In mid-June, US president Joe Biden held talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss a recent scourge of cyber attacks against the US, including by Russian-based criminal ransomware hackers. Biden has said he told Putin in no uncertain terms that “certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to cyber attack — period”. Nevertheless,
Month: July 2021
Whatever the shock to markets, equity investors have a strong impulse: buy the dip. The latest ructions relating to China’s apparently poorly anticipated crackdown on foreign-listed shares could test this reflex. The buy-the-dip muscle memory is strong. One after the other, potential hits this year have proven to be passing hiccups. An explosion of retail
Startups may no longer be exciting and the middle-stage firms are where all the activity is. In this session from Arizent’s InVest conference, FIN editor and publisher James Ledbetter sat down with Lightyear Capital managing director Max Rakhlin, Centana Growth Partners partner Benjamin Cukier, Information Venture Partners general partner and co-founder Robert Antoniades, and David
Shares of the customer service software company Zendesk, Inc. (ZEN) sank 6.3% in Thursday’s extended trading session after the company delivered weaker-than-expected Q2 results. Adjusted earnings of $0.13 per share fell short of analysts’ expectations of $0.16 per share. The company reported earnings of $0.14 per share in the prior-year period. However, revenues jumped 29% year-over-year to
In this article CPRI HOOD CAT CVX PG XOM Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Procter & Gamble (PG) – The consumer products giant rose 1.1% in the premarket after it beat estimates by 5 cents with quarterly earnings of $1.13, while revenue beat forecasts as well. P&G did warn of continuing
Sharing is Caring! by Michael Snyder On some level, we all know that it is just a matter of time before our society implodes. When that day finally arrives, where will you want to be living? I know that most of you have thought about this at some point. Even if we don’t admit it
At the same time that China has declared war on cryptocurrencies, giant American banks appear to be embracing crypto — evident the final week of July with the news that crypto firm Lukka will provide State Street Bank’s private fund’s clients with digital and crypto asset fund administration services. This follows forays into the crypto
Lake Tahoe, and the town of Truckee to the north, has long been known as a weekend and vacation spot, where residents of the San Francisco Bay Area could escape via Highway 80 to ski in winter and hike in summer. Like many communities, the increasing acceptance of remote work has seen Lake Tahoe shift
A real estate for sale sign shows the home as being “Under Contract” in Washington, DC, November 19, 2020. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Pending sales of existing homes in June as measured by signed contracts fell 1.9% from May, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales were also down 1.9% compared
The new digital yuan, currently undergoing trials, can help to increase the international usage of China’s national fiat, experts have stated. As the renminbi (RMB, CNY) is becoming one of the world’s most important currencies, the People’s Bank of China is planning to conduct cross-border tests with the yuan’s digitized version, the e-CNY. Digital Yuan
Those interested in where the world’s monetary gold is held will want to read New York Federal Gold Vault, which appears on an interesting website called Atlas Obscura (AO). Readers will learn there that a major chunk of the world’s gold, the portion that constitutes the reserves of most of the central banks of the
The municipal bond market experienced its seventh straight year of positive performance in 2020, but will the progress toward recovery continue in the second half of the year? For insight, Michael Scarchilli, editor-in-chief of The Bond Buyer, sat down with PNC EVP and public finance head Rob Daily, Hilltop Securities vice chairman and head of
Christian Munafo, portfolio manager of the Private Shares Fund, discusses with David Lin, anchor for Kitco News, the future of the space sector and how how to invest in it. The Private Shares Fund is a venture capital fund that invests in a variety of pre-IPO tech stocks, including SpaecX, but is available to the
Bitcoin is an effigy of speculative excess, and MicroStrategy is Bitcoin on steroids… by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics “MicroStrategy Acquires Additional Bitcoins and Now Holds Over 105,000 Bitcoins in Total” – June 22, 2021 Michael Saylor, CEO of Microstrategy ($MSTR), has completely mortgaged the fate of Microstrategy on Bitcoin. Starting in August 2020,
The summer vacation season brings joy to many people, but for some, the longing for a year-round second home brings a touch of melancholy. If you are one of those people who would love to own a place for weekend getaways and long lazy vacations in every season, the first consideration should be how to
Traders wearing masks work inside posts, on the first day of in-person trading since the closure during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., May 26, 2020. Brendan McDermid | Reuters For a few glorious weeks, Wall Street employees who were
Mark Zuckerberg has set out an ambitious new goal for Facebook: to build the “next generation of the internet”. After signing up almost two-thirds of the world’s internet users to apps including Instagram and WhatsApp, Zuckerberg told investors on Wednesday that his latest obsession was building a “metaverse” — a nebulous and much-hyped concept denoting
At the sprawling Beijing headquarters of Gaotu Techedu, one of the world’s biggest online education businesses, staff are braced for the worst after the group lost over 90 per cent of its market value in a matter of months. “They’ve been laying people off these last few days,” said one employee this week as he
Given their popularity and widespread use, people rarely think of IRAs as “tax shelters.” But truth be told, that’s exactly what an individual retirement account is: a legal tax shelter. However, in order to reap the benefits that traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs provide, taxpayers must comply with an assortment of rules. Such rules include
In this article AMZN SWKS GILD TMUS PINS A worker assembles a box for delivery at the Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., April 30, 2019. Clodagh Kilcoyne | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines Thursday after the bell: Amazon — Amazon shares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading after the company reported its first
Sharing is Caring! by Martin Armstrong It is unbelievable that you listen to the things coming from the Australian government talking about two deaths due to COVID, one was 90, and the other 80, who were not vaccinated. They are saying that 25% of the people over 70 are not vaccinated and that is unacceptable. They
Decentralized derivatives and synthetic asset trading protocol, Synthetix, has launched trading on the Optimistic Ethereum layer two scaling platform. The long-awaited launch was announced by the Synthetix protocol exchange Kwenta on July 30. It enables the exchange to offer faster transactions and lower fees using optimistic rollup technology. Initially, there will be just four synthetic
The Biden administration announced Thursday that it will permit a nationwide ban on evictions to expire Saturday, arguing its hands are tied after the Supreme Court signaled the moratorium would only be extended until the end of the month. According to The Associated Press, the White House said President Biden would have preferred to extend
In this article KIM Foot traffic at Kimco Realty‘s shopping centers has returned to pre-pandemic levels, CEO Conor Flynn told CNBC on Thursday. “Traffic is back to 2019 levels, and we have a real playbook now that we can follow thanks to all the lessons learned through the pandemic,” Flynn said on “The Exchange.” “We
A new non-fungible token (NFT) project crafted by the American actress and producer, Mila Kunis, has made millions selling NFTs tied to an animated series called “Stoner Cats.” The project is a show that will only allow token holders the ability to watch the upcoming series produced by Orchard Farm Productions, a studio owned by
We recently hosted Dave Donabedian, CFA, chief investment officer at CIBC Private Wealth, on the Wealth Your Way podcast. The topic of discussion was cryptocurrencies. Are you curious about crypto? There’s been a tremendous amount of hype about how cryptocurrencies are the “next big thing” in the digital revolution, and how they have the potential
As climate change accelerates, electric grids are expected to experience severe weather events that are well beyond the historical conditions for which they were built. In this session, moderator Donald J. Gonzales, senior managing director of the San Antonio office of Estrada Hinojosa & Co., Inc. is joined by panelists Chris Jumper, director of Assured;
(Kitco News) Many of the commodity rallies that dominated the first half of the year have fizzled out, according to Capital Economics, which is calling for some broad-based declines in the space. “Following a strong start to the year, the rallies across almost all commodity prices have taken a pause lately,” Capital Economics said in
What happens to a global economy after more than 10 years of central bank efforts to support an economic recovery after a massive credit/debt collapse originates from… by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders What happens to a global economy after 10+ years of global central bank efforts to support a recovery attempt after a
If you do an internet search on forex broker scams, the number of results is staggering. While the forex market is slowly becoming more regulated, there are many unscrupulous brokers who should not be in business. When you’re looking to trade forex, it’s important to identify brokers who are reliable and viable, and to avoid
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