Visa Inc. (V) stock has fallen under some considerable pressure of late, amid the continued rise of the Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) trend. BNPL firms such as Affirm Holdings (AFRM) could take a bite out of the volume of credit card fees charged over the coming years, even as consumer debt levels look to
Sharing is Caring! Via The College Fix ANALYSIS: If the goal is to prevent infection, the 95 percent vaccination rate on Cornell’s campus has not accomplished that Cornell University has aggressively pushed its students to get vaccinated, announcing a vaccine mandate for the 2021-22 academic year in April and frequently denying religious and medical exemptions. As a result,
The wider cryptocurrency market is showing signs of strength on Sept. 6 as Bitcoin (BTC) bulls battle for control at the $51,500 level. Altcoins have benefited from Bitcoin’s strong showing, with many seeing gains in excess of 20%, and the Altseason Indicator from Cointelegraph Markets Pro continues to signal that market conditions are tilted toward
Bitcoin surpassed the $52K handle on Monday morning, as crypto-asset markets have been moving northbound and gathering more fiat value. The overall crypto economy is around $2.45 trillion and it has gained 3.5% during the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, bitcoin charts show a pending golden crossover which to many means the overall market outlook looks
Today Gold Price, Silver Price: Gold Rate and along with other precious metal prices in India on Monday, Sep 06, 2021 Indian spot gold rate and silver price on Monday, Sep 06, 2021 Gold Price and Silver Price Today. Here’s the latest update on spot gold prices, currency exchange rates and other precious metal rates
Silver prices are up, but will silver outperform gold this year? Despite its dismal performance, silver remains the precious metals to watch. It could… by David Morgan of The Morgan Report Silver prices are up, but will silver outperform gold this year? Despite its dismal performance, silver remains the precious metals to watch. It could
Management Fees vs. Management Expense Ratio: An Overview Mutual funds are a great way to invest in the stock and bond markets without incurring specific stock risk. A team of investment professionals manage these funds and can provide a way to participate in the market in a diversified manner. Selecting a mutual fund requires carefully considering the
Chinese state-owned funds are piling into a fast-growing rival to Didi Chuxing, taking advantage of regulatory pressure on the country’s largest ride-hailing app. Cao Cao Mobility announced on Monday that it raised Rmb3.8bn ($588m) from a group of state-owned funds based in the eastern city of Suzhou, to accelerate its expansion and improve driver safety.
UK regulators should be given more powers to protect consumers from dubious crypto investments being promoted online, the Financial Conduct Authority’s chair has said, as he acknowledged that a full rule book for digital assets would take some time to deliver. Charles Randell, the FCA chair, said it would take “a great deal of careful
Morgan Stanley analyst Charlie Webb maintained a Buy rating on Linde (LIN – Research Report) today. The company’s shares closed last Friday at $313.43, close to its 52-week high of $316.29. According to TipRanks.com, Webb is ranked #1282 out of 7641 analysts. Linde has an analyst consensus of Strong Buy, with a price target consensus
Sharing is Caring! by Michael Snyder If you live near a major U.S. city, you don’t have to go to a movie theater to see a horror show. Instead, just find out where fentanyl-laced heroin is being sold and go hang out with the drug addicts for a few hours. If you survive the encounter,
The United States National Football League (NFL) has reportedly barred all teams and members from crypto-related sponsorships and advertisements, as well as nonfungible token (NFT) sales. According to a report by The Athletic, the NFL has restricted the sale of sponsorships to cryptocurrency trading firms and NFTs until the league establishes a strategy “for sports
A meetup in a vehicle warehouse in Houston served as an encounter point for oil producers and bitcoin miners to talk about possible on-site crypto mining opportunities last week. More than 200 investors attended the meeting to talk about an alliance, that would allow oil producers to make more efficient management of their resources and
Silver stays on the front foot after the strongest daily upside in four months. Firmer RSI, sustained break of three-month-old trend line favor buyers. July low adds to the downside filters, key SMA confluence offers a tough nut to crack to the bulls. Silver (XAG/USD) stays on the front foot, up 0.30% intraday around $24.80
No nation can produce less of lesser quality, and squander more on infinitely greedy and corrupt elites, all funded by issuing trillions of… by Charles Hugh Smith via Of Two Minds No nation can produce less of lesser quality, and squander more on infinitely greedy and corrupt elites, all funded by issuing trillions of new
Are Private Companies’ Financials Public? In short, not in the United States. While many may speculate about the business revenue or look for financial statements of private companies, typically they will find this to be difficult. As the name implies, a private company is not required to disclose financial information to the public. Privately-owned companies include
Drivers in Lagos last week were paying N162 ($0.40) per litre of petrol, among the lowest rates in Africa — beneficiaries of a fuel subsidy that costs the continent’s biggest crude producer billions of dollars a year. It was a reminder that while Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari signed a big oil industry reform act last
Labour supply problems affecting UK industries from construction and manufacturing to retail and hospitality could last for up to two years, the country’s largest employers’ group has warned. The CBI said that its members forecast that the worker shortages would not be helped by the end of the government’s job retention scheme this month, and
ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) is an actively managed Exchange Traded Fund launched by ARK Invest. The vehicle aims to invest in scalable and innovative public companies around the globe. I am bullish on the ETF. Attracting a New Type of Investor It’s safe to say that the ARK hype has cooled down a tad, and
Sharing is Caring! by Michael Snyder Are we about to go from the frying pan to the fire? Earlier this year, it seemed to most people that the COVID pandemic was almost behind us. But then the Delta variant came along and swept like wildfire all over the globe. And now as we wrestle with
While originally spruiked as a futuristic city inspired by the Marvel movie Black Panther that would emerge as a “beacon of innovation and human development” and bolster the West African and Senegalese economies by Akon in 2018, there are few signs of the city’s development beyond a ceremonial stone that was laid in a field
The price of bitcoin has risen above the $51K zone on Sunday and traders and speculators are curious as to where the price is headed next. Historically, in September, bitcoin prices don’t fare so well and usually get better in October. For this reason, skeptics are not sure if bitcoin’s price will continue to be
My students, many of them from other countries, ask why America’s Labor Day is in September when most other nations celebrate Labor Day on May 1. Historian William Adelman writes the irony is that the international socialist movement declared May Day Labor Day to honor American labor leaders hanged for conspiracy in the Haymarket Riots/Protests
As California coastal cities look for methods to avert the harsh realities of the state’s second drought in a decade, desalination has returned as a hot topic. In San Diego County, the drought makes the argument that the controversial choice to build a coastside desalination plant was correct. The Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant
The United States started a Paralympic gold-medal streak in women’s sitting volleyball on the final day of the Tokyo Games, successfully defending its gold medal from Rio five years ago. The Americans solidified themselves as the sport’s new powerhouse, taking down China in four sets at one of the last competitions in Tokyo. Including wins
Central banks maintain interest in gold… by Jason Burack of Wall St For Main St Central banks added a net 30.1 tonnes (t) to global official gold reserves during July 2021. FULL SHOW NOTES AND LINKS HERE Commit to tipping us monthly for our hard work creating high level, thought provoking content that includes interviews
Stock trading draws Type A personalities who are driven to win at all costs. Succeeding means logging long hours in front of a computer screen, researching and trading stocks. But in stock trading, there’s a fine line between working hard and feeding an addiction. That line can mean the difference between making sound investment decisions
Brazil has suspended beef exports to China, its largest market, after this weekend confirming two cases of “atypical” mad cow disease in separate meat plants. The Latin American nation is the world’s largest beef exporter and its meatpacking companies, notably JBS and Marfrig, have profited handsomely from the surging market for protein in China. Between
Hotels across the UK have been forced to limit bed linen changes and delay guest check-ins after a boom in domestic travel collided with a chronic shortage of staff. Intercontinental Hotel Group, owner of Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza hotels, is among major hospitality companies that have reported difficulties with outsourced linen and towel supplies,
There comes a point when repetition gets boring. Both the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ saw out the week trading at – or just a touch under – record high levels again. The reaction was a sort of verbal shrug: “Oh, another new stock record.” There’s definitely a feeling ‘out there’ that we’re getting used