Smaller tech companies are down 30-40%, which is not properly reflected in the Composite since large tech companies make up roughly 20% of the index, “shielding” it from more volatile swings as the tech giants did not lose too much momentum in 2022. With challenging market conditions, the earnings season for SaaS companies for 2022 is about to begin. Here are three high-quality companies that should ride out the market’s volatility in 2022....

Blockchain analysis has revealed the Bitcoin donated to the ‘Freedom Convoy’ has been on the move, defying the authorities’ orders to freeze the funds. In fact, almost all of the approximately 20 BTC (about $788,000 US dollars at current rates) sent to the Tallycoin fundraiser has been moved, with just 0.11 BTC remaining, according to a CoinDesk report citing Blockchain.com statistics. In addition, most of the 34 crypto wallets identified by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) as being associated with the fundraiser on February 16 have been significantly depleted, with just 6 BTC left pooled between them as per data from the Crystal Blockchain analytics system....

New millionaires have been created as a result of the pandemic, the wealth of the upper classes has grown, and young millennials are also rising up, which altogether may increase luxury demand and consumption. Luxury watches seem to be doing particularly well in terms of their performance as both a trendy accessory and a solid investment within the premium category. Namely, a select group of luxury timepieces have fared better than the S&P 500 index....

In such an environment, start-ups are reluctant to go public, while investors and venture capitalists are more cautious with their investments overall. In short, this market environment requires more due diligence and higher risk appetites when investing. Thus, Finbold analyzed the TipRanks database to identify three recent IPOs that occurred in May but are already on the radar of Wall Street analysts. PepGen Inc. (NASDAQ: PEPG) Is a Massachusetts-based biotech firm focusing its research on neurological and neuromuscular diseases, utilizing a proprietary development platform based on Enhanced Delivery Oligonucleotides (EDOs)....

The actor lost the 119.2 ETH raised from the auction, although investigations are ongoing to identify the perpetrator, CoinDesk reported on September 2. On-chain analysis data by Etherscan indicates that the hacker began retrieving the funds on September 1. Furthermore, the actor’s team noted that the bad actor tried to steal about 800 NFTs from Murray’s personal collection but the plot was foiled. Following the attempt, the actor’s wallet security team from NFT consultancy platform Project Venkman moved the collection to a pair of safehouse wallets....

The money received, which is made up of capital from new and current investors, will be used to assist with the certification of its electric passenger air taxi and is anticipated to aid the company in achieving commercial launch in the first cities across the globe, according to a PRNewswire report on March 4. Volocopter is creating innovative and environmentally friendly modes of transportation for communities all over the globe because of the way its family of aircraft functions as a comprehensive ecosystem....

Without the support for this object, the browser would not be able to exchange data with the web server and update parts of the page without reloading the entire page. With Ajax, we can make GET and POST HTTP requests. However, there are some limitations to XMLHttpRequest object. These are mainly for security reasons. First, this object can only make HTTP(S) requests. References to File URLs are not supported. Secondly, it can make requests only to the same domain as the currently loaded page....

After gaining around 34% since this time last week, Bitcoin’s prices continue to march inexorably higher, surpassing $40,000 a few hours ago during late trading in the U.S. on Thursday night. According to Tradingview.com, Bitcoin prices touched $40,350 on some exchanges a few hours ago marking another new peak for the king of crypto. Since then, the asset has pulled back slightly to the $38,800 area at the time of writing....

According to data acquired by Finbold, Americans are projected to spend a whopping $61 billion on 5G smartphones in 2021, highlighting the significance of the technology that is still relatively new. The amount accounts for 12.5% of the $487 billion Americans plan to utilize on consumer tech in 2021. Elsewhere, Americans are also estimated to spend $45 billion on laptops in 2021 to rank second, while television will receive the third-highest amount at $24 billion....

Speaking during an interview on Kitco News, Lobo acknowledged that the war in Ukraine is a critical driver for the surge in gold’s price. However, he believes that the war will not last long, in return inspiring gold’s correction. Over the last few months, the market has been grappling with fear due to geopolitical factors between Russia and Ukraine, driving demand for safe-haven assets. Gold has been a key beneficiary of the demand....

As of Wednesday, January 5, Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading in a tight range of $45,000-$52,000 since early December, with very light volume in recent days. Currently, the price of BTC is trading near the lows of that range at $46,425, up 0.30% in the last 24 hours and down 2.73% across the previous week, according to CoinMarketCap. The total market capitalization of Bitcoin stands at $877 billion, with a total market dominance of 39....

On Wednesday, Bitcoin was unable to maintain gains above the $12,000 level which was the main resistance barrier. By press time, the asset is trading at $10,730. The huge price drop in 24 hours could be connected to the Bitcoin Whales, who might be dumping on the market. The drop in price can be interpreted as market weakness taking a toll on emotional traders. At the same time, market sentiment levels are worsening....

Shares prices followed suit, jumping 0.36% in premarket trading Tuesday, as investors remained unfazed by the company’s decision to close shops in New York City after an increase in COVID-19 cases. AAPL’s most recent close brought it to its 24th record of the year, with the firm gaining 6.2% in the last four days, putting it on track to set another record. The four-day win streak wasn’t brought to a halt as stock traders took solace in the fact that Apple’s New York City shops have not been totally closed since online purchases may still be picked up outside of those locations....

Each block of code is typically used to process a particular problem. These blocks of code are also known as Procedures. Generally, there are two types of procedures: Functions and Subroutines. Functions A function is a procedure that returns a value back to the caller. The “caller” is where the procedure was invoked from. Functions are created (declared) using the Function statement and terminated with an End Function statement. In the previous example, we have an example of a function that accepts two parameters (more about parameters below)....

The company forecasts enterprise storage revenue in Australia to decline by 7.5% Y-o-Y in 2020, following the ICT spending cuts seen among enterprises in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Slowdown or postponements of new office set-ups due to the pandemic will also have a negative impact on the market during the year. Nidhi Gupta, the Technology Analyst at GlobalData, explained for Finbold: In addition, with more and more enterprises beginning to rely on cloud services, the demand for storage in the coming years will emerge from cloud service providers and data center companies....

The agency in charge of enforcing economic rules and combating financial crime investigates WazirX for allegedly allowing users to deal in digital currencies without necessary documents. The regulator is concerned that WazirX is not doing enough to curb criminals’ potential misuse of digital currencies. At the same time, a dozen other worldwide agencies are probing its owner Binance for ongoing legal breaches. WazirX under scrutiny The Indian watchdog allegedly requested WazirX in its recent notice to explain why “withdrawal from crypto wallets is not a violation of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA),” a source with knowledge of the situation told Indian business news outlet Economic Times....

Indeed, global Google searches involving the keyword ‘ChatGPT’ have spiked in January, with China ranking as the region with the highest search interest in the platform, whereas the United States isn’t among countries recording increased demand. As it happens, one task in which ChatGPT might be exceptionally useful, is gathering and presenting to users the predictions of possible price movement ranges of digital assets on the cryptocurrency market, such as Bitcoin (BTC)....

In his recent tweets, Taleb says that the ideal crypto asset and currency is beyond the control of a central authority, is capable of rapid transactions, reliable, and serves as a store of value, but the flagship cryptocurrency falls short of these attributes. He then said that bitcoin works like a Ponzi scheme, a type of fraud that generates profits for earlier investors using funds from later investors. Bitcoin critic Taleb is known for his critical stance on the current finance industry, the monetary system, and recent financial crises....

Indeed, upon observing the Fibonacci-Dollar Cheat sheet, the experts at TradingShot have noted the link between Bitcoin halvings, “the shock they fundamentally deal and have done so historically and the U.S. Dollar Index,” according to their analysis published on November 20. Previous Time Fibonacci patterns First of all, the timing of the post-halving recoveries has previously followed certain rules, or as the TradingShot team explained, “the price tends to rally aggressively after each Halving (Fib 0....

Currently, the global crypto market value is now $1.29 trillion, down 1.04% from the previous day, with the values of all major cryptocurrencies having been in negative territory for the last 24 hours at the start of the business week according to CoinMarketCap.com. DeFi currently accounts for 10.52 % of the whole 24-hour volume in the crypto sector with a total volume of $5.03 billion, while the total crypto market volume has fallen by 14....