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President Donald Trump has slammed the U.S central bank for raising interest rates thereby hurting the country's stock markets and economic growth.

Cryptocurrency fraudsters have swindled their victims out of hundreds of millions – even billions – of dollars. What do they do to earn people's trust and then take their money?

Binance admits to having been hacked and losing $40 million in Bitcoin.

Buffett has made some negative remarks about bitcoin in the past, and he just renewed his criticism.

Going by the frenzy on Twitter where Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk is solicited to join the cryptocurrency crowd, an impression builds up that Musk is on the cusp of joining the cryptocurrency industry.

Earlier in April, cybercriminals hacked into Microsoft Outlook emails. The hackers reportedly also stole from victims' cryptocurrency accounts.

Microsoft on Wednesday became only the third publicly listed firm to hit a market cap of $1 trillion.

China and Turkey are standing-up to U.S. demands they stop importing Iranian oil.

Pork prices in China will skyrocket more than 70 percent in the coming year as the stock of domesticated pigs known as hog will plunge to "historically low" levels because of raging African swine fever.

The S&P 500 may see a profit slowdown, its first in nearly 3 years, but a modestly encouraging economic outlook will cushion the blow, Lydia Boussour, senior U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, said.

There seems to be enough market evidence to indicate $80 oil by the summer.

The International Energy Agency still doesn't see growth stopping.

Stablecoins are designed to be less volatile and are centralized as opposed to the decentralized approach taken by bitcoin and most other digital currencies.

The prevailing uncertainty in the oil market abetted by OPEC production cuts, the U.S. sanctions on Venezuela oil and other factors can snowball into an energy crunch and impact oil price, warned an industry expert.

Slower U.S. growth expectations and the Federal Reserve's more gradual approach towards interest rate hikes will weigh on the U.S. dollar in the second half of the year, analysts said in a poll conducted by International Business Times.

From the highs of 2017 to extreme volatility of 2018, from regulatory action around the world to increasing adoption among institutional players, it's been a wild ride.

With oil demand growth slowing, it's entirely possible that U.S. production alone will increase more than global demand in the next few years.

A growing desire to bring stability to the cryptocurrency market has paved the way for the advent of 'stablecoins'.

Dowries impose a considerable tax on girls' families, with estimates indicating that in South Asia it is six times the average annual household income.

We have to treat blockchain as a precious commodity so we don't damage it before it can show its value.

Bitcoin's value, then, has been built on an evolving series of narratives which have drawn in successive waves of buyers.

Increasing currency volatility rings alarm bells and calls existing monetary system into question.

Jim Ratcliffe topped the Sunday Times Rich List 2018 with an estimated worth of £21.05bn.

Pointers from the financial market's performance in 2018

With the value of crypto-currencies soaring in recent months, it's not hard to see why cyber-criminals have jumped on the bandwagon.

Robert Leshner, CEO, Compound, asks where are the crypto money markets?

The BoE chief said it is time for cryptocurrencies to meet the same level of regulation as the rest of the financial system.

Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group, says it's time to close crypto's regulatory vacuum.

The Microsoft founder and tech billionaire's latest remarks have already triggered a wave of criticism from cryptocurrency fans, venture capitalists, developers and investors.