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European stocks rose
January 26th, 2024
European stocks rose on Friday, bucking weakness in US equity futures and in Asian markets, as an update from the world’s largest luxury retailer showed that spending among the wealthiest consumers remains resilient. Europe’s Stoxx 600 index advanced as ...
Bitcoin and Ethereum turn volatile
July 26th, 2022
Uncertainty is mounting around Bitcoin and Ethereum ahead of this week’s Federal Open Market Committee. Furthermore, upcoming earnings reports from America’s five biggest tech companies and other reports could impact crypto prices over the next few days. Bitcoin and ...
Online spending volume has expanded in the past few years
April 14th, 2022
Online spending volume has expanded in the past few years, with the value of digital payments worldwide expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15% between 2021 and 2028. This includes both business-to-business (B2B) and ...
Wall Street Journal proves it doesn’t understand gold
August 16th, 2021
Gold bugs should never assume that the mainstream investing community actually understands finance. That includes the Wall Street Journal, which recently published an article (Gold as an Inflation Hedge: What the Past 50 Years Teaches Us) purporting to show ...
EU hits pause on US digital levy to focus on global corporate tax plan
July 13th, 2021
The European Union has agreed to delay a corporate tax plan for the bloc following pressure from the U.S. administration and in a bid to facilitate a broader global tax deal, but EU member Ireland reiterated its criticisms of ...
EU’s tax irregularities attract international attention
February 25th, 2021
Le Monde’s recent “OpenLux” revelations show that Luxembourg fails to act fairly within the European Union by offering low tax rates to corporates – underscoring the flaw of an unharmonised EU system, according to Jay Sanghrajka, partner at Price ...
Is Bitcoin Strangling The Other Cryptos? Part 2: The Little Guys Are Soaring
January 22nd, 2021
The idea that “bitcoin is its own asset class” and should therefore be judged based on its own highly-constrained supply rests on the assumption that the rest of cryptospace consists of “shitcoins” that will evaporate as bitcoin, with its ...
Crypto trading volumes plummeted in June, but Altcoins are moving up
July 14th, 2020
This week the price of Bitcoin (BTC) started trading around $9,200 and quickly moved up to $9,450. A potential rally was rejected close to $9,500 and BTC’s price then moved back down to $9,150, but it has since recovered ...
MMT —it’s just neo-Keynesian macroeconomics
June 12th, 2020
The doyenne of MMT, Stephanie Kelton, has published a book this week explaining modern monetary theory. This article examines the foundations of MMT which Kelton explained in an earlier video released last year. Introduction Macroeconomics has become so ...
Adopting Trading for the API Economy
March 5th, 2020
Written by: by Panagiotis Charalampous, Head of Community Management of cTrader at Spotware One of the most important characteristics of good software design is its extensibility. This design principle has become more and more of a must for any ...