It’s been yet another busy week in the markets with jobless claims topping 2 million yet again and the equity markets putting together two massive back-to-back advances the Memorial Day Weekend. While the equity market strength has taken a little of the shine off of gold (GLD), with the metal tumbling nearly 2% yesterday at
Month: May 2020
A draft of President Trump’s impeding executive order that targets the censorship and political bias of the tech giants has been leaked… by Mike Adams of Natural News (Natural News) A draft of President Trump’s impeding executive order that targets the censorship and political bias of the tech giants has been leaked online. You can
Photo: Getty As the varied numbers for March and April real estate sales continue to roll in, the industry is left wondering what the future will hold as the pandemic continues to impact markets across the globe. Professionals throughout the real estate space are wondering what rights and responsibilities they hold in light of the
Courtesy of Residence Christie’s International Real Estate. The coronavirus pandemic may have brought most of the global property market to a standstill but in Sweden, which never fully went into lockdown, a village has gone up for sale for 70 million Swedish krona ($7.3 million). Satra Brunn is a “wellness village” on the outskirts of
Popular demand for cryptocurrency has prompted Australia’s leading micro-investing platform Raiz (formerly Acorns) to add a bitcoin investment option. Individual investors can round up their spare change and regularly invest in a bitcoin investment portfolio. Leading Australian Micro-Investing App Now Offers Bitcoin Exposure Australia’s leading micro-investing platform Raiz announced on Tuesday that it has launched
By Paula Spencer Scott, Next Avenue Contributor Getty For a birthday girl worried what the advancing postmenopausal years are doing to her mind — yes, that would be me — the chance that very day to talk to a leading neuroscientist who studies women in midlife and beyond proved a happy coincidence. And a galvanizing
Puerto Rico Oversight Board members and investors raised concerns Wednesday about the pace the local government on the island was taking to reform itself and its economy. Meanwhile, Ambac Financial Group, on behalf of its subsidiary Ambac Assurance Corp., filed an adversary complaint Tuesday against the board in U.S. District Court for Puerto Rico arguing
Shares in Logitech International (LOGI) rose 3.5% in pre-market trading after the company announced a new, three-year share buyback program for up to $250 million of its common stock. The company’s board of directors also approved a proposal raise its fiscal 2020 dividend payout by 10%. The stock advanced 3.5% to $56.75 in Thursday’s pre-market
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) – The apparel retailer lost $3.29 per share for its latest quarter, wider than the loss of $1.39 per share anticipated by analysts. Revenue was also below forecasts, with sales impacted by pandemic-related closures. Dollar General (DG) – The
by Michael Snyder If you tried to warn people in late 2019 that about 40 million Americans would lose their jobs by the middle of 2020, nobody would have believed you. Personally, I operate a website called “The Economic Collapse Blog”, and I wouldn’t have believed you either. Even though I have been loudly warning that
For years, Apple (AAPL) has held onto its rank as the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. As of May 27, 2020, its market capitalization is $1.4 trillion. That’s above the likes of other major technology companies, such as Amazon.com (AMZN) and Google (GOOG). Apple shares are trading at $318 a share. The rise of Apple
How many times lately have you seen a news story about the incredible disconnect between the stock market, now up 37% from the March bottom, and the dire reality of unemployment heading to 25%, municipal fiscal woes, and widespread concerns about the next surge of Covid-19? The negative tone of the news is reinforced by
China has formally approved a plan to impose national security laws on Hong Kong, despite a US declaration that the move would signal that the city was no longer autonomous from Beijing. The decision came a day after Mike Pompeo, US secretary of state, issued the Trump administration’s most serious response yet to Beijing’s plan
Sean Healey, co-chairman and former chief executive of Affiliated Managers Group, the $600bn asset management business, has died of motor neurone disease aged 59. Mr Healey drove AMG’s strategy of buying stakes in boutique investment companies, including Cliff Asness’s AQR, the UK’s Artemis, David Harding’s Winton Capital and activist investor ValueAct. He joined the business as
If sheer cussedness counts as a first-line defense against the coronavirus, then LPL Financial planner and academic Kashif Ahmed came well-armed to the fight — with an assist from his firm’s succession plan. “Your orderly can kiss my ass, I need to be tested,” Ahmed, president of Bedford, Massachusetts-based American Private Wealth, told an emergency
Wyndham Rewards is a large hotel loyalty program with about 9,200 participating properties in 80 countries and includes well-known brands, such as Ramada Inn, La Quinta, Hawthorn Suites, Days Inn, Super 8 and, of course, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts. Plus, there are lots more you don’t expect (more on that below). The program is also
FILE PHOTO: A Saudi jeweller wearing a protective face mask arranges gold jewellery at a store in Riyadh By Brijesh Patel (Reuters) – Gold rebounded on Thursday as deteriorating U.S.-China relations over Beijing’s move to impose a national-security law in Hong Kong fanned concerns over quick economic recovery and drove investors towards safe-haven metal. Spot
I feel like my country has been stolen or that I have been kidnapped and placed in some foreign unknown place that I don’t recognize as home… by Paul Craig Roberts via PaulCraigRoberts.org Change Is Not Always Progress Paul Craig Roberts I remember when there was no tamper-proof and child-proof packaging. That was before multiculturalism and
(Reuters) – Hedge fund Starboard Value LP is close to having eight directors elected to the board of GCP Applied Technologies Inc (GCP.N) at the chemical company’s annual meeting, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. While not all votes have been cast before Thursday’s annual meeting and the result could change, preliminary figures
Crypto fund manager Grayscale Investments is accumulating Bitcoin at a rate equivalent to 150% of the new coins created by miners since the May 11 block reward halving. According to data published by independent crypto researcher Kevin Rooke, Grayscale has added 18,910 BTC to its Bitcoin Investment Trust since the halving, while only 12,337 Bitcoins
Questions and answers on the coronavirus Getty Now that “phase two” is well underway for most countries globally, we are all consumed by a two-part preoccupation: when will things go back to normal, and what exactly will be “normal” in a post-coronavirus world? In the first article of this two-part miniseries, we took a look
Homebuilder stocks are building on a breakout. The XHB homebuilder ETF rallied 4% on Wednesday, adding to a 45% surge so far this quarter. Todd Gordon, managing director at Ascent Wealth Partners, sees it as a trend that should continue. “Our theme here … is nesting and investing and what that means is basically people
Swiss crypto financial firm Bitcoin Suisse has added gold, silver, and platinum to its platform, allowing users to trade the precious metals against both bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH), as well as five other major fiat currencies. The precious metal trades are available for 24/7 trading with immediate cash settlement, the company announced on May
You probably don’t know this, but May is Older Americans Month (and has been since 1963). This year’s theme is Make Your Mark – celebrating contributions older Americans make to communities—as volunteers, parents, grandparents, and more. But as many Americans get older “not being a burden” would likely be part of their ideal Mark. So
Not-for-profit hospitals suffered a record-setting blow to margins as their balances sheets bore the full brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact, according to a report. Hospital operating margins before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization tumbled by 174% over the same period last year and fell 118% from March, hit by the steep drop in elective
Since the turn of the year, Boeing (BA) shares have yet to finish a month in the green, adding up to a cumulative year-to-date loss of 54%. Boeing, along with the rest of the aviation sector, has been pummeled by the coronavirus. Although the ship has been somewhat steadied since the March lows, when the
Construction workers build a Toll Brothers home in Boca Raton, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell. Virgin Galactic Holdings — The aerospace company’s stock fell 3% in extended trading after fellow space travel company SpaceX had to delay its historic astronaut launch with NASA because of bad weather.
Already troubled asset classes, such as student housing and student housing CMBS, face turmoil. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The pandemic threw higher education into chaos in the middle of the spring semester. How this will pan out for students, colleges, the whole army of people that works in higher education, the asset class of student housing,
What Are 14 Unconventional Ways for Students to Make Money? There’s no way around it: college is expensive. If you’re a college student and you need to earn money for tuition and expenses—or you would just like to have a little more cash to spend on the weekends—there are a few alternative ways to earn
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday that he thought some stocks were rallying too far too quickly given the high level of unemployment in the United States as the economy tries to pull out of the coronavirus slowdown. “It’s too ‘happy days are here again,'” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” “It’s just not going
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