By Nancy Collamer, Next Avenue American workers are heading back to the office. Nearly half of employers expect to reopen their workplaces during the third quarter of 2021, and an additional 25% hope to do so by the end of the year, according to a recent Gartner IT survey of 258 HR leaders. For some, the return to
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Municipal bonds strengthened on the long end Friday after the latest employment report showed continued job growth and buoyed equities and Treasuries. The Labor Department said nonfarm payrolls rose 559,000 in May as the jobless rate fell to 5.8% from 6.1%. The numbers showed slow but steady strength in the labor market, but came in
[embedded content] Friday’s nonfarm payroll report showed that the U.S. economy added 559,000 jobs in May, slightly shy of consensus expectations of 675,000. The unemployment rate is now at 5.8%, the lowest level since the start of the pandemic. Alain Corbani, portfolio manager of Finance SA and Scott Rothbort, president of LakeView Asset Management, discuss
Everything is now going up in price, and you can see it in food, energy, shipping and even in the price of… Greg Hunter gives The Weekly News Wrap-Up for Friday, June 4, 2021 Fauci Lied & People Died, Election Audit Wave, Gold Shines It looks like the public is finally seeing the inflation genie
Welcome to Cointelegraph Market’s Altcoin Roundup, an in-depth newsletter that focuses on investing from the perspective of fundamental analysis and seeks to identify emerging blockchain projects and tokens that fill niche demands within the growing cryptocurrency market. The concept of multi-sector investing has long been advocated in traditional finance as the conventional approach to building
Choosing whether to lease a new vehicle instead of buying it largely comes down to priorities. For some drivers, leasing or buying is purely a matter of dollars and cents. For others, it’s more about forming an emotional connection to the car. Before choosing which road to go down, it’s important to understand the key
When the implosion of Archegos Capital blew a hole worth more than $10bn out of a clutch of banks, one line in the biography of founder Bill Hwang stood out: Tiger Management. Prior to the private investment firm’s collapse in March, Hwang was an obscure figure better known for his guilty plea to wire fraud
Starship prototype SN10 fires its three Raptor engines as it comes in for the landing. SpaceX The U.S. Air Force is expanding a small development program that wants to leverage reusable rockets, like those SpaceX is building, to deliver cargo quickly to anywhere in the world. Called Rocket Cargo, the experimental military program will be
Reading Gillian Tett’s article, “The human factor” (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, May 29), it is good to learn that Google is using anthropologists to understand how to inoculate the public against misinformation. However, not all corporate goals are so obviously beneficial. Two of the most basic goals of corporations are to increase sales and
A barred former Cetera Financial Group advisor fired after an earlier arrest on stalking charges received a five-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to fraud. David A. Rockwell, 45, must forfeit more than $1 million in restitution after fraudulently obtaining a $700,000 line of credit under two clients’ names without their knowledge or permission and
Bitcoin might have just endured one of the worst months in its history, but the latest bout of volatility is unlikely to deter companies in the crypto ecosystem from advancing their BTC related pursuits. Which brings us to Riot Blockchain (RIOT). Last week, the company completed the acquisition of Whinstone US from Northern Data. The
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Inflation data is a highlight of the week ahead, as investors focus on economic news in the void between earnings season and the next Fed meeting. May’s consumer price index is scheduled to be reported Thursday, and it could be hot after it
Sharing is Caring! by Lance Roberts Janet Yellen’s latest commitment to support the Biden progressive agenda from higher taxes to unionization, will not lead to increased economic prosperity. Instead, it will lead to more outsourcing and offshoring of U.S. Labor. Such was evident in two recent comments. “With corporate taxes at a historical low of one
Villa Nafissa, a once-in-a-generation compound located 26 miles north of Downtown San Diego in Rancho Santa Fe, comes with close to 40 acres of park-like grounds, a private lake, waterfalls, more than 3,000 species of flora and idyllic gardens designed to evoke impressionist painter Claude Monet’s famous water garden in Giverny, France. The estate, listed
Many Americans are suddenly house rich. On paper, anyway. Soaring home prices have resulted in a record amount of home equity on hand. By the end of last year, roughly 46 million homeowners held a total $7.3 trillion in equity to tap, the largest amount ever recorded, according to Black Knight, a mortgage technology and
The cofounder of Twitter and the CEO of the payments firm Square, Jack Dorsey, has revealed his firm is contemplating creating a bitcoin hardware wallet in collaboration with the community. Dorsey revealed this in a tweetstorm and said he wanted to share some “guiding principles” concerning this possible venture. Dorsey: ‘Square Is Considering Making a
A Puerto Rico court rejected a motion from several bond underwriters to dismiss a bond insurer suit against them for misrepresentations in their official statements. Senior Judge Ladi Buono de Jesús issued the decision Wednesday from her position in the Court of First Instance in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Bond insurers National Public Finance Guarantee
By Deborah L. Jacobs, Next Avenue At an age when other people might be thinking of retirement, Robert Carmack and Morrison Polkinghorne, now 68 and 55, moved from Sydney, Australia to Cambodia in 2014 with a dream and a plan. The goal was to lower their expenses and operate three well-established businesses from overseas. Polkinghorne, an Australian
Silver Video 04.06.21. Silver Gets Back To $27.75 Silver is currently trying to settle back above the resistance at $27.75 while the U.S. dollar is under strong pressure against a broad basket of currencies. The U.S. Dollar Index gained downside momentum after U.S. released Non Farm Payrolls report. The report indicated that the U.S. economy added
The surveillance sector is merely one small part of a shadowy permanent government comprised of unelected bureaucrats who march in lockstep with profit-driven corporations that… by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute “It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process.
The first official day of the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida yielded no shortage of newsworthy events. Thousands of conference-goers came together to take in speeches, interviews and panels from a wide array of guests, such as Miami mayor Francis Suarez, who spoke about the city’s efforts “to create the Bitcoin, blockchain and mining
Canada was home to the world’s fifth-largest energy production industry in 2018 (latest information), according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Globally, it is the fourth-largest producer and sixth-largest exporter of natural gas. Private and public companies of all sizes engage in natural gas production across the Canadian landscape; however, only a small group of
In this article VIV-FR PSTH Billionaire investor Bill Ackman’s blank-check company Pershing Square Tontine Holdings (PSTH) confirmed Friday it was in talks to buy 10% of Universal Music Group for around $4 billion. The deal values Universal Music at 35 billion euros (around $42.4 billion), PSTH said in a statement. PTSH said the deal will
The US economy created 559,000 jobs last month as the unemployment rate fell to 5.8 per cent, suggesting the labour market has gained some strength amid fears that worker shortages were holding the recovery back. The non-farm payrolls data released by the US labour department on Friday was slightly worse than economists’ expectations of about
The hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman is nearing a deal with Universal Music Group in which his blank-cheque company would acquire a 10 per cent stake in the record label behind artists such as Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper. Universal’s owner Vivendi confirmed on Friday that it was in talks with Pershing Square Tontine Holdings,
A financial advisor who admitted to defrauding his own parents, a cognitively disabled client and two dozen other victims received a sentence of more than five years in prison. The prison term of 63 months for Ex-Mutual of Omaha Investor Services representative Edward E. Matthes at his May 20 sentencing is a year more than
Broadcom (AVGO) reported better-than-expected fiscal Q2 results driven by strong demand for semiconductors across multiple end markets. Broadcom develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. The company reported revenues of $6.61 billion in Q2, which outpaced the Street’s estimates of $6.51 billion, and jumped 15% from the year-ago period. Adjusted earnings came in at
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: DocuSign (DOCU) – DocuSign shares rallied 6.8% in premarket trading after the company beat Wall Street forecasts by 16 cents a share, with quarterly earnings of 44 cents per share. Revenue also beat estimates, and DocuSign gave an upbeat outlook as more companies
Sharing is Caring! by Michael Snyder It appears that the violence in major U.S. cities is about to escalate even further. Summer is usually the worst season for violent crime in America, and authorities are openly warning us that a “summer of violence” is approaching. But at this point it is difficult to imagine things getting worse
With the real estate market constantly fluctuating, real estate professionals need to keep a finger on the pulse of market trends. Home values, buyer demand and mortgage rates are just a few of the critical areas realtors should constantly focus on. How they stay abreast of all the relevant information determines how successful they are