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Day: February 6, 2020

Chinese copper buyers are asking Chilean miners to delay shipments

China asks Chile to prevent copper charges

Chinese copper buyers are asking Chilean miners to delay shipments due to the closure of ports by the Chinese government. The action followed the coronavirus outbreak increased the turmoil in world commodity trade. Víctor Garay, a market coordinator for Cochilco, says that While suppliers have not reported any violation of the agreement, they have verbally …

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Nintendo Switch Console Faces Shipping Delays

Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co. Ltd. faces production and delivery delays for some of its products. Including the Switch console and related peripherals, as a result of coronavirus outbreak. In addition to its flagship Switch, the Joy-Con that goes with it and the Ring-Con controllers, made in China, will be among the gadgets affected. …

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Stocks and coronavirus pandemic

Beijing’s Decision Helped to Boost the Stocks

On February 6, stocks across Asia benefited from the positive news connected with U.S.-China trade relations. Today, the Chinese government stated that it would halve tariffs on hundreds of U.S. imports starting from February 14. The purpose of this decision was to improve ties with the U.S.  This adjustment would apply to about $75 billion …

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Cryptocurrencies and main challenges

The price of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Major Cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin is the biggest crypto money when it comes to market capitalization. This week, Bitcoin’s price approached $10,000. As a result, the price reached the highest point since October 2019. However, it failed to surpass the key threshold. It is important to mention that the price of cryptocurrency number one rose by almost 40% from …

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the entrance of French banking group Societe Generale headquarters

SocGen Profit Drops, Plans Possible Buyback | WibestBroker

French investment bank Societe Generale SA reported on Thursday earnings miss in the fourth quarter of 2019. Although it announced plans for potential share buybacks and saw better profitability this year. The Paris-based lender revealed that its net income dropped 4.6% to €654 million ($719.26 million) in the quarter. This missed analysts’ expectations of €665.8 …

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Vanguard's New Algorithms will Connect Buyers and Sellers

Vanguard’s New Algorithms will Connect Buyers and Sellers

Investors and traders sell and buy billions worth of futures every day. And as a rule, they depend on banks during these exchanges. That’s why Vanguard’s recent announcement is revolutionary. The U.S.-based head of forex trading stated that its plans to launch new computer-run algorithms. With them, it can trade FX with other funds directly, …

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MasterCard's CEO and crypto

Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Project and Mastercard

Facebook is a very popular social media network, with two billion users around the world. In 2019, the company unveiled the cryptocurrency project Libra. The backlash from various lawmakers and organizations showed that it would be quite hard to launch this cryptocurrency due to various reasons. The California-based company was struggling to deal with the …

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