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Christopher Giancarlo, the former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) believes it's time for the Federal Reserve to issue a fully digital currency on Feb. 21. Giancarlo told Yahoo Finance’s On the Move program that the Federal Reserve must issue a digital currency in order to compete with
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Gold surged 0.9% to $1,626.50/oz., a new seven-year high. Federal Reserve Board members are pouring cold water on expectations of gradual rate cuts this year. Stocks suffer a major setback over coronavirus, overvaluation fears. Gold charted a fresh seven-year high Thursday after the Federal Reserve’s top brass tried to temper the market’s expectation
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Judy Shelton, President Trump’s nominee to the Federal Reserve Board, told lawmakers that digitizing the U.S. dollar could help maintain the currency’s ascendancy in global commerce. At her Senate confirmation hearing Thursday, Shelton said the U.S. needs fintech innovation to keep ahead of other countries. “Yes, it is a dominant reserve currency
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has given advocates of financial privacy a glimmer of hope – and hinted at how the U.S. might competitively position a future digitized dollar.In testimony before Congress this week, Powell was asked whether the Fed had any “visibility” into China’s progress developing a central bank
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell resumed his congressional testimony on Wednesday. He told lawmakers that low interest rates have become a fact of life. Twenty-four hours earlier, he asserted that the U.S. economy was doing just fine. Powell’s half right: The U.S. can’t survive normal monetary policy without risking financial ruin. Jerome Powell
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Bitcoin price and the overall crypto market reacted positively after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell recently stressed on the importance of private crypto-based transactions. He said that the Fed is working on a number of projects for digital currencies.Bitcoin price surged over 5% on Tuesday, February 11, pushing it to a
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Bitcoin’s (BTC) price is trending solidly back above the 5-digit figure mark.At around 15:00 UTC on Feb. 11, the price of BTC rose back above $10,000 from around $9,850 to $10,351 within an hour after succumbing to a small sell-off beneath the $10,000 level on Feb 10, CoinDesk BPI data
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United States Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) has questioned the Chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome H. Powell on U.S’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) progress at a hearing on monetary policy earlier today. Foster hopes for a digital dollarFoster began his questioning by asking Powell:“Do you think that establishing a
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The U.S. stock market rose on Monday. Dow bulls pushed the index more than 100 points higher despite a rally in safe-haven assets. Nordea & Allianz both see a FOMO bubble forming from Fed intervention. The Dow Jones reversed early losses on Monday, grinding a step closer to 30,000 despite a spate of
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The Federal Reserve is looking at whether launching its own digital currency could be an effective counter to private initiatives such as Libra. Lael Brainard, who sits on the U.S. central bank's board of governors, said Wednesday the Fed is "conducting research and experimentation related to distributed ledger technologies and
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