The Bitcoin halving event, a pivotal occurrence, is scheduled for April, 19 2024. This quadrennial event will reduce the block subsidy for Bitcoin miners from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC, thereby halving the reward that miners receive for their efforts. Such events have historically led to profound shifts in the mining landscape, potentially influencing various…
Witthaya Prasongsin/Moment via Getty Images By Jan van Eck Let’s look at what to expect this year from the three major forces impacting the markets: monetary policy, government spending and global economic growth. Dear Fellow Investors, Our outlook for financial markets in 2023 was “sideways” and “40/60,” or overweight bonds. This strategy worked well until…
Bitwise has published 10 predictions for the crypto industry in 2024, including a fall in Ethereum transaction cost and the approval of Bitcoin ETFs. As we are coming closer to a new year, there are inevitably not only recaps of 2023 but predictions for 2024. The industry is in a very interesting place with top…
One of the 2024 predictions is the emergence of at least one breakout blockchain game that will surpass a million daily active users as Web3 gaming continues to vie for mainstream adoption. Asset manager VanEck has made 15 forecasts for the crypto industry in 2024. In what it terms a “speculative expedition”, the New York-based…
Saxo Bank expects crude oil to hit $150 per barrel in 2024 while the Japanese economy to grow by a staggering 7%. As the year draws to a close, Wall Street banks are unveiling their forecasts for 2024, and Denmark’s Saxo Bank has once again embraced its annual tradition of presenting outrageous predictions. Termed as…
Maximusnd November 2023 was the best month for bonds since 1985! But let’s zoom out a bit. The bond market has had a rough past few years. 2022 was the worst year for bonds in the past 250 years. 2023 hasn’t been great, but November was an exception. Was November’s record-breaking performance the turning point…
Predictions for the upcoming Bitcoin halving are still pouring it, with most of them bullish on Bitcoin’s chance of a parabolic rise. The upcoming Bitcoin halving expected next year is already creating quite a bit of buzz as the market anticipates a reduction in Bitcoin block rewards. With a little over six months left till…
Pharmaceutical company AbbVie should announce its next annual dividend increase in October. The company has increased its dividend each year since its spin-off from Abbott Labs. vzphotos This is the latest in my series of articles where I provide predictions of annual dividend increases for long-term dividend growth companies. At the end of August, I…
The price of Bitcoin is still above $27k as investors and stakeholders await monetary policy announcements from regulators worldwide. The price of Bitcoin stayed above $27,000 on Wednesday as most of the largest cryptocurrencies remained barely changed for the most part. The crypto market is likely reacting to investors holding out for official monetary policy…
ipuwadol/iStock via Getty Images With the unhedged position Antero Resources (NYSE:AR) chose combined with low natural gas prices, investors must be vigilant concerning cash generation and management decisions with regard to its usage. In this endeavor, investors must remember a critical difference between negative cash flows and spending, which results in negative cash flow. Sometimes…