Oklahoma is poised to follow in the footsteps of Texas in preventing banks from participating in municipal bond deals if they “discriminate” against the firearm industry or “boycott” fossil fuel energy companies with two bills nearing final legislative approval this week. On the gun front, House Bill 3144, which passed the state Senate in a
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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) – Fosterville South Exploration (TSXV: FSX) reported Wednesday that the maiden percussion drilling program at Thompson Reef and Prince of Wales
There are plenty who want to “delete Twitter” rather than be “subjected” to free speech… by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan Elon Musk’s $54.20 per share offer buyout (approximately worth $46.5 billion) was unanimously approved by the Twitter Board of Directors and expected to close this year. Musk has promised to return free speech to the social media
News Alert April 25, 2022, 3:00 p.m. EDT: On Monday afternoon, Twitter reported it would be acquired by Elon Musk for $54.20 per share, in a transaction valued at approximately $44 billion. Upon completion of the transaction, Twitter will become a privately held company, and its shareholders will receive $54.20 in cash for each share of common stock they own. Twitter
In this article IVZ Heavy trucks seen working at a nickel mining area in Soroako, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Invesco is betting that the boom in interest in electric vehicles will make a new trading opportunity in the metals required for EVs and the broad energy transition a hot
Britain’s Conservative party has confirmed it is investigating reports that a male MP watched pornography on his mobile phone while sitting in the House of Commons chamber. The allegations, first reported in the Mirror and Sun newspapers on Wednesday, were discussed during a meeting of Tory MPs on Tuesday in which female members shared their
Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek has sought to distance his company from Netflix, telling investors the two are “vastly different businesses”, after the recent crash in the video streaming service’s stock price sliced Spotify’s value by a fifth. “I think a lot of people are grouping us and Netflix together . . . despite both being media companies and
There are two sides to every story, so it’s not surprising that claim and counterclaim are common features in wealth management’s biggest fraud and discrimination scandals of the year. From industry watchdogs and top-tier banks and brokerages, to individual financial advisors and veteran brokers, here are five of the most significant stories from Financial Planning.
In this article HOOD BA MSFT ENPH Microsoft Corporation headquarters at Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, France, April 18, 2016. Charles Platiau | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Enphase Energy — Shares jumped 7.7% after Enphase topped earnings expectations on the top and bottom lines. The energy company reported record revenues, and
Sharing is Caring! by Martin Armstrong A SingleCare Team study revealed the majority of the US population takes some form of a prescription pill. The insurance agency found that the number of people reliant on prescriptions significantly rose after the pandemic. In fact, medications for mental health issues are on the rise. The company reported a
Digital asset manager Grayscale Investments is planning to expand its product offerings into Europe to tap into growing institutional demand for cryptocurrencies in the region, CEO Michael Sonnenshein confirmed Tuesday. In an interview with Bloomberg, Sonnenshein said the company was holding meetings with local partners to discuss how Grayscale’s suite of products would be rolled
Janet Jackson’s home on Manhattan’s West Side has two things every New Yorker wishes for: great views and a corner location in the building, which assures a great deal of natural light. Now it is for sale, offered with an asking price of $8.995 million. This three bedroom, three and one-half bath home measures 2,094
Mortgage rates moved even higher last week, crashing refinance demand and prompting potential homebuyers to apply for riskier loan products which offer lower rates. Total mortgage application volume fell 8.3% last week compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. Demand is now half of what it was a
Jamie Redman Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 5,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News
As the $2 trillion cryptocurrency market continues to draw interest from investors and regulators alike, the industry’s rise to mainstream is undeniable. In one of the most significant milestones in the cryptocurrency story, fidelity Investments has announced that it will begin to allow investors to put a bitcoin account in their 401(k)s. Under Fidelity’s plan,
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Your cash bucket has a real return of minus 8.4%. It should be empty. If you are in or nearing retirement, you have probably heard the lecture about a “cash bucket.” Put one to two years of spending in a cash reserve, intone the experts. That
The Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority has approved the sale of up to $443.8 million of tax-exempt bonds to refund a loan taken out in 2013 under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act. Delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the refunding now depends on how much savings can be achieved in the rising interest rate
A soaring U.S. dollar again to take the steam out of gold on Wednesday, with the yellow metal posting its lowest finish in two months. Gold for June delivery (GC00) (GCM22) fell $15.40, or 0.8%, to close at $1,888.70 an ounce on Comex, the lowest close for a most actively traded contract since Feb. 25,
Too much money has been printed and they didn’t… by Josh Sigurdson with Tim Picciott via World Alternative Media Josh Sigurdson talks with Tim Picciott, The Liberty Advisor about the recent shocking admission by IMF Director Kristalina Georgieva that too much money has been printed and they didn’t “think through the consequences” of printing vast
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) and the richest person in the world, is moving forward in his bid to buy social media giant Twitter, Inc. (TWTR). Twitter’s board of directors agreed to Musk’s $44-billion offer on April 25, paving the way for the billionaire to buy the company and take it
Renault is to transfer its majority stake in Russian carmaker Avtovaz to a public research institute for the symbolic price of one rouble, according to local reports. The Avtovaz holding will be handed to the state-backed industry body NAMI, with the French carmaker having the option of a buyback within five or six years, said
Michael Pettis is a finance professor at Peking University and a senior associate at the Carnegie China Center. As China’s economy continues to slow and the renminbi weaken in the face of Covid lockdowns, the Ukrainian war, US monetary tightening and financial outflows, there has been a rising chorus of voices calling for Beijing to
One of the largest wealth managers paid the price for the escalating productivity of its financial advisors amid the backdrop of equity volatility, with its profits slipping by 6% in the first quarter. In contrast, revenue per advisor at UBS Wealth Management Americas climbed by 8% year over year in the first quarter as the
A worker inspects a Boeing 737 MAX airliner at Renton Airport adjacent to the Boeing Renton Factory in Renton, Washington on November 10, 2020. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in early morning trading. Enphase Energy — Shares of the solar microinverter maker jumped more than 8% during
Sharing is Caring! by Michael When it was announced that Elon Musk would be buying Twitter, millions upon millions of people all over the globe greatly rejoiced. Many anticipated that there would immediately be dramatic changes at Twitter, but that simply is not going to happen. In fact, according to the terms of the deal
21Shares, a major issuer of cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETP), is launching a new ETP tracking a mix of Bitcoin (BTC) and gold. The Switzerland-based firm on Wednesday announced the launch of the 21Shares ByteTree BOLD ETP (BOLD), a new product aiming to provide inflation protection by tracking an index providing risk-adjusted exposure to both BTC and
manusapon kasosod | Moment | Getty Images As part of President Biden’s 2023 budget, the administration proposed severe limitations to so-called 1031 exchanges. A 1031 exchange is part of the IRS tax code, allowing real estate investors to defer taxes by exchanging “like-kind” properties. The term “like-kind” refers to the nature or character of the
The Bank of Spain has issued a new report that touches on the subject of the popularity of cryptocurrency usage and the possible effects it might have on the financial stability of the nation. In the document, the bank explains that these assets — which ostensibly don’t have any kind of support behind them —
Municipals were mostly steady Tuesday in mixed trading, once again largely ignoring moves to lower yields in U.S. Treasuries, while equities sold off ahead of corporate earnings. The large new-issue calendar got underway with the largest competitive deal of the week coming from Washington with $1.32 billion of general obligation bonds, which saw slightly wider
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