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Dag Fredrik Vold on July 18th, 2017.
Several sources are now reporting an increasing supply deficit for palladium in 2017. According to a report by the Financial Times, “the palladium market is witnessing a rising deficit”. This would mark the sixth successive year of significant supply shortages in the palladium market, whereas its sibling platinum this year may be...
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Posted by
Lester Coleman on July 17th, 2017.
July brings new opportunities to trade penny stocks, according to the Investopedia top 10 penny stocks to watch. Biotechnology stocks in particular are poised for a breakout. Biotechnology funds broke out of the long-term basing pattern in June, forcing rotational buying pressure, which bodes well for the low-priced sub-sector, with many...
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Posted byDag Fredrik Vold on July 16th, 2017.
Once you have decided that Cambodian real estate is something you would like to explore more, the next question is how should you go about it. An important thing to take note of is that many emerging or frontier markets, especially in Asia, are characterized by a rapidly growing number of expats, but with very few housing options...
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Posted byDag Fredrik Vold on July 15th, 2017.
Real estate investing is something we have previously talked about on Hacked. For quite some time now, I have been researching the best places to invest in real estate overseas. With real estate markets in many Western countries slowing down along with their overall economies, more and more people are starting to realize that there may...
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Posted by
Mate Cser on July 5th, 2017.
The infamous .com IPOs and the recent cryptocurrency ICOs, Google and Ethereum, Microsoft and Bitcoin, 1999 and 2017 and so on and so on… We can draw several parallels with the euphoric years of the late 90’s in the dot-com segment and today’s blossoming cryptocurrency-blockchain industry. But before we get overly excited about the...
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Posted byMate Cser on July 4th, 2017.
Pros Great global asset coverage and availability (100+ markets) Very low fees and margin rates No proprietary trading, no risk of default Good mobile offering and versatile trading platforms API integration, automated trading options, Cons $10,000 minimum capital ($5000 for US IRA accounts) User Interface not the easiest Customer...
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Posted by
Justin OConnell on June 23rd, 2017.
NEO has been called “China’s Ethereum”. The Western market first collectively learned about Antshares, a smart contract and decentralized application (dApp) platform, just ahead of the company’s rebrand to ‘NEO’ – which is Greek for “newness”, novelty and youth. That merely one exchange offers bitcoin-NEO trades...
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Posted by
Richard Howlett on June 17th, 2017.
Digital fraud continues to grow apace. More worryingly, the increasing variety and sophistication of the scams themselves has seen the number of people falling victim to scams growing just as fast. And we are no longer just talking about standard phishing. Today’s digital criminals are highly developed and extremely quick to jump on the...
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Posted byLester Coleman on May 29th, 2017.
Medicinal and recreational cannabis continues to spur investment in marijuana-based pharmaceuticals. Several publicly traded cannabis stocks gained more than 5% this past week, some of which have market capitalizations exceeding $50 million, according to Investopedia. The Solactive North American Medical Marijuana Index, which tracks the...
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Posted byLester Coleman on May 25th, 2017.
Abigail Johnson, CEO and chairwoman at Fidelity Investments, called for more serious conversations about bitcoin and blockchain while addressing Consensus 2017 blockchain conference in New York City, according to MarketWatch. Fidelity has tested bitcoin and blockchain, according to Johnson, including partnerships, venture investments and...
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Posted by
Jim Fredrickson on May 24th, 2017.
A recurrent theme in the queries put before me is how best to become wealthy by trading. We all want that of course. But if it was easy, every trader here would be wealthy already. The question I am asked is: “Can it be done if one starts small?” IMHO it can be done and the best way is to just focus on doubling. Doubling...
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Posted byLester Coleman on May 23rd, 2017.
Mid-cap stocks – those with market capitalization between $2 billion to $10 billion – are less known than large and small cap stocks, but they can provide profitable investments, according to investment experts. Quality, stability and value are typically associated with large cap stocks. Growth is usually associated with small-cap...
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Posted by
Rebecca Campbell on May 22nd, 2017.
Australian-born Michael Dunworth, CEO of Silicon Valley-based blockchain Wyre, has said that financial advisors should invest in Bitcoin to understand the currency better in the decentralized economy. In a report from the Financial Standard, Dunworth said: “You don’t have to break the bank. You could invest $10, $100 or...
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Posted byLester Coleman on May 16th, 2017.
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) – baskets of assets traded as stocks by investors and institutions that typically charge lower fees than mutual funds – hit a record $2.865 trillion in April, driven by rising stocks, according to a report from ETFGI, an ETF researcher. The ETFGI estimate is in line with a February report from...
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Posted byLester Coleman on May 13th, 2017.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average could hit 100,000 by 2030, according to financial author and adviser Ric Edelman. Edelman, who believes incredible profits are in the making for those who prepare for new economic realities. If it doesn’t hit 100,00, he said, it will probably hit 150,000. The blue-chip index currently trades at around...
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Posted by
P. H. Madore on May 7th, 2017.
A Hacked member writes: Love your service. I was wondering what you thought of the tokencard bug and if you think it will negatively affect the project and it’s token value? We at Hacked did not previously cover the TokenCard ICO. Looking into it, we have less-than-positive news to report. The TokenCard team seems to be taking the...
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Posted byLester Coleman on April 14th, 2017.
Are active fund managers worth their fees? Not according to a newly-released report from S&P Dow Jones Indices that reports on actively managed fund performance. Actively managed funds did not fare well against indexes in the last 1-,3-, 5- 10- and 15-year spans, meaning investors are better off sticking with passive funds that track...
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Posted byP. H. Madore on April 9th, 2017.
There is an ongoing crowdsale of the “Internet of Coins (IoC).” IoC is one of the competitors in this budding space of networking various blockchains mentioned in our last ICO Analysis, regarding Cosmos. IoC differs from Cosmos significantly. For starters, while Cosmos uses hubs and zones to interconnect assets, IoC uses a somewhat novel...
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Posted byP. H. Madore on April 6th, 2017.
Cosmos is a novel answer to “sidechains,” which aims to enable users to traverse a galaxy of blockchains with ease. One intended usage of the platform will be to enable automated overflow of transactions, due to the congestion in current cryptocurrency designs. Cosmos consists of “zones” and “hubs.” A “zone” can become congested, just...
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Posted byLester Coleman on April 4th, 2017.
With interest rates inching upward in the U.S. and elsewhere following a period of sustained low rates, what should investors do to maximize their earnings? Last month, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates and signaled it will raise interest rates more this year. This followed a raise in December, the first in more than a year....
Dag Fredrik Vold on July 18th, 2017.
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