2020-11-9 11:29 |
Bonds worth $17.05 trillion now yields a return below zero, according to Bloomberg Barclays Global Negative Yielding Debt index. origin »
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BitFarms used high-interest-rate debt with large balloon payments to expand operations. Now it may struggle to pay off its debt, according to CoinDesk Research.
2020-7-28 19:06 | |
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The Public Debt Management Office (PDMO), under Thailand’s Ministry of Finance, will be utilizing Krung Thai Bank’s (KTB) blockchain platform to sell government bonds to the general public. Thailand to Sell Government Bonds via Blockchain According to a report by a local news outlet The Nation Thailand, on Tuesday (June 16, 2020), the use ofRead MoreRead More.
2020-6-18 01:07 | |
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Bitcoin-friendly millennials and Gen Z will still have to pay off the U.S. debt, according to chartist Peter Brandt
2020-5-15 20:52 | |
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Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) Morningstar, a global credit rating agency has rated its first blockchain-based securities. Also, the securities were issued as a $39. 7 million loan to Fat Brands, a restaurant franchising company to expand its business and refinance its existing debt, according to a Forbes report on March 8, 2020.
2020-3-10 20:00 | |
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The total outstanding US mortgage debt has exceeded a staggering $15. 8 trillion with no signs of slowing down, according to data sourced from the US Federal Reserve. Could cryptocurrency serve as a hedge? A chart published by the Economic Research branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St.
2020-1-19 08:25 | |
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Our debt-ridden world economy continues to stack up more IOUs. According to recent estimates, the global debt is now around $253 trillion or 322% of GDP — a record high that Bitcoin is wagging its finger at.
2020-1-18 01:10 | |
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Global debt records were broken in 2019, but that likely won’t be the end of such ominous economic milestones, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) predicts. The number could reach $257 trillion sometime in Q1 2020, according to a recent report by the group.
2020-1-15 12:13 | |
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According to Coinbase’s latest report, Coinbase Earn launching the Dai Advanced Task resulted in users creating more CDPs (Collateralized Debt Positions) than ever. Coinbase Earn is a platform that allows users to earn cryptos while learning about them via educational videos and performing tasks.
2020-1-12 23:31 | |
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American credit card debt hit $1 trillion this year, surpassing 2008 crisis highs. Delinquencies are at four-year highs, while delinquencies at small banks hit record rates. Credit card interest rates are at all-time highs, making it harder than ever to pay back.
2019-11-15 18:49 | |
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The Maker Foundation marked an eventful week for the ecosystem after its stablecoin DAI registered a market capitalization of over $100 million on Wednesday. Now, according to MakerDao's official bThe post MakerDao raises debt limit after DAI registers $100M market cap appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-8 16:00 | |
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Just a few days after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the third time this year and the US national debt hit $23 trillion for the first time, billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio released yet another LinkedIn post titled, “The World Has Gone Mad and the System Is Broken.” According to Dalio, it […]
2019-11-7 20:17 | |
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U. S. government debt yields recovered on Friday as bond prices fell. The benchmark yield nosedived below 1. 70% on Thursday, reaching its lowest levels since Oct. 15. The U. S. manufacturing sector is in a deep recession, according to at least one indicator.
2019-11-4 00:01 | |
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U. S. government debt yields stabilized on Wednesday, as demand for equities waned over concerns of a dysfunctional Brexit process. Treasury Yields Little Changed The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note reached a session low of 1.
2019-10-24 23:30 | |
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A new weekly record was set last week in global corporate bond sales, with investors grabbing hold of around $140 billion in new bonds according to data from Dealogic. This occurs against a backdrop of negative yielding debt, and the meteoric rise in popularity of stablecoins and exchange-native tokens across the crypto space.
2019-9-9 14:30 | |
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Global negative-yielding debt is now over $17 trillion, making investors extremely nervous. And it is forcing them to focus on non-traditional assets, like bitcoin. Investing in Debt and Holding it to Maturity Guarantees a Loss Investors are becoming increasingly fearful as they see that the soaring negative-yielding debt is altering the global economy.
2019-9-2 21:52 | |
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By CCN Markets: Fifty-three percent of countries that offer sovereign debt currently have inverted yield curves, according to one economist. If the percentage gets much higher, there is a strong possibility of a global recession.
2019-8-17 04:00 | |
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Bitcoin can be many things depending on how it is used. A form of digital money, a trading vehicle for short term gains, a long term investment, or as we have seen more recently, a hedge against government instigated economic hardships.
2019-8-13 16:00 | |
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While speaking in a podcast on July 29, 2019, Raoul Pal, former Goldman Sachs executive opined that Bitcoin’s market capitalization is unreasonably underpriced. According to Pal, even the least possible chance for Bitcoin’s market cap to equate that of the global money supply and global debt of $80 trillion will still land the Bitcoin’s market […] The post Former Goldman Sachs Executive, Raoul Pal Believes Bitcoin Is Currently Too Cheap appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2019-8-1 00:02 | |
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Federico Pecoraro, CEO of Italy-based crypto-company, Chainblock, made waves in the cryptospace after he suggested that Italians were shifting to cryptocurrencies owing to the country’s growing economic problems.
2019-6-24 18:30 | |
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By CCN: Piles of student debt, an underperforming job market, and a rising cost of living are pushing millennials’ average net worth down, and down fast. According to an eye-opening Deloitte study on consumer behavior: “Millennials are dramatically financially worse off than previous cohorts with a 34 percent decrease in their net worth since 1996.
2019-6-6 17:35 | |
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The cryptocurrency market has seen quite a few scandals and Mt. Gox was among the most infamous of them all. Charlie Shrem, a Bitcoin entrepreneur discussed the story of Mt. Gox with J Maurice, a Bitcoin Miner, on his podcast ‘Untold Stories’.
2019-5-20 02:30 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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By CCN. com: Time to wake the f**k up. Donald Trump is not the self-made business genius you think he is. The president is many things. He’s a great leader. He knows how to rally people and inspire action.
2019-5-8 16:27 | |
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The global debt has reached the astronomic amount of USD 243 trillion. And now the stock market is becoming gloomier. Against this background, some investors and financial specialists are turning their focus to Bitcoin and speculating about the causes of the renewed interest in the cryptocurrency.
2019-4-8 23:00 | |
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By CCN. com: Global debt now stands at a terrifying $243 trillion according to a report by the Institute of International Finance this week. That’s quarter of a quadrillion. We’re in the realms of the absurd.
2019-4-4 16:25 | |
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Troubled cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox is finally inching closer to settling its debt with creditors, some five years after it was hacked. According to new documents published by Mt. Gox‘s trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi (aka Tokyo Whale, as he’s known in cryptocurrency circles), a decision has been made with regards to creditor’s claims – they’ve been approved or disapproved – and the Tokyo District Court has been notified.
2019-3-21 15:32 | |
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According to a report in Forbes, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel – formerly Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama – told one-time CCN writer Benjamin Pirus that the future for cryptocurrency is “affirmative.
2019-3-21 09:54 | |
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Throughout March, despite concerns regarding the decline in household net worth, increasing federal debt, and the downside earnings revisions of major U. S. conglomerates, analysts have forecasted an optimistic short-term movement for the Dow Jones due to trade deal optimism.
2019-3-9 16:50 | |
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According to newly released data, which was delayed by the government shutdown, it will be concluded that Donald Trump has so far failed to reduce the trade deficit he promised to cut. All this amid a ballooning debt after tax cuts.
2019-3-7 23:42 | |
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In a bid to combat falling trade volumes and the bear market that has claimed several of its peers, Circle is reportedly trying to raise $250 million in funding according to a March 2, 2018 report from The Information.
2019-3-4 17:00 | |
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Now is the perfect time to buy bitcoin, according to Spencer Bogart, a partner at Blockchain Capital. Speaking to Bloomberg, Bogart was evangelical about bitcoin, calling it “the most compelling asset in the world right now.
2019-2-21 19:26 | |
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A group of lawyers from some of Canada’s top law firms convened in a court in Halifax, Nova Scotia, today to secure the right to represent creditors in the ongoing QuadrigaCX litigation.
2019-2-15 01:45 | |
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US taxpayers will have to pay as much as twice the GDP of Germany to just cover interest payments on government debt over the next decade according to the Congressional... The post US Government to Pay $7 Trillion on Debt Interest Over the Next Decade appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-1-30 17:19 | |
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Global debt is growing at a very fast pace. It is currently approaching $244 trillion. Government debt has reached around 80% of the global GDP and private debt continues to grow as well, making things even worse.
2019-1-25 21:41 | |
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It’s a scenario we’d all like to see… and of course, eradicating world debt would also be a good thing. But is there a path to get there? Possibly, according to Lucid Investment Strategies.
2019-1-22 05:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency–While most of the investment base for cryptocurrency continues to reel from 2018’s bear cycle, which saw Bitcoin fall over 60 percent and the altcoin market drop further, crypto lenders and those betting on debt have still managed to come ahead.
2019-1-4 19:28 | |
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Giga Watt recently filed for bankruptcy in a Washington court, declaring that it had under $50,000 in assets, with debt worth millions of dollars. Millions of Dollars in Debt According to iFiberOne, U.
2018-11-23 10:28 | |
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GigaWatt, one of Central Washington’s largest companies in the cryptocurrency sector is, unfortunately, facing millions of dollars in debt as cryptocurrency prices fall. According to the Oregonian Times, Giga-Watt’s once upward trajectory is facing a sharp decline as the company explores every legitimate stream of revenue to remain in business.
2018-10-23 19:00 | |
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In Melbourne’s West, scammers posing as debt collectors conned victims to deposit over $50,000 into a Bitcoin ATM. According to The Sydney Morning Herald’s article published on October 5, 2018, the four victims who were believed to be migrants, were threatened with an arrest if they failed to pay the total amount.
2018-10-7 10:00 | |
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The World Bank launched late August a fully blockchain-operated debt instrument called bond-i. According to an official press release, bond-i is the first bond to be fully launched operated, allocated and managed using blockchain technology.
2018-9-11 17:29 | |
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Two securities, one that tracks bitcoin and another that tracks the cryptocurrency ether, have been temporarily halted by a U. S. regulatory watchdog due to investor confusion.
2018-9-11 22:01 | |
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Another trial of blockchain technology for fixed income markets has reportedly been carried out by the Bank of Montreal in partnership with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. According to Bloomberg, the latest trial involved the movement of a Canadian-dollar debt deal over blockchain.
2018-8-15 22:02 | |
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Debt. That’s what internet superstar Kim Dotcom believes will bring down the US Dollar. With an alleged $1 trillion added to the US government’s deficit each year, he might not be far wrong either.
2018-8-13 15:00 | |
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The world is deep in debt according to a report by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) released this July. They say: “Global debt rose by over $8 trillion in... The post Global Debt Rises to 300% of Global GDP appeared first on Trustnodes.
2018-7-13 14:21 | |
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Spain-based Banco Santander has announced the creation of a blockchain research team to look into the technology’s potential to change securities trading, according to a July 11 press release. The “Digital Investment Banking” team, headed by current leader of Santander’s blockchain lab John Whelan, will “explor[e] the use of tokenized securities in debt capital markets,
2018-7-12 23:48 | |
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), responsible for conduct and relevant prudential regulation of financial services firms and financial markets in the U. K. , has announced the details of the firms selected to be part of cohort 4 of its regulatory sandbox, according to an FCA post.
2018-7-5 01:04 | |
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We used to talk of billions, now trillions are the new billions. That’s inflation for you and debt is a big part of it. According to the Economist’s debt clock,... The post Global Government Debt Triples to $60 Trillion appeared first on Trustnodes.
2018-6-25 15:21 | |
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Cryptocurrencies remain under significant sell-off pressure following a market shakeout driven by investor reactions to DeepSeek AI news. As Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $100,000 and altcoins turned red amid a tech stock bloodbath, the crypto market experienced massive liquidations. According…
Wallet addresses holding at least $100 in Bitcoin are approaching all-time highs as per a recent report by Binance. On-chain data shows a major increase in small Bitcoin (BTC) holders, showing a surge in renewed interest and optimism for BTC.…
Bitcoin’s trajectory is rarely a smooth one, and its latest tumble is in stark contrast to what investors and traders expected on the heels of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. At last check, Bitcoin (BTC) traded at just above $101,000 Sunday…
U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds have started the year on a strong note, according to Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. It has been slightly over a year since the Securities and Exchange Commission approved the launch of spot Bitcoin…
Inflows into spot Bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. remained sluggish on Jan. 23 as President Donald Trump’s efforts to form a working group on digital assets under an executive order failed to meet market expectations. According to data from SoSoValue,…
RedStone, a modular blockchain oracle platform and restaking protocol, has announced CLARA, a new solution aimed at the artificial intelligence market’s agent-based projects. As a communication layer for AI agents, CLARA provides an infrastructure system designed to solve one of…
Crypto startup Layer One X designed to serve as a layer-1 smart contract protocol saw its token jumping by more than 1,600% in a matter of one hour. Layer One X, a startup which promises developers to build once and…