Alex Kimani

Writer, Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2018

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• Micron Soars On $10-Billion Share Buyback

  Published 22 May 2018 | viewed 1,050 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 2,300 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 1,272 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 2,114 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 5,159 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 1,693 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 21,841 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 2,839 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 2,265 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 1,467 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 1,621 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 1,403 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 1,392 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…

• Online Ad Revenue Overtakes TV For the First Time

  Published 15 May 2018 | viewed 1,692 times

  It's been a long time coming, but online and digital advertising has finally crossed a remarkable milestone-- taking the crown from traditional TV as the…

• Crypto Hedge Funds Post Best Gains In Years

  Published 14 May 2018 | viewed 1,862 times

  Bitcoin investors nowadays cannot seem to catch a proper break. Just when the digital coin was looking to break through a key resistance level, here…

• Is There A Correlation Between Bitcoin And Stocks?

  Published 11 May 2018 | viewed 2,129 times

  Does Bitcoin go up or down when stocks climb and vice-versa? The subject of how bitcoin prices are affected by stock movements has fascinated traders…

• Record Breaking Year For Private Money Managers

  Published 10 May 2018 | viewed 1,495 times

  The world of investing is quickly going private, with a flood of capital flowing into less visible, less-liquid assets. U.S. stock markets have shrunk dramatically…

• Wages Remain Stagnant Despite Full Employment

  Published 10 May 2018 | viewed 1,231 times

  Something peculiar has been happening during the current economic recovery cycle. Nine years into the economic expansion, unemployment rates have fallen quite dramatically: The May…

• How Gold Could Benefit From Soaring U.S. Debt

  Published 09 May 2018 | viewed 22,950 times

  It's barely a decade since the last financial crisis ended, and Americans are already hooked on debt, again. Credit card debt and other types of…

• Tech Stocks Face Off For Hardware Dominance

  Published 09 May 2018 | viewed 1,104 times

  Over the past two months, the gaming world has been treated to rounds of verbal sparring between Nvidia and GPU archrival AMD over Nvidia's new…