Boris Johnson has announced tougher coronavirus restrictions across England — including strict travel restrictions and the closure of pubs and restaurants — as he admitted the current approach had failed to stem an alarming second wave of the pandemic. The prime minister told a Downing Street press conference on Saturday evening that the new restrictions
Month: October 2020
Donald Trump delivered a grim message to Pennsylvania voters on Saturday as he kicked off a final blitz of swing state rallies — his last chance to hold on to the White House. The president again raised the prospect of electoral fraud in the key swing state, as well as nationally, and warned that Democratic
RBC Wealth Management added a veteran UBS team to its roster with more than $475 million in client assets. The Loupee/Graziani Wealth Management Group, based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, includes advisors Robert Loupee and Michael Graziani and senior client associate Barbara Pesci, according to the firm. The advisors, previously with UBS for nearly a decade,
On Friday the Swiss town of Wetzikon — formerly best-known for its idyllic pastures and churches — launched a blockchain-based program to support small and medium-sized local businesses affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. Valued at 250,000 Swiss francs ($280,000), the initial aid disbursement will be funded with a municipal credit line earmarked for the Coronavirus
Kirby Lane Park in Baltimore was a Rose Fellowship project. Photo: © Harry Connolly The idea is simple: every person in the United States should have dignified, well-built housing. However, execution is much more complicated. For architect Katie Swenson and others like her, navigating solutions through both political and social red tape is half the
Brenan Hefner, co-founder and chief operating officer of Analyst Hub, and his family outside of their former home in Pelham, NY. Source: Brian Hefner Like many before him, Brenan Hefner arrived in New York 20 years ago in search of a career on Wall Street. His journey will sound familiar to those drawn to the
John McAfee has shared many details about his life in Spanish prison and chances of extradition to the U.S. He additionally claims to have regained control of his ghost cryptocurrency project. Prison Life ‘Is an Adventure’ Former U.S. presidential candidate and antivirus software tycoon John McAfee is in Spanish prison awaiting his extradition trial after
Could a positive financial trend be emerging as a result of the pandemic? Could it be that women are stepping forward more to lead family financial decisions? A new study (“The Pandemic’s Impact on Women”) released last week by Fidelity brought this statistic to light: The majority of women surveyed (67%) said they are now
Holders of defaulted bonds issued to build northwest Florida’s Garcon Point Bridge got more bad news about the toll revenues that repay the debt. The Florida Department of Transportation, which first suspended tolls to facilitate evacuations in the wake of Hurricane Sally, said Thursday that the state will continue to suspend toll collections until Nov.
New Delhi: Gold and silver prices continue to fluctuate. However, the price of gold has stopped rising sharply. The price of 10 grams of 24 carat gold remains between 50-51 thousand. At the same time, the price of 10 grams of 22 carat gold is between 46 to 47 thousand. The price of gold and
The Banks will fight every uptick in the final days in order to keep gold from finishing the quarter and the year with a price that begins with a “2”… by Craig Hemke via Sprott Money News That the year is five-sixths complete is reason alone to celebrate. Even if you don’t usually party on
The markets were in turmoil this week, with all three major indexes in the red. The specter of further European lockdowns amid rising coronavirus cases, the uncertainty surrounding the upcoming US election, and the mixed earnings results from the FAANG group, all resulted in Wall Street’s worst week since March. Among the very few outliers,
People wear face masks while visiting Union Square as the city continues the re-opening efforts following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on October 24, 2020 in New York City. Noam Galai | Getty Images Third quarter GDP is expected to grow at a sharp double digit pace, but the economy is still
Monty Rakusen | Cultura | Getty Images Company: Contura Energy, Inc. (CTRA) Business: Contura is large scale provider of metallurgical (“met”) and thermal coal. The company has mining operations across coal basins in Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. It supplies both metallurgical coal to produce steel and thermal coal to generate power. The met coal
Oil traders and analysts are scrambling to calculate the hit to demand from renewed coronavirus lockdowns in France and Germany, as fears over their impact drove oil prices to their worst week in six months. For an industry still heavily scarred by the events of March and April, when prices went into freefall as widespread
Boris Johnson will announce tougher Covid-19 restrictions in England in an admission that the government’s current approach is failing to stem an alarming second wave of the pandemic. Mr Johnson decided to rip up his previous strategy after a new document published on Friday showed the number of coronavirus infections and hospital admissions had surpassed
If I told you that the most important lesson I’ve learned during this cataclysmic year is gratitude, you would probably think either that I was naive enough to change my name to Pollyanna or that I was living in a clinical state of denial. Believe me, I would understand either reaction. For many of us,
Has it only been a dozen years since Oct. 31, 2008, that Satoshi Nakamoto published a modest nine-page paper describing a new online payments system called “Bitcoin?” Depending on where one stands, that pseudonymous white paper — its author(s) remain unidentified — fostered either a fintech revolution or, as some believe, “the greatest scam in
Aaron Marshall is CEO & Co-Founder of Keyrenter Property Management, the nation’s leading property management and real estate franchise. getty For everybody — and certainly those in property management and the real estate industry — this entire year has been a big question mark, or maybe an endless string of curse words. But I don’t think the
The acting director of the U.S. Office Comptroller of Currency (OCC) Brian Brooks says the creation of the U.S. digital dollar is a terrible one because the government is not good at building things. Instead, Brooks believes tech companies, which already possess the know-how, to be in a better position to issue stable digital currencies.
Briana called AgingParents.com in distress. She was feeling panicky and angry. Her 80 year old mother, Rhonda, had just bought another new car she could not afford. Briana explained that her mother’s funds were limited, but she kept insisting on living the life she had before her husband passed. Her parents had depleted their assets
The municipal bond calendar will start the month with less than $1 billion of volume and only one deal totaling more than $100 million after weeks of massive supply ahead of one of the most contentious elections in recent U.S. history amid a global health pandemic. Most issuers took advantage of the low-rate, high-demand environment
Image source: The Motley Fool. Sandstorm Gold (NYSEMKT:SAND)Q3 2020 Earnings CallOct 30, 2020, 11:30 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good morning, my name is Mike and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Sandstorm Gold conference call. All
Thank goodness the US Justice Department has again saved food consumers from, well, it’s kind of hard to say… by Dave Albin via Mises Thank goodness the US Justice Department has again saved food consumers from…well, it’s kind of hard to say. This time, the target is chicken producers, but I wrote about similar events several years ago with the dairy
Shares of Qualcomm (QCOM) might have dropped along with the broader market in this week’s bloodbath, but the decline was counterbalanced by some good news. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with Qualcomm when denying the FTC’s (Federal Trade Commission) request for an en banc hearing. The FTC filed its petition
People walk by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in lower Manhattan on October 02, 2020 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The best hope for markets in the week ahead is that there is a clear cut winner in Tuesday’s presidential election. The election looms large as the biggest wild card
by visualcapitalist Public sector debt has been a contentious topic for many years. While some believe that excessive government borrowing can be harmful over the long term, others have argued that it acts as a powerful tool for stimulating growth. In the U.S., the latter view appears to have taken hold. Since 2008, America’s national debt
A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. Jessica Rinaldi | Reuters Exxon Mobil on Friday reported its third straight quarter of losses as depressed oil demand sparked by the coronavirus pandemic weighed on the company’s operations. During the third quarter, the company lost $680 million, although Exxon said results improved on a
For Chinese officials working on the country’s 14th five-year plan, the US looms large over the drafting process. One senior Chinese government official advising on the five-year plan’s manufacturing strategies said that regardless of whether Donald Trump is re-elected on November 3 or defeated by Joe Biden, “it is certain that industrial decoupling between the
If you are American and the enforced jollity of Thanksgiving makes you anxious, think how the turkeys must feel. This year brings them a respite. The pandemic is dragging into autumn, which means sales of gobblers look set to fall. Turkey is still the centrepiece of most Thanksgiving meals in the US. About 46m of
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