Alex Kimani

Writer, Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2018

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• Banking Giant Accidentally Loses $35 Billion

  Published 28 May 2018 | viewed 6,170 times

  Deutsche Bank AG, Germany’s largest bank, is in deep trouble. Decades of inept management and mounting losses have led to a severe decline in investor…

• Does The Turkish Lira Need A New Leader?

  Published 28 May 2018 | viewed 2,695 times

  Forex traders in Turkey like to joke that the national currency, the lira, is the only real opposition remaining in the country. The lira certainly…

• Equities On Track To Post Best May In A Decade

  Published 28 May 2018 | viewed 2,297 times

  There's an old maxim that advises investors to sell their stocks in May and stay away until November. The aphorism originated from the belief that…

• The Dark Side Of Trump's Tax Bonanza: $1 Trillion In Debt

  Published 26 May 2018 | viewed 1,954 times

  U.S. public debt has increased sharply in in the post-recession period. With a gross public debt figure of $21.3 trillion (106 percent of GDP and…

• How Goldman Made $200M In A Day

  Published 25 May 2018 | viewed 2,962 times

  Most people do not have fond memories of market crashes. After all, they are called crashes because most people find themselves on their wrong side…

• Goldman Backed ‘Stablecoin’ Hopes To Curb Crypto Volatility

  Published 23 May 2018 | viewed 2,428 times

  Since its early days, bitcoin enthusiasts have celebrated and even aggrandized its power to shape the world and relegate fiat currencies like the dollar to…

• Facebook May Soon Become A Paid Service

  Published 23 May 2018 | viewed 2,033 times

  Back in 2010, a young and starry-eyed Mark Zuckerberg declared that Facebook would always be free. Fast forward to 2018 and a more grounded and…

• Micron Soars On $10-Billion Share Buyback

  Published 22 May 2018 | viewed 1,579 times

  The previously unloved energy sector has lately been hogging analysts' coverage thanks to a nice rebound in oil prices. However, it's the semiconductor sector that…

• Could Crypto Solve The Middle East’s Currency Crisis?

  Published 22 May 2018 | viewed 3,174 times

  Despite living in a middle-income region, citizens of the Middle East are some of the world's most financially excluded. Only 15 percent of the population…

• Could This Software Giant Beat Apple To $1 Trillion?

  Published 21 May 2018 | viewed 1,837 times

  The trillion-dollar race is on, and a handful of tech's most valuable players are jostling to claim those bragging rights. At a market cap of…

• Kenya: The Blockchain Capital Of Africa

  Published 21 May 2018 | viewed 3,091 times

  Much of the attention, investment and flurry around blockchain technology is currently focused in the West where the utopian technology is being put into novel…

• The Five Most Important Market Indicators

  Published 20 May 2018 | viewed 6,385 times

  There's a common human tendency to try and understand complex, multi-faceted issues in simple or even simplistic terms. That's why something like the centuries-old Groundhog…

• Ethereum Blockchain Tops Bitcoin's In Latest Study

  Published 19 May 2018 | viewed 2,447 times

  In 2017, crypto hangouts on Reddit were dominated by talk of a strange phenomenon known as 'flippening', which was supposed to happen late that year…

• Is Gold Only For Long-Term Investors?

  Published 18 May 2018 | viewed 22,722 times

  Gold has been a clear outlier in the commodities market not only in the current year but also over the past 12 months. Gold is…

• Record Refinancing Points At Next Big Housing Bubble

  Published 18 May 2018 | viewed 3,922 times

  Treasury interest rates have been climbing incessantly over the past couple of years, and so have mortgage rates. MND mortgage rate now stands at 4.70…

• The Five Most Important Blockchain Trends In 2018

  Published 17 May 2018 | viewed 3,191 times

  Every quarter, CoinDesk publishes its State of Blockchain Report summarizing the key events, trends and data in the blockchain industry. The publication's latest Q1 2018…

• Senate Votes To Protect Net Neutrality, But What’s Next?

  Published 16 May 2018 | viewed 2,102 times

  Obama-era net neutrality rules were upheld by the Senate in a 52-47 vote today, but there is still a long way to go for the…

• 3 Tech Stocks With Real Upside

  Published 16 May 2018 | viewed 2,375 times

  After a nice rally over the last week, the markets have been roiled once again, finishing sharply lower on Tuesday. You can chalk that up…

• The Tech Giant Using Blockchain To Fight Poverty

  Published 16 May 2018 | viewed 2,127 times

  Investors love a good turnaround story, as long-term Apple, Ford and General Motors investors will probably tell you. After all, a company that manages to…

• The New War Unfolding In The Tech Space

  Published 15 May 2018 | viewed 2,101 times

  Cable wars, mobile wars and cloud wars--the tech space is rarely, if ever, free from jousting; but these three have become so banal: There's new…