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Traditional financial markets are plunging today amid fears of the spreading coronavirus. While indices and stocks tumble across the globe, gold is increasing as investors turn to it as a safe haven. It reached its highest point since 2013. Amid this uncertainty, it’s interesting to see where Bitcoin’s price will go next.Stock Markets PlummetThe coronavirus outbreak continues to expand with almost 79,000 confirmed cases globally. The death toll has risen to over 2,450, and 23 are outside of...

Amazon (AMZN) is not the only stock that went down. Because of coronavirus, China will stop providing necessary physical and virtual services to the U.S. As a result, the market reacts with the overall drop in prices.At the beginning of 2020, e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been showing not a very impressive performance. Such an outcome results from the company’s stock underperforming significant benchmarks over the previous six months. Until mid-January 2020, Amazon could...

According to Changpeng Zhao, Bitcoin halving does not have a set price. But after the event, we may expect that the BTC price will react positively. In less than three months, the most anticipated event for the crypto community will take place: Bitcoin halving. Scheduled for May, Bitcoin halving happens at every 210,000 blocks and cuts down the supply of BTC, making the asset more scarce. Now the reward for each block is 12.5 Bitcoin and after halving it will be 6.25 Bitcoin.It takes four...

Global markets across Europe and Asia have plunged severely on Monday as South Korea and Italy report several new affected cases of the coronavirus on Sunday. Analysts request investors to maintain caution at this stage.At press time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average Futures lost over 400 points to 28,540 levels. At the Monday opening, the stock futures are having a massive bloodbath on Wall Street as the coronavirus cases outside China surge significantly.As the possibility of the global...

The development of technologies is moving forward and it can’t but influence the development of many industries. Big data and machine learning are believed to be the key factors for retail industry growth.Since the beginning of the “fourth industrial revolution”, markets have seen the rise of tech giants Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, seen the impacts of AI in the automotive industry, and watched as the availability and delivery of products and services have accelerated in ways nobody...

The noise around coronavirus is growing. Stocks in Asia are falling due to this situation and there are no signs of improvements.South Korea’s coronavirus alert level has been raised to its highest levels, it has led to a new drop of stocks in Asia. Sources report that this action occurred as 161 new cases have been reported. Seven deaths have been reported so far.Markets in Japan haven’t reported any data due to holiday closures on Monday. The Korean currency won fell to 1,219.22 per dollar....

Stellar lumen price is facing a lot of hurdles near $0.0735 and $0.0750 against the US Dollar.XLM price is currently declining and it could revisit the $0.0670 support area.There was a break below a key contracting triangle with support near $0.0712 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken).The pair must climb above $0.0735 and $0.0750 to start a strong increase in the near term.Stellar lumen price is facing many resistances against the US Dollar and bitcoin. XLM could decline towards the...

Ripple price is struggling to climb above the $0.2850 resistance area against the US dollar.The price is currently declining and it might test the $0.2645 support level.There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.2805 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex).The pair must climb above $0.2805 and $0.2850 to start a strong increase in the coming sessions.Ripple price is currently struggling below $0.2850 against the US Dollar. XRP price could dip...

Bitcoin’s total supply gets distributed among more addresses as its network matures over time. At the same time, some notable altcoins have up to 95% of their total supply held by several large addresses.This information came from a report gathered by the popular monitoring resource – coinmetrics. By examining numerous variables of data, the paper outlines the wealth distribution of some popular cryptocurrencies.BitcoinNaturally, the report begins with the largest cryptocurrency by market...

Following the huge price dump last Wednesday, we saw Bitcoin trading in the tight range between $9550 and $9750 until a few hours ago, where the primary cryptocurrency had decided to fire some engines towards a critical resistance level.As of writing these lines, Bitcoin is testing the $9900 – $10,000 resistance. As mentioned in our previous analysis, the $9900 horizontal resistance is also the Golden Fib retracement level (61.8%, lies at $9922). As can be seen on the following daily chart,...