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The effects of the coronavirus as it continues to spread might very well crash the global economy. The virus is already biting hard into financial markets and several businesses worldwide. However, things could very easily get a lot worse. According to former Morgan Stanley Asia chairman Stephen Roach, the coronavirus epidemic could very well lead to a global recession.Coronavirus Might Cause RecessionSpeaking to CNBC’s Trading Nation on Monday, Roach expressed fears that the outbreak could...

Santa Clara-based multinational semiconductor company, Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) first-quarter estimate of revenue has raised a lot of eyebrows as it came in far below the estimates of analysts. Such a situation is a result of declining demand from gaming console makers despite its data center and PC chips business tracking a revival in the chip industry. It has become known from the reports of January 28, 2020.AMD saw its stock price decline as much as 4% after the company announced...

Spread and control of the coronavirus outbreak in China has impacted the sales of popular multinational conglomerates, LVMH, according to published revenue records.China’s Hold on Luxury RevenueAccording to records posted by LVMH, the recent disease outbreak surfacing very early in the year has already begun to affect overall sales of goods, significantly.The recent outbreak comes as a bigger test to last year’s skid with Hong Kong, which fortunately couldn’t stop the company from making...

Off lately, the San Francisco-based blockchain startup Ripple has been frequent in news. Ripple CEO Brad Gralinghouse has been much vocal about his company’s plans for 2020 and ahead.During the last week’s World Economic Forum 2020, the U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin expressed confidence in the development of new cross-border payment systems. Post Mnuchin’s statement, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse also said that this could turn positive in favor of the company.Ripple has been actively...

Ripple’s Xpring initiative XRPL Labs is getting ready to launch its Xumm banking application. The app will allow users to store fiat and digital currencies in the wallet account, without any intervention from banks. In other words, Xumm offers banking services without banks getting involved.Xumm banking application is powered XRP, the token that is widely used in Ripple’s solutions. Notably, it will be available for all kinds of users. Easy to use, the app requires no special knowledge with...

Bitcoin continues with its upward momentum as the world’s largest cryptocurrency inches higher third-day in a row. In the late hours on Tuesday, January 28, the Bitcoin price surged close to $9400 levels.With today’s price surge, Bitcoin has added $2000 to its price since the start of this year 2020. In just the first 28 days of 2020, Bitcoin has given over 30% returns to its investors. At press time, Bitcoin is trading at a price of $9349 with a market cap of over $170 billion.Bitcoin’s...

The price of Pfizer stocks fell 4% down to $38.51 during Q4 2019. During the last year, the company bought back approximately $9 billion in its stocks to foster market growth. However, the largest medicine giant is losing money and wants its Upjohn development to merge with Mylan NV, which is another big drugmaker aiming at new types of medications.The Upjohn is selling the drugs that lost patent protection, such as Viagra and Lyrica. By the middle of 2020, the company management will...

ADA price is gaining bullish momentum above the$0.0526 resistance area against the US Dollar.The price traded as high as $0.0570 and it is currently trading in a strong uptrend.There was a break above a short term contracting triangle with resistance near $0.0521 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken).The price is likely to continue higher towards the $0.0585 and $0.0600 resistance levels in the near term.Cardano price is trading with a bullish bias above $0.0525 against the US Dollar,...

Bitcoin price is showing a lot of positive signs above the $9,000 level against the US Dollar.The price surged recently and traded to a near yearly high at $9,437.There was a break above a short term bullish flag with resistance near $9,070 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair could correct a few points, but it remains supported near $9,160 and $9,000.Bitcoin price is up more than 10% in the past few days against the US Dollar. BTC settled above $9,000...

Previously named Voltron Blockchain, now known as Contour, the firm gains the undisclosed sum from one of the biggest bidders of the world. R3‘s Asia Chief Carl Wegner became the startup’s CEO and will lead the company to the successful launch of its innovative letter-of-credit (LoC) service.The company reduced the time needed for the LoCs from 2 weeks to 24 hours max, in several test projects. Lisa Robins is serving as Head of Transaction Banking at SC. She says that thanks to the Corda...