Financial woes are still the top cause of stress for employees more than a year into the pandemic. Sixty-three percent of employees surveyed by PwC say their financial stress has increased since the start of the pandemic. About 45% of employees say their finances have been a distraction at work and 72% say they would
Earnings season is picking up steam and on Tuesday, after the bell, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will announce its quarterly results. Going by recent positive pre-announcements from peers, Intel and Nvidia – both expect to post higher revenue than prior guidance – Deutsche Bank’s Ross Seymore anticipates “another characteristic beat/raise.” “Overall,” the 5-star analyst said,
From Birch Gold Group Could we possibly see official inflation top 10% over the coming months? Robert Wenzel seems to think so. (The official rate of inflation has already jumped from 1.7% to 2.6% just recently). A quick look at ShadowStats reveals a rather dark state of affairs with “real” inflation (based on the pre-1990 official methodology) already topping 6% and rising fast. According
In the past two years futures contracts have become widely popular among cryptocurrency traders and this became more evident as the total open interest on derivatives more than doubled in three months. Additional proof of their popularity came as futures turnover surpassed gold, which is a well-established market with $107 billion in daily volume. However,
A newly built home straddling a cliff along the Santa Barbara coastline has hit the market for $8.855 million. The two-story home, which combines Traditional and Craftsman design elements, is the pinnacle of a five-plus-year undertaking that wrapped up this year, according to luxury real estate specialist David Magid of Village Properties. Sitting on about
A dogecoin investor has shared his story of how he became a crypto millionaire in a little over two months after learning about the meme cryptocurrency and pouring all his savings into it. He said he was inspired by Elon Musk’s tweets about dogecoin. A Doge Millionaire Shares His Story Glauber Contessoto, a 33-year-old who
Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported on some initial details on the American Families Plan, the third of the Biden administration’s massive spending bills, expected to be unveiled next week, and following on the American Rescue Plan already passed and the American Jobs Plan of infrastructure and social spending. The proposal is expected to
Rising oil prices combined with more certainty around Alaska’s handling of its permanent fund helped the state earn an outlook revision to stable from negative on its general obligation bonds from Moody’s Investors Service. The rating agency also affirmed the Aa3 rating on its GOs. While oil prices are a factor in Alaska’s ratings, because
[embedded content] (Kitco News) Gold had a very decent week – at one point trading just inches away from the $1,800 level as prices hit seven-week highs on weaker U.S. dollar. Now, analysts say that a significant selloff in bitcoin could actually help gold push well above the $1,800 level next week. Here’s a look at
Retail silver buying is the blindspot that will catch banks by surprise and break the paper versus physical leverage… Keith Neumeyer with Patrick V. on Silver Bullion TV Keith Neumeyer – Unpredictable Retail Demand Will Break Paper vs Physical Silver Market SBTV spoke with Keith Neumeyer, founder and CEO of First Majestic Silver. Keith believes
To measure the risk of a particular equity, many investors turn to beta. Though plenty of financial sites provide them, what risks are you taking by using one of the betas provided by an outside source? Betas provided for you by online services have unknown variable inputs, which in all likelihood are not adaptive to your unique
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour docks with the International Space Station on April 24, 2021. NASA TV The second operational SpaceX crew mission arrived at the International Space Station early on Saturday morning, carrying four astronauts for a six month stay in space. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft ‘Endeavour,’ which launched on a Falcon 9 rocket
The Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo launched its first steam-powered ship, the SS Leopold, on its maiden trip from Antwerp to Congo in 1895. Today CMB, the colonial-era group’s successor, carries commuters between the Belgian city and nearby Kruibeke on a ferry fuelled by hydrogen. “This is the fourth energy revolution in shipping — from
Joe Biden has broken with his predecessors and called the mass murder of Armenians a century ago in what is now Turkey a genocide, in an announcement likely to cause further friction between Washington and Ankara. Discussing the announcement, which was released by the White House to mark Armenian Remembrance Day, a senior administration official
The 2020s are here — but will they roar? The stock market excitement seen over the first quarter of this year could be a harbinger of what to expect on an exponentially larger scale over the next five to 10 years. The coming years may bring a fair dose of volatility, but we can see
Markets are built on the supply and demand equation, which is particularly important in the semiconductor industry. By its nature, this sector is highly cyclical, and companies’ trajectories often follow the shift in dynamics. In recent quarters, Micron (MU) has benefited from greater demand for its memory products. Despite investor worries that cloud and OEM
by confoundedinterest17 The way that The Federal government measures inflation shows that there is little impact from the dramatic increase in M2 money supply. US Personal Consumption Expenditure Core Price Index YoY is only at 1.41%. Yet a number of commodities and housing have increased along with the massive expansion of Federal Reserve M2 money stock.
Decentralized finance (DeFi) started 2021 by taking the cryptocurrency sector by storm and helping to kick the bull market cycle into high gear as traders capitalized on ways to easily trade cryptocurrencies and earn high yields on their hodl stacks. Eventually, high fees on the Ethereum (ETH) network and a few sharp market sell-offs helped
Ask anyone from Victoria, Australia, what the wealthiest part of Melbourne is and you will resoundingly hear one name: Toorak. That’s because Toorak’s position as Melbourne’s most elite neighborhood is irrefutable and has been from around the very beginnings of the state of Victoria, which separated from New South Wales in 1851 and 50 years
Bitcoin’s global hashrate dropped ten days ago following a coal mine accident that caused significant grid blackouts in Xinjiang, China. While initial estimates had shown more than 40% of the hashrate dropped, statistics from a five-day average show the hashpower only lost around 25%. Meanwhile, Chinese miners located in Sichuan may put more pressure on
Today’s column addresses questions about whether it’s always best to wait until full retirement age to take survivor’s benefits before switching to retirement benefits at 70, how the earnings test is applied this year and benefit amounts for disabled adult children. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and
A rosier revenue forecast and new federal relief will help Indiana fund infrastructure projects, pay down some debt, replenish reserves and boost education funding. Gov. Eric Holcomb reached an agreement on a revised budget with his fellow GOP legislative leaders who then passed the $37.4 billion package for the biennium beginning July 1 during the
BGR Here’s what Netflix’s CEO has to say about password sharing There’s an old joke that made the rounds on Twitter a few years back which said that there’s only one Netflix subscriber in the world and that his password was being shared by millions of people. While password sharing outside of family members is
Let’s have a look at why recent silver price movements are so promising… by Korbinian Koller via Midas Touch Consulting One way to gain certainty about the quality of a turning point is by examining the recent past. Looking at the daily chart watching price behavior over the last twenty sessions gives quite some insights into the actual
What Are the Best Times to Trade Stocks? Unlike traditional investing, trading has a short-term focus. The trader buys a stock not to hold for gradual appreciation, but for a quick turnaround, often within a pre-determined time period whether that is a few days, a week, month, or quarter. And of course, day trading, as
FG Trade | E+ | Getty Images Company: Harmonic Inc. (HLIT) Business: Harmonic provides video delivery software, products, system solutions, and services worldwide. Its products enable customers to create, prepare, store, playout, and deliver a range of broadcast and streaming video services to consumer devices, including televisions, personal computers, laptops, tablets, and smart phones. The
Derek Chauvin’s conviction this week was an outcome long sought by Black Lives Matter activists and grassroots organisers who have for nearly a year pursued justice for the killing of George Floyd. But while rights campaigners cheered on Tuesday as the judge read the Minnesota jury’s verdict — guilty on two counts of murder and
Volkswagen has warned top managers to brace for a bigger production hit in the second quarter than the first because of the global chip shortage, according to the head of the company’s Seat brand. “We are being told from the suppliers and within the Volkswagen Group that we need to face considerable challenges in the
Many workers who were hurt by the pandemic are saying they’ll now retire later than planned. Nearly two in five workers were furloughed or laid off — or had their pay cut or hours reduced — since February 2020, according to the latest annual survey about retirement confidence by the Employee Benefits Research Institute and
Hype is often an element that fuels strong share appreciation. And talking of the dual combination of fuel and hype, Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov thinks the latest developments at Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE) are not much more than that. “The news that Clean Energy will supply fuel to a modest number of Amazon trucks