Alex Kimani

Writer, Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2018

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• Online Ad Revenue Overtakes TV For the First Time

  Published 15 May 2018 | viewed 2,421 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 2,694 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 2,870 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 2,260 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 1,915 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 23,743 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 1,749 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…

• What’s Behind The Decline In Bitcoin Volatility?

  Published 09 May 2018 | viewed 2,466 times

  Bitcoin bulls will remember with nostalgia the digital currency’s epic run in late 2017 that took it to an all-time high of nearly $20k after…

• Cybercrime Is Soaring In Emerging Markets

  Published 07 May 2018 | viewed 3,995 times

  The massive Equifax data breach exposed another growing menace in cyberworld and the need to keep an eagle eye on your finances-- identity theft. Fraudsters…

• The Worst Trades In History

  Published 06 May 2018 | viewed 8,357 times

  To err is human--it's a fact of life that people make mistakes, all the time. Fortunately for the majority of us, our biggest mistakes on…

• The Fintech Revolution Sets Its Sights On Big Banking

  Published 03 May 2018 | viewed 2,601 times

  Unlike industries such as retail, telecom, media and transport, the global banking sector has remained amazingly resistant to disruption by technology, continuing to march to…

• Will This Tech Giant's Blockchain Pivot Pay Off?

  Published 02 May 2018 | viewed 1,787 times

  IBM won’t be going down without a fight. The company is trying to re-invent itself through blockchain innovations, and has even emerged as the early…

• Is The Bond Market Bull Run Coming To An End?

  Published 01 May 2018 | viewed 1,898 times

  Transition periods in the money markets bring with them a level of uncertainty and tend to be quite turbulent. And that aptly describes the current…

• Can The Dollar Continue To Rally?

  Published 01 May 2018 | viewed 1,731 times

  The U.S. dollar has been a sea of a volatility in recent times as geopolitical risks and lingering trade-war fears continue weighing in. The greenback's…

• Is The SEC Warming Up To Cryptocurrencies?

  Published 01 May 2018 | viewed 2,622 times

  In April 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dealt a severe blow to the cryptocurrency industry when it rejected what was slated to become…

• What's Behind Today's Cybercrime Explosion?

  Published 30 April 2018 | viewed 6,391 times

  Bitcoin’s secure payment system has been put into many legitimate uses, but like most technologies, it’s also a lucrative crypto space for cybercriminals who use…

• After Losing $90 Billion, FANG Stocks Are Back

  Published 27 April 2018 | viewed 2,282 times

  The FANG quartet of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google has been one of the best growth stories of the nine-year bull market—even if the FANG…

• Pump And Dump Schemes Take Over Crypto Markets

  Published 26 April 2018 | viewed 5,408 times

  In the largely unregulated environment of cryptocurrency trading, however, bold and daring pump and dump groups of anywhere from 2,000-200,000 traders are slowly brewing. Pump…

• Investor Debt Outpaces S&P 500 Growth

  Published 25 April 2018 | viewed 2,580 times

  The U.S. stock market has undergone one of the most impressive expansions since the financial crisis of 2009, almost tripling in value. While that is…

• Will Bitcoin Ever Dethrone Gold?

  Published 25 April 2018 | viewed 2,771 times

  The Winklevoss twins, well known for their love of everything Bitcoin, are famous for once declaring that “Bitcoin will one day become better at being…