A monitor displays Alibaba Group signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Ambarella — Shares of Ambarella tanked 10% after one of its Chinese customers, video surveillance
Tether and its sister company Bitfinex have been accused of creating “the largest bubble in human history” in a lawsuit filed in New York this week. Tether Artificially Inflated Prices The class-action suit filed in the Southern District of New York alleges that the two companies, and a number of affiliated entities, manipulated the crypto market
If you were to poll a random group of commercial tenants from a variety of markets around the country and ask them what drove their real estate decisions, my guess would be that most would respond with their lease expiration date. After making more than 15,000 cold calls in my career, I can tell you
Fort Myers, Florida. Philippe TURPIN | Photononstop | Getty Images There’s no place like home. Unless, of course, you are retired. Lured by better weather, lower taxes or an improved quality of life, many older Americans consider relocating to stateS like Florida or the Carolinas. To that end, U.S. News & World Report determined the
Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations Tuesday to help taxpayers avoid adverse tax consequences from changing the terms of debt, derivatives, and other financial contracts to alternative reference rates from interbank offered rates such as Libor. Libor, an acronym for the London Inter Bank Offered Rate, is being phased out at the
Introduction There are some sectors of the market I only use funds to invest in (Emerging Markets, MicroCap, BioTech). As an investor, we all decide where to spend our time in selecting assets to own. My current focus is picking stocks to write cash-covered puts against. One of the reasons I like XBI over the
A worker looks at the 9HA Gas Turbine, at the General Electric plant in Belfort, France. Frederick Florin | AFP | Getty Images General Electric‘s announcement that it is freezing pension plans for about 20,000 U.S. employees is part of the company’s “next steps in the balance sheet unwind,” J.P. Morgan analyst Stephen Tusa wrote
A new lawsuit claims crypto exchange Bitfinex and its sister company Tether manipulated the crypto market, harming traders and benefiting themselves. Bitfinex and a number of affiliated entities engaged in deceptive, anti-competitive and market manipulative practices, resulting in economic damages for the plaintiffs, according to a class action lawsuit filed Sunday in New York. The
View Bitcoin has again bounced up from the 100-week moving average – a level which has acted as strong support in the previous two weeks and during the early stages of the previous bull market. The defense of the 100-week MA coupled with the oversold conditions on the daily chart suggests scope for a recovery
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: General Electric – GE announced actions to cut its pension plan deficit by up to $8 billion and net debt by up to $6 billion. Those actions include freezing the pension plan for current employees and offering lump-sum buyouts to retirees who have not yet begun
Over the years, the crypto exchange industry has evolved at a remarkably fast pace, and one of the well-known innovators in this space has been BitGo. Recently, the crypto exchange space has seen a spike in the development of staking services for customers, and in a new development, BitGo has decided to launch that service
2020 budget planning, a rite of October, now reaches a truth-or-dare moment as a critical path priority for housing’s big and small business players players. Real money’s at stake, tons of it. The fates and fortunes of firms hinge on superior skills at matching who they are, and how they invest, with what will come
A prospective home buyer tours a house for sale in Dunlap, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Lower mortgage rates are making buying a home slightly more affordable, but financial concerns are outweighing that benefit and lowering overall confidence in housing. Consumer sentiment in housing fell in September from its August high, according
The U.S. economy’s loss of momentum isn’t severe enough to warrant a further reduction to interest rates, two hawkish Federal Reserve board members said. Speaking at the weekend, both Kansas City Fed President Esther George and the Boston Fed’s Eric Rosengren singled out consumer spending, which accounts for 70% of the economy, as a key
This report was initially posted to members of Yield Hunting on September 25. All data is current as of that date. Three Utility CEFs: DNP, UTF And UTG There’s been a surge of interest in Utility, or more accurately, Utility/Infrastructure closed-end funds (CEFs), on Seeking Alpha recently. I suppose that’s only to be expected with
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee during a hearing “Transparency & Accountability: Examining Google and its Data Collection, Use and Filtering Practices” on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the United States, on Dec. 11, 2018. Liu Jie | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images FANG became FANG out of
Coinbase Pro – the cryptocurrency exchange’s platform for professional and institutional traders – is set to increase its fees from early next week. On Oct. 7 at 22:00 UTC, Coinbase will usher in higher rates for new tiers of accounts transacting under $10,000, and between $10,000 and $50,000, according to a company blog post on
Customers push shopping carts while exiting a Costco Wholesale Corp. store in Richmond, California. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Costco dipped 1% during extended trade after the company reported sales that missed analyst expectations for the fourth quarter. The wholesaler reported
When it comes to the payments space, there is no other company that has a reputation as big as that of PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL). Hence, when it emerged that the payments giant was going to be a part of the Libra Association, there was a lot of anticipation about the sort of product Libra was going
A major reason for doing a kitchen renovation is to customize it to personal tastes. Getty When homeowners embark on a home improvement project, it’s with the goal of having a happy ending. A new report by the National Association of Realtors takes a deep dive into the reasons for remodeling, the success of taking
A plan to privatize St. Louis Lambert International Airport took the first big step toward finding a private partner with the launch of a request for qualifications process. Three of four voting members of the Airport Advisory Working Group approved the action: representatives for Mayor Lyda Krewson and Council President Lewis Reed, and the group’s
The yield on the 30-Year Treasury Bond yield fell to an all-time intraday low of 1.905% on Aug. 28, and then rose to as high as 2.386% on Sept. 13. Since the FOMC cut the federal funds rate by 25 basis points on Sept. 18 to 1.75% to 2.00%, this yield has been declining again.
Employees use hand tools to assemble components of a LEAP jet engine at the General Electric Aviation plant in Lafayette, Indiana, July 19, 2019. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images The top analyst on General Electric sounded the alarm on Friday, in a warning to shareholders that one of the struggling conglomerate’s key businesses
Coinbase has reinstated U.K. bank deposits and withdrawals following a months-long banking holdup. As announced by the company’s U.K. arm in a blog post Thursday, British pound (GBP) deposits and transfers are available once again for local Coinbase customers. GBP denominated transactions were paused following the exchange’s July breakup with Barclays. However, a new partnership with ClearBank,
The Takeaway Bitcoin prices have more than doubled in 2019, far outpacing the 31 percent return for U.S. tech stocks, which Goldman Sachs deems the best-performing asset class year-to-date. Outsize returns could attract interest from big investors in the yield-starved traditional financial markets. Executives at data firm Messari say bitcoin prices, currently around $8,200, could
Chad Dickerson, Chairman and CEO of Etsy rings the Nasdaq Opening Bell in Celebration of IPO at Nasdaq on April 16, 2015 in New York City. Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Etsy — Shares of Etsy rose 1.1% after Nomura Instinet began covering the stock with a buy rating, saying the
Coinbase has announced that it will increase fees on its Coinbase Pro platform as well as resuming support for UK deposits and withdrawals. Coinbase Pro, the cryptocurrency exchange’s platform for professional and institutional traders, will adopt a new fee structure that will see an increase in fees on all transactions under $10,000 USD and between
Torn dollar with REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) paper message Getty Here’s a quick quiz for you: an imperative multiple-choice, single-question test that you can refuse to take. Though it might be to your detriment. If it’s any consolation, there’s no immediate penalty for answering wrong. It’s only if you forget the correct answer later
Sun Mountain Lumber Superintendent Nelson Bohrer walks past stacks of cut lumber at the saw mill September 12, 2019 in Deer Lodge, Montana. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images It is hard times for the U.S. hardwood lumber industry. The trade war with China has caused a steep drop in U.S. exports of the product, and
California’s spreads to municipal market benchmarks have tightened over the past decade and its ratings have risen as the state’s economic and budget conditions improved, according to the state treasurer’s annual debt affordability report. The state has sold $7.5 billion of general obligation bonds since Treasurer Fiona Ma took office in January, including $5.2 billion
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