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Bitcoin is yet too volatile to threaten the existence of cash, and the latter will survive, states a new report conducted by Deutsche bank. Moreover, the report claims that digital assets will help with rebalancing the global economic power.Deutsche Bank had seen better years than in 2019. The German bank had to layoff 18,000 of its employees during recent July as a part of a longer-term reduction plan to cut its workforce to 74,000 by 2022.As of writing these lines, the bank’s market cap is...

At its first policy meeting of 2020, the Federal Reserve didn’t change much. As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee decided not to raise interest rates. The Fed will keep repo operations in overnight money markets going until April.But Fed Chair Jerome Powell did walk somewhat of a tightrope trying to explain what the Fed is doing. The U.S. central bank has expanded its balance sheet by $390 billion since September. But one cryptocurrency has done the opposite.Many market watchers...

The total number of cryptocurrencies crawling all over the crypto space is now no less than a thousand. And more cryptocurrencies are rising by the minute.A little more than a decade since the first digital currency and we’ve had cryptocurrencies that failed their hyped potential and other ones that surprised us. In this article, we will be listing the top five cryptocurrencies you are better off paying attention to at the start of a new decade.We will touch on the past history, performance,...

Twitter’s Bitcoin emoji has been introduced. This has generated lots of excitement within the crypto space. Twitter’s cryptocurrency community has been on fire as the Bitcoin symbol has been trending. However, it could have been rather expectable. Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey has been known to be a Bitcoin fan for many years now. His recent tweet has got a lot of positive feedbacks.#bitcoin cc:@unicode— jack ??? (@jack) February 2, 2020The Bitcoin symbol was approved as a Unicode symbol in 2017....

Before the weekend, we saw Bitcoin trading safely and easily on its way to $10,000. However, on our recent analysis two days ago, we had pointed out on some indicators that might put some bearish pressure on the cryptocurrency.Since then, we saw a correction of almost $300 down to a current daily low of $9130 (Bitstamp rate). On the bigger time-frame, in case this correction doesn’t go lower, it seems very healthy for the short-term since this level is a little above the 38.2% Fibonacci...

NEM (XEM) gains 23% in overnight surge. The Altcoin was previously down 97% since the market peak of January 2018. XEM coin now up 71% since December, but can we bank on this being a new alt-season? The 29th ranked cryptocurrency NEM (XEM) clawed back almost one-quarter of its value leading into Saturday morning. The altcoin had previously lost 97.7% of its value in a two-year decline that stretches back to January 2018. This past December, the XEM coin sunk to its...

Colgate-Palmolive Company said its net sales for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2019 stood at $4.02 billion, marking a 5.5% increase from the same period a year earlier. In the same time, organic sales rose by 5%.Earnings per share for the period hopped 7.2% to $0.75, while net income was standing at $643 million. Colgate-Palmolive’s Gross Profit Margin was 60.1% in the fourth quarter of 2019 versus 59.1% in the fourth quarter of 2018.CEO Noel Wallace said:“Colgate’s leadership of the...

The legendary investor Warren Buffett and his firm Berkshire Hathaway knew about Google way ago. They had direct information early on about how lucrative its business would be but decided to pass on investing in the Internet search giant.Buffett says he’s really regretting that decision now. Google has become one of the very few $1 trillion dollar market cap U.S. companies. You could count them all on one hand.An investment of $500 million in 2013 would have grown in value to nearly $2.5...

Bitcoin cash (BCH) is undergoing a period of hardcore controversy.Bitcoin Cash Is At the Center of Major ChangeBitcoin cash is the famed result of a bitcoin hard fork that occurred in late 2017. Bitcoin (BTC) is the number one cryptocurrency by market cap and has given birth to a few digital kids along the way. BCH is among the first, and the currency has moved through the ranks to garner the number four spot on the list of industry’s top-performing cryptocurrencies.During its peak, the asset...

Tech and internet companies were the first that succeeded to reach $1 trillion in stock market value. However, the next U.S. companies that could join this prestigious clique are better known for something else. We are talking here about card companies as are Mastercard Inc. and Visa Inc.Take Mastercard for example. In its fourth-quarter earnings report, the company said that its GAAP earnings per share (EPS) surged incredible 138% in the fourth quarter to arrive at $2.07, while revenues...