The garage door opens the dining area of this container house to the comfortable outdoor space. Photo courtesy of Kevin Walsh Photography for Prefabulous Small Houses Garage doors have come a long way in design and use since they first were invented to shelter the early cars coming on the scene in the early 1900s.
Month: September 2019
Workers install fittings for the facade of a luxury condominium building under construction at 277 5th Avenue, a Lendlease Corp. joint venture with Victor Group, in New York, U.S., on Friday, June 29, 2018. Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty Images Demand for commercial real estate design services plummeted into negative territory in August, after
CNBC’s Jim Cramer raised concerns Friday about a major part of the U.S. economy. The “Mad Money” host said he’s feeling a new level of “anxiety about industrial” companies. “Small- and medium-sized businesses [are] doing well; big industrial just not doing well.” Smaller companies are faring OK because U.S. consumer activity, which accounts for two-thirds
Retail investors are gobbling up municipal securities as bank holdings of munis continue to decline. Those developments emerged in the quarterly flow of funds data released by the Federal Reserve Friday. Bank holdings fell to $476.4 billion in the second quarter of 2019 from $491.1 billion in the first quarter of 2019, about a 3%
Max Boonen is founder and CEO of crypto trading firm B2C2. This post is the second in a series of three that looks at high-frequency trading in the context of the evolution of crypto markets (you can see the first here). Opinions expressed within are his own and do not reflect those of CoinDesk. The following article
A group of multi-colored lifts at United Rentals. GordonChibroski | Portland Press Herald | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: United Rentals — Shares of United Rentals rose 3% following an upgrade to buy from neutral from Goldman Sachs. The brokerage said U.S. construction equipment supply has peaked and rental rates
Over the past few years, XRP has grown into the third-biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, and much of the credit for that goes to the company Ripple. The company holds the highest number of XRP tokens, and as a result, its activities have a direct impact on the price of the token. Over the course
The International Construction and Utility Equipment Exposition Courtesy of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers Big. Thirty acres big. The International Construction and Utility Equipment Exposition is charged up and powered on for October 1 – 3, 2019, at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville. Equipped with test drives and hands-on product demonstrations, the biennial event
The online retail boom in China is fueling demand for storage spaces — and real estate investors should start thinking about putting their money in warehouses, said the founder and CEO of Baring Private Equity Asia, Jean Eric Salata. “If you look at the e-commerce logistics and warehouse space in China, it’s still very, very
Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images The world’s second-largest payment processor is approaching a decade-long run for the company’s stock. Shares of MasterCard are getting a boost, as U.S. consumers embrace the secular shift from cash to card, and more recently card to digital. MasterCard’s stock is up 46% this year, compared to the
Global economic growth is slowing. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has cut its growth projection to 2.9% this year. Only four months ago, it was projecting 3.2% growth. The new projection is the lowest in a decade. Still, this business cycle has been unusually long and therefore slower growth is to be
The municipal primary market was somewhat stagnant this past week due to the Federal Open Market Committee meeting but things should revert back how they were before — with most deals getting put away quickly and being oversubscribed. According to Dan Heckman, senior fixed-income strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management, the upcoming week will be
Cryptocurrency exchange Seed CX has cut its fees to gain market share as competition piles into the crypto trading space. Margin compression across the industry is the result of the most popular exchange services become commoditized as crypto usage proliferates. Fees for takers is down to five basis points from eight bps on the Seed
The S&P is just shy of a new high. The issue is whether investors will be willing to push the markets into new high territory now that the Fed has indicated it will wait and see how the economy performs before cutting rates again. With the Fed finished, what’s next for the markets? What gets
Traders and financial professionals work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell on August 19, 2019 in New York City. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Developments in U.S.-Chinese trade talks and the comments from a host of Fed speakers could be important for markets in the week ahead,
Prominent analyst Tom Lee believes the launch of Bakkt will help build trust towards crypto trading among institutional investors. Lee, a renowned Bitcoin bull and co-founder of the research firm Fundstrat, tweeted his enthusiasm for the long-awaited crypto services platform: “I am very positive on @Bakkt and its ability to improve trust with institutions to crypto.” Bakkt is
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company is willing to subsidize the housing sector in Dublin. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images Google is willing to build homes in order to ease Dublin’s housing crisis, the company’s CEO said. Sundar Pichai told The Independent newspaper in Ireland that the technology giant, which employs over
It’s been a big month for homebuilders. Home construction stocks — tracked by the iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, ticker ITB — have climbed nearly 9% in the last month, with names like KB Home and Toll Brothers notching double-digit gains. KB Home shares reached a 52-week high on Wednesday after U.S. housing starts, an
Traders work after the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 12, 2019 at Wall Street in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images For investors taking a breather from the chaos in August, buckle up as the market is about to go crazy again, Goldman Sachs warned.
Even a couple of years ago, something called a Bitcoin mutual fund would have been regarded as a fanciful notion by most people and perhaps rightly so. However, during this period, a lot of advancements have taken place in the crypto world, and a genuinely strong ecosystem has emerged. That has now made it possible
Significant improvement in Louisiana’s financial position led Moody’s Investors Service to change its outlook to positive from stable, a move that could trigger a rating upgrade within the next two years. Moody’s also confirmed its Aa3 rating on $3.4 billion of outstanding general obligation bonds, while suggesting an upgrade could be in the offing if
Better regulation is needed around bitcoin markets before they can be traded on major exchanges, the head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday. Speaking at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha conference, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said investors are “sorely mistaken” if they think bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies undergo the same price discovery practices
Software IPOs are hot. Datadog is the most recent software IPO opening big. The software analytics firm initially sought to price 24 million shares at $19-$22, was quickly upsized to $24-$26, priced at $27, and opened at $40.35. It is not alone. Software as a service (Saas), where a service provider gives customers access to
A tag hangs from a Steelcase London Ltd. desk chair in the former offices of Duff Capital Advisors LP in Greenwich, Connecticut. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Steelcase jumped nearly 4% during extended trading after the company reported second-quarter earnings in what CEO
Binance.US, the American branch of leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance, has opened for account registration and deposits. The eagerly awaited US branch of Binance is now allowing citizens to register an account with the exchange using their social security number and an official government ID so that they can begin depositing crypto assets. Coins accepted by
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin “The Collages for the Esplanade Apartments” by Chicago-based artist, Assaf Evron. Peter McCullough In conjunction with EXPO CHICAGO and the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Israeli-born, Chicago-based artist Assaf Evron has unveiled The Collages for the Esplanade Apartments, a temporary site-specific work mounted on the facade of an
An ‘Open House’ sign is displayed as potential home buyers arrive at a property for sale in Columbus, Ohio. Ty Wright | Bloomberg | Getty Images It’s getting harder to be a home flipper. As easy as it might seem on reality television shows, the math is now trickier, thanks to a housing market loaded
(L to R) Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss, Clifton S. Robbins, and Dr. Rajiv Shah during a panel discussion at the 2019 Delivering Alpha conference on Sept. 19. 2019. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Several investors have been wary of incorporating environmental, social and governance standards into their strategies. However, two investors think increased attention to ESG will
View BTC quickly fell to $9,600 this morning, bolstering the bearish setup on the 4-hour and daily charts. A deeper drop to key support at $9,454 may now be in the offing. A UTC close below $9,450 would confirm a downside break of a three-month-long contracting triangle and expose the 200-day moving average (MA) support
California Treasurer Fiona Ma announced Wednesday that a state board has approved $300 million in private activity bonds for a high-speed rail line to link Las Vegas with Victorville, California. The debt was approved by the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee, which administers the state’s tax-exempt, private activity bond program. A rendering of an XpressWest
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