March 28, 2020 at 08:17AM President Donald Trump signed a $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill on Friday, as Washington tries to blunt economic destruction from the pandemic ripping through the United States. […]

March 27, 2020 at 10:28AM In the stock market lately, only one thing is constant: speed. After falling into a bear market at the fastest rate ever, the S&P 500 just recorded […]

March 27, 2020 at 09:56AM Coronavirus cases in the U.S. have accelerated so fast – jumping by 18,000 cases on Thursday – the nation has overtaken China to officially become the epicentre […]

March 27, 2020 at 08:36AM Investors could be forgiven for doing a double-take: Wait, we’re back in a bull market? The Dow Jones Industrial Average’s surge of over 20% from its coronavirus-induced […]

March 27, 2020 at 08:25AM Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies pledged on Thursday to inject over $5 trillion into the global economy to limit job and income losses from […]

March 27, 2020 at 08:16AM The United States now has more confirmed coronavirus cases than Italy and China, making it the country with the largest outbreak in the world. The total number […]

March 27, 2020 at 06:50AM Chinese President Xi Jinping called on leaders from the Group of 20 nations for greater international coordination of macroeconomic policy to restore confidence in global growth in […]

March 26, 2020 at 03:54PM Stocks surged for a third straight day on Thursday as investors shrugged off the release of record-breaking initial jobless claims while the Senate passed a massive economic […]

March 26, 2020 at 03:39PM Streets in India normally bustling with people and traffic stayed empty Wednesday as the country of 1.3 billion people endured the first day of a national lockdown […]

March 26, 2020 at 10:52AM A key measure of competition among Bitcoin miners just dropped by 15.95 percent – the second-largest decline in the network’s history. The drop in so-called mining difficulty […]

March 26, 2020 at 09:12AM U.K. house sales are set to plunge by 60% in the next three months as the coronavirus outbreak batters the economy. The slump in the second quarter, […]

March 26, 2020 at 08:51AM The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits likely raced to as high as a record 4 million last week as strict measures to contain the […]

March 26, 2020 at 07:59AM Nicholas Bahr, global practice leader in risk management at consultancy DuPont Sustainable Solutions, has spent 35 years helping businesses navigate geopolitical, climate and terror risks, including 9/11, […]

March 26, 2020 at 07:45AM Stocks in Asia were mixed on Thursday as investors awaited the release of U.S. jobless claims data expected later in the day stateside. Shares in Japan led […]

March 26, 2020 at 07:41AM The Senate passed a historic $2 trillion coronavirus relief package Wednesday night, as it tries to stem the destruction the pandemic has brought to American lives and […]

March 26, 2020 at 07:39AM In a bewildering sign of economic danger ahead, buying U.S. government debt now yields negative rates. The bond yield on one-month and three-month U.S. Treasury bills dropped […]

March 25, 2020 at 06:06PM Investors are likely to look past what promises to be one of the worst U.S. jobless claims reports in history as they maintain a focus on the […]

March 25, 2020 at 08:33AM Oil prices extended gains for a third session on Wednesday, rising alongside broader financial markets on hopes Washington will soon approve a massive aid package to stem […]

March 25, 2020 at 08:18AM After a successful break above the $6,500 resistance, bitcoin extended its rise above $6,700 against the US Dollar. BTC price broke the $6,800 resistance and settled above […]

March 25, 2020 at 08:00AM Traders around the world dumped the dollar in favor of risk assets as moves by U.S. leaders to support the world’s largest economy spurred relief across markets […]

March 25, 2020 at 07:46AM The United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, as India announced a full 24-hour, nationwide lockdown […]

March 25, 2020 at 07:28AM Investors hunting for safe spots to park their money should look to Asia now amid the current pandemic, analysts said, highlighting that the region is much more […]

March 25, 2020 at 07:19AM Stock futures were positive in early Wednesday morning trading, following Tuesday’s historic rally, as the White House and Senate reached a deal on a coronavirus stimulus bill. […]

March 24, 2020 at 10:01PM The United States is now the third country with the highest number of COVID-19 cases at 46,168. Within ten days, the number of confirmed cases the country […]

March 24, 2020 at 06:06PM India will begin the world’s largest lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in a TV address Tuesday night, warning that anyone going outside risked inviting the coronavirus […]

March 24, 2020 at 10:28AM U.S. index futures and European stocks rallied alongside Asian shares on Tuesday after global equities hit their lowest level since 2016, while the dollar snapped a 10-day […]

March 24, 2020 at 09:38AM Bitcoin (BTC) price perked up today, rallying from $5,688 to a daily high at $6,600. The digital asset defied the worst fears of analysts by holding above […]

March 24, 2020 at 09:02AM Oil prices rose around 4% on Tuesday on hopes that the United States will soon reach a deal on a $2 trillion coronavirus aid package that could […]

March 24, 2020 at 08:54AM Stocks in Asia jumped on Tuesday as authorities ramped up stimulus measures to combat the economic impact of the global coronavirus outbreak. Japan’s Nikkei 225 was among […]

March 24, 2020 at 08:42AM World markets are facing a simple but serious problem: There just aren’t enough dollars to execute trades and transactions. That explains why the trade-weighted dollar index, gained […]

March 24, 2020 at 08:30AM An early look at Chinese business conditions in March shows little indication the economy has recovered much from the shock of the coronavirus in the first two […]

March 23, 2020 at 04:43PM The Federal Reserve said Monday it will launch a barrage of programs aimed at helping markets function more efficiently amid the coronavirus crisis. Among the initiatives is […]

March 23, 2020 at 04:34PM Confirmed infections of the rapidly spreading coronavirus surpassed 350,000 worldwide on Monday and global deaths rose past 15,000, as COVID-19 spreads across Europe and North America. COVID-19 […]

March 23, 2020 at 12:56PM Germany is about to unveil new measures to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus, in what analysts are describing as a “game changer” for a country […]

March 23, 2020 at 11:49AM Widening curbs on travel to contain the spread of the coronavirus led airlines to ramp up flight cancellations on Monday, with new restrictions spanning Australia, New Zealand, […]

March 23, 2020 at 11:34AM Brent crude prices extended falls on Monday with demand sliding as travel and industrial activity contracted across the globe in a bid to stem the spread of […]

March 23, 2020 at 11:23AM A report published by research firm CB Insights has found that equity funding has dramatically overtaken initial coin offerings (ICOs) as the dominant means of finance in […]

March 23, 2020 at 11:08AM The U.S. stock market is set to drop by around 4% on the day’s open, as Dow futures indicate a 720-point drop. It comes after the World […]

March 23, 2020 at 11:00AM Already being ravaged by the worst infestation of desert locusts in 70 years, East African economies are now staring down the barrel of the coronavirus pandemic. The […]

March 21, 2020 at 06:58AM The U.S. unemployment benefits program, a key part of the safety net for the labor market, is facing its biggest test in more than a decade. More […]

March 20, 2020 at 07:32PM U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced nationwide lockdown measures Friday, telling cafes, bars and restaurants to close. “We are collectively telling cafes, pubs, bars and restaurants to […]

March 20, 2020 at 11:13AM Bitcoin, which surprised markets with a sudden surge yesterday, has continued to climb today. The bitcoin price is fast approaching $7,000 per bitcoin, reaching $6,749 on the […]

March 20, 2020 at 10:54AM One might reasonably posit that when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) signalled that Saudi Arabia was once again going to produce oil to the maximum to […]

March 20, 2020 at 10:17AM Apple Inc is limiting customer purchases of iPhones over its online stores in many countries including the United States and China to a maximum of two handsets […]

March 20, 2020 at 10:02AM The world’s richest nations poured unprecedented aid into the global economy on Thursday as coronavirus cases ballooned in the new epicentre Europe, with the number of deaths […]

March 20, 2020 at 07:54AM Cryptocurrencies saw a sharp bounce higher after violent selling in the past two weeks despite equity markets not showing big moves to the upside. As of 8:42 […]

March 20, 2020 at 07:44AM Stocks in Asia Pacific rose on Friday as China kept its loan prime rates unchanged. South Korean stocks, which saw heavy losses on Thursday, jumped by the […]

March 19, 2020 at 06:23PM Bitcoin (BTC) made unexpected gains on March 19 as another day of coronavirus misery suddenly turned positive for investors. Data from Coin360 and Cointelegraph Markets showed BTC/USD […]

March 19, 2020 at 06:08PM U.S. oil jumped as much as 23% on Thursday, putting it on track for its best day on record as it clawed back more than half of […]

March 19, 2020 at 10:38AM Bitcoin has been on a wild ride over the past several weeks and months, with the benchmark cryptocurrency plummeting from recent highs of $10,500 to lows of […]

March 19, 2020 at 10:24AM World leaders raced to shore up panic-stricken global markets on Thursday, pouring liquidity into the financial system as investors everywhere dumped assets, switching to dollars in cash […]

March 19, 2020 at 10:12AM From airlines and cruise lines to retailers and energy companies, investors are fleeing large pockets of the corporate credit market, worried that the coronavirus pandemic will lead […]

March 19, 2020 at 09:50AM The U.S. Federal Reserve rolled out its third emergency credit program in two days to battle the fallout from the virus crisis, this one aimed at keeping […]

March 19, 2020 at 09:31AM In the age of coronavirus, cash is indeed king. That’s the view, at least, of many major investors, who are selling everything from stocks to bonds to […]

March 19, 2020 at 08:44AM Italian borrowing costs fell sharply Thursday morning as investors reacted to a massive new bond-buying program from the European Central Bank (ECB). The ECB on Wednesday evening […]

March 18, 2020 at 09:05PM U.S. stocks finished sharply lower again Wednesday, but off session lows after Congress passed the first of two planned bills providing some relief from the economic damage […]

March 18, 2020 at 11:28AM Oil prices fell for a third session on Wednesday with U.S. crude futures tumbling to a 17-year low as travel and social lockdowns sparked by the coronavirus […]

March 18, 2020 at 10:03AM Global stocks stumbled back into the red on Wednesday with Wall Street futures pointing to more losses ahead as fears over the coronavirus fallout eclipsed large-scale support […]

March 18, 2020 at 09:28AM The Trump administration pressed on Tuesday for enactment of a $1 trillion stimulus package, possibly to include $1,000 direct payments to individual Americans, to blunt the economic […]

March 18, 2020 at 08:38AM The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) briefly dropped below 20,000 on Tuesday for the first time in nearly three years. The Trump administration’s latest stimulus package proposal […]

March 18, 2020 at 08:19AM Stock futures fell in early morning trading on Wednesday as the markets remained highly volatile with the government response to the coronavirus fallout still unfolding. As of […]

March 17, 2020 at 06:33PM 1. Thirty-day revived supply Based on the gathered data, the analysts concluded that: -some BTC 281,000 (USD 1.5 billion) that haven’t been touched for thirty days, were […]

March 17, 2020 at 06:21PM The rapid-fire selloff in stock markets and dire economic forecasts due to the coronavirus have rattled investors and spurred a dash for cash, a BofA fund manager […]

March 17, 2020 at 09:57AM The Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates may indirectly push mortgage rates lower — but Americans aren’t likely to see 0% mortgages in the near future. […]

March 17, 2020 at 09:26AM Oil rose more than $1 on Tuesday as bargain hunters emerged after recent sharp falls due to the coronavirus pandemic and the price war between Saudi Arabia […]

March 17, 2020 at 08:49AM Futures on the Dow and broader U.S. stock market rebounded late Monday, as investors reacted to encouraging signs from world governments that stopping coronavirus had become a […]

March 17, 2020 at 08:20AM Amazon.com on Monday said it would hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers in the United States to deal with a surge in online orders, as many consumers […]

March 17, 2020 at 07:48AM At around 3:00 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to price, was higher at around 0.7843%, while the yield on […]

March 17, 2020 at 06:57AM Roughly 5 million people in China lost their jobs amid the outbreak of the new coronavirus in the first two months of this year, according to data […]

March 16, 2020 at 06:39PM Coronavirus has been with us for longer than you think. According to documents seen by the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the Chinese government first detected a […]

March 16, 2020 at 06:31PM The president of the European Commission on Monday proposed a ban on nonessential incoming, foreign travel for a month, the latest drastic measure to cut off the […]

March 16, 2020 at 02:41PM Russia’s central bank is expected to keep its key interest rate unchanged on Friday, putting its monetary easing cycle on hold after a rapid slump in the […]

March 16, 2020 at 01:08PM The stock market will plunge deeper into bear market territory on Monday. Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) futures fell 5% overnight, triggering circuit breakers to halt trading. […]

March 16, 2020 at 12:54PM One bitcoin trader lost 1,220 BTC on March 12, when the price of the dominant cryptocurrency fell by 50 percent in a single day. As the downtrend […]

March 16, 2020 at 12:15PM European markets plunged on Monday as much of the region went into shutdown mode to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. The pan-European Stoxx 600 dropped […]

March 16, 2020 at 11:48AM Oil prices slid more than 6% on Monday as the acceleration in coronavirus cases worldwide, which is bringing travel and business to a standstill, further dents global […]

March 16, 2020 at 11:34AM The Federal Reserve, saying “the coronavirus outbreak has harmed communities and disrupted economic activity in many countries, including the United States,” cut interest rates to essentially zero […]

March 13, 2020 at 05:36PM Saudi Arabia is flooding markets with oil at prices as low as $25 per barrel, specifically targeting big refiners of Russian oil in Europe and Asia, in […]

March 13, 2020 at 04:38PM Europe has become the new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic as cases in China slow and the deadly coronavirus runs through Italy and the rest of that […]

March 13, 2020 at 10:22AM World stocks were set on Friday for their worst week since the 2008 financial crisis, with coronavirus panic-selling hitting nearly every asset class and investors fretting that […]

March 13, 2020 at 09:44AM U.S. shale producers are seeking sharp service costs cuts to deal with plummeting prices and shrinking demand, according to executives and a letter sent to top providers, […]

March 13, 2020 at 09:22AM Stocks plunged on Friday with coronavirus panic selling hitting nearly every asset class, before finding some kind of floor as hopes turned to a U.S. stimulus package. […]

March 13, 2020 at 08:53AM Bitcoin has a history of heart-stopping volatility but they all pale in comparison to what happened in the last 24 hours. The king cryptocurrency bowed down to […]

March 13, 2020 at 08:24AM While much of the attention in the bond market has focused on the Treasury side, corporate fixed income has been in its own state of turmoil. Interest […]

March 13, 2020 at 08:16AM Cryptocurrencies took a battering following a global sell-off in stocks, with bitcoin seeing a near 40% plunge. The market capitalization, or total value of the entire cryptocurrency […]