Enlarge / Nuclear physicists used micro-XRF scanning to produce elemental maps for Roman denarii coins and their color overlays. (credit: K.V. Manukyan et al., 2019) Most people associate nuclear physics with the atomic bomb or nuclear power plants, and those associations are often negative. Michael Wiescher, a nuclear physicist at the University of Notre Dame, […]
The continued rise of the dollar is one of the most surprising success stories of the markets this year. And that’s usually a bad sign for stocks. Read More
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Last week, El Salvador’s government passed a law to accept bitcoin as legal tender alongside the US dollar. The country receives $6 billion in remittances per year—nearly a quarter of its gross domestic product—and the hope is that bitcoin’s lower transaction costs could boost that amount by a […]
Enlarge / El Salvador now says both US dollars and bitcoin are legal tender. (credit: Thomas Trutschel / Getty Images News) On Wednesday, El Salvador’s president signed into law a proposal to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, making the Central American nation the first in the world to officially use the cryptocurrency. The new law […]
Bitcoin is on track for its longest monthly winning streak in more than a year after touching a record above $28,000 over the weekend. The largest cryptocurrency reached an all-time high of $28,365 on Sunday before paring some of the advance, according to a composite of prices compiled by Bloomberg. The run of outsized returns […]
Bitcoin and other electronic currencies dropped Thursday, a slip inclined to stoke speculation concerning the sturdiness of this boom at cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin slumped nearly 12 percent, and the most since early August, although electronic coins such as Ether additionally rebounds. Critics stated that profit-taking following the current rally, also also speculation regarding tighter regulations, were […]
Bitcoin is now in rally style. When it’s doubt from the U.S. election, then the future of this pandemic or just more investor attention, the cryptocurrency is in the maximum level since January 2018. Bitcoin was up 3.3percent at $14,463 at 8:33% in London. The electronic money has been profiting from high profile investments in […]
The next President will inherit a market characterized by states we harbor ’t {} in our lifetimes. Permit ’s take inventory. Even the Fed’s {} centers around holding short-term interest levels , and maybe a very long stretch of the return curve, beneath the amount of inflation. Supercheap borrowing, the Fed reckons, can lure businesses […]