Markets

The Fed has taken a decision to issue over 1 trillion dollars during coronavirus attack citing the necessity of market support. However, some critics say that the market is doomed, both on traditional and cryptocurrency levels.If you have to take $1.5 trillion and throw it into the economy, the bids are probably high. What will happen is that the markets will receive cash while consumers will keep sitting at homes. Despite the money will go towards rescuing the corporation markets first, they...

Friday 13 is at the beginning, but the market already shows the scary new Bitcoin’s bottom of $4,900. BitMEX derivatives exchange is reporting a huge wall of long orders sell-offs.BitMEX report that they have the biggest order liquidation sequence in the last 16 months. Both longs and shorts have been selling crypto, which causes further price fall and extreme fear. The BitMEX exchange had destroyed orders worth of $702 million. This sum is somewhat a record since November 2018.During the...

Advertisement Bitcoin plunged by nearly 40% in the last 24 hours. The brutal stock market selloff is killing other asset classes. Bitcoin’s safe-haven and uncorrelated asset narratives have been thrown out of the window. Bitcoin has a history of heart-stopping volatility but they all pale in comparison to what happened in the last 24 hours. The king cryptocurrency bowed down to macro forces as it lost nearly 40% of its value in yesterday’s trading. The last time something similar happened...

This is not the Bitcoin halving the crypto industry was talking about in 2020. The Bitcoin price crashed on the worst day for equities markets in 33 years. The Dow Jones plummeted 9.99% during trading, the S&P 500 lost 9.51%, and the NASDAQ took a 9.43% dive.Even spot gold declined by some 4% Thursday, as the logic of Bitcoin’s detractors like Peter Schiff, gold is now positively correlated with stocks. However, Bitcoin was the biggest loser, with a massive run on the world’s first...

The class-action lawsuit against Ripple has received the greenlight from a federal judge.The Court Moves Against RippleRipple has long touted itself as a non-security, but several of the plaintiffs involved in the suit claim otherwise. One describes Ripple as an “ongoing ICO [initial coin offering],” while others scoff at the currency’s reportedly centralized nature. It is reported that more than 50 percent of XRP units are still held by Ripple executives including Brad Garlinghouse, the...

After the emergency travel ban that was imposed by President Donald Trump on most European countries, the airlines stocks have plunged nearly 10%-15%.Following a directive by Donald Trump to halt all air travel from a dozen countries in Europe for the next 30 days, airline stocks fell drastically by nearly 10%. The travel ban affects, first of all, the European market. Deutsche Lufthansa AG (ETR: LHA) was trading 10% lower, wiping out all the profit gains made this year. Air France-KLM SA...

High volatility hit the cryptocurrency market with sharp declines from across the map. Bitcoin’s price dropped to a daily low of $5,600 in a matter of minutes. During this period, BitMEX had noted long liquidations worth almost $500 million in an hour.BitMEX Liquidation Chart Off The RoofBitcoin’s price recorded a massive dump from $7,350 to a low of $5,600 in just one hour. As a result, $484 million worth of open long positions got liquidated on the leading Bitcoin margin trading exchange,...

Bitcoin hasn’t been doing well as of late when it comes to price, but in terms of options trading, things are rising higher than anyone had anticipated.Bitcoin Options Are Getting a Lot of AttentionIt is being reported that trading volumes amongst bitcoin options have broken new records. The total trading volume amongst major platforms – i.e. Bakkt, CME Group, etc. – is just shy of $200 million, thereby breaking the previous all-time high of $171 million set last February by almost $30...

Uber (UBER) stock price is at $23.54 which is a 10.29% decline since trading started. Lyft (LYFT) stock price is at $25.29. This is an 12.82% decline since trading hours began as well.Uber Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: UBER) and Lyft Inc (NASDAQ: LYFT) stock prices have fallen. Sources say that this is due to COVID-19 fears. The main fears have to do with people sharing car rides with absolute strangers. Those fears are said to be part of the general panic sweeping through the world at the...

Amazon stock has not responded favorably to the company’s announcement of a $25 million coronavirus fund that it set up for employees.Even the world’s biggest companies are suffering under the effects of the coronavirus. Apart from the fall in their stocks, some of these companies can no longer handle business the way they normally would because of a high risk in the chance of infection. Amazon’s business is also significantly affected because of its high reliance on products from China....