Here at Day Trading Academy (DTA), we provide a weekly review of markets and geopolitical events. Below you will find our most recent updates.
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This week we talk about the backing that Facebook is getting for the launch of it’s new cryptocurrency, it’s been backed by 12 firms including Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Uber, they’re gonna be investing nearly 10 million dollars each in a consortium that’s gonna allow them to govern the digital coin. We also talk about the protest that have been going on in Hong Kong due to a new extradition law that China wants to pass. In case you didn’t know, When […]
May was the worst month for the S&P 500 in the U.S. which is the stock exchage that we teach to trade in. It fell more than 6,5%, the DAO fell below 25k and the Nasdaq is now in correction territory, one of the things that impacted the Nasdaq the most were the reports about the U.S. antitrust investigations against Google and Amazon and other big tech companies. On thursday Mexico reported they were gonna send 6k soldiers to the Guatemala/Mexico border […]
Today we talk about the latest news in the international financial markets and the stock market. The month of May was the worst for the S&P 500 market that is the main stock market where we teach at DTA Academy. It went down by 6.5% in the month of May. Dow Jones which is one of the main US stock exchanges it dropped down by 25 thousand. It is its sixth consecutive week of loss. It is the longest period of losses […]
Today we talk about the big news concerning the trade ward this week, China wants to start restricting the sale of rare earth minerals to the United States, and as a response, the U.S. is looking to strengthen its doemstic production of said mineral in order to reduce its reliance on China. Also, this week Trump said he wants to impose tariffs on Mexico if they don’t help stop the illegal immigration to the United States, this has been one of the […]
This week what has dominated the news has been the trade war between the U.S. and China and what Trump made with Huawei’s stock. The markets went down on monday due to this, and all of this is going to increase the “hell” that is the trade war between these two countries. On monday the markets went up due to some good information and economic numbers that came out, but they went back down on wednesday and thursday due to the trade […]
Today we talk about the big news of the week, which is the trade war between China an United States, Trump raised the tariffs up to 25% and China retaliated. This caused some chaos and is what most of all afected the markets internationally, due to this newes the markets plunged on monday, the DAO and S&P 500 had the worst day since january 3rd, the NASDAQ had its worst day since 2019 and had its biggest one day drop since December […]
This week the markets were affected by the situation between China and the USA, the so-called Trade War where the USA intends to apply custom tariffs by 25% to the products of the Asian country that enter the United States and create new retaliations of the Chinese country. The Bitcoin went up 10.99% $ 6,300.45 cents; the news with cryptocurrencies did not finish there. Its security was violated when one of the largest stock exchanges of cryptocurrencies was hacked. 7,000 Bitcoins were […]
This week had a positive closure. S&P500 & NASDAQ closed at record highs. Chase Bank & Microsoft will start using blockchain technology. One of the future implementations would be for new pay systems. This made Bitcoin rise 5.43% to 5,671.86 In financial news. The ICI dollar index has reached its highest level in the last years thanks to the good american economy. Europe’s oil refineries cut the supply purchase from Russia, reducing oil import in 10%, due to oil contamination. Because of […]
This week historic records were hit in U.S. stock exchange with NASDAQ and S&P 500, there was a constant rise for almost three weeks achieving historic peaks, it is expected that it won’t last for too long. On tuesday morning stocks for Disney, McDonald’s and Microsoft reached historic records. 140 out of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 achieved results above 20% during 2019. In the international markets Brazil’s stock exchange was at the rise thanks to the pension reform, the […]
This week we talk about the rise in the markets, particularly the S&P500 and NASDAQ which reached record highs during this week. In 2019 the S&P500 has gone up 15.88% total, NASDAQ has gone up 20.54% total and the DAO went up 13.86%. Also, multiple tech companies went public this week, some of them are Pinterest and Lyft. Pinterest was at $19 USD. Lyft, Uber’s competitor also went on an IPO starting with $72 USD. Another company that also did an IPO […]