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ThinkstockU.S. Attorney General Eric Holder made the news recently in testimony that his office was now investigating high-frequency trading to see if it constituted insider trading. Now Holder is...
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TheWhyForum.comBitcoin remains a mystery to much of the public, even while it has fought for its life as a currency and method of payment. Now a new angle has surfaced, with Fitch Ratings issuing a...
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Jon OggThe pro-Japan quantitative easing trade is coming to an end. At least that is what Credit Suisse has telegraphed in its global equity strategy sector outlook. The firm’s Andrew Garthwaite...
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Wikimedia CommonsHow many warnings have you seen about Bitcoin being a charade or having serious risks? It has to be more than can easily be counted. After FINRA warned this week, after Alan...
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FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, has issued a new investor alert to caution investors that buying and using digital currency such as Bitcoin carry risks, and that the platforms...
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ThinkstockThe Chinese renminbi, or yuan, is still pegged to the U.S. dollar. China has been accused of being a currency manipulator in the past, even though almost every nation is a currency...
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Wikimedia CommonsSo, how silly do the people who bought Bitcoin at $1,000 or higher feel now? That is the question that needs to be asked — as well as how eager these people will be to chase...
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Wikimedia CommonsBitcoin is proving to be the joke of a currency that many experts and pundits had predicted. This is too bad, because the world could use something akin to Bitcoin — perhaps with...
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Wikimedia CommonsBitcoin has been facing its own identity crisis of late, and its future is back to looking very uncertain. After MtGox suspended withdrawals and after widespread reports of Bitcoin...
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Wikimedia CommonsBitcoin received a blow last week after the online exchange MtGox suspended withdrawals of bitcoins on its exchange. Now there is another foe that has arisen, and one that may seem a...
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ThinkstockChinese New Year is starting, and the good news — and hard to believe news — is that this could help to fend off the waves of emerging market madness we have been seeing of late. That...
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CIA World FactbookThe Turkish Central Bank is not exactly the most widely followed central bank in the world. That may be true 364 days of this year, but on Tuesday all eyes of emerging market...
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Brazil is one of the so-called BRIC nations, an investment term denoting Brazil, Russia, India and China. This used to have great growth connotations for investors, but as you can tell by the past...
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The NBA's Sacramento Kings will be the first major professional sports franchise to accept bitcoins. If one NBA team is doing it, others are likely to follow. If the NBA accepts it, why not other...
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New research may undermine Bitcoin's efforts to be treated as a viable means of exchange for products and services. Is the use of Bitcoin as a currency as risky as many forms of gambling?
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