Over the past few weeks, the price of gold has begun to pick up steam, surging by $35, some 2.5%, in the past three days. In the past four weeks, since the start of December, the asset has gained 4%.While this Santa Claus rally has already brought the price of the metal above $1,500, where…
2019 has been quite the year for assets across the board — from Bitcoin and equities to gold and real estate, a majority of investments have made gains since January 1st.Related Reading: Here’s How Bitcoin Price Could Hit $20,000 By as Early as March: AnalystAn interesting trend to watch this year has been gold’s strong…
Trade tensions between the US and China appear to be easing as the two powerhouses come to agreement. The lifting of tariffs is good for economic stimulus but safe have assets such as gold are now starting to cool off, will Bitcoin follow suit? US China Trade War Over? Officials from both sides stated yesterday…
A study by Bitcoin mining firm Genesis Mining has shown that a startling number of US citizens have no idea about how their financial system works. A whopping 29 percent of respondents said they thought the US dollar is still backed entirely by gold. The study’s findings highlight just how little is really known by…
Analyst, Chris Mancini claims governments are increasingly turning to gold, and not Bitcoin, in order to hedge against economic uncertainty. Motivated by geopolitical wranglings, as well as a desire to reduce dollar reliance, the Chinese and Russian central banks are driving demand for gold. Is Bitcoin now out of the picture? Gold Trumps Bitcoin In…
If you’ve been on Crypto Twitter over the past 24 hours, you have likely noticed one Bitcoin-bashing tweet from Peter Schiff. The message, which can be seen below, shows the libertarian investor claiming that BTC’s price chart “looks horrible.” Related Reading: Happy 18 Millionth Bitcoin! BTC Scarcity Implies Large Price Rally Schiff, in fact, remarked…
Throughout 2019, Bitcoin and gold became highly correlated, rising and falling in value at or around the same time, and further fueling the Bitcoin as a safe haven narrative. Even now, the two assets are showing similarities in their price charts that suggests they are still correlated in some way, and gold could soon be…
Bitcoin plunged on Wednesday as a weak US manufacturing data intensified anxieties over the health of the global economy. The benchmark cryptocurrency was down by $63.73, or 0.77 percent, to trade at $8,257.79 as of 13:41 UTC. At one point during the Asian session, it slipped towards a session low of $8,168.85, consolidating within a strict…
Global markets performed better than non-correlated asset Bitcoin in the third quarter of 2019. The S&P 500 index (SPX) surged 0.68 percent on a quarter-to-date basis. The same period saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) delivering 0.17 percent returns while Nasdaq fared between with 1.97 percent gains for its investors. Meanwhile, the Europe-wide Stoxx…
Bitcoin prices edged lower on Monday, pressured by a current correction momentum that saw the cryptocurrency plunging by more than 40 percent since June this year. The BTC/USD instrument was trading at $7,863.28 as of 0907 UTC, down 2.34 percent from the open. Around the same time, CME bitcoin futures had slipped by 1.99 percent…