A recent $11.6 million financial move by Middletown,Ohio, Schools will put some money back into local taxpayers’ pockets. Through the refund or refinancing of $42.1 million in bonds by the Butler County school system, the city schools will save $11.6 million in school property taxes. “When you refund bonds, the savings go directly to the
Month: November 2019
The action began at 3am UTC, with a sell order roughly 6 percent below the market price and hundreds of times larger than the norm on the exchange at that time. As that order fulfilled available bids, the ask price moved lower, dragging the market price down until it reached $6,276, at which point the
Boys run past burning tires set up by Iraqi protesters during ongoing anti-government protests in Najaf, Iraq, November 26. Alaa al-Marjani | Reuters The resignation of Iraq’s prime minister helped trigger a drop in oil prices, but analysts say that may not be the right response by investors, as Iraq’s future may have just become
Shimao Property’s billionaire chairman Hui Wing Mau is among “first-generation” Chinese rich turning… [+] over leadership at flagship companies to their children. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg News BLOOMBERG NEWS (This is a guest post by Zhao Luyun, a Forbes China columnist, the founder of the Zhan Rui Family Inheritance Research Center, and a visiting professor at the
Warren Buffett Gerard Miller | CNBC Despite having $128 billion to burn, Warren Buffett just backed out of a bidding war after a slightly higher offer topped Berkshire Hathaway’s. If the Oracle of Omaha is that shy to just spend a tad more of his giant cash pile, could that be saying something about the
IDAX, a Chinese cryptocurrency exchange, has suspended deposits and withdrawals after its CEO allegedly disappeared in what looks like an exit scam. In a blog post earlier today, IDAX said it was suspending all activity on the exchange after staff said they had been unable to contact their CEO, Lei Guorong, since November 24. As
It’s going to be a municipal bond feast for buyers when they return from their holiday break. The biggest volume week of the year awaits, with IHS Ipreo estimating bond supply will come in at $17.4 billion in a calendar composed of $14.8 billion of negotiated deals and $2.7 billion of competitive sales. Previously, the
German banking association BdB was positive about the legislation, too. “Credit institutions are experienced in the safekeeping of client assets and in risk management, are committed to investor protection and have always been controlled by the financial supervision,” it said. As such, banks could “effectively prevent money laundering and terrorist financing” with crypto assets.
Legislation clarifying the legal status of cryptocurrencies, including mining and token sales, was reported to be passing through the State Duma by the end of the last summer session, but has seen delays. Two of three planned bills were passed in 2018, however, one regarding digital rights and the other covering crowdfunding, RIA says.
Chances are good the stock market could hit a few bumps as December gets underway, but any pullback should be slight, setting up for a year end Santa rally, strategists say. The tone around trade talks between the U.S. and China has been positive enough to keep the market moving higher. The Dec. 15 deadline
Increasing the supply of affordable rental housing, or at the very least maintaining the current … [+] supply instead of regulating it into oblivion, is vital for the sustainability of the industry. 123RF.com So, what was prophesied by the industry has indeed come to pass. Barely six months since the government enacted the Tenant Fees
Workers install roof trusses on a home under construction in Vineyard, Utah. George Frey | Bloomberg | Getty Images Continued low mortgage rates are keeping bankers busy, as refinance applications continue to rise. Refinance volume helped push total mortgage application volume up 1.5% last week compared with the previous week. Volume was 153% higher compared
Robinhood co-founder and co-CEO Vlad Tenev speaks onstage during the TechCrunch Disrupt New York event on May 10, 2016. Noam Galai | Getty Images for TechCrunch Robinhood is no longer looking to become a federally insured bank. The stock-trading start-up announced Wednesday that it was pulling its bank charter application with the Office of the
Bakkt futures trading volume hit a record high of 4,269 BTC in a single day; however, very little Bitcoin has actually been physically settled on the exchange. The launch of the futures trading exchange from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, was one of the most highly anticipated
The U.S. economy expanded “modestly” through mid-November amid steady consumer spending and some brighter signs from manufacturers, a Federal Reserve survey showed. “In manufacturing, more districts reported an expansion in the current period than the previous one, though the majority continued to experience no growth,” said the report released Wednesday in Washington. “The picture for
The central bank conducted three rounds of QE between 2009 and 2015, during which time the S&P 500, a benchmark for risk assets across the globe, rallied by more than 200 percent. Gold, a classic safe-haven asset, rose from $800 to $1,921 in the three years to 2011 only to fall back to $1,050 by
The FATF guidance, which is more or less obligatory for its 39 member nations and jurisdictions to adopt in regulation, stipulates that exchanges, or virtual asset providers (VASPS), must obtain, store and be able to pass on data on their users when transactions worth $1,000 or over are made. This provides a digital paper trail
Flextronics International Apple factory employees work on Apple Mac Pro computer assembly in Austin, TX, November 20, 2019. Tom Brenner | Reuters Economists are boosting their fourth quarter growth forecasts after the trade deficit narrowed and business investment showed a surprise pickup in October. The CNBC/Moody’s Analytic’s rapid update of economists forecasts showed a median
Medical office timeshares, telehealth and wellness centers emerge in the healthcare real estate … [+] sector. Getty In the medical real estate space, HealCo is a tech startup on a mission. Launched in 2019, the company conducts a marketplace for medical and wellness office timesharing, management and compliance. HealCo brings together the spectrum of parties
A pending sale sign in front of a home in Miami. Getty Images Demand for housing is high, but there aren’t enough homes for sale to meet it. Pending home sales, which measure signed contracts, fell 1.7% in October month-to-month, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales were 4.4% higher annually, likely because mortgage
Byron Wien Olivia Michael | CNBC The stock market’s rally may be far from over as low interest rates keep valuations in an attractive place, according to Wall Street legend Byron Wien. “People complain that the market is overvalued but … with these interest rates, the market is really below fair value,” Wien, vice chairman
Shutterstock San Francisco-based Bitwise Asset Management has filed a registration statement for a publicly-offered cryptocurrency index ETF with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company said in a statement that the new ETF will track the returns of Bitwise’s market-cap-weighted index of the 10 largest cryptocurrencies, the HOLD 10 Index. It is intended to serve both
UPbit, a South Korean-based crypto exchange, has lost 342,000 worth of ether (ETH), accounting for approximately $49 million USD, in a hack earlier today. UPbit Says Investors Assets Are Safe The exchange has suspended its deposit and withdrawal service after confirming in a statement that the assets had been stolen from the Upbeat Ethereum hot
The establishment of safe harbors is one of the key issues raised by public finance industry groups in their comments to the U.S. Treasury, Internal Revenue Service and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board on their proposed guidance for making the transition away from Libor. In formal comments filed with the federal government and separately to
To be sure, it’s not as accessible as some may have hoped. Gurbacs’ firm, for example, withdrew a proposed bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) from consideration by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in September, after the regulator signaled it was in no hurry to approve any such vehicle for retail investors. Instead, VanEck is
Stepping back, the cryptocurrency ran into selling pressure near $7,350 on Nov. 24 and fell to six-month lows near $6,500 on the following day. The drop, however, was short-lived and prices quickly rose back to $7,380 before printing a UTC close at $7,159 on Nov. 26. The recovery from $6,500 to $7,159 represents the long
The Hewlett-Packard Co. logo is displayed on the window of an electronics store in New York. Ramin Talaie | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: HP shares jumped more than 2% during extended trading after the company posted a fourth-quarter earnings beat on the top and bottom line.
June 2019. “Expropriate German housing”. Protesters expose a banner in front of the offices of real … [+] estate group Deutsche Wohnen. (Photo by Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images) picture alliance via Getty Images The German capital’s plan to limit soaring housing costs is scaring off investors, according to the city’s largest residential landlord.
A prospective home buyer is shown a home by a real estate agent in Coral Gables, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images After shrinking for much of this year, home price gains are now growing again. On a national level, prices rose 3.2% annually in September, up from a 3.1% gain in August, according to
Slack Technologies Inc. CEO Stewart Butterfield stands on the trading floor during the company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S. June 20, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The biggest hurdle for companies aiming to follow Spotify and Slack into the public markets is that the direct listing process they
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