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Bitcoin: from record highs to record lows
October saw both the launch of the first Bitcoin ETF (BITO) and the cryptocurrency’s record high value of around $66,900 – all within the same week.
Starting out on the stock market: Chronicle of an amateur trader
Let me introduce myself, my name is Thomas. I am what you can call a novice, a padawan or a young trading wolf.
Renewed restrictions on CFDs
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has agreed to renew the restrictions on the marketing, distribution or sale of contracts for differences (CFDs) to retail clients, in effect since 1 August.
Brexit: which possible outcomes after this evening’s vote?
Will Brexit be cancelled? Will the UK have a new Prime Minister? Will the UK leave the EU and, if so, when?
Brexit referendum: time for a rematch?
Two years after UK voters decided to leave the EU, Brexit negotiations seem to be at some sort of deadlock. Yet the country has one certainty: Brexit is going to be a long, painful and expensive process. This is why, a mere week ago, the Telegraph appealed to the public through a petition to ask the government for a second referendum.
Bitcoin on the rise again!
Cryptocurrency fans have been on a real downer over the past few months, sceptics quick to say the fun is over for Bitcoin, Ripple, Ether, Litecoin and Monero.
TAFTA: a (very) bad deal for Europe?
TAFTA is the transatlantic free trade agreement secretly negotiated between the European Union and the United States since 2013. The treaty aims to do away with trade barriers and regulations on both sides of the Atlantic, to create a vast free-trade area and thus stimulate the economy of signatories.
Brexit: will the U.K. leave the E.U. or not?
Although Brexit (British exit) has been a topic of political conversations in the U.K and in the E.U. for months now, it is now debated with a new feeling of urgency, few days ahead of a referendum organised in the United Kingdom on whether the country should leave the European Union or not.
What options remain to tackle Greek debt?
The Greek debt crisis has been centre stage in Europe for seven years now and the current debt stands at over 284 billion euros, a titanic sum equivalent to 160% of Greece's GDP in 2014.
Brexit: What repercussions for the United Kingdom and the British Pound?
The results of the UK legislative election quickly brought the idea of a "Brexit" (British Exit), i.e. the possible exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union, to the forefront of people's minds.
