Bitcoin giant gone offline: Billions evaporated

One of the world's largest Bitcoin exchanges, MtGox, has gone offline. Trade with the virtual currency, Bitcoins, is being halted on the site and customers are asking : What will happen with our money?

Bitcoin collapses after technical problems

Most currencies are experiencing a decline every now and then. But a dive of the size, the virtual currency Bitcoin saw yesterday, are rarely seen.


Investing in Bitcoins: What You Must Know

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have no doubt by now heard of the huge returns some investors (or speculators, whatever you would like to call them) have made by purchasing Bitcoins and then selling them at a higher value. If you are thinking about getting in on the market, this guide is for you. In this article, you’ll find everything you need to know about Bitcoin (BTC) from how to buy them and safely store them to the biggest risks associated with this currency.

Currency: Euro pressured by new disappointing figures

With another disappointing European figure in luggage investors Friday sends the euro down in value against both the dollar and the yen. Meanwhile the Swedish krona loses terrain after unexpectedly weak figures from the industry.

Currency: Euro strengthened on ECB comments

The European Central Bank on Thursday kept the benchmark interest rate on the main refinancing operations at 0.75 percent. This was not a surprise from the ECB as the only few individual analysts and economists had expected a reduction in European interest rates.

Currency: Small adjustments but fall in Australian dollar

Tuesday and it’s again slow with movements in international currency markets. Investors follow the familiar pattern of strengthening of the euro as the risk desire increased, while the dollar and the yen weakened. There are, however, relatively small shifts, although there is no doubt about the trend.

Currency: Peace and safety in the currency markets

Stagnation is the best word to describe the international currency markets Thursday. Investors enjoy themselves in their shelter from the news from both debt crisis as well as the macroeconomic front. But it is only a matter of time, according to analysts.

Currency: yen and yuan in trampolining

At Wednesday's currency market it was especially Asian currencies, which attracted attention. Both the Chinese yuan and the Japanese yen gave it as a spring gymnasts against the dollar and the two currencies internal balance of power could clearly be read in the Japanese central bank support programs.

Currency: Quiet market opens up new opportunities

The players in the international currency markets is again Tuesday extremely reluctant to take new positions on the books. But the quiet markets is not so bad that it's not good for something.

Currency: Euro pushed up by poor job report

The past week has been in the common European currency's favor, and Friday the enthusiasm for the euro had no end.

For not only did the European Central Bank Thursday put heavy lines in the currency as one of the three major global currency units. The central bank also launched a European version of the American "operation twist" with the purchase of short-term bonds from the debt-ridden southern European countries.

Currency: Utter silence ahead of the ECB meeting Thursday

If there was quiet in the international currency markets late last week, there is deafening silence Monday. The market responded only briefly to chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke's speech on the financial summit in Jackson Hole on Friday night.