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Economic, financial, and business analysts have been on the lookout for an imminent recession since late 2022. The only question in a field of certainty that a mild recession is looming is where? Jamie Dimon: Bank Failures Could Lead to Recession in 2023 Will the recession emerge from a financial crisis? Will oil or some other commodity trigger it? Could it start in housing as it did with the Great Recession? The critical weakness in banking that became evident to markets in...

David Kelly – Asset Management Chief Global Strategist for JP Morgan Chase – said it’s time for the Federal Reserve to quit hiking interest rates if it wants to keep the U.S. economy intact.  Having “won” its war against inflation, the analyst claimed that the central bank now risks tipping the economy into a recession.  Too Many Hikes In an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, Kelly predicted that the Fed will continue raising interest rates beyond February, and into their...

Despite the massive bull market in 2020 and 2021, institutions have remained on the crypto sidelines and feel relieved about it. This is what a JPMorgan senior investment strategist argued recently, indicating that the interest in the asset class from such investors is “effectively nonexistent.” The most notable bull run in the cryptocurrency market started at the end of 2020 and lasted for about a year, seeing prices explode to new highs. Bitcoin, for one, went from under...

Dave Ripley – the incoming CEO of crypto exchange Kraken – said he has inside information that FTX scammed its users.  He expects more contagion from the crisis, assuring that his entity would not be affected. More Pain Coming In a recent interview for Bloomberg, Ripley described Sam Bankman-Fried (former CEO of the bankrupt platform FTX) as a “fraudster.” He also thinks it will take time for relevant watchdogs and the government to discover the reasons for the catastrophe...

On November 21, U.S. Patent and Trademark Attorney Michael Kondoudis announced that JP Morgan & Chase Co, the largest bank in the United States— and one of the largest financial companies in the world— registered a patent to venture into the Web3 with a digital crypto wallet. According to Kondoudis, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) approved the application by JP Morgan & Chase Co.on November 15. The wallet will offer services like virtual currency transfer...

Polygon (MATIC) was among the best performers in the top 20 cryptocurrencies in the last 24 hours. The token gained nearly 17% and traded at $0.98 for the first time since mid-August.  Although its valuation has retraced to $0.95, here are three possible reasons behind MATIC’s impressive 17% increase.  MATICUSD. Source: TradingViewMeta Picks Polygon for NFT Minting On November 2, Ryan Wyatt, CEO of Polygon Studios, announced that Meta, the parent company of social media...

After getting the axe from America’s largest bank, the infamous rapper Kanye West may be gravitating towards Bitcoin.  The rapper has been spotted in multiple recent photos sporting a hat labeled “Satoshi Nakamoto” – the name of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator. Is Kanye a Bitcoiner? One of the photos was shared over social media on Sunday by Twitter user Quinten Francois. It shows West wearing a green jacket, rain boots, and the Satoshi hat, with a phone held to his face. Ye...

The leading financial services company – JPMorgan Chase & Co. – revealed that its clients have drastically dropped their interest in using cryptocurrencies as a payment method in the past few months. However, the organization assured that it will still support consumers who want to employ digital assets as a means of payment. Not so Popular any More The ongoing crypto winter seems to have affected people’s interest in the asset class. In a recent interview for Bloomberg,...

With the US Federal Reserve firming up its ante against inflation and dismissing discussions about any softening of monetary policy. JPMorgan’s chief global strategist, David Kelly, has made some suggestions for crypto investors concerned about the direction of the market. In an interview Friday after Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Kelly said that the best way to be positioned now is to focus on valuations and avoid looking at short-term...

Umar Farooq, Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan’s blockchain unit, believes that real use cases of crypto are yet to unravel while most of the existing assets are “junk” with only a few exceptions. Speaking at the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Green Shoots seminar on Monday, Farooq said that the regulation has also not caught up with the burgeoning sector, thereby obstructing the foray of several many traditional financial institutions. “Most of crypto is still...