Gold
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The numbers point to one conclusion: Risk is back, or at least it was during the first half of the year
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Semler Scientific, a publicly traded medical tech company, joined MicroStrategy by buying up millions of bitcoin
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The 10 spot bitcoin ETFs have roughly the same amount of assets as the first physically backed gold ETF by State Street Global Advisors
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Though the opposing flow trend is likely to slow over time, industry watchers note, bitcoin fund assets could one day eclipse the $90 billion gold ETF space
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Banking giant is set to collaborate with custody infrastructure company Metaco to safekeep tokenized assets for institutional clients
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London-based financial giant “seeing appetite for tokenization solutions that can maintain a link to specific real-world use cases,” executive says
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Bitcoin ETFs could see $14.4 billion of inflows in their first year trading, according to Galaxy Digital report — spurring a 74% BTC price jump
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AllianceBernstein is an asset manager with $669 billion in AUM as of September 2023
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Amid Israel-Hamas conflict and the US’s weak fiscal position, bitcoin and gold “probably take on a larger percentage of your portfolio”
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As markets teeter with uncertainty, both gold bugs and bitcoin aficionados are perking up, spurred by murmurs of a potential change in policy
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Many are turning to assets that offer a degree of isolation from the failures of the traditional financial system — namely crypto
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A string of controversies has hit the Perth Mint, leading its crypto partner Trovio to cease support for gold-backed token PMGT
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Bitcoin’s rally is being fuelled by spot buys, with the majority of flow coming from large market players looking to position in anticipation of a flight to safety
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Bitcoin has begun to move in tandem with traditional safe-haven asset gold this month as investors look elsewhere to park their funds
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Product in Switzerland combines the traditional value of gold with the promising return rates of bitcoin
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Market slide suggests investors don’t yet see the leading cryptocurrency as a safe haven in times of crisis
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Brent Johnson & Lawrence Lepard explain Brent’s Dollar Milkshake thesis and discuss the potential trends we could see with the dollar in 2022.
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Inflation rose slightly higher than analysts had expected, and investors appear interested in stores of value assets
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The news comes shortly after Squeri said that cryptocurrencies will not disrupt AmEx’s current business model during the company’s third quarter earnings call Friday.
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One River Digital Asset Management entered the crypto space in November 2020 when it bought over $600 million in bitcoin and ethereum
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