Crypto security tokens will be a hot topic in 2019. The tokenization of securities will make trading shares more efficicent and cost effective, removing obsolete middlemen from the process. Security tokens are similar to shares of stock in a company. They can yield dividends, provide revenue share, or appreciate in price. Overstock's Medici Ventures launched [...]
How do bitcoin futures affect the price of bitcoin? This is a question worth examining. When looking at recent market trends through this lens, some interesting details emerge. The current crypto bear market began shortly after CBOE and CME futures launched in December of 2017 and right around the time that Bitmex volume started ramping up. [...]
As you may have heard, there has been mayhem in the crypto markets. For a while, it seemed like crypto markets were immune to the carnage in stock and bond markets around the world. In recent weeks, that has changed in a big way. After a period of sideways trading and low volatility, the crypto [...]
In the midterm elections that took place on Tuesday, November 6th, 2018, Democrats took control of the House of Representatives while Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate. While this outcome was to be expected, the financial impact of the midterm elections has been less clear. Stocks initially rallied following the election only to sink on [...]
The global selloff has erased $5 trillion from stock and bond markets in October alone! October is a historically bad month for stocks. Many of the most dramatic crashes have begun during this month. The global market crash of 2018 seems to be in line with this trend and the crash is indeed global. This [...]
Cannabis stocks have become the new cryptocurrencies - highly volatile price action and frothy investor speculation, even though there is significant long-term potential in both sectors. The possibility of a partnership between Aurora Cannabis and Coca-Cola could signal even stronger growth ahead. But could such growth be dampened by the Feds turning away Canadian investors at [...]
There’s no better store of value and hedge against financial uncertainty than physical gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. Readers of GoldStockBull probably don’t need to be convinced of this. This month has seen some notable developments in gold and silver news. COMEX Gold recently set a record for its ratio of paper contracts to physical [...]
In his most recent book, The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis, former CIA analyst Jim Rickards notes that some of the biggest financial bodies in the world have been warning of excessive risk in financial markets since 2014. Through a series of published papers, press releases, and [...]
For the first time in ten years, the Fed has recently begun reducing its balance sheet. It has also been raising interest rates. This is a complete turnaround from nearly a decade’s worth of printing money (also known as quantitative easing or QE) and enacting Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) to boost the economy. The [...]
With cannabis becoming legal in a majority of the United States of America, a number of new issues have arisen. Some of these issues rely on the creation of novel technologies for a solution. When it comes to payments, cryptocurrencies like DASH fit the bill quite well. We covered this last week. But there’s another issue [...]
