In this article DIS FL BE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Foot Locker Inc. signage is displayed in the window of a store in New York, U.S. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Friday. Bloom Energy — The clean energy stock jumped 5.1% following
It is an empirical fact that the United States dollar is continuing to lose its dominant role as the global reserve currency, but what might happen to the stablecoin market should it be superseded? According to data from the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. dollar now accounts for just over 58% of global foreign exchange
The city of Vaughan, north of Toronto, Canada, is long on cultural and natural attractions. Known as the Woodland Residence, the modernist residence sits on a tree-surrounded lot in Vaughan. Barry Cohen Homes Canada’s Wonderland amusement park, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the quaint Kleinburg Village old town area, the 800-acre Kortright Centre for Conservation
In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Starting next week, the first of 8,000 Amazon employees will begin moving into one of two brand new 22-story towers in Arlington, Virginia. Move-in is expected to be complete by the end of the summer. Amazon’s HQ2, formally called Metropolitan Park, has many features that
Walt Disney Co., embroiled in a high-profile fight with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, is closing a luxury hotel at Walt Disney World and dropping plans to relocate 2,000 California employees to a new corporate campus it was building in the state. The Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, a pet project of former Chief Executive Officer Bob
Cryptocurrency trading platform Coin Cafe has been ordered to repay $4.3 million to its users after allegedly charging “exorbitant and undisclosed fees” for storing Bitcoin on the platform — leading to some accounts being drained entirely of its funds. Based in Brooklyn, Coin Cafe initially filed an application for a virtual currency license with the
California’s rating outlook was revised to negative from stable Thursday by Moody’s Investors Service amid the state’s revenue uncertainty. The rating agency also affirmed the Aa2 rating on the state’s general obligation bonds, citing the state’s massive economic base and healthy budget reserves and liquidity. The Aa2 rating on the state’s general obligation bonds is
Carl Icahn has admitted he was wrong to make a huge bet that the market would crash after the ill-fated trade cost his firm nearly $9bn over roughly six years. According to a Financial Times analysis, the prominent activist investor lost about $1.8bn in 2017 on hedging positions that would have paid out if asset
The financial sector witnessed a rapid transformation over the past decade, with technology reshaping the processes of lending, wealth management and payments. The transformation also brought opportunities to invest. TipRanks recognizes Wall Street’s 10 best financial sector analysts for capturing the best investment opportunities. These analysts outperformed in their stock picking and earned significant returns
In this article BABA NVDA TTWO CINF PACW FDX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Walmart in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023. Walmart Inc.’s profit forecast for this year fell short of analyst estimates, signaling more struggles for the worlds largest retailer after it was hammered by a surge in inventory.
Natural disasters like hurricanes and snowstorms tend to temporarily halt housing market activity in affected areas. If the U.S. hits the debt ceiling, expect a similar effect on homebuying and selling activity, particularly in areas with a large number of people who are paid by the government. If the United States breaches the debt ceiling,
Prospective buyers attend an open house at a home for sale in Larchmont, New York, US, on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sales of previously owned homes fell 3.4% in April from March to a seasonally adjusted, annualized pace of 4.28 million units, according to the National Association of
State and local government leaders are coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic and looking at their investments in infrastructure in ways that not only satisfy their bottom line today, but set them up for the future. That’s according to panelists at the 2023 National Federation of Municipal Analysts Annual Conference Wednesday, where panelists took the
In this week’s newsletter, read about the United States Secret Service’s nonfungible token (NFT) collection, and how Elon Musk’s tweet caused a surge in an NFT collection’s floor price. Check out how someone tried to sell an image for Bitcoin (BTC) months before the infamous Bitcoin Pizza Day, and learn about LG’s new patent for
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) believes Filecoin’s native FIL token is a security, crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments has revealed. According to the May 17 announcement, Grayscale lodged an application with the regulator to launch a Filecoin Trust product on April 14, which would provide investors with indirect exposure to the underlying
Short-term munis sold off Wednesday, as triple-A benchmarks rose in sympathy with U.S. Treasuries. Equities rallied. Muni yields rose seven to 12 basis points five years in, while USTs rose two to eight basis points. Performance-wise, Matthew Buscone, co-head of portfolio management at Breckinridge Capital Advisors, said the muni market has been soft this week.
Andrew Bailey has acknowledged for the first time the Bank of England is dealing with a UK wage price spiral as he pledged to raise interest rates as far “as necessary” to get inflation back to the bank’s 2 per cent target. Speaking to the British Chambers of Commerce annual conference in London, the BoE
In this article SNPS CSCO BOOT TTWO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading. Take-Two Interactive Software — Shares jumped 8.1% Wednesday during after hours trading. The video game company reported $1.39 billion in adjusted revenue in the fiscal fourth quarter, topping analysts’ estimates of $1.34 billion,
Ether (ETH) price is down on May 17, reaching a 7-day low of $1,788. The Ether price drop comes a day after Chinese prosecutors vowed to crack down on the NFT market. Ether price was dealt another blow with lawmakers in the United Kingdom claiming that crypto assets should be regulated like gambling due to
A default on the nation’s debt, if Congress is unable to raise the federal debt ceiling in coming weeks, would boost mortgage rates by at least two percentage points and cause a slump in home sales as costlier financing puts real estate beyond the reach of more Americans, according to Jeff Tucker, a Zillow senior