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Asian stocks held their ground on Wednesday as Chinese equities soared on stimulus hopes, although a resurgence in regional tensions capped broader gains with North Korea opting to restore part of a missile test site it had began dismantling earlier. Global shares MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan nudged up 0.1 percent. The Shanghai […]

Cryptocurrency lending startup BlockFi has launched a crypto deposit account that provides compound interest. The accounts will support Ethereum and Bitcoin bearing 6 percent annual interest paid monthly in crypto, The company announced the news on Tuesday through a post published on its website. The firm said that BlockFi Interest Account (BIA) is now live […]

Oil prices slipped on Wednesday as bullish output forecasts by two big U.S. producers and a build in weekly U.S. crude stockpiles outweighed ongoing OPEC-led production cuts. International Brent crude futures were at $65.36 per barrel at 0440 GMT, down 50 cents, or 0.8 percent, from their last settlement. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures were also […]

Asian shares stepped back on Tuesday, weighed by U.S. growth concerns and as China cut its economic expansion target amid growing challenges from rising debt and a dispute over trade and technology with the United States. Global shares MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dropped 0.5 percent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was down 0.6 percent. […]

Coinhive, mining service is shutting down as the project has become economically inviable. The project will stop its service on March 8, 2019, while users can have access on their dashboards until April 30, 2019. Among the reasons behind the closure,  the developers note the over 50 percent drop in hash rate following the last […]

Dukascopy Bank’s initial plans were to become the first regulated bank to launch its own ICO starting from March, 1 2019. However, the Japanese Mizuho Bank has equally announced their token to be unveiled on the same day, so Dukascopy moved the date a day earlier. “We got to know that Japanese Mizuho Bank has equally announced their token […]