The Trump administration has vowed to “take action” in a matter of days against Chinese software companies that it perceives as a risk to security, in a sign that Washington is set to broaden its offensive beyond the video-sharing app TikTok. ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, is racing to save the app’s US operations
Month: August 2020
SpaceX returned two astronauts to earth on Sunday in the final stages of a historic mission it began nine weeks ago that could open the way to the full commercialisation of human space flight. The test mission, undertaken with Nasa, took astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station on a SpaceX
Bitcoin’s (BTC) rally above the $10,000–$10,400 zone has attracted several traders who had been waiting for a trending move to start. Yusuke Otsuka, the co-founder of Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck, said that several Japanese traders who had been dormant have started trading again this week. Monex Group CEO Oki Matsumoto also said that many traders
The Miami development includes a 100,000-square-foot medical center with exam rooms, an onsite lab … [+] and pharmacy and diagnostic imaging. Royal Palm Companies The developers of a new mixed-use tower in Miami, set to open in 2024, weren’t anticipating a global pandemic when they came up with the idea for their latest project —
The Beijing Arbitration Commission has published an article clarifying that bitcoin’s use as a commodity has never been banned in China. It explains that the Chinese authorities’ attitude toward controlling bitcoin revolves around three areas. China Recognizes Bitcoin as Commodity The Beijing Arbitration Commission published an article on the legal nature of bitcoin in China
Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about potential increases due to continuing to work after filing, eligibility for spousal benefits, filing on the record of a younger spouse and whether the WEP and the GPO will be invoked by a foreign pension. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and
Rig hands move equipment at a hydraulic fracturing site atop the Marcellus Shale rock formation in Washington Township, Pennsylvania.Bloomberg News A new tax credit, a grand jury report, national election-year politics and regional bickering have revived debate over natural gas drilling, long a complex Pennsylvania political football. “It’s been a multi-faceted endeavor that’s affected a
Now that we have encouraging data, we should be able to make informed decisions concerning on how to move forward. Unfortunately, politicians are making this much worse than it needs to be. The damage they have done to the economy is immeasurable. 55% of restaurants on Yelp have shut their doors for good. And some
The second flag failed, but the uptrend is intact! submitted by Morris Hubbartt Super Force Signals A Leading Market Timing Service We Take Every Trade Ourselves! Email: [email protected] [email protected] Morris Hubbartt July 31, 2020 Here are today’s videos and charts. The videos are viewable on mobile phones as well as computers. Double-click to enlarge the
COVID-19 has changed the rules, yet growth is still the name of the game. Sure, it’s a strange time for growth investors. On the one hand, the Commerce Department just announced that in Q2 2020, real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 32.9%, with unemployment remaining at alarmingly high levels. On
by dryam2000 First, here’s a visual representation of the strong correlation between real interest rates and gold prices. We are currently in an extremely bullish environment with negative real interest rates. And, here’s a link to a fairly comprehensive nondogmatic assessment to investing in gold/silver. Disclaimer: This information is only for educational purposes. Do not make any investment decisions
Weighted Average vs. FIFO vs. LIFO: An Overview When it comes time for businesses to account for their inventory, businesses may use the following three primary accounting methodologies: Weighted average cost accounting Last in, first out (LIFO) accounting First in, first out (FIFO) accounting Each of these three methodologies relies on a different method of
Telecoms groups in the US, Africa and India deemed their large tower estates expendable when they sold them off in recent years, but some of their European peers are choosing a different course to selling off the family silver, or more specifically steel. Mobile towers — the metal structures on which radio antennas sit —
German health group Siemens Healthineers said it would acquire Varian Medical Systems in a deal that values the US maker of devices and software for cancer treatments at $16.4bn. Under the terms of the deal announced on Sunday, Siemens Healthineers will acquire all shares in Varian for $177.50 per share in cash, representing a 24
According to Heisenberg Capital founder and Keiser Report host Max Keiser, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) would soon rally to $28,000. He believes the all-time high of BTC at $20,000 likely won’t act as resistance. Keiser, who is an early investor in unicorn Kraken and $100-million-worth Bitstamp, said: “The $20,000 level for #Bitcoin won’t pose
Ari Rastegar is CEO of Rastegar Property Company, a vertically integrated real estate company with a focus on value-oriented real estate. getty Unemployment levels nationally were at 14.7% in April 2020, reaching as high as 30.1% in Nevada during that month. The recent unemployment rates now are at the highest levels since the Great Depression. However,
The Northern California District Court finds that claims against Ripple Labs and its token made by two investors cannot be proven. The legal dispute, which began in May 2018, pitted Ripple Labs including CEO Brad Garlinghouse and disgruntled investors. According to a report, the discontented investors wanted the court to determine whether the “native token
getty Many estate planners will admit that a lot of the plans don’t achieve the owners’ goals. Most of these failures were avoidable. The failures most often result from the nontechnical aspects of the plan, what some refer to as the human side, or soft side, of an estate plan. There’s not a lot of
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has designated its chief compliance officer as interim chief regulatory officer, almost a year after the resignation of its prior regulatory chief. The decision was made during a two-day quarterly MSRB board meeting this week to name Gail Marshall as interim chief regulatory officer. That position was previously held by
U.S. Dollar recovered from more than a two-year low.” data-reactid=”12″>Gold futures closed higher on Friday after hitting a new contract high early in the session. The market gave back some of its gains when Treasury yields rose slightly and the U.S. Dollar recovered from more than a two-year low. Spot gold also reached a new
The police state treatment of Julian Assange by Washington, the British government and the mentally sick MSM of both countries goes unprotested… by Paul Craig Roberts via PaulCraigRoberts.org Should We Be Protesting About George Floyd or Julian Assange? Paul Craig Roberts Some Americans are so pathetic they don’t even know what gender they are. A
This week was all about haves and have-nots. Technology stocks led the way higher. A trifecta of blowout earnings from Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB) on Thursday drove the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 to end July on a positive note. However, Apple is the only one of these three names in the
by Michael Snyder Originally, I wasn’t going to write about Joe Biden’s search for a running mate, but I changed my mind. Most of the time running mate picks are of relatively little consequence as far as the election outcome is concerned, and many of those on tickets that do not ultimately win end up
Initially popularized by the legendary value investor Benjamin Graham (one of Warren Buffett‘s mentors), few stock market metrics have cycled in and out of favor as often as the P/E ratio. Price/earnings ratios are used to assess the relative attractiveness of a potential investment. Trailing P/E uses the current share price and divides by the total
Investors in US junk bonds had their best month in nearly nine years in July, as continued market support from the Federal Reserve bolstered yield hungry investors’ confidence in more precarious companies. Rising prices and their flipside, falling yields, led to a 4.78 per cent return for the asset class — the best outcome since
Forget those online deliveries of groceries. The big news for music-lovers during the coronavirus lockdown has been the sudden, and unforeseen, windfall of concerts and operas streamed directly into the home, most of them for free. This has been such a lifeline for people bereft of their usual social and cultural life that it seems
They’ve been billed as a solution to the rock-bottom interest rates weighing down the returns of America’s asset managers. Collateralized loan obligations — which package and sell leveraged loans into chunks of varying risk and return — have been touted as safe, high-yielding alternatives to everything from government bonds and mortgage securities to corporate debt.
The Ethereum network has just turned five years old. Although the project was first announced at the North American Bitcoin Conference in January 2014, its genesis block was only mined on July 30, 2015. Since then, Ether (ETH) has become the dominating altcoin in market capitalization, popularity and network value settlement, having even surpassed Bitcoin
Lee Kiser is a multifamily expert, active broker and Principal of Kiser Group, Chicagoland’s leading mid-market multifamily brokerage firm. getty There is a broad spectrum of commercial real estate types to consider when investing. When the economy shifts or crises occur, multifamily has consistently proven its resiliency, stability and predictability. Multifamily is doing so again during Covid-19
Bitcoin and a great number of other cryptocurrencies are electronic versions of currency. Many people falsely assume that crypto proponents are for a cashless society and this is certainly not the case. If we removed the central banks’ printing fiasco and the inflationary practices from cash, we all know that cash is great for anonymity