Financial Occultist

And the end of April, that’s the target for pencilling in a trade agreement.

Coming up sooner, though, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will be in Beijing for negotiations, the Chinese side led by Vice-Premier Liu He

This is on Thursday 28 March

Chinese officials, led by Liu will the visit the US on 3 April for more talks.

And the end of April, that's the target for pencilling in a trade agreement.

Must resist urge to caption pic with Larry, Curly, Moe.

Japanese stock markets opening rather weak, Nikkei 225 down more than 2%

25-Mar-19 05:49 am

Anirudh Sethi

Topix and Nikkei both down more than 2% as trade gets underway for the week in Japan equity markets

US markets ended last weak on a soft note, flowing through into Asia this morning, as if normally the case. The inverting US yield curve heightening investor fear.

Thought For A Day

25-Mar-19 05:49 am

Anirudh Sethi

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Trump Has Publicly Attacked the Russia Investigation More Than 1,100 Times

24-Mar-19 08:05 pm

Anirudh Sethi

95% of all reported Bitcoin trading volume is faked – report

24-Mar-19 07:05 pm

Anirudh Sethi

High rates of fake volume are no surprise

Bitwise Asset Management analyzed trading activity at 81 exchanges over four days in March and found that the volume of trading is much lower than reported.

Of the roughly $6 billion in reported daily volume during four days in March, the firm calculated that about $273 million was legitimate.

The company undertook the study with an application to launch a Bitcoin ETF so it has a conflict of interest. However another recent study from Crypto Integrity said 88% of all activity in February had been inflated.

The WSJ first reported on the study:

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