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The charts that matter: a tough week for bitcoin
Cryptocurrency bitcoin slid by some 20% this week. Here’s what else happened to the charts that matter most to the global economy.
On the cover of this week’s magazine, we’ve got the tortoise and the hare. In our cover story, Richard Beddard looks at UK plodders – solid, dependable, un-hyped companies that get on with making money quietly while the fashionable new startups on the block zoom around all over the place shouting about how brilliant they are. When you’re buying shares, says Richard, you need to balance quality and price. Richard picks five slow and steady blue-chip stocks to buy for the long run.
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This week’s podcast features George Maher. It’s a little different this week in that George isn’t a fund manager talking about his investment style and what he’s buying now. George is an actuary – someone who looks at risk. He’s written a book – Pugnare – about the fall of the Roman Empire and the decisions its leaders made that led to its demise – and the rather worrying parallels with the decisions our leaders are making today. Find out what he says here.
The US dollar index (DXY – a measure of the strength of the dollar against a basket of the currencies of its major trading partners) took a breather in its long climb.
US weekly initial jobless claims fell by 43,000 to 184,000 –the lowest figure since September 1969, when it was 182,000. The four-week moving average fell by 21,250 to 218,750.
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