Bitcoin slumps to a three-month low as cryptocurrencies extend losses
01/07/2022 11:50 AMThe price of bitcoin fell below the $41,000 mark on Friday, reaching its lowest level since Sept. 29, according to data from Coin Metrics. Hawkish comments from the Federal Reserve this week triggered a sell-off in global stock markets which spilled over into...
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Flying Taxis Could Finally Make A Breakthrough In 2022
01/07/2022 11:08 AMFlying taxis could gain major attention in 2022, with even more aviation start-ups set to go public. While it is unlikely that we will see them in action before 2024, the infrastructure for and investment in this burgeoning tech could really ramp up this year. Major...
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Prediction Consensus: What the Experts See Coming in 2022
01/06/2022 12:57 PMEven at the best of times, it’s human nature to want to decode the future. During times of uncertainty though, we’re even more eager to predict what’s to come. To satisfy this demand, thousands of prognosticators share their views publicly as one year closes and...
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Xi’an Authorities Block All “Negative” Posts On Social Media As Lockdown Backlash Grows
01/06/2022 12:04 PMAs Beijing struggles with the worsening outbreak in Xi'an, the provincial capital of 13M that has been under lockdown for about 2 weeks now, authorities are finding it increasingly difficult to paper over the popular outcry. So, authorities in the northern Chinese...
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Could A Graphite Shortage Derail The $3 Trillion EV Boom?
01/06/2022 11:22 AMThe $3-trillion EV market needs batteries that are 20-30% graphite–a material the U.S. currently doesn’t produce at all. That makes graphite a matter of national security in the global energy race. Each EV battery requires not only lithium–a metal that investors are...
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Ray Dalio recommends ‘reasonable’ 1%–2% Bitcoin allocation
01/06/2022 10:34 AMHedge fund manager Ray Dalio remains bullish on Bitcoin (BTC) in 2022, listing three primary reasons why Bitcoin is “impressive.” In a recent interview with The Investors Podcast, he talked up gold and BTC as an inflation hedge. When prompted by interviewer William...
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Schachter’s Eye on Energy for January 5th
01/05/2022 12:22 PMEach week Josef Schachter gives you his insights into global events, price forecasts and the fundamentals of the energy sector. Josef offers a twice monthly Black Gold newsletter covering the general energy market and 30 energy, energy service and pipeline &...
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Facebook restores conservative book publisher’s account after ‘error’
01/05/2022 12:15 PMFacebook has restored access to an advertising account linked to the conservative children’s book publisher Heroes of Liberty — after the lockout sparked an outcry on social media. Heroes of Liberty, which has published biographies of figures such as Supreme Court...
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Stick with Canada in 2022, top-performing energy investor says
01/05/2022 11:25 AMLooking at oil and gas stocks this year? Think small and Canadian, at least according to the world’s leading energy fund manager. “Canada is, I think, the place to be in 2022,” said Eric Nuttall of Toronto’s Ninepoint Partners LP. His $950 million (US$752 million)...
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B.C. property assessments climb to $2.4 trillion
01/05/2022 10:43 AMProperty assessments across the province continue to climb with new data revealing a nearly 22% increase since a year ago. The vast majority of B.C.’s total real estate value of $2.44 trillion is housed in the Lower Mainland, according to information posted Tuesday to...
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