In this article AMC HNST BMBL BYND DIS AFRM The New York Stock Exchange welcomes The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), on Tuesday, May 4, 2021, in honor of Star Wars Day. Source: NYSE Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Disney — Shares of the media giant dropped more than 4% in
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Sharing is Caring! by confoundedinterest17 The Freddie Mac 30-year mortgage survey rate fell below 3% today to 2.98%. And with today’s abysmal inflation report, the REAL 30-year mortgage rate fell to -3.13%. Yes, President Biden is asking his economic council to do something about inflation. How about 1) telling The Fed to back off its outrageous
Bitcoin (BTC) an altcoin investment firm Grayscale now has more assets under management (AUM) than the world’s biggest gold fund. According to the latest data from issuer Grayscale, Grayscale now controls over $60 billion — $1.7 billion more than leading gold fund, SPDR Gold Shares (GLD). Praise for Grayscale, futures ETFs Grayscale’s flagship Bitcoin product,
If you’ve felt this housing market is the hottest you’ve ever seen— you may be spot on. In the 15 months between the quarter ending in June 2020 and the quarter ending in September 2021, the median U.S. home price rose 25.5%—the most over a similar time period in our nation’s history (since these figures
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A property for sale in Monterey Park, California Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Mortgage rates fell for the second straight week last week, and that helped boost refinance demand for the first time in a while. As a result, total mortgage application volume rose 5.5% last week compared with the previous week,
If you’re an executive or key employee, you may be eligible to participate in your company’s nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plan, along with receiving grants of stock options or restricted stock. For NQDC plan participants, year-end is the time to make like an autumn squirrel and decide how much to store for the future. In
The Bond Buyer announced the recipients of its annual Deal of the Year awards, marking the 20th year it has recognized outstanding achievement in municipal finance. It will also mark The Bond Buyer’s return to live events, with an awards ceremony at Guastavino’s in New York City on Dec. 16. This will be The Bond
Bitcoin reached an all-time price high of about $68,950 on Wednesday after a report showed higher-than-expected inflation in October. The cryptocurrency eventually returned some gains as short-term overbought signals appeared on the charts. Gold also rose to its highest level since June following the U.S. inflation report. The precious metal reversed its negative correlation with
If we allow bankers to be the architect of a new banking system they inform us is a gold standard, the one certainty in the world will be that this new system will… by J. Kim via skwealthacademy Throughout history, philosophers have deemed certain characteristics that all sound money should possess to create a fair
The best way to resolve this problem would be to break the category “digital assets” up into three types: stable digital assets (stablecoins and LTDA), non-stable fungible coins (bitcoin, ether, dogecoin, etc) and non-stable non-fungible coins (NFTs). The monetary threshold for triggering a Form 8300 reporting requirement, currently set at a flat $10,000, should be
Of course, it often takes money to make money. Many of these games, while offering real avenues for value creation, also have some form of “buy-in” price, an initial payment for either an in-game NFT item or tokens, crucial to the play-to-earn mechanism. Unfortunately, not all newcomers to this space have deep pockets to get
If you are covered by Medicare and are wondering whether you really need a Medicare Supplement Insurance policy, also known as Medigap, you’re not alone. The Medicare website contains hundreds of pages of information, few of which are easy reading. It’s hard to get an answer to the big question: Why should anyone who has Medicare get
The SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts stand on the transporter in front of the Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 stack inside the SpaceX horizontal processing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 26, 2021. SpaceX Elon Musk’s space company is set to launch the Crew-3 mission for NASA on Wednesday evening, in the fifth SpaceX crewed
International aid agencies say they have only weeks to supply food and other life-saving assistance to remote provinces before the winter cuts them off for months as Afghanistan faces the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is trying to move food to mountainous provinces such as Badakhshan
Sitting in his ramshackle Tokyo office filled with the stench of cigarette smoke and the leftover decor of the Chinese restaurant it was before, Taisuke Ono is the unlikely face of a populist wave that has upended Japanese politics. The 47-year-old former Accenture consultant lost out in Tokyo’s gubernatorial race last year but has made
After closing a big acquisition and recording its third straight quarter of a record in-flow of assets, AssetMark is seeking to expand further by competing against fellow platforms and RIA aggregators for business among small practices. The turnkey asset management program and outsourced investment technology firm has generated higher adjusted earnings in the first nine
A gas pump at an Arco gas station in San Diego, California. Mike Blake | Reuters October’s surge in consumer prices was driven by some factors that may linger. Market pros say the Federal Reserve may be forced to move up the timeline on its ultimate inflation-fighting tool: interest rate hikes. The consumer price index
Australian banks have been dressing up anti-competitive behavior as regulatory compliance when de-banking crypto customers, Senator Andrew Bragg said. “I believe many banks have been dressing up de-banking as a regulatory necessity. In fact it is often anti-competitive behavior and far more sinister and threatening than it appears on the surface,” the Liberal Senator for
New York is in love with the new. During week after week in the fall of 2021, buyers at the upper end of the real estate market have been choosing with their dollars. What they choose, time and again, is newly constructed (or not even yet constructed) condominiums. While fewer billionaires are actually purchasing units
During the Covid pandemic, home prices have shot up nearly nationwide while household income fell. As a result, homeownership became out of reach for many would-be buyers. However, affordability was a growing problem well before 2020 and the start of the pandemic. In the last decade, the median home price rose roughly 30% and incomes
Following the string of 20 block rewards spent on Wednesday, an idle bitcoin wallet that was created on July 10, 2013, transferred 2,207 so-called ‘sleeping bitcoins’ worth over $147 million. Both of these massive transactions took place on the same day bitcoin reached an all-time price high at $69,000. 2013 Whale Transfers 2,207 Bitcoin Worth
Estate planning for business owners is always important, and the number of liquidity events—such as business sales or infusions of capital—and potential tax changes in the near future, have only amplified the value of proactive planning. It is an essential undertaking for many business owners who want to ensure the continued success of their business
Robin Prunty, chief analytical officer, U.S. Public Finance at S&P Global Ratings, and Arlesa Wood, director of bond administration for Miami-Dade County, Florida, have been named the private and public sector winners of 2021’s Freda Johnson Award for Trailblazing Women in Public Finance. Along with Prunty and Wood, the Northeast Women in Public Finance have
Silver ETF Gained Strong Upside Momentum Silver is currently trying to settle above the resistance at $25.00 while the U.S. dollar is gaining ground against a broad basket of currencies. Meanwhile, iShares Silver Trust is trying to settle above the resistance at $23.05. The U.S. Dollar Index has recently tried to get to the test
It turns out that all of the “doom and gloomers” that were warning that we would eventually experience nightmarish inflation were right after all. In particular, vehicle prices have… by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse Blog It turns out that all of the “doom and gloomers” that were warning that we would eventually experience
Bond traders are increasing their bets on faster inflation after the U.S. Consumer Price Index jumped 6.2% in the 12 months through October, the highest rate in three decades. Nov 10, 2021 at 2:45 p.m. UTC Updated Nov 10, 2021 at 2:59 p.m. UTC Bitcoin’s hourly price chart showing a rally to new record high
“Today, we think the risks are skewed towards a positive reaction by the dollar, as slightly below-consensus numbers (but still higher than last month) should not be enough to cause any dovish re-pricing in rate expectations – which are already less hawkish than the Fed’s median Dot Plot [interest rate projections] – while a close-to
For victims waiting to receive class-action payments, a lawsuit settlement loan may seem like a quick and easy solution to their financial woes. A lawsuit settlement loan provides cash in advance for pending settlement award or lawsuit judgment. The borrower can pay back the loan once the funds from the settlement are disbursed. Interest will accrue while
US consumer prices jumped in October at the fastest pace in three decades as inflationary pressures spread further throughout the economy, putting the Biden administration on the defensive and increasing prospects that the Federal Reserve will have to respond by raising interest rates next year. The consumer price index published by the Bureau of Labor