Saturday, July 27, 2024

US Stock Rally Losing Momentum, Canadian Stocks Trending Up

Media reports indicated that the Canadian stock market achieved a record high in July 2024 and has increased by 8% so far this year. Despite this uptrend, it could not keep pace with the S&P 50...

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January 08, 2024

Storms and strikes not flooding the positive outlook on the UK economy

As traders recently turned bullish on the sterling for the first time in three months, analysts believe the UK economy, which spent most of 2023 on the rim of recession, is on the rise. Bloomberg r...

November 21, 2023

UK borrowing reaches record levels, topped only by stats from 1993 & 2020

The ONS’s figures also compared the same period from 2022, where net borrowing registered lower than this October’s figures. Not only this, but it also sits as the second highest borrowing figu...

July 27, 2023

Is the Fed done hiking? Markets think so, Powell doesn’t

Market Expects No Further Hikes in 2023 According to the CME’s FedWatch tool, market participants now overwhelmingly expect that the Fed’s hikes for 2023 are over. There is currently a 78% prob...

July 25, 2023

Weekly data: traders concentrate on the Fed and ECB

The focus for the Fed’s press conference on Wednesday night is on whether there’s any hint about a hike in the fourth quarter. Traders mostly expect this to be the last hike of this cycle for t...

Forex News

July 26, 2024 — BY Elizabeth Anderson

US Stock Rally Losing Momentum, Canadian Stocks Trending Up

Media reports indicated that the Canadian stock market achieved a record high in July 2024 and has increased by 8% so far this year. Despite this uptrend, it could not keep pace with the S&P 50...

July 26, 2024

Riot Platforms Acquires Block Mining After Bitfarms Poison Pill

Based on the acquisition agreement, Block Mining can also earn up to $32.5m “through the execution of additional po...

July 26, 2024

OpenAI Challenges Goggle with AI Search Engine

For the time being, it has been released as a prototype that will be available to a small group of users. This will a...

July 25, 2024

Abu Dhabi Wealth Fund Invests $100m in UK Microchip Company

This investment has been made in the form of a loan that can be converted into equity in Imagination in the future. I...

July 25, 2024

Deutsche Bank Reports First Quarterly Loss in Four Years

Germany’s foremost lender indicated that it will not engage in another share buyback this year. When trading closed...

July 25, 2024

Australia’s Equity Markets Get Clean Bill Of Health

In its latest market cleanliness report, the financial watchdog emphasised that sound – or clean – financial mark...

July 24, 2024

Tesla Profits Keep Falling in Q2

These results caused an immediate impact on the market, as the TSLA price fell by more than 4% in after-hours trading...

July 24, 2024

Plum Raises £16m In Latest Funding Round

Among the institutional investors was Greece’s Eurobank, which put up €10m for an equity stake in the company bac...

July 24, 2024

Crypto Gets Another Official Nod With Approval Of Ether ETFs

This approval is roughly six months after the SEC said yes to the first crypto assets in January 2024 when it gave th...

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Industry Interviews

July 11, 2023

INTERVIEW

Interview: Brokeree’s Julia Ilichyova talks about expansion in EMEA and APAC+ and growing the team

LR: Two years ago, we talked about how the team behind Brokeree has developed since the company’s inception. Can you tell me how the team has grown and evolved in the past two years? Julia: Over ...

June 15, 2023

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Exclusive Interview: Eduardo Alves talks about driving strategic excellence at 4XC

LR: What motivated you to join 4XC as the Chief Strategic Officer? Eduardo: Choosing to join 4XC came from a deep personal connection with Joao Monteiro, the company's founder, and our shared visio...

March 08, 2023

INTERVIEW

Exclusive: Focus on women in tech on International Women's Day

Daphne Munuera, Client Services Officer, iSAM Securities LR: Can you tell me a little bit about your career? – "For the majority of my career, I've worked in the finance sector. My first job was ...

March 07, 2023

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Exclusive: Hantec Markets' Hayel Abu-Hamdan talks about LATAM expansion, market expectations for 2023 and more

LR: Hantec Markets expanded in LATAM with a new Chile office in October last year. What does that mean for the company? Hayel: Our expansion into LATAM is the latest example of our company’s cont...

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Cryptocurrency

April 19, 2024 — BY Robert Bell

Binance Licensed To Offer Crypto Services In Dubai

This was confirmed with the news that the company, which runs the world’s biggest crypto exchange, has received a licence to operate as a full virtual-asset services provider (VASP). The licence has been issued by Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). The regulatory process goes through four stages in Dubai, with Binance entering the third…

April 15, 2024

Bitcoin Climbs Back After Crypto Market Fall Of Almost 10%

This is reportedly the largest sell-off of the world’s most prominent crypto asset experienced in over a year. Despite falling below $62,000 at one stage during Saturday’s trading, BTC gained b...

April 08, 2024

Coinbase Court Case Back on the Cards

They based this decision on the fact that the judge had used the December 2021 user agreement, but that didn't take into account the fact that earlier versions had used different language in some s...

February 28, 2024

Prominent Buyers Purchasing Cryptocurrencies

The world’s largest cryptocurrency, which currently has a market value of just over $1tn, ended Tuesday trading at $57,071. From the start of February, bitcoin gained 32%, putting it on track for...

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February 16, 2024

Coinbase Stock Rallies After Returning to Profitability on Bitcoin ETFs

The latter half of 2023 saw a surge in investor interest in major cryptocurrency tokens, spurred by expectations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) approval of spot bitcoin ETFs...

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Technology

May 14, 2024 BY Elizabeth Anderson

Big Tech Turning AI Spotlight On Neurotechnology

Elon Musk’s company Neuralink grabbed headlines in 2024 when it implanted the first-ever brain-computer interface (BCI) in a human, though the firm indicated on Thursday, 9 May 2024 that it had experienced some problems with its implant. The market for neurotechnological devices had a reported value of approximately $15bn in 2023. Precedence Research estimates that…

April 23, 2024

Meta Looking For Tech Partners To Use Meta Quest

2023 saw Meta’s Reality Labs division lose $16bn, so CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday that it will be opening up the system so that other tech companies can make hardware using it. His ann...

March 27, 2024

SWIFT Plans New Central Bank Digital Currency Platform for Cross-Border Transfers

This solution, known as the connector, reportedly enables the seamless incorporation of the use of CBDCs into business practices. Thirty-eight institutions participated in the experiment, including...

March 25, 2024

Apple Loses Value Over Regulator Fears

This took the loss in the year so far to 11%. Apple is no longer the world’s most valuable company, with Microsoft (MSFT) now having a market capitalisation of over $3tn, while Apple has slipped ...

March 25, 2024

China to Stop Using Intel and AMD Chips in Government Devices

The country also wants to sidestep Windows, Microsoft Corporation’s (MSFT) widely used operating system, and other internationally produced database software. The guidelines reportedly stipulated...

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