As we enter the fourth quarter, municipals continue their remarkable performance with the market continuing to follow trends of demand outstripping supply and inflows into the asset class. “The classic law of physics — a body in motion stays in motion, is how I would describe the inflows,” Jim Colby, senior municipal strategist and portfolio
Month: September 2019
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has announced that New York residents now have access to two cryptocurrencies launched for other jurisdictions months ago. In two tweets late on Wednesday, the exchange said customers based in New York state can now hold, buy, sell, send and receive both Stellar lumens (XLM) and Chainlink’s LINK token. The cryptos will now
The Federal Reserve has used open market operations to soothe the short-term funding market, and now its temporary fix faces a test as the third quarter ends. The Fed has used overnight and 14-day market operations to stabilize the repo market, used by financial institutions to fund themselves on a short term basis. The Fed
When a cryptocurrency is made available in important exchanges, then its price usually gets a positive push, and that is what happened with Stellar (XLM) yesterday. Earlier on this week, Coinbase, which is among the biggest crypto exchanges in the world, revealed that it was looking to add many more tokens to its platform. Yesterday,
Aerial view of houses on the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, California, USA. Getty Some of the hottest reality shows today focus on luxury real estate in Los Angeles. Showcased are both multi-million dollar properties and the successful agents who sell them. In Los Angeles where there are likely more luxury real estate agents per
Charles Scharf Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Three decades before Charlie Scharf was named CEO of Wells Fargo, he got his start by mailing his resume to an up-and-coming banker named Jamie Dimon. Scharf was a senior at Johns Hopkins University when Dimon hired him at Baltimore lender Commercial Credit. That move proved
A prolonged Michigan budget battle would hit the state’s charter schools the hardest, according to S&P Global Ratings. The Republican-led Michigan legislature approved $59.9 billion in state spending in budget bills while axing a controversial 45-cents-a-gallon fuel tax hike proposed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, setting the stage for a budget battle. Charter schools are vulnerable
Bitcoin (BTC) is like any other asset class in that it captures value through organic price discovery conducted via trading activity on global exchanges. Yet leverage and margin trading, in general, can help “turbo-charge” demand for an asset. They can also free up capital, thus increasing liquidity within a given market as traders look to
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on January 6, 2016 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines midday Friday: Alibaba, JD, Baidu — Shares of Chinese companies include Alibaba, JD.com and Baidu plunged as much as 6%
One of the most important factors behind the growth of the cryptocurrency space is the existence of mega crypto exchanges. It has made it possible for more and more people to get involved in space and the biggest one is Binance. Today, the company made another landmark announcement. The crypto exchange announced today that it
A Sonder living room. Sonder As Airbnb prepares to become a publicly traded company in 2020, the home-sharing marketplace is signaling a huge appetite for high-quality supply. It’s a move from helping everyday homeowners build small businesses to also propelling a handful of professionals to large ones. Startups have appeared with offerings ranging from a
Buyers are back in the housing market, but they are still having a hard time finding what they want and what they can afford. The pending home sales index from the National Association of Realtors rose 1.6% in August, compared with July, and was 2.5% higher year over year. This index measures signed contracts to
Recent highly publicized flops by supposedly disruptive companies could be painting an unpleasant picture ahead for innovation, at least in how it’s viewed in the financial markets. Investors have turned thumbs-down on high-profile companies including WeWork, Uber and Tesla. Industries including marijuana, vaping and bitcoin all have seen big price drops following a spate of
In the first half of the year, Bitcoin (BTC) went on a remarkable rally that raised hopes of a similar rally like the one in 2017 that took the token’s price to $20,000. However, things have not gone as many had hoped, and since the month of July, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency has lost its
The Federal Aviation Administration awarded $986 million in grants this week in the fifth dispersal from a $3.18 billion program aimed at renovating the nation’s airports to improve safety. More than 350 airports in 44 states, Micronesia, and Puerto Rico were awarded grants, the majority less than $1 million. Construction and rehabilitation projects will help
Binance, the top crypto exchange by trading volume, has said it helped British police bust a cybercriminal who sold phishing tools that resulted in the theft of millions of pounds. In a blog post on Thursday, Binance chief compliance officer Samuel Lim said that the exchange had worked with the Metropolitan Police Service’s Cyber Crime Unit in the
The third quarter wraps up in the week ahead with stocks just slightly higher for the period, after a summer of zigzag moves. The market faces some of the same challenges in the final quarter of the year, including Brexit, the trade war with China, sluggishness in the global economy and the impeachment inquiry into
Troubled online retailer Overstock has invested $2 million USD in blockchain-based identity firm Evernym through its crypto division, Medici Ventures. Blockchain-Based Identity Technology Evernym was founded in Salt Lake City in 2013 and has developed a blockchain-based technology that allows organizations and governments to issue, accept, and verify credentials that operate similarly to a digital passport. Its
Buyers of one of the four penthouses at The Broad Exchange Building receive a key to one of the … [+] private lockers at the Harry’s Reserve Chamber Club. Eric Medsker There is a waiting list for the 32 private liquor lockers in the Harry’s Reserve Chamber Club, a members-only rare spirits chamber run by
It is getting much harder to profit on house flipping today. Home prices are high, there are very few distressed or foreclosed properties available to buy cheaply, and the competition among investors is fierce. So investors are more cash-strapped and have to use more financing to flip their homes. The good news is, mortgage rates
People walk past a board with the logo of Bitcoin in a street in Yerevan, Armenia September 9, 2019. Anton Vaganov | Reuters This has been a tough week for bitcoin. The world’s first and largest cryptocurrency plunged more than 20% over seven days, hitting a low of $7,757 Friday — its lowest level since
On Tuesday, crypto markets slumped, but since then, various altcoins have staged a recovery. However, Bitcoin extended its decline and has now dropped 6% in the past 24 hours. Altcoins Show Signs of Recovery This slowed down the massive losses witnessed the previous day when the world’s most traded digital asset plunged 17%. Other coins
Three of six recent Major League Soccer stadium plans rely on public financing to pay for the stadiums backers promised to secure or keep their franchises. Nashville, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio will issue bonds to help subsidize the new venues. Austin, Texas, Miami, St. Louis and Sacramento have MLS stadiums in development without municipal bond
Nearly all top 10 alternative cryptocurrencies by Market Capitalization have hit their respective 6-month lows after bitcoin’s rapid price slide dragged the rest of the markets into the red on Tuesday. Litecoin (LTC), EOS (EOS), Binance Coin (BNB), and Stellar (XLM) dropped to their lowest point in over 6-month shortly after BTC’s major sell-off forced traders
The disappointing debut of Peloton is part of a larger problem: sky high valuations and money losing companies. The at-home fitness company priced at $29, the high end of the $26-$29 range, opened at $27, and closed at $25.76. First SmileDirectClub, than WeWork, then Peloton, then Endeavor, which reportedly shelved its IPO plans less than
Passengers seen boarding a LATAM Airlines Airbus 320 at Puerto Maldonado airport also know as Padre Aldamiz International Airport. John Milner | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: LATAM Airlines shares skyrocketed more than 47% after the bell following a CNBC report that Delta Airlines is planning to
Libra’s proposed 2020 launch date has been thrown into doubt after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg refused to put a definitive timeframe on the project. Contradicting Reports on Libra Launch Speaking to Nikkei, Zuckerberg was asked about the expected launch date of Libra, to which he replied: “Obviously we want to move forward at some point soon
Americans are interested in technologies that make their bathrooms more relaxing, as well as enhancing their homes’ value, according to a new study published by the National Kitchen & Bath Association. Who are these individuals and what’s on their tech wish lists? Digital shower systems are popular with homeowners. Kohler Co Older Adaptors According to
The number of new housing starts has surged in recent months, and the trend is being powered in part by an unlikely bunch — millennials, Sheryl Palmer, CEO of homebuilder Taylor Morrison, told CNBC on Thursday. Consumers are “changing their relationship with homeownership” and it’s evident in the increase of the number of people who
Ethan Brown, founder and CEO of Beyond Meat, prepares to ring the opening bell to celebrate his company’s IPO at the Nasdaq Market site in New York, May 2, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Beyond Meat stock jumped on Thursday and that’s putting pressure on the hundreds of millions of dollars that investors have bet
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