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Wednesday 06 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - It was "highly unlikely", technically speaking, that the US economy was in a recession, Bank of America Securities said, although there were some caveats.
Wednesday 06 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - Activity in America's services sector slowed by less than expected last month, the results of a key survey revealed.
Wednesday 06 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - The European Commission said on Wednesday that it had carried out unannounced inspections at the premises of online food and grocery delivery companies in two member states.
Wednesday 06 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - The cryptocurrency market recovers $900 billion global capitalization on Wednesday, during the heat of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), as they cut Tuesday´s losses and tried to consolidate at $20,000 and $1,100, respectively. Digital assets left a day of high volatility on July 5th, with rises as high as 6% for BTC and 10% for ETH, but which ended up being diluted to the point where the main cryptos turned around and moved into declines.
Wednesday 06 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - Retail sales volumes in the single-currency bloc undershot economists' forecasts in May.
Wednesday 06 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - Activity in the eurozone construction sector fell further in June, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
Wednesday 06 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - German factory orders unexpectedly rose in May, according to figures released on Wednesday by Destatis.
Tuesday 05 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - The European single currency may remain weak in the near-term due to concerns about soaring energy prices in Europe.
Tuesday 05 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - European natural gas prices were on the rise again after workers at Norway's Equinor initiated a strike action overnight.
Tuesday 05 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - Companies offering cryptoasset-related services happily welcomed the news that the three institutional bodies of the European Union (EU), the European Parliament, Commission and Council reached an agreement on the text of the proposed cryptocurrency market regulation. The landmark cryptoasset markets legislation (MiCA) will introduce licensing of cryptocurrency companies and safeguards for their customers and the industry has been favorable to the measure which, however, contains controversial points for users such as the taxation of self-hosted wallets.
Tuesday 05 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - The services sector rebounded strongly in China last month, data published on Tuesday showed, as strict Covid-19 restrictions were eased.
Tuesday 05 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - The Biden administration is expected to announce a partial roll back of US trade tariffs on Chinese goods exports as soon as this week.
Tuesday 05 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - Eurozone growth slowed sharply in June, a well-regarded survey showed on Tuesday, as the dominant services sector started to cool.
Tuesday 05 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - Australia's Reserve Bank increased its key cash interest rate for the third time in as many months and warned of more action as it looked to stymie rising inflation.
Monday 04 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - The head of Germany's central bank urged caution on using policy tools to limit the borrowing costs of weaker economies within the single-currency bloc.
Monday 04 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - German exports fell last month, official data showed on Monday, pushing the country's trade balance into a surprise deficit.
Monday 04 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - The cryptocurrency market continues its pessimistic outlook that it signed off the second quarter of the year with and which has carried over into the month of July. After last week's falls, that saw the Bitcoin´s (BTC) price succumb to selling pressure and fall to $18,700, according to data from CoinMarketCap, the digital currency is holding at $19,000, weighed down by bad news from the sector, with other cryptoasset lending companies and funds on the edge of the abyss. Specifically, Voyager Digital has suspended withdrawals, trading and deposits on its platform, due to difficult market conditions.
Monday 04 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - Recession in the Eurozone is now "inevitable", a closely-watched survey suggested on Monday, after war in Ukraine and the growing energy crisis caused investor morale to slump.
Friday 01 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - Manufacturing activity growth in the US slowed last month as new orders from clients shrank, the results of a key survey revealed.
Friday 01 Jul 2022
(Sharecast News) - The number of new coronavirus cases in Britain jumped again during the preceding week, likely due to the more infectious BA.4 and BA.5 variants of the Omicron variant of Covid-19.
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