10/21/2021, 11:11:10 PM Queen Elizabeth spent night in hospital following cancellation of Northern Ireland trip Robert Wright in London The UK’s Queen Elizabeth spent Wednesday night in hospital, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday, in an indication that her current illness could be more serious than initially indicated. The Queen on Wednesday cancelled a scheduled trip
TD Bank may have a branding issue with its new automated investing service. The bank this week launched the aptly named TD Automated Investing, billed as its first robo advisor, and TD Automated Investing Plus, a hybrid robo that provides access to a team of human advisors. With a risk tolerance questionnaire matching clients to
In this article SIVB CMG SAM People walk past Snap Inc. Snapchat signage displayed in downtown Los Angeles, California on October 2, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Snap — Snap shares sunk roughly 23% in extended trading after the company missed revenue
Sharing is Caring! by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Nearly all savings accounts at U.S. banks are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) up to $250,000, but beyond that, it makes less and less sense for savers and investors to use them. Households that continue to keep a significant portion of their
Buying an investment property is a great way to earn extra income and build long-term wealth. However, there are many considerations that go into buying your first investment property, especially in the current real estate market. Because investment properties can be a risky endeavor, it’s important to consider all of your options and educate yourself
China’s real estate sector has to be “substantially smaller” to keep the overall economy healthy and stable, said a top expert on the Chinese housing market. “We have too big of a risk in the sector. We built too much housing, so the stabilization first has to come [from] trimming the sector,” Li Gan, an
The $5.5 billion pension fund for the U.S. city of Houston’s firefighters has announced an investment in bitcoin and ether. “This investment marks the first announced investment in digital assets by a public pension plan in the U.S.” ‘A Watershed Moment for Bitcoin and Its Place in Public Pensions’ The Houston Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement
“We’ve flirted with bringing crypto back into our project for a while now, but there were always obstacles in the way,” Current Chief Technology Officer Trevor Marshall told CoinDesk in an interview. “When DeFi really took off in 2019 we were able to get over a lot of the technical hurdles.”
Imagine your aging loved one is in the hospital. It’s scary. It’s sad. He’s fading fast and you know it. You ask for information from the doctors involved. You get evasive responses. You are told more testing is needed before anyone will give you an answer. More testing and more testing gives you the same
The Federal Reserve will ban top officials from buying individual stocks and bonds as well as limit active trading after an embarrassing scandal that led two officials to resign and clouded Chair Jerome Powell’s path to renomination. “These tough new rules raise the bar high in order to assure the public we serve that all
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Will gold prices collapse together with the real estate developer, or will gold prices benefit from its default? by Arkadiusz Sieron of Sunshine Profits Evergrande is on the brink of bankruptcy. Will gold prices collapse together with the real estate developer or benefit from its default? Generals are always prepared to fight the last war,
Two or three weeks ago, when Bitcoin (BTC) was trading below $52,000, a trader betting on $65,000 by Oct. 22 would have been considered extremely optimistic. The fact that 98% of the put (sell) options for Bitcoin’s weekly options expiry this Friday have been placed below that price proves that this is true. Fast forward
Iron Sail has uncovered seven promising blockchain games and has raised over $25 million in investment for their development from a raft of top-tier investors, including Kardia Ventures, Morningstar Ventures, Eternity Ventures, Bitscale, Formless Capital, Youbi, Axia 8 Ventures, Polkastarter, Good Guild Game and Mask Network. When investors come on board with Iron Sail, they
If you have the funds available, you may consider giving the gift of college savings. A 529 plan is a great savings instrument for college education. The earnings from contributed funds grow tax free over time. The distributions are not taxed either, as long as the funds are used for qualified higher education expenses. One
In this article GSBD A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, Sept. 20, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs just closed its second billion-dollar blank-check deal ever as the Wall Street firm seeks to change the struggling SPAC market by building a
Angela Merkel has urged the EU not to get bogged down in rule of law disputes at the European court as she and other leaders sought to ease tensions with Poland over judicial independence. The German chancellor said member states needed to find ways to “come together again”, as she arrived in Brussels on Thursday
Global equities drifted on Thursday after large consumer-facing businesses said they had passed higher input prices on to customers, adding more fuel to a debate about prolonged inflation leading to interest rate rises. The S&P 500 index fell 0.1 per cent in lunchtime trading in New York, after closing the previous session on the cusp
Financial advisors are famously averse to marketing and branding — which is why most don’t realize there’s a crucial distinction between the two. Don’t let FOMO propel you onto social networks where your audience isn’t engaged, writes Tara Meehan.Jason Alden/Bloomberg News Brand is the authentic image advisors put out to the world about their firm
In this article CSX IBM CROX T Crocs store in New York City. Michael Brochstein | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: AT&T (T) – AT&T rose 1.5% in premarket trading, after the company beat estimates by 9 cents with an adjusted quarterly profit of
Sharing is Caring! by Settlemente New Quinnipiac poll measuring disapproval among POTUS, Trump, and Congress. . When it comes to his impact on the Republican party, nearly half of Americans (49 percent) say Trump has had a mainly negative impact, while 43 percent say he has had a mainly positive impact. About half of Americans (51
Founder and CEO of Rentec Direct, property management software for real estate professionals. No industry has escaped the global pandemic completely unscathed, but the real estate industry has been regularly making headlines for happenings like skyrocketing home prices and extended eviction moratoriums. It seems the entire country is eager to return to normal, but what does
A home, available for sale, is shown on August 12, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Sales of previously owned homes increased 7% to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 6.29 million units in September, according to the National Association of Realtors. The organization’s chief economist, Lawrence Yun pointed to a brief
After bitcoin reached its all-time high (ATH) on Wednesday, the second-largest crypto asset in terms of market capitalization, ethereum, is nearing its own ATH. The last time the crypto asset hit an ATH was five months ago on May 12. Ethereum Climbs 46% in 30 Days, Commands Half Trillion Market Cap The digital currency ethereum
“We will be bringing on-chain things like the GDP number, the unemployment rate, the CPI number and other bits of trusted data from AP that we will publish to our node so developers will be able to access that,” Desaulniers said. “Sports is another area; not just scores, but also fast-breaking player reports, transactions, injuries.”
What would you do if the federal government gave you a chunk of $12 billion to spend on Medicaid home and community-based care for frail older adults and younger people with disabilities? That is a real question governors have been wrestling for months. And we now are getting a good sense of the answer: Mostly,
Muncie, Indiana’s weak investment grade rating survived a S&P Global Ratings review of several debt restructurings. S&P placed the city’s BBB-minus general obligation credit and several other ratings on CreditWatch with negative implications in August as it reviewed the motives and impact of the restructurings and resolved the action this week. “We removed the ratings
Silver edges higher at six-week top, prints three-day uptrend. Break of descending trend line from July, bullish MACD favor buyers. Three-month-old horizontal area challenges upside past 100-DMA. Silver (XAG/USD) holds onto the previous two-day uptrend above $24.00, up 0.25% intraday around $24.35 during early Thursday. In doing so, the bright metal justifies the upside break
You’d think this would be a massive wake-up call to the US federal government. The balance of power is shifting right in front of their very eyes… by Simon Black of Sovereign Man By the late the fifth century BC, after decades of war with its chief rival Sparta, the ancient Greek city-state of Athens
Bitcoin (BTC) broke its all-time high price level following the launch of ProShares’ Bitcoin Strategy exchange-traded fund (BITO) on Tuesday, but JPMorgan Chase strategists believe the key driver behind the price jump is investor concern over inflation. The BITO launch, which saw the highest ever first-day natural volume for an ETF, is “unlikely to trigger