Day: May 12, 2022

May 12
Aussie crypto ETFs see $1.3M volume so far on difficult launch day

The trio’s launch marks the first crypto ETFs to go live in Australia, with two of them focused on offering exposure to BTC and the other focused on ETH. 1490 Total views 27 Total shares With crypto markets tanking, three crypto-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) picked a difficult day to commence trading on local exchange Cboe […]

May 12
Tether says it’s performing a $1 billion swap with a third party as stablecoin falls as low as 95 cents

Tether USDTUSD, -1.07%, the largest cryptocurrency stablecoin by market cap, said it was performing a “chain swap” with an undisclosed third party after it fell as low as 95 cents against the dollar. “In few minutes Tether will coordinate with a 3rd party to perform a chain swap, converting from Tron TRC20 to Ethereum ERC20, […]

May 12
Tide Turning At The ECB As Summer Rate Hike Calls Grow

Bad Start to 2022 for EUREUR has been one of the weakest in the G10 bloc over the year so far. While most of the central banks in the G10 have now embarked on a tightening path aimed at unwinding the massive stimulus put in place across the pandemic, normalising monetary policy, and taming soaring […]

May 12
Investment Bank Outlook 11-05-2022

CIBCFX FlowsIt is certainly quieter day ahead of US inflation numbers. Our economics team wrote US inflation will likely continue to decelerate in the months ahead due to base effects, but that will be limited by supply chain disruptions in goods sectors tied to lockdowns in China, strong underlying demand for services, and the tightening […]

May 12
Doge gets more love on Twitter and Ethereum gets more hate: Data analysis

Sentiment analysis run across a year’s worth of tweets has found that Ethereum is Twitter’s least favorite cryptocurrency of five studied, while Dogecoin received the most affection. 1397 Total views 7 Total shares Ethereum has taken out the top spot on Twitter as the most hated of five cryptocurrencies studied, while the meme-token Dogecoin is […]

May 12
Apple’s stock drops below the March low to complete bearish pattern

Shares of Apple Inc. AAPL, -5.18% were diving 3.6% in afternoon trading Wednesday, enough to pace the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s DJIA, -1.02% decliners. The decline comes amid a broad selloff in the technology sector, and even though the technology behemoth didn’t issue any press releases or file anything with the Securities and Exchange Commission […]

May 12
ApeCoin is down 70%+ since the Otherside launch — Can Yuga Labs turn the ship around?

ApeCoin (APE), the new cryptocurrency that was recently launched by Yuga Labs, aims to be the bedrock of the Otherside metaverse and recently, the token has experienced massive volatility leading into and after its digital land sale. APE’s price dropped from $26 at the peak on Apr. 28 to $14 on May. 2 — more […]

May 12
Gold prices rise Wednesday, a day after settling at a 3-month low

Gold futures ended Wednesday with a gain, as traders digested a reading on inflation that came in higher than expected. Gold for June delivery rose about 0.7%, up $12.70, to settle at $1,853.70 an ounce on Comex. The April consumer price index showed inflation at a 8.3% annual rate, down from 8.6% the previous month, […]

May 12
Not bothered: Miners ‘not impacted by volatility’ in Bitcoin market

Despite steadily declining prices of Bitcoin and turmoil on the markets today, some of the largest mining companies are unfazed and insist their operations will not be affected by negative price volatility. Some even see it as an opportunity to gain market share as smaller competitors collapse. Bitcoin (BTC) prices have been on a steady […]

May 12
Amazon stock slumps toward a 2-year low, has wiped out $400 billion in market cap since Q1 results

Shares of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -3.20% slumped 3.3% in afternoon trading Wednesday, putting them on track to close at a more-than two-year low. The ecommerce and cloud services behemoth’s stock, which is headed for the lowest close since April 9, 2020, has now tumbled 27.2% since first-quarter result were reported after the April 28 close, […]