic weekend
People walk past a store of the sporting goods retailer Nike Inc at a shopping complex in Beijing, China March 25, 2021. Florence Lo | Reuters Investors seem to be caught amid the chaos caused by the recent banking crisis, persistent macro headwinds and a potential recession. Looking at stocks with appealing long-term potential could