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JPMorgan says this cryptocurrency is a better buy than Bitcoin as interest rates rise — here are 3 easy ways to invest Bitcoin may gobble up most of the headlines, but America’s biggest bank says Ethereum, the world’s second-most valuable cryptocurrency, might be the better bet as interest rates start climbing. In a recent report, analysts at JPMorgan state that Ethereum’s growing number of uses — peer-to-peer lending, NFTs, gaming, stablecoins — should help it maintain its value… Source link

MOSCOW, October 18. /TASS/. Yandex sees interest in the application of driverless technologies for deliveries in Dubai, the press service of the Russian technology company told TASS on Monday. “We see much interest in self-driving technologies in delivery worldwide, including this region,” the company said. Negotiations with potential partners are underway now, the press service added. The Nation News reported earlier that Yandex was considering an opportunity to launch robotic couriers… Source link

By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) – Two Federal Reserve officials said on Thursday they would sell their individual stock holdings by the end of the month to address the appearance of conflicts of interest. Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren issued statements saying they would invest the proceeds of those sales in diversified index funds and cash savings and would not trade in those accounts as long as they are serving in their roles. The announcements come… Source link

Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) was the recipient of a significant growth in short interest during the month of August. As of August 13th, there was short interest totalling 6,120,000 shares, a growth of 13.8% from the July 29th total of 5,380,000 shares. Approximately 2.0% of the company’s stock are sold short. Based on an average daily volume of 960,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.4 days. Several institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company…. Source link

Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) was the recipient of a significant growth in short interest during the month of August. As of August 13th, there was short interest totalling 6,120,000 shares, a growth of 13.8% from the July 29th total of 5,380,000 shares. Approximately 2.0% of the company’s stock are sold short. Based on an average daily volume of 960,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.4 days. Several institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company…. Source link

Image credit: Yandex Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, announces that it has entered into a binding agreement with Uber to restructure the ownership of their joint ventures, MLU B.V. (“MLU”) and Yandex Self-Driving B.V. (“SDG”). Under this agreement, for total consideration of $1.0 billion in cash, Yandex will receive: Uber’s 33.5% indirect interest in Yandex.Eats, Yandex.Lavka and… Source link

Juan Mayén, a Honduran entrepreneur who’s trying to set up the country’s first crypto exchange. (Photo courtesy of Juan Mayén) Juan Mayén, a Honduran entrepreneur, just opened his country’s first crypto ATM, La Bitcoinera, earlier this week. Located in Honduras’ largest city, Tegucigalpa, inside the building where Mayén works, the ATM is one step forward in the entrepreneur’s goal of giving Hondurans access to cryptocurrency markets. Since El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele first… Source link

The Federal Reserve managed to avoid turning to negative interest rates through the pandemic-induced recession of 2020. But if the economy faces another downturn, will the central bank be backed into short-term borrowing rates below zero? In a UBS survey of almost 30 central banks around the world, 21% of respondents said they could see the Fed turning to negative interest rates if needed. The concern: With U.S. short-term rates yet again backed up at near-zero, a Fed that may be slower to… Source link

As Bitcoin and other digital coins rise in popularity, so have the number of gripes with the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., according to a new study. Coinbase was the most complained-about crypto digital wallet in the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s complaint database, according to a study done by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, with the volume of filings — albeit starting at a low level — accelerating this year.  “Coinbase should be investigating consumer… Source link

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spoke about the prospects for higher interest rates over the weekend, triggering some confusion over which interest rates she was referring to. “If we ended up with a slightly higher interest rate environment it would actually be a plus for society’s point of view and the Fed’s point of view,” the former Federal Reserve chair told Bloomberg in an interview on Sunday. Yellen’s remarks come as the Jerome Powell-led Fed continues to pin short-term… Source link