Alex Kimani

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Contributor since: 26 Feb 2018

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• China Weighs Bitcoin Mining Ban Over Environmental Concerns

  Published 11 April 2019 | viewed 9,960 times

  China has an ongoing love-hate relationship with blockchain technology. On one hand, the government openly touts blockchain tech, going as far as claiming it has…

• Behind The IMF’s Market-Jolting Doom And Gloom

  Published 10 April 2019 | viewed 7,474 times

  The world economy is likely to be significantly less vibrant this year than had been thought just three months ago. That is the verdict by…

• Gold Prices Stuck In Limbo

  Published 10 April 2019 | viewed 6,203 times

  Gold is treading water, holding just above $1,300 per ounce for the second day in a row, buoyed by an IMF downgrade of the global…

• Chinese Appetite For Gold Approaching Record Levels

  Published 09 April 2019 | viewed 8,059 times

  China is developing an insatiable appetite for gold, and the country could soon become the world’s largest buyer of the precious metal. China is currently…

• Analyst: Bitcoin’s Recent Rally Is A Reaction To The Fed

  Published 08 April 2019 | viewed 7,686 times

  Bitcoin is about to make central banks irrelevant. At least, that is the view of some crypto punters, who are crediting bitcoin’s latest rally to…

• Chinese Tech Giant Tencent Completes Asia’s Largest Bond Sale

  Published 05 April 2019 | viewed 13,839 times

  China’s social media and gaming heavyweight Tencent Holdings (OTC Pink:TCEHY) said back in February that it had no plans to scale back on investments after…

• Africa’s First Unicorn IPO Is Coming To The NYSE

  Published 04 April 2019 | viewed 8,272 times

  Africa’s biggest e-commerce startup, Jumia Technologies, is set to list on the New York Stock Exchange in April, ending months of speculation. The online retailer…

• What To Expect As Stocks Close In On Record Highs

  Published 03 April 2019 | viewed 2,938 times

  The animal spirits are on the prowl once again, and world financial markets are on a rampage. Forecasts of doom and gloom rippled through the…

• China’s $13-Trillion Bond Market Joins Global Index

  Published 02 April 2019 | viewed 9,435 times

  Not too long ago, overseas investing in the Chinese market was a complex and tightly controlled affair. Fortunately, slowly but surely, China’s capital markets have…

• Trump Increases Pressure On The Fed

  Published 01 April 2019 | viewed 5,401 times

  President Trump is fond of railing against his handpicked Fed chair Jerome Powell, repeatedly saying he is not thrilled by his appointee or his policies.…

• Who Really Wins In Corporate Mega-Mergers?

  Published 31 March 2019 | viewed 4,447 times

  Corporate tie-ups are all the rage at the moment. In 2018, global M&A deal value hit a staggering $3.53 trillion as acquisitions increasingly became the…

• American Companies Still Stashing Trillions Abroad

  Published 29 March 2019 | viewed 12,137 times

  When the GOP tax bill was enacted in 2017, President Trump promised that the United States would become a magnet for new jobs as trillions…

• Big Tech Is Taking On Local News

  Published 28 March 2019 | viewed 2,210 times

  Internet giants Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. have shouldered the majority of the blame for creating local news deserts by putting local news outlets, including…

• The Trojan Horse Of Chinese Investment

  Published 28 March 2019 | viewed 4,146 times

  China is a highly ambitious nation. Beijing unabashedly harbors dreams of world domination, first in the technology arena before eventually become a leading military power.…

• Only 5% of Bitcoin Transactions Are Real

  Published 27 March 2019 | viewed 6,532 times

  Over the past few years, the SEC has turned down no less than a dozen proposals for bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The common view in…

• Trade In Counterfeit Goods Hits Half A Trillion Dollars

  Published 24 March 2019 | viewed 13,712 times

  Black-market traders have increasingly been tapping into an invisible network to funnel  a wide range of goods into global markets right under the noses of…

• Can The British Pound Overcome Brexit?

  Published 22 March 2019 | viewed 8,328 times

  The pound sterling has been the most volatile developed market currency ever since the British people voted to exit the regional bloc in June 2016.…

• Britain’s Billionaires Are Fleeing To Offshore Tax Havens

  Published 10 March 2019 | viewed 3,535 times

  Last month, Charlie Munger, VC at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and a long-term business partner of Warren Buffett, warned that the latest proposal by the Democrats…

• Behind Bars It’s Business As Usual For ‘Pharma Bro’

  Published 09 March 2019 | viewed 1,823 times

  According to the prison inmate handbook, it is strictly forbidden for inmates to conduct any kind of business from behind bars—unless, of course, you are…

• Are US Stock Markets Headed to All-Time Highs?

  Published 08 March 2019 | viewed 2,073 times

  U.S. stocks closed lower for the second day running on Wednesday as they took a breather after a spectacular start to the year. Major indexes…