Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady nearly lost ownership of the ball behind his 600th touchdown pass, but now he’s paying for it… in Bitcoin. In an Oct. 24 game between the Buccaneers and Chicago Bears, Brady threw his 600th career touchdown pass to fellow teammate Mike Evans — he is the only player in
Puerto Rico bankruptcy Judge Laura Taylor Swain threatened to dismiss the case and ordered the bankruptcy parties to mediation. “My patience is wearing thin,” Swain said, noting the case has taken 4 1/2 years so far. Puerto Rico could lose bankruptcy protection against bondholder suits, she said, as she might “be forced to consider” dismissing
In this article WFC A Wells Fargo logo is seen at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto Chris Helgren | Reuters Wells Fargo is developing a virtual assistant to help it convert more retail banking customers into digital users, CNBC has learned. The assistant, named Fargo, will be able to execute tasks including
In this article TSLA PYPL PINS Pedestrians pass in front of Pinterest signage displayed outside of the New York Stock Exchange. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. PayPal, Pinterest – Shares of PayPal climbed more than 3% as Pinterest shares tumbled more than 12% after
Thanks to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, American housing markets have had to deal with a truly unprecedented situation (or, at least since the 1918 Spanish flu). While most housing markets experienced an initial dip in activity, over the last year many housing markets have experienced robust recovery, especially in terms of their prices.
In 2015, Sahil Mehta helped sell his first property in the Berkeley, Calif., area at the age of 18, earning a commission of around $2,000. It solidified his interest in pursuing real estate sales and investments, which has only grown in the ensuing years. “It was such an incredible feeling, not because of the amount
Municipals faced pressure on the short end, with the one- and two-year yields rising two basis points, while U.S. Treasuries saw gains on bonds inside five-years and equities were in the black. For municipals, Monday’s session was more about readying for the primary and prepping for month-end positioning. Municipal-to-UST ratios showed the 5-year at 53%,
Tesla has become the first carmaker to be valued at $1tn after rental group Hertz said it had ordered 100,000 Tesla Model 3 sedans to electrify its fleet. Tesla shares rose 9.84 per cent in mid-day trading on Monday to $998.74, bringing year-to-date gains above 40 per cent and lifting the company’s market cap to
After the price of bitcoin tapped an all-time high above the $67K handle, it then dropped below the $60K zone to $59,510 per unit. Since then, the leading crypto asset has regained some of the losses and bitcoin is still up 2.4% during the last seven days. However, a great number of crypto assets have
It appears the Puerto Rico Plan of Adjustment will collapse as the Senate lacked the votes to approve a bill to back the plan and missed the Oversight Board’s deadline for such action. “It is a stunning development,” CreditSights Senior Municipals Analyst John Ceffalio said. “It had seemed the legislature had gotten all of its
In this article AAPL IMAX Joel Anderson, CEO, Five Below Scott Mlyn | CNBC The macroeconomic picture – and the longer-term expectations for certain stocks – is becoming clearer as earnings season continues. To that effect, some of the top Wall Street analysts have high hopes for Toast, Apple, Five Below, Freshworks and IMAX, according
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Snap – Shares of the Snapchat parent plunged 19.5% in the premarket after the company warned of slowing growth due to the recent changes in Apple’s iOS privacy rules. Those rules make it more difficult to gather information from users and target ads. Snap did beat estimates by
Ealier this year THORChain underwent a series of protocol exploits which led to $8 million being drained from its reserves and these successive attack took a heavy tool on RUNE price. This week, the protocol announced that it would re-open its Ethereum pool, along with other altcoin and BTC-based pools and the announcement appears to
The scarcity of homes on the market that plagued the housing sector long before Covid-19 struck the U.S. likely will outlast other pandemic shortages, according to Goldman Sachs economists. While the supply-chain disruptions impacting the availability of appliances, used cars and computer chips will ease as the pandemic ebbs, real estate won’t be so lucky,
China’s real estate sector has to be “substantially smaller” to keep the overall economy healthy and stable, said a top expert on the Chinese housing market. “We have too big of a risk in the sector. We built too much housing, so the stabilization first has to come [from] trimming the sector,” Li Gan, an
In this video, I want to share with you How to Eliminate Stress When it Comes to Trading Stocks or trading in your account. In either case, how do you eliminate that Stress caused by when you’re trading in the stock market? Well, a lot of times people take on this stress because they don’t
In oral argument before a federal appeals court, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association contended that a Securities and Exchange Commission temporary exemption for municipal advisors during the height of the pandemic, was “arbitrary and capricious and unsupported by substantial evidence.” Making SIFMA’s case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Poland’s prime minister has accused the EU of making demands of Warsaw with a “gun to our head”, urging Brussels to withdraw threats of legal and financial sanctions if it wanted to resolve the country’s rule of law crisis. In a move to ease tensions in the long-running dispute, which has raised fears of a
Bitcoin (BTC) continues to face strong selling as bulls attempt to flip the psychological level at $60,000 into support. Some analysts believe that Bitcoin could enter a correction as traders book profits following the successful launch of last week’s Bitcoin exchange-traded funds. In the past, the launch of the Bitcoin Futures product by the Chicago
The Internal Revenue Service has moved to mandatory electronic filing of its Form 8038-CP, its form for returning credit payments to issuers of qualified bonds. That and a number of other developments were announced during the IRS update as part of the Government Finance Officers Association’s 3rd annual MiniMuni conference. “The IRS is moving to