One Bank Sees Bitcoin At $200,000, While Ether Hits $14,000 As It Becomes JPMorgan's Favorite Crypto

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"A blockchain platform like Ethereum could potentially become a large market for vendors of trusted information, like Amazon is for consumer goods today"


Putin Warns Of 'Full-Scale WW3' If West Sends Troops To Ukraine

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 "We are for peace talks, but not just because the enemy is running out of bullets..."

 


BODEN & TREMP - The Memecoins We Deserve For Financializing Attention

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Forget the memory of (literally) yester-year, and behold Financial Nihilism...


Visualizing Major US Banks By Commercial Real Estate Exposure

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On average, about 11% of big banks loan portfolios are concentrated in commercial real estate compared to small banks, where average exposure falls around 21.6% of loans...


Equities mixed, Dollar bid & JPY lower post-BoJ hike; US 20yr supply due - Newsquawk US Market Open

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  • European bourses are mixed; US equity futures are lower, RTY underperforms
  • BoJ carried out a widely telegraphed and dovish exit from NIRP, YCC and ETF/J-REIT buying; RBA U/C, dovish tweak to guidance
  • Dollar is firmer and trades around 104.00, JPY underperforms post-BoJ, AUD pressured post-RBA
  • Bonds incrementally firmer as attention turns to US 20yr supply
  • Crude and XAU are modesty softer, weighed on by the stronger Dollar
  • Looking ahead, Canadian

US Economic Conditions Scream "Buy Gold"

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The manufacturing and consumer confidence weaknesses of the US are deeply concerning, particularly considering that all those allegedly infallible Keynesian policies are being applied intensely...


How Bad Is This Hangover in Bitcoin?

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Bitcoin is breaking below the steep short term trend line as of writing. We are trading "well" below the 21 day moving average. Note that the 50 day is still way lower, around 56k at the moment.

Did The Used Rolex Watch Market Finally Bottom?

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Rolex GMT-Master II Pepsi prices are moving higher. 


Council Orders London Fish & Chip Shop Owner To Remove British Flag Mural

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Complaints charged that it "wasn’t appropriate for the area..."


More Than Half Of Migrant Deaths Are From Drowning

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2023 marks the deadliest year on record, up 20% from one year before...


UK Tells Ukraine To Focus On Targeting Crimea

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UK has soldiers "on the ground" in Ukraine helping its forces use Storm Shadow missiles...


These Will Be The Jobs Most Impacted By AI

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Large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI tools haven’t been around for very long, but they’re expected to have far-reaching impacts on the way people do their jobs...


BoJ undertook a dovish exit from NIRP, RBA unch.; USD/JPY back above 150.00 - Newsquawk Europe Market Open

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APAC stocks traded mixed as markets digested the first of this week's central bank announcements.

Anti-Semitism As The Harbinger Of Global Chaos

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The parallels between the rise of Nazism and the current global unrest and demonization of the Jewish people is largely incontestable...


Cereal For The Peasants? How The Elites Use "Skimpflation" To Control Our Eating Habits

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The food pyramid was actually first used by the Swedish government in direct response to inflation and was designed to encourage the populace to eat cheaper food-stuffs...


Bank Of Japan (Finally) Kills The World's Last Negative Interest Rate, Yen Weakens

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...scraps YCC, ends ETF, J-REIT buying...


Trump Tells Ramaswamy 'No' For VP, But Leaves Cabinet Door Open

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Homeland Security?


Report Criticizes 'Catastrophic Errors' Of COVID Lockdowns, Warns Of Repeat

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"Granting public health agencies extraordinary powers was a major error..."


Yen's Whiplash Day Only Begins With A Rate Hike

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It sets up Tuesday for a head-spinning session...  and there is still the Federal Reserve to come!


The 4th Bitcoin Halving Explained

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Sometime in April 2024, the reward that cryptocurrency miners receive for mining bitcoin (BTC) will go from ₿6.25 to ₿3.125, with significant consequences for the world’s most valuable digital currency...