A large part of the recent leg of Bitcoin’s (BTC) rally started after BlackRock filed to list a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) on June 15. Several applications by other firms have been rejected by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in the past. However, BlackRock’s filing has a 50% possibility of getting approved,
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The Treasury Department teamed up Tuesday with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture to showcase several Inflation Reduction Act programs targeted at rural municipalities and non-profit entities, also highlighting clarifications on direct-pay rules that may incentivize some projects to use taxable municipal bonds for clean energy projects.
Back in 1984, a U.K. television advertisement for Kit Kat chocolate bars was set in a music label’s office where a keen young band played their demo for a bored music executive. Afterward, they were served the famous chocolate bars and the manager said: “You can’t sing, you can’t play, you look awful… you’ll go
Pension funding-related threats to Chicago and Illinois’ fiscal health are on the rise, reports published this week warn. Chicago and Illinois — longtime examples of outliers nationally on the size of their unfunded liabilities and funded ratios — have made progress, with Chicago now making payments more closely aligned with an actuarial calculation and both
Ukraine has hit back at doubters over the progress of its summer counteroffensive, insisting recent modest gains against Russian occupiers were merely a “preview” of a much bigger push to come. Oleksiy Reznikov, Ukraine’s defence minister, told the Financial Times that the liberation of a group of villages under Russian occupation in recent weeks was
In this article GSBD JPM GNRC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Lordstown Motors Corp Chief Executive Steve Burns poses with a prototype of the electric vehicle start-up’s Endurance pickup truck, which it will begin building in the second half of 2021, at the company’s plant in Lordstown, Ohio, U.S. June 25, 2020. Lordstown Motors
Forbes Global Properties Follow the Willamette River south from Portland, Oregon, and you come to the picture-postcard community of Lake Oswego, one of the wealthiest places in the state. It’s 15 minutes from the city but feels light years away. Terry Sprague of Luxe real estate brokerage firm describes Lake Oswego as a “Hallmark city.”
A “Sold” sign outside a home in the Toll Brothers Regency Ranch at Folsom housing community in Folsom, California, US, on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on
Cointelegraph’s Crypto Trading Secrets podcast has published its 10th episode, featuring an interview with trader Michaël van de Poppe, who caters to an audience of more than 650,000 on Twitter under the handle @CryptoMichNL. During the June 14 interview recording, host Benjamin Pirus discussed several topics with van de Poppe, such as his opinions on
Bank of America said in 2018 it would stop making new loans to companies that make military-style rifles for civilian use. That policy remains in place, but a lawyer for the company says its risk management policies can comply with a 2021 Texas law that prevents lender discrimination against gun-related businesses.Callaghan O’Hare/Bloomberg Bank of America is seeking
Venture capital financing in the crypto space is no different from typical VC, except the startups benefiting from financing operate in the cryptocurrency market. Venture capital businesses in the cryptocurrency sector concentrate their investments on startups and initiatives linked to cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, decentralized finance (DeFi) and other cutting-edge distributed ledger technology applications. Projects creating
A recent surge in activity surrounding exchange-traded funds has led to the largest weekly inflow for digital asset investment products since July 2022, according to a June 26 report via CoinShares. Totalling $199 million, inflows for the week of 19–23 June turned around a nine-week string of consecutive outflows, with Bitcoin (BTC) representing the lion’s
Vikram Rai, head of Citi’s municipal strategy group, has left the firm, he announced on Monday, after his position was eliminated. “Today was my last day at Citi,” he said in an email to clients. “I got cut,” he told The Bond Buyer. “I’m looking for a new job now.” Rai is an outspoken and
The head of the Wagner private military group has denied trying to overthrow the Russian government but redoubled his criticism of the country’s defence establishment in his first public comments since Saturday’s abortive march on Moscow. In an 11-minute voice recording posted on Telegram on Monday, Yevgeny Prigozhin said his goal had been to protest
Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Lucid Group — Lucid shares jumped 9% after the electric vehicle maker said it will provide powertrain and battery systems to British luxury automaker Aston Martin. WSFS Financial — The regional bank added 4.4% after D.A. Davidson upgraded the
Investors and owners of commercial real estate portfolios are seeking new ways to add value to their assets, particularly as economic uncertainty dominates global headlines and daily decision making. Vertical integrators—real estate operators that have historically kept all operations from property acquisition to daily management under one ownership umbrella—are now looking to outsource the property
In this article AAPL TSLA META NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Tesla Inc. store in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to
The S&P 500 Index (SPX) snapped a five-week winning streak last week but it is still on track to close the first half of the year with stellar gains of nearly 13%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has done much better as it is up about 29%. Both these indices have been overtaken by Bitcoin (BTC)
Richard Ravitch, one of the financial saviors of New York City’ during the near bankruptcy of the city in the 1970s, died Sunday. He was 89, just over a week shy of his 90th birthday. Ravitch, a former Lt. Governor of New York State and chair of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was an
The California Housing Finance Agency had its rating upgraded to Aa2 by Moody’s Investors Service, which cited the state treasurer conduit’s improved financial strength. It is the highest rating in agency history, according to CalHFA, and is among the top ratings that Moody’s assigns to housing finance agencies nationwide. “This rating has CalHFA well-positioned to