Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, speaks during the Institute of International Finance (IIF) annual membership meeting in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. Ting Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images After a series of crypto-collapses, scandals and bankruptcies, Americans’ views on cryptocurrency have soured sharply, with the
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A Sheetz customer gets gasoline at a gas station in Plains, Pennsylvania, U.S. October 19, 2022. Aimee Dilger | Reuters Gasoline prices are now cheaper across the U.S. than they were a year ago, and the price per gallon could fall below $3 for most Americans by the end of the year. According to AAA,
A court in South Korea has supported the decision of local exchanges to delist Wemade’s Wemix (WEMIX) tokens, dismissing Wemade’s request to cancel the delisting. The Seoul Central District Court ruled on Dec. 7 to justify the decision of the Digital Asset eXchange Alliance (DAXA) to delist WEMIX from major South Korean exchanges, The Korea
The national average credit score sits at an all-time high of 716, unchanged from a year ago, according to a report from FICO, developer of one of the scores most widely used by lenders. However, this marks the first time since the Great Recession that scores did not improve year over year, the report found.
For the uninitiated, the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology can be daunting, confusing and difficult to comprehend. Three industry experts and a skeptical economist explore the past, present and future of the burgeoning technology in a new online learning series. Masterclass is a web-based education platform that offers “classes” from subject matter experts in
In this week’s episode of let’s talk stocks, we’re going to take a look at knowledge vs. wisdom. These days, the educational system is set up to help you acquire knowledge, but it doesn’t help you attain much wisdom. Unfortunately, knowledge is not very useful without wisdom. In this video, I’ll show you the importance
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What are the obstacles and opportunities surrounding ESG? How will inflation and labor shortages impact the IIJA? What does new tech, crypto and AI mean for electronic trading? The municipal finance community has a lot of questions going into 2023. Don’t miss the chance to get them answered at NATIONAL OUTLOOK on February 2, 2023.
Municipals were firmer Wednesday but underperformed a U.S. Treasury rally as traders look to the UST curve inversion as further signs of a looming recession, leading equities to close in the red for another session. “Stocks declined as investors fixated over how bad of a recession will hit the U.S. economy and weighed on geopolitical
The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund will become a more vocal shareholder and plans to vote against companies that fail to set a net zero target, overpay their top leaders, or do not have sufficiently diverse boards. Nicolai Tangen, chief executive of the $1.3tn Norwegian oil fund, told the Financial Times’ Global Boardroom event that
Dimon said in June that he was preparing the bank for an economic “hurricane” caused by the Federal Reserve and Russia’s war in Ukraine. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images One key lesson of the past year is that the world is not ready to move away from oil and gas as the dominant
In this article THO TOL PINS CPB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Campbell Soup (CPB) – Campbell Soup beat estimates by 14 cents with adjusted quarterly earnings of $1.02 per share. Revenue also beat consensus and the food producer said its results were helped by
As the share of buyers purchasing a home for the first time rebounds to pre-pandemic levels amid a changing market, a new Zillow analysis rates Wichita, Kansas as the top area in America for potential first-time home buyers. Zillow ranked metros based on factors that included mortgage and rent affordability for first-time home buyers, available
A “For Sale” sign in front of a home in Sacramento, California, on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Lower mortgage rates are pulling some current homeowners back to the refinance market, but not enough to offset the drop in demand from homebuyers. Mortgage application volume fell 1.9% last
Bitcoin was consolidating on Wednesday, as the U.S. dollar continued to strengthen versus several G7 currencies. A strong dollar means demand for cryptocurrencies typically plummets, with the global market cap trading in the red as of writing. Ethereum was also lower today, falling as it remained below $1,300. Bitcoin Bitcoin (BTC) continued to consolidate in
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In today’s second video in our Basics of Forex series, we explore key facets of a Forex quote, introducing and explaining such terms as the bid and offer, the spread, pips and fractional pips. To help us answer the question of what is a pip and what is a fractional pip, we look at an
The public-private partnership between Red River Valley Alliance and the Metro Flood Diversion Authority won The Bond Buyer’s 21st annual Deal of the Year award for its bonds issued through the Public Finance Authority to reduce local flooding risk. The issuance, which was the Deal of the Year in the P3 category, was one component
Municipals were little changed to a basis point or two firmer in spots Tuesday, while U.S. Treasuries made gains and equities were rattled by comments from large bank CEOs warning of tough economic times ahead. Munis were again better in the belly of the curve while UST made larger gains out long. The three-year muni-UST
Rishi Sunak is under pressure from Tory MPs to accelerate new strike-busting legislation, as Britain faces the biggest wave of industrial action since the tail-end of Margaret Thatcher’s government. More than 1mn days will be lost to strike action in December — the worst disruption in any month since July 1989 — based on unions’