[FOREX NEWS] EUR/USD could gap lower on the German election upset

The next German parliament will be fractured, very fractured and this means long and difficult coalition negotiations and a period of uncertainty. Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU bloc came out first, but with a poor outcome: around 33% of the vote against around 40% projected. The other mainstream party, the SPD, was defeated as expected, but at [...]

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[FOREX NEWS] German exit polls show Pyrrhic Victory for Merkel, AfD third

Merkel wins, but the result is not so good. CDU/CSU-EPP: 33.5% SPD-S&D: 21% AfD-ENF: 13% FDP-ALDE: 10% LINKE-LEFT: 9% GRÜNE-G/EFA: 9% — more coming Opinion polls leading into the elections showed a clear victory for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU center-right coalition. She was expected to sail easily to a fourth and probably last term. The [...]

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CryptoCurrency News: Vivid History: 'How Money Got Free' Is the Untold Story of Bitcoin

Early bitcoin entrepreneur Alex Waters reviews the latest book in the bitcoin canon – arguing Brian Eha's "How Money Got Free" is one of the best.

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CryptoCurrency News: Untangling Bitcoin: Why Russell Yanofsky Is Taking Apart Crypto's Oldest Code

One developer is quietly working on splitting up bitcoin's codebase – an effort aimed to give users more flexibility and developers more clarity.

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