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Equities on major United States stock markets closed the trading session on Friday mostly lower, ending the worst week since the 2008 financial crisis. The Dow Jones and S&P 500 each dropped 12% and 11% in a week.Wall Street went through a historic drop this week all “thanks” to fast-spreading coronavirus that worried investors and traders. Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) developments grabbed the investors’ focus as the World Trade Organization (WHO) updated the coronavirus global risk to...

Warren Buffett has warned against buying or selling shares. He doesn’t think that the behavior of investors should be influenced by the coronavirus panic.Many people have revealed reactions in response to the heavy plunge the stock markets took as a result of the coronavirus. A lot of companies shed some weight which ended up significantly affecting some of the world’s richest people. As with occurrences like this, many businessmen, as well as market analysts and traders alike, have aired...

Acquiring the Philadelphia-based Heritage Financial Systems, ConsenSys gets access to advisory and broker-dealer capabilities in the U.S.Global blockchain company ConsenSys acquires U.S. broker-dealer. The company focused on developing Ethereum-based dApps has decided to purchase the Philadelphia-based Heritage Financial Systems in order to implement blockchain for tokenizing municipal bonds.#ConsenSys "acquired broker-dealer Heritage Financial Systems, betting that governments can more...

As the demands for longer-dated, risk-free securities among institutional investors have always been high, the Treasury will start issuing 20-year bonds. Securities that offer some nominal yield, amid $11 trillion of global debt with negative rates. While Japanese officials are thinking about a much longer 50-year security, the U.S. officials turned this idea down in their announcement.“The 20-year bond fits more easily into the existing market structure. This is a way of taking advantage of...

There are several investment opportunities popular all over the world and as time goes on, trends seem to always change. For many years, the stock market has been the most popular and also one of the most lucrative especially in the U.S. as records show that the S&P 500 has gained more than 180% in the last ten years. However, another investment channel that doesn’t seem to be talked about much but pulls in mouth-watering rewards, is the art market.A recent Citi report which was put...

It seems China finally decided to cut some ties to the world’s largest reserve currency – United States dollar, at least if it’s to believe the analysts’ prognoses.The biggest and most obvious reason is the ongoing trade war between the two countries said ANZ Research in their recent report. US delisting Chinese companies’ stocks from its market – surely hasn’t helped as well. That is why, ANZ predicts, Beijing decided to diversify its foreign exchange reserves into other currencies as...

The fact remains that you will still need a well-cushioned portfolio and follow some very basic rules about your earnings and spending to be comfortable. According to Stephen Fry, who is a certified financial planner and founder Safe Landing Financial, using a Monte-Carlo simulation, which is one of the most mathematically accurate ways of determination of financial outputs a tax-deductible account with inflows of a $100,000 a year or $65,000 per year in dividends, would do the trick quite...

Santander, one of the largest banks in the world based in Spain, has issued a blockchain bond and started using a public blockchain to manage all aspects of debt issuance.According to the Spanish banking giant, they used a token on Ethereum to represent the $20 million debt issuance and what is more, settled it with another set of ERC-20 tokens representing cash held in a custody account. As Coindesk has reported, the transaction conducted was a plain-vanilla bond with a one-year maturity,...