Pfizer’s Pandemic Vaccine News Fails to Dampen Interest in Bitcoin
The recent announcement by Pfizer of a potential Covid-19 vaccine sparked an immediate rally of global stocks worst hit by the pandemic response. The rally helped major indices including the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Composite Index and Europe’s Stoxx to go up by approximately 4%. Bitcoin’s Decoupling On the other hand, stocks that benefited from lockdown restrictions went down as the vaccine raises hopes for a return to normal life. Still, it appears the same vaccine hopes did not dampen interest in bitcoin, another major beneficiary of lockdown restrictions. In a....
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