Tether has responded to what it describes as a “flawed” paper written by academics from the University of Texas and Ohio State University, which claimed that a single address on the Bitfinex exchange was responsible for manipulating the surge in Bitcoin value in 2017. Tether Claims Study Was Lacking in Data Professor John Griffin and Amin
Month: November 2019
Large swings in Port of Los Angeles container traffic numbers have one port official saying a U.S.-China trade agreement can’t come soon enough. Whether that will happen remains unclear; reports earlier this week of an interim deal were contradicted Friday by President Trump. A container ship approaches the Port of Los Angeles, which reports a
Bitcoin fell 4.4 percent Friday, slipping below $9,000 for the first time in two weeks. Analysts cited a lack of positive market drivers and speculation that the U.S. Federal Reserve might pause this year’s rate-cutting cycle, which could curb demand for the cryptocurrency as a potential inflation hedge. The price dropped to $8,800 as of
President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Dallas, October 17, 2019. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Progress in trade talks and a steady, but accomodative Fed policy have eased the way for the stock market’s rally to new highs, and both will be in the forefront when President Donald Trump and Jerome Powell speak at
VA loans are on the rise with Millennials and younger buyers. Getty When it comes to mortgages, VA loans are about the best you can get. With no down payment, no mortgage insurance, and super-low interest rates, they save homebuyers significantly—both up-front and over the long haul. And while VA loans have historically been underutilized,
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday highlighted one segment in the retail industry he believes will work well in a portfolio whether the economy is slowing or thriving. The off-price retailers of TJX Companies, Ross Stores and Burlington Stores satisfy both consumers looking for bargain deals and real estate investment trusts, or REITs, looking to lease
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The massive rotation into value stocks that rocked investors two months ago is going to extend into 2020, according to J.P. Morgan’s quant guru Marko Kolanovic. The quant, whose reports have moved markets in the past, predicted rotation, going so
Bakkt, the crypto exchange platform from the Intercontinental Exchange, has seen its futures trading volume soar to 1,061 contracts, indicating that institutional investors are finally getting on board with the platform. Since its launch on September 27, Bakkt has endured a sluggish start to life despite being one of the most highly anticipated exchange in the
Just one day after Houston Independent School District’s board election, the Texas Education Agency notified the district that it would be taken over by the state, replacing elected officials and the current superintendent. Houston ISD is the largest district in the state, and no state takeover on this scale has ever occurred. Houston ISD’s Wheatley
View Bitcoin’s short-term 50-period moving average is edging closer toward the longer-term 100-period moving average on the weekly chart, hinting at a potential bullish “golden cross” formation for the first time in 3.5 years. In the shorter term, however, total weekly volume has fallen period-to-period as indecision continues to grip the market. Price action is
An investor watches the electronic board at a stock exchange hall on Feb. 11, 2019 in China. Visual China Group | Getty Images One of the largest indexers in the world is set to announce a new round of increases in the weighting of mainland China stocks, and the addition is generating an unusual amount
Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Zillow shares surged 14% during extended trading after the online real estate website posted a third-quarter revenue beat. Zillow reported revenue of $745 million, compared to the $718 million Wall Street expected, according to Refinitiv consensus estimates. That revenue
The Kellum-Noble House, a 1847 Houston property still sitting on its original site in what is now a … [+] city park, has seen its share of history. After a restoration project that started in 2014, it’s reopening. CALpix On the edge of downtown Houston’s modern business district, the city’s oldest building is reopening following
A Redfin Corp. ‘For Sale’ sign stands outside of a home in Seattle, Washington. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images After a strong summer in the housing market, something is turning potential buyers on their heels. Just 21% of Americans say now is a good time to buy a home, a drop from 28%
American companies are sitting on piles of cash, frustrating investors and leading some on Wall Street to wonder why they aren’t spending. Microsoft currently has the largest cash pile at $136.6 billion as of last quarter, according to estimates from FactSet. Berkshire Hathaway, Alphabet and Apple occupy the other top spots, with $128.2 billion, $121.2
Over the course of the past few years, many cryptocurrencies have emerged that have demonstrated a definite use case, and one of those is Stellar (XLM). SDF or the Stellar Development Foundation, which looks after the entire ecosystem of the cryptocurrency, made a major announcement today, and it could have far-reaching implications. Major Boost The
Bitcoin made gains last week after new documents from the Chinese government revealed that the country was reversing its decision to ban blockchain mining, with President Xi Jinping expressing his support for blockchain technology. Back in April, The National Development and Reform Commission in China published a list of industries that it believes should be restricted
How often do you wish you could go back in time and make what now appears to be an “obvious” investment in a transformational company or industry? It seems perfectly clear now that smartphones would become ubiquitous and allow Apple to become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company. You might say the same thing
Illinois’ $750 million general obligation issue proved an easy sell for broker-dealers as worries about the state’s finances took a backseat to demand for higher yielding paper. The state competitively sold the bonds in three tranches, two for $300 million and one for $150 million. The 10-year bond landed at a yield of 2.92%, a
View Bitcoin’s repeated failure to produce a strong bounce from key support indicates the bullish sentiment has fizzled somewhat. Failure to hold above a bearish MA on the longer-term chart indicates scope for a deeper drop. BTC risks falling to $8,800 in the short-term and may extend the decline to $8,500. A high-volume triangle breakout
People pass by a video sign display with the logo for Roku, a Fox-backed video streaming firm, that held it’s IPO at the Nasdaq Marketsite in New York, September 28, 2017. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Roku shares tanked more than 15% during extended trading despite the
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Happy couple is taking keys from their new house from broker and smiling. Getty There’s no getting around the fact that buying a home is a huge investment. Between the down payment and closing costs, today’s buyers need to show up to settlement prepared to pay
Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group at the SoftBank World 2018 event in Tokyo, Japan. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son won’t call WeWork a rescue, claiming instead that the latest financing allowed his company to dramatically reduce the average share price it paid for the
Ray Dalio, billionaire and founder of Bridgewater Associates LP, speaks during the Institute of International Finance (IIF) annual membership meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Central banks have been giving cheap money to investors who have been injecting it into companies that are often
Huobi, the popular Singapore-based crypto exchange, has announced that it will freeze all US accounts by November 13 due to the particularly stringent regulatory environment that has forced the exchange to prohibit US users. Huobi Pushes Users to New Independent Platform In a blog post from the exchange published over the weekend, Huobi has said
The issuance of taxable municipal securities has leapt to record levels in 2019 against a post-advance refunding backdrop of historically low rates and heightened interest from an expanding pool of international investors. The exponential surge of such issuance in the past three months could signal an even larger boom for this asset class on the
Binance Chain transactions are now traceable by CipherTrace. The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume announced Tuesday it would utilize CipherTrace’s intelligence tools, bringing anti-money laundering analysis and support to its self-developed blockchain, which is both the foundation for the Binance DEX (decentralized exchange) and home to the exchange’s BNB token. CipherTrace said in
A much broader breakout in the markets may be very near. The markets have started the month with a powerful, largely-cyclical, rally. What’s missing is a significant breakout: Only 10% of the S&P are at new highs, despite a historic high for that index. Part of the reason is a big move-up in the largest
The Match Group OkCupid dating application is shown on an Apple iPhone. Gaia Squarci | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Match Group tanked 16% after the company topped third-quarter earnings expectations and matched revenue estimates at $541 million, though reported disappointing fourth-quarter revenue guidance. The parent
Every week, we wrote ads. Depending on how well you were doing as an agent, you got either one, two, … [+] or three ads. Getty When did “advertising” morph into “marketing?” And precisely how well is either working for real estate in 2019? When I entered the residential brokerage business in the fall of
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