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Investment Strategies Landscape – Role of Traditional Investments, Cryptocurrencies, and ESG
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Oil mixed as dollar rises, EU looks less likely to ban Russian oil
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Wall Street stocks, Treasury yields rise on hawkish Fed comments
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Stocks hold firm even as U.S. yields hit multi-year highs
Date: March 22, 2022
By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) -European stock indexes rose Tuesday and U.S. and European government bond yields extended the previous session’s gains as investors adjusted their expectations for rate hikes following hawkish comments from the U.S. Federal Reserve. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank could move “more aggressively” to raise rates to fight...
Is investment in cryptocurrencies becoming mainstream? Lessons learned from KPMG’s investment in Bitcoin and Ethereum
Date: March 21, 2022
By Manoj Mistry, Managing Director, IBOS Association Cryptocurrencies have become an established part of the investment landscape. As the best-known and most popular, bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH) are now held by a growing army of private investors worldwide. According to Statista, the number of Blockchain wallet users has surpassed 80 million with some estimates...
Oil prices up, well over $100/bbl but headed for weekly loss
Date: March 18, 2022
By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) – Oil prices edged higher on Friday, still above $100 a barrel, but were set for a second straight weekly loss, after a volatile trading week with no easy replacement for Russian barrels in a tight market. Brent crude futures rose 38 cents, or 0.7%, to $107.02 a barrel by 12:05...
European stocks post their best week since November 2020
Date: March 18, 2022
By Sruthi Shankar and Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) -European shares rose on Friday adding to the strong gains earlier this week, as investors focussed on Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations and digested the talks between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. The pan-European STOXX 600 index closed 0.9% higher with technology stocks, leading the...
UK investors see 113 billion pounds of BoE bond sales by 2025
Date: March 18, 2022
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Bond market experts expect the Bank of England to sell 113 billion pounds ($148 billion) of government bonds over the next three years, on top of 150 billion maturing from its 875 billion pound stockpile, a BoE survey showed on Friday. Britain’s central bank announced last month that it...
Stocks cling to week’s gains, Biden talks Russia with Beijing
Date: March 18, 2022
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Global stocks were just below water on Friday with most of their strong gains for the week still intact but the mix of rising interest rates, high oil prices and war in Ukraine kept risk-taking at bay. U.S. stocks were also set for a pause, with trading on Wall...