Month: April 2019

“Seinfeld” episodes do not usually turn up in speeches by SEC commissioners. But when Hester Peirce addressed the Council of Institutional Investors in March, she alluded to the scene where George’s father gathers a motley crew around the dinner table for Festivus, a made-up holiday featuring an “Airing of Grievances.” Said an angry Frank Costanza:
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In the week ended April 25, the weekly average yield to maturity of the Bond Buyer Municipal Bond Index, which is based on 40 long-term bond prices, fell to 3.87% from 3.89% the previous week. The Bond Buyer’s 20-Bond GO Index of 20-year general obligation yields dropped seven basis point to 3.79% from 3.86% the
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Will Realtors Disappear? Propy Inc The traditionally stale real estate industry is starting to evolve faster due to advancements in automation and new technologies such as AI and blockchain. These technologies bring the opportunity to tackle the well-known inefficiencies of the real estate sector. As a result of these changes, real estate agents will need
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday said too many Wall Street watchers assumed that businesses’ first quarter earnings results would be horrid and now the stock market is rallying on companies besting expectations. Analysts based their 2019 predictions on the Federal Reserve-induced fourth-quarter sell-off and prolonged U.S.-China trade war, but never revised their outlooks as the
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Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Facebook popped more than 7% in extended trading Wednesday following the release of the social media giant’s first-quarter earnings. Facebook reported earnings per share of 85 cents, which was not comparable to analysts’ estimates due to a $3 billion legal expense related to a
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According to a Bloomberg report, notorious crypto enthusiast and antivirus software maker, John McAfee, claims to have spoken with Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Further, he says he will reveal this person’s identity. John McAfee Claims to Know Satoshi Nakamoto When this reveal will be, however, remains unclear, despite McAfee initially telling Bloomberg he would expose
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Cryptocurrency exchanges Huobi Japan and Fisco are said to have been investigated by the country’s financial watchdog last week. A Reuters report on Tuesday, citing “two sources familiar with the matter” said that the Financial Services Agency (FSA) visited the two exchanges to assess their customer protection and anti-money laundering (AML) provisions. Japanese exchanges run by
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View Bitcoin’s daily chart is reporting a “golden crossover” – a bull cross of the 50- and 200-day moving averages – for the first time since October 2015. The crossover represents a long-term bearish-to-bullish trend change. A convincing close today above $5,466 (April 10 high) would establish another bullish higher high and boost the prospects
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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is shutting down the Chicago office it opened a year ago, eliminating 30 engineering jobs. The San Francisco-based startup’s Chicago division, known as Coinbase Markets, was dedicated to creating sophisticated electronic markets technologies such as matching engines and high-frequency trading for cryptocurrency.   Coinbase said a year on, it had made the
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Sales of new U.S. single-family homes jumped to a near 1½-year high in March, boosted by lower mortgage rates and house prices. The Commerce Department said on Tuesday new home sales increased 4.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 692,000 units last month, the highest level since November 2017. It was the third
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If you want to buy things on Amazon using Bitcoin, you now can. All you need is the Bitcoin lightning network and crypto payment processing startup Moon. In time, the service will extend to many e-commerce sites also, not just Amazon. Let’s check this out. Moon Payment Processing The startup announced today that any lightning-enabled wallet can
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