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Bitcoin's back: Big year for controversial digital currency

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Eric Rosenbaum
CNBC.com, New York
Monday, December 28, 2015

The U.S. dollar has had a nice run. It has been the talk of global currency trading all year long.

And why not? After years of a weak greenback due to dovish Federal Reserve policy, the Dollar Index has extended big 2014 gains, up nearly 9 percent against a basket of major world currencies this year. Some individual currency trades, like USD/Brazil Real, have netted currency investors huge returns.

But to find what's arguably been the best global currency in 2015, an investor might need to put quote marks around the term "global currency."

It would have been easy to dismiss bitcoin after a surge that had taken the digital currency's price over $1,000 on some exchanges crashed in late 2013, but it's back, up more than 40 percent this year to a value of $428. And bitcoin backers say despite all of the detractors and the 2013-14 doldrums, the controversial digital currency will continue up, as the number of bitcoin users and transaction volumes around the globe surge. ...

... For the remainder of the report:

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/28/only-one-global-currency-trounced-the-dol...



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