The volatile but never boring market for Bitcoin (BTC) has been whipsawed in recent days, as investors ponder whether there are better returns to be had in other cryptocurrencies, even as a new COVID-19 variant and the Federal Reserve’s policy outlook shake up the landscape. With news of the Omicron […]
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Stocks jumped Monday to recover some losses after Friday’s slide, when uncertainty over a new coronavirus variant stoked volatility across global markets. The Dow advanced. On Friday, the index had seen its worst day since October 2020, dropping more than 900 points, or 2.5{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}. Bitcoin prices rebounded to trade above […]
(Bloomberg) — The Chinese businessman had walked out of a bank in Kinshasa with 13,624 hundred-dollar bills, 10,001 fifties and 43,000 smaller U.S. notes, despite explicit instructions to prevent it from happening. Most Read from Bloomberg “The account has finally been emptied,” Yvon Douhore, head of an in-house audit team […]
U.S. stocks plunged on Friday, with global markets rattled by a new coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa, which fanned concerns that new growth-crushing lockdowns could be imposed if the variant spreads widely. Trading volumes were low due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., which may have exacerbated the […]
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq gained on Wednesday as technology stocks recovered some recent losses, with investors digesting a deluge of economic data before a holiday market closure. Investors considered new Labor Department data showing weekly initial jobless claims fell far more than expected to their lowest level since November […]
Joe Oltmann and Vickie Tonkins (center) confer during the February El Paso County GOP Central Committee meeting. Heidi Beedle The vice chairman of the El Paso County GOP, Karl Schneider, filed a campaign finance complaint form with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office today, according to documents available on TRACER, […]