Black Thursday

View photosKemar Roach brought up his 200th Test wicket in this third Test - GETTY IMAGESCivil war, not for the first time, was engulfing Caribbean cricket. A few days before their home series against Bangladesh in 2009, every member of the West Indies squad went on strike. A motley group…

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa is at odds with a business tycoon who could help Zimbabwe. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration on June 27 restricted almost all mobile-money transactions. The battle pits Mnangagwa, who came to power in a November 2017 coup, against Strive Masiyiwa, the businessman who founded and controls Econet.…

After the 2008 stock and housing market crash plunged the U.S. and world into economic upheaval, governments came to the rescue, with trillions of dollars in corporate bailouts. Executives at the insurance firm AIG were so happy with their US$152-billion package (more than U.S. and European countries spent in total…

Zimbabwe’s security force leaders sidelined the nation’s economic chiefs and forced the government to close the stock exchange and halt most mobile-money transactions, people familiar with the situation said.The June 26 order that sought to stabilise the nation’s currency came after pressure from the Joint Operations Command and was made…

The CDC has all but confessed that the U.S. is losing control over the virus.V-shaped recovery theory will prove to be a fantasy when another wave of virus disrupts business.When the reality of a permanently scarred economy begins to hit the bulls, the U.S. stock market could undergo a considerable…

Earlier this week PlusToken, one of the largest scams in the cryptocurrency world, tried to move 789,500 Ether (ETH), but the movement of these stolen funds were temporarily held up by congestion issues within the Ethereum network.The $186 million transfer came from a known Ethereum address and was later split…

Bitfinex has uploaded the code for a crypto-powered open-source P2P data streaming protocol to GitHub. 3669 Total views 31 Total shares Veteran cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has announced an open-source peer-to-peer data streaming platform that will allow users to share media across a decentralized network.The code for Bitfinex's "Dazaar" protocol has…

Cuban asylum seekers dismayed their compatriots boosted Trump in Florida Jose Manuel Maranillo, a Cuban asylum seeker stranded in Mexico by Republican President Donald Trump's immigration policies, was distraught when learned his brother-in-law in Florida had voted for him. 8:10pm EST Judge pushes U.S. Postal Service to ensure all remaining…

The correlation between Bitcoin and the S&P 500 has proven to be dangerous for the first-ever cryptocurrency. It even helped to drag down the asset during the Black Thursday collapse.The crypto asset’s new bull market on the horizon. Yet the correlation with the stock market is once again nearing all-time…

The “realized cap” of Bitcoin (BTC), a statistic observed by on-chain market analysis platform Glassnode, has hit a new all-time high on June 19. It may indicate an overall increase in new investors in the cryptocurrency market in recent months.Glassnode said:“Bitcoin's Realized Cap has hit a new all time high.…