new video loaded: The hidden number is driving US job growth After a year of just 181,000 new jobs, January’s 131,000 increase in the US labor force was surprisingly positive. Ben Casselman, the New York Times’ chief economic correspondent, explains the numbers. By Ben Casselman, Christina Thornell, Christina Shaman, June Kim and Nikolay Nikolov 13 […]
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Crypto Daybook Americas will not be published on Monday, February 16 due to the President’s Day holiday in the United States. We will be back on February 17th. By Francisco Rodrigues (all times ET unless otherwise noted) Bitcoin BTC$67,086.99 is headed for a fourth straight weekly decline in its longest negative streak since mid-November. The
Bitcoin BTC$66,560.23 rose to test $67,000 early Friday and was quickly rejected, though it’s still about 1% higher since midnight UTC with ether ETH$1,946.09 rises half as much. The derivatives market also shows signs of positivity. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) is little changed, up just 0.7% for the period. While the gains mark a
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The CEO of Praetorian Group International (PGI) was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the United States for running a global Ponzi scheme that falsely claimed to invest in bitcoin and currency trading. Ramil Ventura Palafox, 61, promised daily returns of up to 3%, misled more than 90,000 investors and drained more than $62.7
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Bitcoins BTC$66,950.20 long-term rally is “broken” and will remain so until the price climbs above $85,000, said Jean-David Péquignot, chief commercial officer of derivatives exchange Deribit. The largest cryptocurrency has settled in the $60,000 to $70,000 range in the past week, about 45% below the all-time high it hit in October. It is on track
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Wall Street analysts from firms including JPMorgan ( JPM ) and Cannacord cut their price targets for Coinbase ( COIN ) shares after the largest publicly traded crypto exchange missed fourth-quarter earnings estimates. JPMorgan said weak crypto prices and trading activity weighed on volumes and fees. The bank maintained its overweight rating on the crypto
HONG KONG — Crypto is finding a new niche as the payment tool for machines, bitcoin BTC$66,350.94 not yet bottomed out, US regulatory changes and the role of prediction markets were some of the topics discussed at CoinDesk’s Consensus Hong Kong conference this week. “As AI agents become capable of making and executing decisions independently,
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The current state of the crypto market is unfolding almost exactly as historical patterns suggest, according to Michael Terpin, CEO of Transform Ventures That is why he was skeptical of the recent overly optimistic bottom calls. “When people thought that the bottom would be at $80,000 and that it would only be a six-week bear
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Hong Kong – Bitcoin layer-2 builders made the case Thursday that the next phase of the crypto’s evolution will not be about replacing bitcoin as “digital gold,” but about making it productive. Speaking at Consensus Hong Kong 2026, executives from Citrea, Rootstock Labs and investment firm BlockSpaceForce argued that Bitcoin’s scaling layer is less about
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