Day: April 2, 2022

Apr 02
Bitcoin network difficulty reaches all-time high as miners pursue 2M BTC

Bitcoin’s hash rate maintained a stronghold throughout the year as it compliments the new ATH for BTC network difficulty. 5917 Total views 75 Total shares Just when the Bitcoin (BTC) miners helped release the 19th millionth BTC in circulation on Friday, the BTC network’s mining difficulty reciprocated by reaching an all-time high of 28.587 trillion.  […]

Apr 02
2-year/10-year yield curve inverts again after March jobs data

William Watts is MarketWatch’s senior markets writer. Based in New York, Watts writes about stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities, including oil. He also writes about global macro issues and trading strategies. Before moving to New York, he reported for MarketWatch from Frankfurt, London and Washington, D.C. Source: Marketwatch

Apr 02
Dax Futures (FDAX1!), H1 Potential For A Drop!

Type: Bearish DropKey Levels:Resistance: 14899Pivot: 14707Support: 14355Preferred Case:With price moving below the Ichimoku cloud and the recent trendline breakout, we have a bearish bias that price will drop from our Pivot at 14707 in line with the horizontal swing high and 61.8% Fibonacci retracement towards our 1st support at 14355 in line with the horizontal […]

Apr 02
CTK2022 (Cotton Futures) | H1 Bullish Pressure

Type: Bullish PressureKey Levels:Resistance: 140.57Pivot: 135.31Support: 132.61Preferred Case:Price is near pivot level of 135.31 in line with 50% Fibonacci retracement and 100% Fibonacci projection. Price can potentially rise up to the 1st resistance level at 140.57, in line with 78.6% Fibonacci retracement and 100% Fibonacci projection. Our bullish bias is further supported by the stochastic […]

Apr 02
Mt. Gox wallet transfers 6,800 BTC as ex-CEO plans to redistribute $6B

Former CEO Mark Karpeles disclosed that the exchange had roughly 200,000 BTC in possession during the company’s closure, out of which the trustee sold 50,000 BTC for $600 million in the past. 122 Total views 2 Total shares A cold wallet belonging to the infamous Bitcoin (BTC) exchange Mt. Gox transferred 6,800 BTC to an […]

Apr 02
Fortitude Re closes acquisition of Prudential Financial portfolio

Carlyle Group Inc.-backed CG, +1.04% Fortitude Reinsurance Co. Ltd. said Friday it closed its acquisition of Prudential Annuities Life Assurance Corp. (PALAC), a unit of Prudential Financial Inc. PRU, +0.19%, for an undisclosed sum. The deal, which was announced in September, includes about $31 billion of in-force variable annuity account values, mostly from non-New York, […]

Apr 02
U.S. factory activity stumbles in March to lowest level in 18 months, ISM survey shows

The numbers: The Institute for Supply Management’s Manufacturing PMI, a closely followed index of U.S.-based manufacturing activity, slipped to 57.1% in March from 58.6% in the prior month, the research group said Friday. This is the lowest level since September 2020. Given strength in the regional manufacturing surveys in March, economists polled by The Wall […]

Apr 02
Baker Hughes reports a second straight weekly climb in the U.S. oil-drilling rig count

Baker Hughes BKR, +0.03% on Friday reported that the number of active U.S. rigs drilling for oil was up by two to 533 this week. That followed a climb of seven oil rigs the week before, Baker Hughes data show. The total active U.S. rig count, which includes those drilling for natural gas, climbed by […]

Apr 02
Dexia

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS AUTHORITY, PUBLISHED IN APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 34, § 2, PARAGRAPH 3, OF THE LAW OF 2 AUGUST 2002 Trading in Dexia, ISIN code BE0003796134 on Euronext Brussels will re-open on  03/08/2012 at 09:45am.   Source: FSMA

Apr 02
Dexia

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS AUTORITY, PUBLISHED IN APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 34, § 2, PARAGRAPH 3, OF THE LAW OF 2 AUGUST 2002 Trading in Dexia BE0003796134 on Euronext Brussels is suspended from 08:49am on 03/08/2012 until the publication of a press release.   Source: FSMA