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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Susan Collins said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that another rate cut in December is on the table, but it is not a "done deal". "There's more data that we will see between now and December, and we'll have to continue to weigh what makes sense," Collins was quoted as saying in remarks made on Thursday. "I don't see an argument for maintaining restrictive policy when there is not evidence of new price pressures, and the old dynamics are perhaps unevenly and gradually resolving over time."

The year is winding down, but the bull markets are still charging ahead, getting a boost from improved sentiment after the presidential election. While the next few months will be a time of transition, a few things are likely. The Trump administration is expected to pursue a far looser regulatory policy than the outgoing Biden government. Plans for individual tax cuts are projected to drive consumer spending, while reductions in corporate taxes could deliver an immediate boost to earnings. While

14 November’s intraday high was around $93,500 amid ongoing high volume.

Bitcoin's price has now corrected approximately 6% since the all-time high break on Nov. 13.

The brokerage said in a note on Thursday it expects Trump's trade policies to be a drag on global growth, while consequent U.S. dollar strength could further pressure emerging market assets. It expects Saudi Arabia and India to be less exposed to trade risks, and upgraded the top oil exporter to "overweight" from "underweight".

The potential deployment on a Bitcoin layer-2 by the largest DeFi lending protocol highlights the appetite for harnessing the original blockchain for purposes that are commonplace elsewhere in the crypto ecosystem.

Big global investors are exiting popular trades that bet on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s tax and tariff policies boosting Wall Street and wreaking damage abroad and swooping in on some of the Nov. 5 election's biggest market victims. After U.S. stocks and the dollar bounced on Trump's growth agenda and trade war fears pressured Chinese, European and emerging market assets, money managers are hunting for bargains in places where pessimism may have gone too far. "The thesis that Trump is good for the U.S. and bad for the rest of the world is a very common narrative," said John Roe, head of multi-asset funds at Legal & General Investment Management, which manages 1.2 trillion pounds ($1.52 trillion) of investments.

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Surging bitcoin prices following the election of Donald Trump as the next US president have finally given Hong Kong's spot cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs) a boost this week, with trading volume surging to a three-month high. Hong Kong's three ETFs that invest directly in bitcoin this week became active trading targets with about HK$135 million (US$17.3 million) changing hands on Tuesday. On most days since the ETFs launched in April, their total daily trading volume lingered below US

European shares opened lower while Asian stocks were mixed on Friday after U.S. stocks slipped as the market’s big rally following Trump's election victory cooled further. Britain’s FTSE 100 lost 0.4% to 8,038.17 after data from the Office for National Statistics showed economic growth slowed to 0.1% in the July-September quarter from the 0.5% in the previous quarter. The yen has been weakening against the U.S. dollar, boosting share prices for exporter like Nissan Motor Co., whose shares jumped 4.5% on Friday.