Month: January 2019

Investors can expect to see “decent” returns on home improvement stocks despite waning consumer sentiment in housing, analyst Alvaro Lacayo told CNBC on Thursday. “If you look at the average age of the U.S. housing stock you’re talking about 40 years plus,” the vice president of equity research at G.research said on “Power Lunch.” G.research
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Stocks may be on the brink of another correction. Despite 2019’s strong start, the Economic Cycle Research Institute’s Lakshman Achuthan believes the market remains in a danger zone, because there’s evidence economic growth is still decelerating. “The elephant in the room remains the cyclical slowdown. And, as long as that slowdown is in play… the
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Mingxing “Star” Xu, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin, has become the largest individual shareholder of a public company listed in Hong Kong via a $60 million acquisition. LEAP Holdings Group, the construction engineering firm acquired, announced the competed deal on Wednesday. OKC Holdings Corp, the parent company of OKCoin, purchased about 3.2 billion shares of the
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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly’s budget proposal represents progress in the state’s march toward structural balance, but new outlays will still require some legislative patchwork, analysts at S&P Global Ratings said. “The state continues to grapple with fiscal pressures despite some relief from the recent boost in revenues,” wrote analysts Ladunni Okolo and David Hitchcock. “We
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Bank of America-Merrill Lynch believes it’s premature to call an end to the market correction. Although stocks on Friday closed out 5 straight weeks of gains, Stephen Suttmeier, the firm’s chief equity technical strategist, is telling investors that stocks are still in the throes of a cyclical bear market. According to Suttmeier, the S&P 500
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JPMorgan analysts are taking jabs at Bitcoin once more. The executives at this major US bank have never been fond of digital currency and blockchain technology. Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s CEO, temporarily pulled back on his comments when BTC hit its all-time highs. Shortly after, the coin began to crash, and his skepticism picked up again. According
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Edward Woodford is the co-founder and CEO of Seed CX, which, offers a licensed exchange for institutional trading and settlement of spot digital asset products and plans to offer a market for CFTC-regulated digital asset derivatives. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review. While 2018’s falling bitcoin prices led many
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LONDON — The December Chicago Business Barometer was revised down to 63.8 from 65.4 previously, following the annual seasonal adjustments. Growth was revised higher in Q1 and Q2, and was unchanged in Q3. However, a downward revision to Q4 saw the Barometer unchanged over 2018 to one decimal place. November saw the largest revision, with
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An alleged global scamming scheme called ‘Bitcoin Revolution’ is doing the rounds and traders are being warned not to fall for it. The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) issued a warning against it today via an official document. Bitcoin Revolution The alleged crypto scam likens to a typical get-rich-quick scheme and operates through several websites, though
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Ever wish you could get away from it all? This four-story, 22-room, 8,000-square-foot castle for sale for $900,000 in the Nevada desert is one solution. “In a lot of ways, it’s a ‘doomsday prepper’ dream home…extremely self-sustaining, secure and — admittedly — quite odd,” Jake Rasmuson, who is marketing the property, tells CNBC Make It.
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WASHINGTON – The new Democratic chairman of the House Budget Committee wants Congress to consider two proposals that would have a significant impact on the municipal bond industry. Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky wants to end automatic across-the-board budget cuts that include a reduction in the subsidy for direct-pay Build America Bonds, he told The
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