Gold, Stocks, Bitcoin: Weekly Overview — May 6

After recovering above the $50,000 price level last week, bitcoin has been largely channeling in the 50,000’s this week.

Then on May 3, the price bumped back up to $58,800, before selling pressure forced it down by the end of the day and over the course of the next day.

Gold has had a handful of large swings over the past week.

It trickled back down after that, before briefly shooting back up to that level, then dropping again the next day.

The first time breaching this threshold is “quite something for gold,” according to Ross Norman, chief executive officer at Metals Daily.

“Over the last three weeks, it has attempted these levels five times unsuccessfully, which further reinforces the strength of the resistance level,” he said.

For example, it saw a recent peak around mid-February before bottoming out by the end of the month.

From around $274 last week, PYPL has been edging down day-by-day, before hitting support around $246 on May 4.

The company generated first-quarter net income of $1.1 billion, or $0.92 cents a share, up from $84 million, or $0.07 a share, in the same quarter the year prior.

It edged down to $78 the next day, before inching back up to $79 the following day.

Although a great deal of that revenue likely stemmed from purchases for cryptocurrency mining, the company’s CEO Lisa Su seemed to stumble over a question regarding its contribution.

Because AMD does not make products explicitly for the crypto mining market, it is unable to discern what customer segments its profits derive from.

FRANKFURT could cost the industry some 100,000 jobs in combustion engine production by 2025 if companies fail to beef up efforts to reskill workers.

The event, coming less than a year after the Fed had to inject $2 trillion into the bond market in the space of about five weeks to keep it from a complete melt down, “highlighted the importance of continued focus on Treasury market resilience,” the Fed said in its semi-annual Financial Stability Report.

and China create headaches for countries seeking to stay on good terms with both.Still, the region’s economies generally have more room for error than most of their counterparts, according to Baig at DBS.“No emerging economy in Asia at present is characterized by debt sustainability concerns or a dramatic collapse in investor sentiment, which seems to be the case in a number of emerging economies elsewhere,” said Baig.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.

Sydney time, two hours earlier than planned.The upsizing highlighted the strength of investors’ appetite for new listings, after Australian firms priced nearly $2.3 billion of IPOs so far in 2021, the most year-to-date since 2007, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.Read More: IPOs Boom at the Fastest Pace Since 2007 in AustraliaThe deal is one of two involving KKR’s portfolio companies in the country’s market this week.

Until recently, they expected the government to run into technical default risk in mid- to late-August.Treasury officials said they’re evaluating a range of potential scenarios, including some in which extraordinary measures could be exhausted much more quickly than in prior debt-limit episodes.Still, the projected cash balance of $750 billion at the end of September probably requires Congress to suspend or lift the debt ceiling, according to Wrightson ICAP economist Lou Crandall.“Our guess is that the Treasury won’t have enough leeway to hit its notional September 30 TGA target of $750 billion without a debt ceiling increase, but the Treasury probably won’t be scraping along at rock-bottom levels at that point either,” Crandall wrote in a note to clients.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.

With billions of dollars flowing into so-called ESG funds, that’s created a lucrative new line of business that banks are eager to court.The prison business has long been targeted by activists who say the profit-motive gives an incentive to cut costs, hurting rehabilitation efforts.“We call on Stifel and all investors and financial institutions to stop the financing of mass incarceration and urge them to join us in making investments in community-led public health, safety, and infrastructure to become a part of the solution,” Christina Hollenback, founding partner Justice Capital, said in the statement.A client of Stifel, hedge fund Basso Capital, had concerns about the bond deal, the statement added.“As a long-standing trading client of Stifel, we are halting our business with them as long as their policy to finance mass incarceration stands, and we urge other Stifel clients and partners to do the same,” Howard Fischer, chief executive officer of Basso Capital, said in a statement.Related: As Barclays Prison Bond Unraveled, ESG Activists Scored Rare WinFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.

stock index futures rose on Thursday ahead of data that is expected to show a decline in weekly jobless claims, while shares of vaccine makers looked to extend losses after President Joe Biden’s plan to back intellectual property waivers on COVID-19 shots.

It’s now down 22% from the close on its first day.Nasdaq had set a reference price of $250 a share on April 13 for Coinbase’s direct listing, a number that’s a requirement for the stock to begin trading, but not a direct indicator of the company’s potential market capitalization.“What has really hurt Coinbase, now that their direct listing has taken off, you’re seeing expectations that other exchanges are coming on board,” said Edward Moya, senior market analyst at Oanda.

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