The Cboe Volatility Index, Wall Street's \"fear gauge,\" declined as the S&P 500 climbed nearly 2% in part on anticipation of a clear presidential election outcome

India Stock Market Highlights Today: Infosys, followed by Sun Pharma, Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech and TCS were among the top gainers on Sensex today. On the other hand, ICICI Bank, Power Grid, Axis Bank, HDFC, and ITC were among the laggards

India Stock Market Highlights Today: Titan, followed by L&T, ONGC, Tech Mahindra, Bajaj Auto, HUL and Nestle India were among the top laggards in the Sensex pack. On the other hand, Axis Bank, Asian Paints, UltraTech Cement and HCL Tech were among the gainers

Sensex, Nifty Live News Today: Globally indices turned green as investors turned optimistic over prospects of more government stimulus and tightened lockdowns across the world to combat the virus spread.

Sensex, Nifty Live News Today: BSE 30-share barometer Sensex ended 1,375 points lower at 28,440 and NSE 50-share index Nifty fell 379 points to close at 8,281.

Dow finished up 21% from its Monday low, establishing it in a bull market, according to a widely used definition. It was Dow's strongest three-day percentage increase since 1931

The Dow plummeted a record 2,000 points out of the starting gate on a day that marked the current bull market's 11th year

Coronavirus has led to more than 3,300 deaths worldwide. In the United States, new cases of the vast-spreading virus were reported on Thursday around New York and in San Francisco

World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the virus could become a pandemic as the outbreak spreads to major developed economies such as Germany and France.

Will 2018 see Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies become part of normal retail investors' portfolios on a wide scale? Whether it would happen and if it happens, how quickly will it happen?

The cryptocurrency, which was at about $1,000 at the year's start, had surged to a record high of $19,666 on Sunday in the lead up to exchange giant CME Group's launch of its bitcoin futures.

Investors are latching on to Litecoin not only because Bitcoin is now so expensive and possibly overdone, but also because it is actually a better alternative as it is more stable and has a lifetime cap of 84 million coins.

Bitcoin's supply is limited to 21 million - a number that is expected to be reached around the year 2140. So far, around 16.7 million bitcoins have been released into the system, with 12.5 new ones released roughly every 10 minutes via a process called 'mining''.

Bitcoin trading can start at as low as Rs 500, says Saurabh Agrawal, co-founder & CEO, Zebpay, while advising investors to exercise extreme caution when investing in bitcoin and not trust any bitcoin exchange blindly. Watch this video to learn more.

Regulators don't seem to be in a hurry to regulate Bitcoins and cryptocurrency and have taken a wait and watch stand until issues of traceability and backing for underlying asset isn't in place. Only fear is they shouldn't lose oversight of the devil.

Experts cite the launching of bitcoin futures by the CBOE, one of the world's biggest derivatives exchanges, a major reason behind the sharp jump.

The cryptocurrency fell as much as 8 percent on Thursday on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange to hit $9,000 exactly, marking a fall of well over $2,000 in under 24 hours.

Bitcoin blasted past $11,000 to hit a record high for the sixth day in a row on Wednesday after gaining more than $1,000 in just 12 hours, stoking concerns that a rapidly swelling bubble could be set to burst in spectacular fashion.

\"The currency isn't going to work. You can't have a business where people can invent a currency out of thin air and think that people who are buying it are really smart.\"

Not everyone agrees that the market boom is completely out of proportion to the state of the economy. Some believe corporate performance having been mediocre, it can only get better in future and market sentiment reflects that.