Month: April 2021

During and after the 2008-09 financial crisis, the media constantly wrote headlines about corruption and scandal on Wall Street. We became familiar with terms such as overleveraged, mortgage-backed securities (MBS), recession, and liquidity crises. We also are reminded of the more recent scandals when we hear names such as Bernie Madoff. Madoff scammed billions from
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In this article ENPH Solaray Director Jonathan Fisk moves a solar panel at the solar power installation company’s Sydney facility. Jason Reed | Reuters Shares of Enphase Energy dipped more than 14% on Wednesday after the company warned about the ongoing impacts of the chip shortage. For the first quarter the company, which makes microinverters
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Ford would make 1.1m fewer vehicles this year because of the worldwide shortage of semiconductors, the carmaker said on Wednesday, significantly more disruption that previously hoped. The company had earlier forecast it would make between 200,000 and 400,000 fewer vehicles. Under its new guidance, Ford’s production will be down 50 per cent in the second
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Waste Connections (WCN) posted its first-quarter financial results on April 28 after market close. The North American integrated waste services company reported better-than-expected results driven by strong growth in solid waste pricing, accelerating solid waste volumes, and increased resource recovery values. Waste Connections’ revenue came in at $1.396 billion in the quarter ended March 31,
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by Martin Armstrong Oscar viewing fell below 10 million, a crash mode from last year’s historic low of 23.6 million viewers compared to nearly 30 million in 2019 pre-COVID. The entire entertainment industry, from movies and Oscars to football and sports, indicates that the future is not so bright and sunny. I warned back in 2016 that football
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press release PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans, has announced the listing of the Smoothy Token (SMTY) under the pair USDT/SMTY on Mar 29 at 1:00 p.m. UTC. Smoothy is a novel single pool liquidity protocol specializing in same-backed assets with low-cost zero-slippage
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If you’re in your late 50s or 60s, deciding when and how to retire is one of the most important decisions you’ll make at this point in your life. Your decisions will not only impact your financial security but your quality of life for the rest of your life.  There are a number of financial
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The Price of Shale Oil vs. Conventional Oil: An Overview Hydraulic fracturing, also called fracking, is an important technological advance for the oil and gas industry. In addition to opening up a staggering amount of natural gas for production, fracking allows extraction companies to recover what is called tight oil from deposits that were unworkable
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Europe’s top financial stability supervisor has warned of a potential “tsunami” of corporate insolvencies once governments’ crisis-era support is withdrawn and called for a shift to more targeted policies that help otherwise viable companies which are struggling with too much debt. The number of businesses filing for insolvency fell sharply in most European countries after
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One of the fastest growing private equity-backed wealth managers has completed the largest recruiting addition of its five years in business. Financial advisor William Glubiak of Cedar Brook Group left Advisor Group’s Securities America after more than 15 years to affiliate with Atria Wealth Solutions’ Cadaret Grant, the wealth management holding company said April 28.
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) forecasted better-than-expected revenue for 2Q after 1Q results topped consensus estimates. The chip maker also lifted year-over-year revenue growth expectations for 2021. AMD’s 1Q adjusted earnings almost doubled to $0.52 per share on a year-over-year basis and came in well ahead of analysts’ expectations of $0.44 per share. Revenue surged 93%
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by realinvestmentadvice Eric Hickman discusses why the stock market’s collapse is near. Because stock market performance is an essential factor in U.S. Treasury behavior, I study it closely. I wrote a paper in 2012 that, among other things, examined the consistency (or inconsistency) of long-term S&P 500 performance. Between our founder Robert Kessler’s indelible memory of slogging his
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15.5 million small scale investors own a vast majority of the single family rental properties in the United States today. These investors are typically individuals or families who have inherited properties or have purchased 2-10 units as a source of passive income or capital gain. But managing these properties is also an investment of time. Setting prices,
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sponsored pNetwork, a cross-chain composability system that allows assets and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) to move freely between blockchains, has officially partnered up with Algorand, the pure proof-of-stake blockchain focused on the convergence between decentralized and traditional finance, to launch cross-chain bridges for the Algorand ecosystem. pNetwork has received a grant from the Algorand Foundation for
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