Momentum for the top layer-one protocols has been on the rise throughout August as the highly anticipated rollout of the London hard fork on the Ethereum (ETH) network has done little to address the network’s high transaction fees and delayed confirmations. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the quest to find a more welcoming smart
Month: August 2021
A case could be made that no prior moment in the long history of offices has been quite so uncertain as this one. No pundit can claim to know for sure how soon and how fully employees will return to their office workplaces. What’s more, there’s no certainty that when they do come back the
Once again demonstrating the Ohio Retirement Study Council’s apparent inability to provide intended legislative oversight of the five state pension systems in Ohio, the Council recently—following years of growing public outcry—finally commissioned a long-overdue fiduciary performance audit of the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio. The last fiduciary audit of the pension in 2006, took
Surging COVID-19 hospitalization rates driven by the highly contagious Delta variant threaten to set back the not-for-profit healthcare sector’s recovery and pose new uncertainties, new reports warn. Hospitalizations are trending upward in all states with the 14-day increase at double-digit percentages for all but a few. The most daunting strains that could negatively impact hospital
Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. (AMEX:ASM)’s traded shares stood at 0.59 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.46. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $1.03, to imply an increase of 6.88% or $0.07 in intraday trading. The ASM share’s 52-week high remains $2.82, putting it -173.79%
Pandemic altruism or pandemic scapegoat, the debt reality facing the world in general or the U.S. in particular suggests that… by Matthew Piepenburg via Gold Switzerland Below, we ask a simple question: Is the war on COVID the needed pretext for even more centralized market “performance?” After all, who needs free markets when central bank
Millions of U.S. households send billions of dollars abroad every year. Whether the funds are for family or friends, or to purchase international assets, it is often difficult to conveniently send large sums of money. In addition, with so many options available, people need to take into account the speed, support, and costs of the
In this article FISV Oscar Wong | Moment | Getty Images Company: Fiserv Inc. (FISV) Business: Fiserv provides payment and financial services technology worldwide. The company operates through Acceptance, Fintech, and Payments segments. The Acceptance segment provides point-of-sale merchant acquiring and digital commerce services; mobile payment services; security and fraud protection products; Carat, an omnichannel
Senior officials from Saudi Arabia and Iran attended a regional summit together for the first time in more than five years on Saturday as efforts are stepped up to cool tensions in the Middle East. The foreign ministers from the two nations, which cut diplomatic ties at the beginning of 2016, gathered at the conference
The US has carried out a drone strike in eastern Afghanistan against an Isis-K “planner” behind the deadly attack on Kabul airport, as western countries wrap up desperate efforts to evacuate thousands of Afghans trying to flee. Pentagon officials said on Saturday that an air strike in Nangarhar province on Friday had killed two members
A Canadian investment manager that’s backing one of the most active acquirers this year is gaining a stake in another one of the big consolidators driving the record volume of deals. Under an agreement announced on Aug. 24 between the Onex Corporation’s private equity arm and TA Associates, RIA consolidator Wealth Enhancement Group’s current majority
Blockchain-based gaming continues to snowball, establishing itself as a lucrative genre within the expanding universe of blockchain-based products and services. Per the latest report published by the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA), more than 804,000 unique users played on one or more of the available play-to-earn (P2E) gaming platforms, growing the market by 121% in terms
Sharing is Caring! by Martin Armstrong What is coming in from HR departments is that to encourage corporations to force people to get these vaccines, OSHA has refused to follow the law which would require companies to report workers who fall ill from any work conditions. They have suspended reporting adverse effects from vaccines. A
The entire cryptocurrency industry is waking up to a new reality. Politicians and regulators have decided to wade into the space, which had flown mainly under their radar until now. A House committee chair is launching a working group; the Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking new authorities to regulate digital assets as securities; and
With the melting of snow off the Rocky Mountains and the returning warmth, summer in Montana brings rise to the waters of rivers like the Swan River and Flathead River, both of which flow to the shores of Flathead Lake, where the small town of Bigfork sits. The summer air also brings rise to something
By Kerry Hannon, Next Avenue This caught my eye: More than twice as many middle-income U.S. boomer women than men said they’ve been able to save more for retirement than expected during Covid-19. That’s new survey data from CNO Financial Group CNO , which sells health and life insurance and retirement products. Its survey captured insights
Municipals were little changed in light trading on the last Friday of August as U.S. Treasuries made gains as did equities following Federal reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech. The total potential volume for next week is estimated at $4.938 billion, an expected drop as the unofficial final week of summer comes ahead
Barrons.com Commodity Prices Should Bounce Back. A Few Stocks to Play the Rebound. While prices for industrial metals like copper and iron ore have been weaker, Chris LaFemina, a mining analyst at Jefferies, is upbeat on the sector. Among diversified miners, BHP (ticker: BHP), at $66, is down 20% from its peak; Rio Tinto (RIO)
The moment the Rig ends Silver will BLAST through THOUSANDS of DOLLARS per OUNCE! by Bix Weir of Road to Roota When the Global Silver Price Suppression scheme started over 170 years ago little did they know that it would take THOUSANDS of people and hundreds of institutions to keep the con alive! From the
As of June 2021, bitcoin was legal in the U.S., Japan, the U.K., and most other developed countries. In the emerging markets, the legal status of bitcoin still varied dramatically. China heavily restricted bitcoin without actually criminalizing the holding of bitcoins. India banned banks from dealing in bitcoin and left the overall legal status of
The Chinese artificial intelligence start-up SenseTime is going public in Hong Kong, even as mainland peers pull their stock market listing plans in response to Beijing’s widening crackdown on the technology sector. The company, whose backers include SoftBank, Alibaba, Tiger Global and Silver Lake, filed documents for an initial public offering on the Hong Kong
Two things to start… Late Friday, Manchester United said it had reached a deal with Juventus to acquire Cristiano Ronaldo, returning the Portuguese football star to his former English Premier League club after more than a decade. Personal terms of the arrangement were still being finalised, though the transfer highlights his enduring commercial appeal. Mark your calendar: next Saturday the FT’s Simon Kuper and
The co-founder of London-based Blue Whale Capital, which has made big consistent gains from Silicon Valley bets, has some advice for market veterans warning of another tech bubble: calm down and buy the dip. As Stephen Yiu’s main fund nears 1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) after doubling its money in four years, the likes of
Splunk Inc. (SPLK) is a U.S.-based company that provides software and cloud solutions internationally. Its products allow users to gather better insight into machine data from various formats and sources. I am neutral on the stock. (See SPLK stock charts on TipRanks) Cloud Growth and Earnings Splunk blasted through earnings expectations with a revenue beat
In this article HPQ GPS PTON HIBB BIG AAPL Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Big Lots (BIG) – The discount retailer’s shares tumbled 9.5% in premarket trading after it missed top and bottom-line estimates for its latest quarter. Big Lots earned $1.09 per share, 3 cents shy of analyst forecasts, and
Sharing is Caring! by visualcapitalist When it came to choosing a new hobby during COVID-19 lockdowns, learning a new language was a popular choice—in March 2020, the language app Duolingo saw a 300% boost in new users. But which languages were the most popular to learn in each country? This graphic by Wordtips maps the most popular language learning
The adoption of nonfungible tokens has served as a practical entry point for users joining the crypto economy, driven primarily by their respective fandoms and the benefit-centric nature of the tokens. For instance, if you’re a Lebron James superfan, you can understand why “The Block” from the 2016 NBA finals is valuable on NBA Top
There are so many residential design innovations and features that enhance wellness. These include steam showers, bidet-style toilets, combi-steam ovens, induction cooktops, smarter home technology and low maintenance surfaces like engineered stone and porcelain slab. Then there are design details, styles and trends that can put your home’s wellness potential at risk. Here are six,
Investor Peter Boockvar is sounding the alarm on a housing price bubble brought on by the Federal Reserve’s Covid pandemic policies. He warns first-time homebuyers are most vulnerable to dramatic losses. “I feel bad for the people who bought homes over the past year because they’re the ones that paid the very elevated prices,” the chief
By Richard Eisenberg, Next Avenue Managing Editor These are complicated times for the U.S. economy, which means they’re complicated for our personal finances, too. So my “Friends Talk Money” podcast co-hosts Terry Savage and Pam Krueger and I just released an episode to offer some timely, apolitical guidance on saving, borrowing, investing and taxes. I
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