Crypto News
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Crypto scammers are desperately trying to hit it off with Canadians on dating apps and websites this summer. However, many hopeless romantics are paying a hefty price in the process. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) noticed an increase in two particular types of crypto scams targeting Canadian citizens — pig butchering, or romance scams, and investment ...
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This week’s celebrity meme coin craze took a fresh twist late Tuesday when Australian rapper Iggy Azalea—best known for the hit song “Fancy” a decade ago—launched her own Solana meme coin, MOTHER. And the crypto community broadly appears convinced that Azalea might be a “real one” and not just in it for a quick cash grab. MOTHER has charted massive gains ...
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In February 2024, two pseudonymous creators — “ctrl” and “Acme” — developed a new experimental token standard that combines the properties of two established token standards: ERC-20 and ERC-721. The ERC-404 GitHub site states that the two standards it intends to combine “are not designed to be mixed,” but the effort aims to merge them in “as robust a manner ...
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The inflation rate in Germany is expected to be +2.4% in May 2024. The inflation rate is measured as the change in the consumer price index (CPI) compared with the same month a year earlier. Based on the results available so far, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that consumer prices are expected to increase by 0.1% on April 2024. The ...
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The rally in Ethereum, amidst optimism around expected SEC approval for ETH ETFs, has stalled for now with the market stagnating into a test of the 4003 level. Last Thursday the SEC laid out initial approvals for spot-ETH ETF applications (mirroring the funds launched earlier in the year for BTC). With first round approvals in place, traders are highly ...
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Crypto scammers are desperately trying to hit it off with Canadians on dating apps and websites this summer. However, many hopeless romantics are paying a hefty price in the process. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) noticed an increase in two particular types of crypto scams targeting Canadian citizens — pig butchering, or romance scams, and investment ...
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Slap! A sound that reverberated across the nation at exactly 11:30am EST Wednesday. It was the sound of palms meeting foreheads at the Reserve Bank of Australia. The ensuing ...
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Bitcoin’s value hit a new record this year, exceeding its Covid-era high and shocking investors. Here’s what that 2021 rally can show us about this year’s spike—and the crypto ...
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Billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin are pouring into the type of blockchain projects that historically have been vulnerable to hackers and other security risks. The allure of the ...
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post: SWISS NATIONAL BANK'S JORDAN: REASONS TO BELIEVE THE NATURAL RATE OF INTEREST HAS INCREASED OR MIGHT RISEJordan: The natural rate of interest (r*) as a reference point for monetary policy - a practitioner's view Ladies and gentlemen I am delighted to be here today in Seoul to address such a distinguished audience. I would like to thank Governor Rhee for inviting me to give this keynote speech. The topic of this year’s Bank of Korea International Conference – ‘The Evolution of the Natural Interest Rate and Its Implications for the Global Economy’ – could not have come at a better time. Monetary tightening over the past two years has lifted policy rates and longerterm interest rates from their historical lows. There are reasons to believe that some of the structural drivers of real interest rates have also changed direction in recent years. A lively debate has emerged on whether real interest rates will return to their pre-pandemic levels, or whether they will remain higher because the natural rate of interest, r*, has increased.1 Over the past years, r* has become an important reference point for monetary policy. The difference between the real interest rate and r* gives a measure of a central bank’s monetary policy stance. Therefore, r* estimates help in evaluating different monetary policy options. However, the measurement of r* is subject to high uncertainty. Today I would like to focus mainly on how policymakers can nevertheless make use of r* estimates in practice. In the first part of my remarks, I will briefly review the developments in real interest rates over the past decades. I will then turn to the concept of r* itself. In the second part, I will discuss how policymakers can use r* in practice to assess the monetary policy stance, and in particular, how they can deal with the inherent uncertainty in r* estimates. Here I will draw especially on the Swiss National Bank’s experience.
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The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® rose in May to 102.0 (1985=100) from 97.5 in April (a slight upward revision). The Present Situation Index—based on consumers' ...
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A People's Bank of China deputy governor: • Bank will coordinate relationship between short-term tasks and long-term goals, stable growth and risk prevention, and internal and ...
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Ethereum (ETH) sustained its sideways movement on Wednesday as Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas compared spot ETH ETFs to Silver ETFs, predicting that they will only see 20% of the flows recorded across Bitcoin ETFs. Ethereum is slightly trending downward on Wednesday following fading ETF euphoria. Here are the latest news surrounding the number one ...
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The rally in Ethereum, amidst optimism around expected SEC approval for ETH ETFs, has stalled for now with the market stagnating into a test of the 4003 level. Last Thursday the SEC laid out initial approvals for spot-ETH ETF applications (mirroring the funds launched earlier in the year for BTC). With first round approvals in place, traders are highly ...
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has disqualified Andrew Liam Parry of Wentworth Falls, NSW, from managing corporations for the maximum period of five years due to his involvement in the failure of four companies. Between June 2014 and July 2023, Mr Parry was the director or officer of four companies that entered liquidation: • On ...