Google warns crypto miners are hacking cloud accounts
2021-11-26 07:48:15 Cryptocurrency miners are using hacked Google Cloud accounts for computationally-intensive mining purposes, Google has warned. The search giant’s cybersecurity team provided details of the security breach in a report published Wednesday. The so-called “Threat Horizons” report aims to provide intelligence that allows organizations to keep their cloud environments secure. “Malicious actors were observed […]
Stock Market Leverage Spikes, Margin Debt Up 42% YoY. Fed Warns about High Leverage Ratio of “Younger Retail Investors”
2021-11-18 15:30:00 “Potentially Destabilizing Outcome could emerge if elevated risk appetite among retail investors retreats rapidly.” But what the heck. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Only part of the leverage in the stock market is tracked and disclosed on a monthly basis. Much of the leverage happens in the shadows, including Securities Based Lending (SBA) that banks […]
Bank of England Governor Warns Crypto Is Providing Means of Payment for Criminals – Regulation Bitcoin News
2021-11-10 21:30:17 Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has warned that crypto assets are providing another means of payment for people who want to conduct criminal activity. Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey Sees Crypto Helping Criminal Activities The governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, said during an online question-and-answer session organized by […]
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller rings the bubble alarm on meme stocks and crypto – and warns a short-term approach can be disastrous
2021-11-05 07:00:52 Stanley Druckenmiller. Mark Lennihan/Associated Press Stanley Druckenmiller warned crypto, meme stocks, and many other assets are overpriced. The billionaire investor said the current bubble is much broader than the dot-com bubble. Druckenmiller invests based on how he expects the world to change over the next 18 months. Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller rang the […]
Jim Cramer warns that the stock market could be ‘toast’ if oil prices keep climbing
2021-10-18 15:54:35 CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday the oil rally could eventually unsettle the stock market. “If you want the rest of the stock market to keep climbing, oil needs to stop going higher, otherwise we’re toast,” the “Mad Money” host said, after the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude hit $83.87 on Monday, […]
Expert Warns of 30% Drop After Tapering Starts
2021-10-16 02:30:22 Stocks face mounting opposition as fears of stagflation build, Lance Roberts said. Roberts is warning about a potential a 30% pullback ahead. He said Fed tapering would likely be the cause. After the stock market’s first 5% pullback in about a year, Lance Roberts likes the outlook in the near term. But beyond […]