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No letup for Bitcoin as world’s biggest digital coin drops

Bloomberg Bitcoin edged lower, bringing its four-day slide to about 16 percent, as questions mount about whether the world’s biggest cryptocurrency was manipulated during last year’s record price surge. The digital coin has closed below its 50-, 100- and 200-day moving averages for the past 16 days, the longest stretch below those support levels this year. Bitcoin, which surged more ...

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Faster inflation in India puts analysts on watch for rate hike

Bloomberg Inflation picked up in India for a second straight month, giving ammunition to the central bank to further tighten monetary policy and squeezing returns for bond investors. Consumer prices rose 4.87 percent in May from a year earlier, the statistics ministry said in a statement in New Delhi. That was broadly in line with the 4.9 percent median estimate ...

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PBOC to mirror Fed with rate hike keeping other taps open

Bloomberg The People’s Bank of China will raise borrowing costs in the open market if the US Federal Reserve decides to increase rates this week, according to a Bloomberg survey. A majority of 31 economists said the PBOC will increase by five basis points the rate it charges on reverse-repurchase agreements, which guide funding costs in financial markets, after the ...

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