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Apr 08
Market Spotlight: USDCAD Double Bottom

USDCAD Reversal on Watch The combination of lower oil prices this week and fresh hawkishness from the Fed has fuelled a sharp reversal in USDACD. The pair has seen strong reversal candles off the 1.2469 support, potentially carving out a large double bottom at the level, accompanied by strong bullish divergence in momentum studies. With […]

Apr 08
AUDUSD Wave Analysis – 8 April, 2022

• AUDUSD reversed from resistance zone• Likely to fall to support level 0.7400 AUDUSD currency pair recently reversed down from the resistance zone located between the key resistance levels 0.7545 (June high) and 0.7595 (October barrier) The downward reversal from this resistance zone created the daily Japanese candlesticks reversal pattern Bearish Engulfing. Having just broken […]

Apr 08
60 Minutes feature on El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach will air Sunday

Sharyn Alfonsi, a journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, interviewed Mike Peterson, one of the people who funded the Bitcoin Beach project and encouraged crypto adoption. 909 Total views 13 Total shares 60 Minutes, the CBS news show that has been running since 1968, will feature El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach in a new episode airing April […]

Apr 08
Dow finishes higher Friday, but stocks end choppy week lower

The Dow closed modestly higher Friday, but all three major stock indexes finished the week lower after the Federal Reserve’s March meeting minutes outlined its tentative plans to cut the size of its $9 trillion balance sheet at a record pace. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.40% advanced about 139 points, or 0.4% Friday, […]

Apr 08
South Africa finishes technical PoC for wholesale CBDC settlement system

South Africa has taken another step closer to implementing its central bank digital currency (CBDC) as the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) concludes a technical proof-of-concept for the project. The project titled Project Khokha 2 (PK2) is the second phase of SARB’s Project Khokha (PK1), launched in 2018. It experimented with distributed ledger technology (DLT) […]

Apr 08
Lowe’s CFO to step down, home-improvement retailer names Brandon Sink its new CFO

Lowe’s Cos. Inc. LOW, +1.98% said late Friday it has appointed Brandon Sink as its chief financial officer, effective April 30. Sink, currently senior vice president of retail finance, succeeds Dave Denton, who is stepping down as CFO to “pursue another opportunity at a publicly traded company outside the industry,” Lowe’s said. Sink and Denton […]