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Ripple Sold Over $250M XRP in Q2 2019

Ripple Sold Over $250M XRP in Q2 2019

Ripple, the company behind the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, published on Wednesday its XRP Markets Report. Besides the sales figures, the company came with several announcements related to XRP and Ripple’s products Xpring and RippleNet.... Read more.

Nissan to Cut 12,500 Jobs After Worst Quarter in 10yrs

Nissan to Cut 12,500 Jobs After Worst Quarter in 10yrs

Japanese Nissan Motor published on Wednesday its financial performance for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2019. The profits declined more than 9... Read more.

Facebook, Amazon Spend Record Amount For Lobbying

Facebook, Amazon Spend Record Amount For Lobbying

Facebook and Amazon spent record amounts for lobbying in the second quarter of this year, according to Bloomberg. The increase in spending is driven b... Read more.

UBS Reports Highest Q2 Profit in 9 Years

UBS Reports Highest Q2 Profit in 9 Years

Swiss banking giant UBS published its financial report for the second quarter of this year. The lender recorded the highest second-quarter earnings si... Read more.

XM Parent Launches Trading.com Website

XM Parent Launches Trading.com Website

Trading Point Group, the parent company of forex and CFD broker XM, has recently launched its new website and trading platform called Trading.com. The... Read more.

Hyundai Reports Biggest Net Profit Gain in 7 Years

Hyundai Reports Biggest Net Profit Gain in 7 Years

South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor published its financial results for the second quarter of this year. The company saw the largest quarterly profit ... Read more.

Weekly Market Review - July 15-19

Weekly Market Review - July 15-19

This week has been quite volatile for most of the financial markets. Japanese yen and Swiss franc have been the best performers, as investors are turn... Read more.

JPMorgan Sees Record Quarterly Profit

JPMorgan Sees Record Quarterly Profit

US banking giant JPMorgan released its financial results for the second quarter, reporting higher-than-expected earnings. The performance was driven b... Read more.

Bank of America’s Consumer Banking Drives Q2 Profit Gain

Bank of America’s Consumer Banking Drives Q2 Profit Gain

Bank of America (BoA), the second-largest bank in the US, published its second-quarter financial performance on Wednesday. The bank showed better-than... Read more.

Goldman Sachs Reports Better Than Expected Q2 Performance

Goldman Sachs Reports Better Than Expected Q2 Performance

US banking giant Goldman Sachs published its financial performance for the second quarter, beating analysts’ expectations. The revenues were driven ... Read more.

Bitcoin, Libra “National Security Issue” US Treasury Says

Bitcoin, Libra “National Security Issue” US Treasury Says

On Monday, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin took the crypto market by surprise when holding a press conference that revolved around Bitcoin and Fa... Read more.

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