For example, bitcoin traded close to $ 20,000 per coin last year, with predictions of
further price spikes.
Not exact matches
Even with a
spike in its stock
price over today's news, Zynga's market capitalization currently stands at $ 2.44 billion,
far below its IPO valuation of $ 7 billion.
In effect, that means the company won't be raising list
prices more than 5.4 % this year — a step
further than other companies like Allergan (agn), Novo Nordisk (nvo), and others who have promised to keep
spikes in the single digits.
While the positives include the unemployment rate falling to 42 - year lows, a weaker pound sterling is leading to a
spike in consumer inflation; in the event of a negative outcome in the negotiations with the European Union, the UK currency could slide
further, leading to a rise in consumer
prices and leaving the Bank of England in a very precarious situation in which easing interest rates will be ruled out due to high inflation, and hiking rates will lead to a slowdown in economic activity.
The
price of bitcoin cash on GDAX then
spiked to almost insane levels shortly after it was added,
far above the market
price on other exchanges.
Burning food crops for power is the worst use of scarce land imaginable, and has already led to a situation where there is a direct conflict between food and energy: a significant proportion of the food -
price spike in 2008 (and a
further spike in early 2011), which led to widespread hunger and bread riots in many poorer countries, was driven by crops being withdrawn from international markets to produce biofuels for transport.
To those of us
far from Wall Street it seems the sort of action that would put GM in the same position it was in 12 years ago, when an economic downturn or a change in automotive tastes due to something like a
spike in oil
prices could lead to serious cash shortage.
With housing
prices spiking in major urban centres like Toronto and Vancouver, much of that growth has been in smaller communities as more and more young families choose to move
further away to realize their dreams of owning a home.
Yet Queensland, with only one big solar power station and no large wind farms at all, had
far more
price spikes than South Australia, as shown in the graph from RenewEconomy reproduced on the right.
Let's take their advice and free our families and businesses from the painful
spikes in gas
prices we've put up with for
far too long.
Electricity
prices are also
far more stable than gasoline
prices, allowing drivers to avoid the risk of future
price spikes.
Beyond that, «more frequent and extreme weather events will compound things
further, creating shortages, destabilizing markets, and precipitating food
price spikes which will be felt on top of the projected structural
price rises.»
Further digital asset
prices spiked during the U.S. government shutdown while traditional stocks and bonds were shaken.
With the
spike in Ripple (XRP)
prices this week came
further attention to the Ripple protocol.
There was no
further elaboration on the Coinbase listing situation, or lack of, which caused a brief
spike in Ripple
prices earlier this week.