Hello from Brussels, where the sense of safety from the use of Covid-19 vaccination certificates to enter restaurants and so on means the city is returning to its usual café-society buzz, albeit somewhat disjointedly. Today’s Trade Secrets author went to the much-loved annual Museum Night Fever event last Saturday, where the city’s museums open till
Month: October 2021
Even as it works through integrating TD Ameritrade’s brokerage platform to its own, Charles Schwab isn’t letting the advisor technology it acquired stagnate. The custodian has revamped iRebal, TD Ameritrade Institutional’s popular portfolio management and rebalancing software for advisors. However, the software won’t be available for Schwab Advisor Services customers until “early 2023.” Most of
In this article HOOD MSFT SPOT MCD Check out the companies making headlines Wednesday before the bell: Coca-Cola (KO) — Coca-Cola jumped 2.9% in the premarket following a profit and revenue beat for the beverage giant, which also raised its full-year forecast. Coca-Cola reported adjusted quarterly earnings of 65 cents per share, 7 cents above a
Sharing is Caring! by jessefelder After my fascinating conversation with Investech founder Jim Stack a few months ago, I was inspired to put together an indicator for tracking broader speculative activity in the stock market. As Jim noted during our chat, the action in so-called “stonks,” or popular meme-driven equities, can be a great indication of the
Hawaii’s iconic Mauna Kea Resort on the Big Island’s Kohala Coast is unique. “Mauna Kea is truly a family legacy for many. The children and even grandchildren of the original owners who now own the properties do not want to sell. They want to use it with their children and make their own memories on
Reza Estakhrian | The Image Bank | Getty Images Opportunity zone fund investments are back. Granted, they never went away, but after generating a great deal of attention a few years ago, much of the excitement surrounding them died down. However, investors are starting to pay attention again, with lawmakers in Washington, D.C., mulling proposals
Authorities in Slovenia have prepared new legislation tailored to determine how crypto holdings and transactions are taxed in the country. The proposal, aimed at clarifying the matter, has been submitted for public consultations this week, local media reports revealed. Slovenia to Amend Tax Rules for Cryptocurrencies The Finance Ministry in Ljubljana has opened public consultations
More money than ever is moving from 401(k)s to IRAs, and regulators don’t like some of the choices people make with their money. More than $600 billion was rolled over from 401(k)s to IRAS in 2020, according to the Secure Retirement Institute, and the SRI estimates that within five years the annual rollover amount will
The Illinois Municipal Electric Agency won an upgrade from Fitch Ratings due to positive fiscal operating trends that analysts don’t believe will suffer from the power agency’s ownership stake in the Prairie State coal facility that faces new state-imposed clean energy mandates. Fitch raised IMEA’s issuer default rating and credit on $831 million of power
[embedded content] Ian Khan, futurist and emerging technology expert, discusses with David Lin, anchor for Kitco News, the technological disruptions that investors should watch for. “There are a few [technologies] that stand out,” Khan told Lin at the Future Blockchain Summit in Dubai. “Blockchain technology definitely is the foundation of crypto. It’s the foundation of
Gold and oil often signal the tops and bottoms of the business cycles. If energy prices go thru the roof… Nate Fisher on Palisades Gold Radio Nate discusses a regular monthly pattern he sees with silver that is indicative of manipulation. Recently, we’ve broken up out of a channel. The long-term chart for silver lacks
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He added: “We think it’s the right thing, not just for shareholders and for the company, but also for customers to make sure that we, you know, apply the same kind of diligence to any new coins. … We do hear our customers and they want more features, and so we’re going to be working,
Reports are emerging that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected one, or possibly two, recent Bitcoin exchange-traded fund applications signaling that the regulator is not quite ready for more exotic futures products just yet. Just a day or so after Valkyrie filed for a leveraged Bitcoin futures ETF and Direxion applied for an
Traders participate in financial markets by buying and selling stocks, futures, forex, and other securities, and by closing out positions with the intention of making small, frequent gains. Just as there are many types of investors, there are many types of traders, ranging from the small, independent trader working from a home office to the institutional player
In a Japanese election that has struggled to ignite much public enthusiasm between uniform candidates trotting out similar campaign pledges, Kiyoto Tsuji is an outlier. Having spent half of his life in Canada and the US, the 42-year-old father of two has built his support around his multicultural roots and promises of generational change even
“If I didn’t come here, I wouldn’t eat,” says Julia Heathcote, a 57-year-old former pub owner, as she stands in line at the entrance of a weekly charity grocery sale. “I would rather be running it, finding the funding to put the food on the table for other people.” Heathcote is at St Mary and
Hundreds of independent financial advisors who enrolled in a trade group’s new health insurance program this year will be stuck looking for new carriers in 2022. Roughly 900 advisors out of more than 30,000 who are members of the Financial Services Institute signed up for health insurance that the organization said would provide them with
In this article TWLO TDOC EBAY F Ford Motor Company world headquarters, Dearborn, Michigan on January 19, 2021. Aaron J. Thornton | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading: Ford Motor — Shares of the automaker jumped more than 5% after it nearly doubled analysts’ third-quarter earnings expectations and recorded a
Sharing is Caring! by Jim Quinn There are 28.4 million children between the ages of 5 and 11 in the U.S. And 79 have died with Covid over 21 months. That is a death rate of .000278%. That is a 99.999722% chance of not dying with covid. So there is beyond a minuscule chance for
Housing is a difficult topic. It requires money to acquire land, clear zoning commissions, build structures, and have ongoing places to live. Outside of public housing, which hasn’t been a universal success in experience, all the work is left to private financing. That means someone expects a profit, which comes from another’s pocket. U.K.-based financial
Real estate agents arrive at a brokers tour showing a house for sale in San Rafael, California. Getty Images Mortgage rates have been on a tear this month, rising yet again last week to the highest level in eight months, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. That caused mixed demand for mortgages last week, resulting
A group of U.S. banking regulators is working on how banks can be allowed to offer crypto services and hold cryptocurrencies on their balance sheets. The chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) said, “If we don’t bring this activity inside the banks, it is going to develop outside of the banks … The
It’s surprisingly easy to get some international equity exposure via ADRs. You want income? Look abroad. A rich array of high-yielding blue chips are on offer overseas, especially in Europe: Companies like Credit Suisse Group, Sanofi SNY and HSBC Holdings are making handsome payouts to their shareholders. Most of these big-company stocks are very accessible
Municipals were stronger on the backs of a U.S. Treasury rally but underperformed the movements there, pushing ratios on the 10-year near 80% and the 30-year close to 90%. Triple-A benchmark scales were bumped two to three basis points on bonds outside nine-years while the 10-year UST fell seven basis points and the 30-year fell
Editor’s Note: With so much market volatility, stay on top of daily news! Get caught up in minutes with our speedy summary of today’s must-read news and expert opinions. Sign up here! (Kitco News) – Fresnillo announced Wednesday its Q3 2021 attributable silver production of 12.7 moz (including Silverstream), which was down 15.1% over Q2
The Fed ignored inflation, which is obviously not transitory and has kept the money printing going. It’s coming down to one issue… Michael Pento interviewed on USA Watchdog by Greg Hunter In June, economist and money manager Michael Pento warned the Fed was going to kill the economy by “tapering” the easy money policies. Instead,
They must act, on the one hand, to ensure that the United States is a leader, if not the leader, in this new area of capital formation and financial technology. But on the other hand, they must also protect small-time investors and the general public from fraudsters, pump and dumpsters and the vagaries of exploding
From Oct. 19, when the ProShares ETF started trading, through Tuesday, BITO shares were down by 2.45%, based on a chart shared by Grayscale, the company that sponsors GBTC. Bitcoin was down 1% over the same period and GBTC was up 7.5%. (Grayscale is a unit of Digital Currency Group, which also owns CoinDesk.)
Osmosis, a decentralized exchange, or DEX, on the Cosmos blockchain, raised $21 million dollars in a token sale led by VC fund Paradigm along with a consortium of investors including Robot Ventures, Nascent, Ethereal, and Figment. Osmosis allows developers to build customized Automated Market Makers, or AMMs, with sovereign liquidity pools. The DEX uses a
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