Month: April 2019

The estimated cost to end homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area is $12.7 billion and additional billions annually to fund ongoing services to the needy, according to a report released Wednesday. “By virtually every measure, the Bay Area’s homeless crisis ranks among the worst in the United States,” said a report released by the
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Cryptocurrency investment is on the rise right now, especially due to the recent Bitcoin uptick. BTC’s recent climb attracted Chinese investors, but they’re paying a premium price because they have to pay extra to purchase over the counter. China previously banned cryptocurrency exchanges from operating within its borders and also banned crypto trading. However, Chinese
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According to Reuters, China’s state planner wants to ban Bitcoin mining. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has updated a draft list of industrial activities that it is looking to encourage, restrict, or eliminate. The list was first published in 2011. NDRC Wants to Ban Cryptocurrency Mining Unfortunately for crypto enthusiasts, cryptocurrency mining has
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As materials stocks build on their gains, one investing professional is getting even more constructive on the space. Witnessing the 4% pop this week in the Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund, a market-cap-weighted index that counts the stocks of Linde and DowDuPont among its top holdings, CFRA’s Todd Rosenbluth says investors should consider buying into
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UPDATE (April 8, 13:40 UTC): The funding round was led by Initialized Capital, not Pantera Capital. The headline has been updated. A San Francisco-based decentralized exchange (DEX) called Sparkswap launched Monday, becoming the first North American exchange to fully integrate the lightning network, a bitcoin scaling solution. Sparkswap is funded by a $3.5 million seed
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For any investor, measuring opportunity against risk is critical. And for real estate investors in particular, risk is rising exponentially in the age of climate change. To that end, big real estate firms are pouring significant resources into calculating climate risk and its likely effect on property portfolios—everything from increasingly extreme weather to sea-level rise.
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There’s talk at the legislative level over freeing Detroit from its now-limited state oversight as the stain of the city’s Chapter 9 recedes and its recovery continues. Sen. Sylvia Santana, D-Detroit, in March introduced a bill that would formally remove the state from overseeing Detroit’s finances. “The time for the so-called ‘Grand Bargain’ has come
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Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and member of CoinDesk’s product team. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a newsletter for the institutional market, with news and views on crypto infrastructure delivered every Tuesday. Sign up here. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, April is traditionally the month when the
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The Meydan One in Dubai Crystal Lagoons Fernando Fischmann is creating some of the most amazing water resorts around the world through his Chilean based company Crystal Lagoons. A biochemist-turned-real estate developer Fischmann was inspired by the clear blue waters he saw in natural lagoons while visiting Mexico and the Caribbean many years ago. I had a
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U.S. consumer debt growth eased in February and was less than forecast as Americans tapped credit cards, signaling consumption remained stable early this year. Total credit climbed $15.2 billion from the prior month, missing the $17 billion median estimate of economists, following an upwardly revised $17.7 billion gain in January, Federal Reserve figures showed Friday.
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Semiconductors are killing it, and you can thank China. The Semiconductor ETF (SMH) is just shy of the historic high it hit a year ago, and there’s good reason for it: China. The five S&P companies with the biggest exposure to China are all semiconductors. Qualcomm, Micron, Qorvo, Broadcom, and Texas Instruments all get 40%
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President Donald Trump’s potential nominations of Stephen Moore and Herman Cain to the Federal Reserve could be the beginning of a politicization of the central bank, according to Barclays’ chief U.S. economist. “When it comes to nominees, most people that get nominated to the board, regardless of what party is in power, they tend to
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