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Bitcoin's price dipped despite initial gains following President Trump's crypto event appearance. New "whale" investors have accumulated a large amount of Bitcoin, suggesting potential for a...

The Canadian dollar is almost unchanged on Thursday, after sliding 0.8% a day earlier. In the European session, USD/CAD is trading at 1.3569, up 0.04%.BoC Holds Interest RatesThere were no surprises...

Asian markets were handed a Wall Street hospital pass this morning as Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) both missed quarterly earnings expectations in after-market announcements. Rising...

The trembling’s of the world’s stock markets turned into a rout overnight, with the major Wall Street indices all tumbling by between 5 and 7%. It is essential to understand why this...

Asian asset markets are positive this morning as headlines continue to be dominated by Moderna’s trial vaccine headlines. I most certainly hope that Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) has managed to help the...

Asian markets have surged this morning, dragged higher by jumps in S&P e-mini futures and a strong rally by WTI this morning. Sentiment has been further buoyed by better than expected earnings...

Unless you were living on Mars—and in these days of connectivity that’s no excuse—you could not have missed the carnage that swept across financial markets overnight, driven by...

The legions of Optimism-20 virologists and epidemiologists were out in force overnight on Wall Street. After much academic debate based on their years of experience in the field, they came to the...

The Federal Reserve pricked the bubble of a nascent equity recovery overnight, with the FOMC leaving both rates and its forward guidance unchanged. A passing mention that it was monitoring...

Wall Street’s New Year’s resolution to eat a more plant-based diet paid dividends yesterday (sic), with investors gleefully consuming Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) latest results, sending its...

The rotation into haven positioning, seen in the holiday-thinned Asian markets yesterday, gathered momentum overnight. Fears about the global impact on economic growth, due to the Wuhan virus...

The sense of serious concern about the economic effects of the Wuhan virus—evident on Wall Street last Friday—has turned into something approaching panic in Asia this morning. China has...

The United States reported its first case of the Wuhan coronavirus overnight, an America First development that neither President Trump, nor U.S. financial markets wanted. With Asia on the back foot...

U.S. markets are closed today for Martin Luther King Day, and this will likely take the edge off activity in Asian markets as the week starts. That didn’t stop Wall Street setting another set of...

Markets in Asia have entered a holding pattern ahead of an expected signing by the U.S. and China of their Phase-1 trade pact later today. The morning has not been without drama, however. The U.S....

It is hard to believe that just one week ago, markets were again contemplating a potential war in the Middle East. That bullet was dodged, as both the US and Iran stepped back from the brink, albeit...