Digital Currency Revolution Series: BTC/USD Hammer Takes-off Rallies, Reclaims $11.5k on Bullish Crossovers

Aug 05, 2019 05:29 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Technicals Insights & Views

Year-2019 has been conducive for the Bitcoin prices so far, it has been spiking constantly higher from the last couple of weeks, rose from the lows of $3,122 levels to the recent highs of $13,880 levels which is the 2019...

The Hong Kong protesters have turned militant and more strategic – and this unnerves Beijing

Aug 02, 2019 13:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

The past few weeks has seen a drastic escalation in violence on the streets of Hong Kong. On Tuesday night, a police officer aimed a shotgun at protesters who had gathered outside a police station, while a car launched...

Cryptocurrency Derivatives Series: FTX Unveils Speculative Crypto Index fund

Aug 02, 2019 05:56 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views

We have an array of derivatives markets for traditional asset classes, such as, from a range of stocks to mortgages, be it ETFs, index funds, index options or hedge funds, etc. Many Wall Street players are now, lined up...

Cryptocurrency Derivatives Series: Key Take-Aways of Bakkt BTC Physically-Settled Futures

Aug 01, 2019 12:01 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views

Mr. Adam White, the COO ofcryptocurrency platform Bakkt, hadannounced in Medium blogthat the ICE-backed start-up would commence beta-testing for its much-anticipated Bitcoin futures contracts from July 22nd. Bakkt has...

Regulatory Series on Cryptocurrencies: Impact of Trump, USTs and Fed Rate Cuts on Bitcoin

Aug 01, 2019 06:05 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views

We recently reported President Trumps intentions of pressurizing theFederal Reservefor dragging its feet on interest rate cuts. Consequently, last night weve seen 25 bps rate cuts as anticipated and directed. Quite a few...

All public universities get private money, but some get much more than the rest

Aug 01, 2019 04:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

U.S. universities raised nearly US$47 billion in the academic fiscal year that ended in mid-2018. This new record haul marked a 7% increase from the prior year. As usual, private universities generally led the way. But...

A century of public housing: lessons from Singapore

Aug 01, 2019 04:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

One of the beacons of UK social housing policy, the legislation from 1919 that became known as the Addison Act after its sponsor, the minister of health Christopher Addison, imposed for the first time a duty on councils to...