press release Press Release: Beyondlife․club and Orange Comet have joined forces to launch a special NFT collection dedicated to the legendary Marvel comics founder Stan Lee. 22nd December 2021, Singapore — Chakra The Invincible is a unique NFT collection and tribute to legend Stan Lee, that will launch on his 99th Birthday, (December 28th) on
The economy faces another winter of massive uncertainty. The pandemic rages on around the globe and a new coronavirus variant raises the specter of the health crisis getting much worse. Countering that uncertainty will require more business investments, among other things, that will strengthen the momentum of faster growth that carried the economy through the
Texas-based public finance law specialist firm McCall, Parkhurst & Horton enters 2022 with a new managing partner. Mark Malveaux, who has represented some of the firm’s largest clients, will take the reins Jan. 1 from Carol Polumbo, who will remain as partner at McCall’s Austin office. Malveaux joined the Dallas-based firm 28 years ago and
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) – Gold and silver both trade just under flat leading into the European open. In the rest of the commodities complex,
Enjoy the 2021 holidays, for things are about to go from super swell in the most booming US economy, ever, to global urban mass starvation… (by Half Dollar) The Dollar Tree’s not playing around anymore. Stinkin’ Greedy Corporations! I mean, in true Costco style, you label yourself as a great “wholesale” option, but then severely
General Motors Company (GM) is the quintessential American company. Incorporated in 1908, the Detroit-based automotive company has weathered its fair share of boom and bust economic cycles. The company designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes new cars, trucks, and vehicle parts globally. GM additionally offers consumers automotive financial services. In this article, we take a brief
When senator Joe Manchin all but killed Joe Biden’s flagship $1.75tn social spending bill on Sunday, he cited his concerns about rising inflation and the effect the bill would have on the federal deficit. Now, economists are responding to the conservative Democrat’s intervention by slashing their expectations for US growth. Having previously forecast that the
Metro Bank has been fined more than £5m by the UK financial regulator over failings in its financial reporting between 2016 and 2019. The Prudential Regulation Authority said on Wednesday that it had fined the bank for “failing to act with due skill, care and diligence” when reporting its capital position, and also for failings
Avantax is settling charges with the SEC that 1st Global Advisors recommended high-cost mutual fund share classes to classes without disclosing that it generated revenue from the fees. Avantax will pay a total of nearly $17 million to settle the case. The firm will return $12.4 million to investors in revenue generated from 12b-1 fees,
In a report released today, Ryan Zimmerman from BTIG maintained a Buy rating on OrthoPediatrics (KIDS – Research Report), with a price target of $68.00. The company’s shares closed last Tuesday at $57.78. According to TipRanks.com, Zimmerman is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 18.4% and a 50.1% success rate. Zimmerman covers the
Sharing is Caring! by Kimble Charting Over the past 18 months, I’ve penned several articles about traceable commodity breakouts and rising commodities prices… and inflation risks. With each breakout came more inflation pressures. And today, we continue to battle high energy, food, and housing prices. But what if I told you there was a chance
Enterprise blockchain has come a long way since its inception in 2017. Blockchain for enterprise use initially began as a technology built on private, permissioned networks, primarily used for supply chain management. As blockchain matured overtime, enterprises began to leverage public, permissionless networks like Ethereum to conduct business. Fast forward to 2021 — enterprises are
The 2021 housing craze hit new highs as an uptick in listings offered a ray of hope for buyers trying to find a home in a competitive market and lock in low mortgage rates. But like any roller coaster, what goes up, must come down. The seasonally-adjusted number of homes for sale fell 18% year over
Migrant workers build a scaffold at the construction site of Huayang Commercial City Phase II in Huai ‘an City, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Feb. 7, 2021. Costfoto | Barcroft Media | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s struggling real estate developers face a growing number of repayment deadlines in the next few months. Real estate giant
sponsored Most crypto-oriented gaming projects usually run on the likes of Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), EOS (EOS) and Tron (TRX). Despite Ethereum’s (ETH) dominance however, a growing number of game developers are now launching on Polygon (MATIC). GensoKishi Online Metaworld is a part of this list, and it’s simple to understand as to why that
One of the biggest benefits of self-directed IRAs (SDIRAs) is the ability to diversify your portfolio by investing in alternative assets. These include real estate, precious metals, private equity and more. One alternative asset class that is becoming more popular is private debt. STRATA’s 2021 investor survey report unveiled 13% of investors leveraged private debt
The Puerto Rico Oversight Board filed a lawsuit against the governor and government agencies to stop implementation and enforcement of pension laws it says will add $8.3 billion of retirement benefits for government employees. The board filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico late Monday against Gov. Pedro
(Kitco News) Volatility and trust issues bedevil the crypto space, which saw more than $7.7 billion stolen worldwide in scams, according to a report published by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. “Scams were once again the largest form of cryptocurrency-based crime by transaction volume, with over $7.7 billion worth of cryptocurrency taken from victims worldwide,” Chainalysis
America was meant to be a land of individual liberty, not a land of ruling “experts.” The economic problem can be fixed with sound money and… by Ron Paul of Ron Paul Liberty Report It turns out inflation is not “transitory” after all. It’s much worse! But should anyone be surprised, considering the Fed has
What Are the Top 5 Benefits Of A Summer Job Besides Pay? “Why do you want the job?” Anyone who’s made it through an interview for an uneventful part-time job has certainly squirmed through this infamous interview question. For most people, the first thing that springs to mind is “I need money,” but most people
Israel is to start offering a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine to some of its citizens, a world first, as concerns over the efficacy of existing shots against Omicron continue to mount globally. “Israel will become the first country in the world to administer the fourth [dose of a] Covid-19 vaccine. The first group
China’s once enthusiastic property investors are turning their attention to luxury watches as a better store of value in the face of slowing economic growth and President Xi Jinping’s intensifying campaign against housing speculation. Multiple high-end watch resellers told the Financial Times that business had taken off in recent months as wealthy individuals stopped buying
A brokerage firm accused of failing to track “junk bond” overconcentration in customer accounts for years has agreed to pay $1 million to settle with FINRA. The regulator has sanctioned RBC Capital Markets, a New York-based broker-dealer with 2,400 registered representatives in its 275 branch offices, in a case involving potentially unsuitable concentration levels of
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Nike (NKE) – Nike jumped 3.5% in the premarket after it reported quarterly earnings of 83 cents per share, 20 cents a share above estimates. Revenue was slightly above forecasts, but the athletic footwear and apparel maker said sales were hurt by a
Sharing is Caring! by confoundedinterest17 (Bloomberg) — The amount of money that investors are parking at a major central bank facility climbed to yet another all-time high as supply-demand imbalances continue to dog U.S. dollar funding markets. Eighty-one participants on Monday placed a total of $1.758 trillion at the Federal Reserve’s overnight reverse repurchase agreement facility, in which counterparties
Shrapnel is the world’s first AAA shooter game built on the blockchain, at the intersection of community, creation and ownership. The team is comprised of BAFTA and Emmy award-winning talent that has worked on blockbuster franchises such as HALO, Call of Duty, Madden, Bioshock, Destiny, Star Wars, Hawken Skylanders, Westworld and more. It is built
In a past Forbes article, we looked at the richest counties in every state in the United States. This time around, we’re looking at the straight-up richest counties in the U.S. regardless of states. The richest counties in the U.S. geographically tend to fall in the Northeast, states surrounding Washington D.C., and the West Coast.
A for rent sign advertising a row house in northeast Capitol Hill, is pictured on Monday, August 26, 2019, in Washington D.C. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Demand for single-family rental homes is so strong that rents have nowhere to go but up, and they are rising at an increasingly fast
Manasquan Bank, a mutual community bank in New Jersey serving residents since 1874, has announced it is partnering with the company Bakkt to give its retail clients the ability to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrency through the bank’s mobile banking application. Manasquan Bank to Give Customers Access to Crypto A mutual community bank headquartered in
In late November, The Atlantic published an article titled, ominously, “The End of Trust.” The story sounds the alarm about an unexpected consequence of the pandemic, and, specifically, the shift towards working remotely that was its consequence for white-collar workers: a drop in trust among workers towards their remote colleagues, due to the lack of