Bitcoin will gain from distrust in traditional finance, says bank strategist
Will Bitcoin end the dollar’s supremacy one day? Bitcoin (BTC) poses a significant threat to the world’s reserve currency, the United States dollar, according to a strategist at major American investment bank Morgan Stanley.Ruchir Sharma, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, believes that the dollar’s reign is likely to end due to global distrust in traditional finance, while Bitcoin is likely to capitalize on that lack of confidence.In a Dec. 9 article in The Financial Times, Sharma provided a brief outline on the history of the world’s reserve currencies,....
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An investment strategist at Southeast Asia’s largest bank, DBS, says bitcoin is unique whether the price changes or not. “If we just look purely on a price basis, you will see a lot of volatility and that doesn’t inform you a lot about what benefits it actually brings,” the DBS strategist emphasized.
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DBS investment strategist Daryl Ho talked about bitcoin in a recent media briefing, Finews Asia reported Friday. He explained, “If we just look purely on a price basis, you will see a lot of....
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On Friday, Bank of America’s (BOFA) chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett explained in a weekly financial note to clients that the U.S. economy could head into a recession. The BOFA strategist’s note further detailed that cryptocurrencies could outperform bonds and stocks.
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Bank of America has become the first US bank to talk openly about bitcoin, having issued a client note stating that the digital currency has "clear potential for growth". The news came in a 14-page note sent to clients by Bank of America currency strategist David Woo. He said he believes the maximum market cap of bitcoin is $15bn, or about 1,300 USD per 1 BTC. In the note, Woo pointed out that bitcoin makes sense as a medium of exchange and has the potential to become a major means of payment for e-commerce. It could even emerge as a serious competitor to traditional money transfer....