Traders work, as a screen shows Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s news conference after the U.S. Federal Reserve interest rates announcement, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, October 30, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters October is ending strong. Here’s what’s next. The market is closing out October from a position of considerable
Month: October 2019
Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance is opening an office in Beijing, two sources with knowledge of the matter told CoinDesk. The new outpost will join Binance’s current mainland China office in Shanghai. It’s not clear what exactly the office will do or when it will open, but the move follows a slew of announcements from Chinese authorities,
Metal worker Andy Mattingly operates a siphoning crucible in the pot room at Century Aluminum Company in Hawesville, Kentucky, May 14, 2019. Bryan Woolston | Reuters An update on manufacturing activity Friday could provide a much more useful picture of the economy than the October employment report, which is expected to be unusually weak due
Micahel Turchin and Lance Bass at the launch of Dirty Pop at Mondrian Los Angeles. www.startraksphoto.com/SBE While design has been of the utmost importance for restaurants, hotels, and nightclubs, in recent years, its emphasis has increased exponentially because of social media. When ordinary customers, influencers and celebrities are going to take photos and share it
The reporter’s kitchen in November 2017, shortly after she and her husband closed on their first home. Darla Mercado If you think bringing your garish 1960s-era kitchen up to date is just a matter of new paint and appliances, think again. Home renovations modernize your dwelling, potentially make it more energy-efficient and may enhance its
View Bitcoin tends to pick up a strong bid six months ahead of the reward halving, according to historical data. With the halving event due in May 2020, BTC may rise above the recent high of $10,350 in November and could challenge the 2019 high of $13,880 over the next couple of months. Shorter term,
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee will discuss issuer disclosure and machine-readable technology at a meeting next week. FIMSAC will meet Nov. 4 at the SEC’s New York Regional Office to discuss structured disclosures by municipal issuers and other topics, according to an agenda released Thursday. “I could not be
Investment thesis In our last release on the S&P GSCI Heating Oil Index Spot (SPGSHO), our bullish view on the complex emerged slightly and the Index gained 2.72% to $237.33 per share, following a tightening of distillate fundamentals. Going forward, the distillate storage picture is still favorable for the complex, given that U.S. storage is
Ripple has invested in a $2.2 million USD seed funding round by London-based cybersecurity startup Keyless via its investing division, Xpring. Keyless claims to be the first company in the world to combine biometrics with secure multi-party computation. Xpring was launched in 2018 with the intention of enabling the Internet of Value, an online ecosystem allowing for
Former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson said the company tried to understand the impact of climate change, and tried to accurately communicate the impact to shareholders, as he testified on Wednesday in New York during the second week of a trial against the oil giant. The case, brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleges
Derivatives exchange FTX has launched an index of eight popular China-based cryptocurrencies. Announced in a tweet by the firm’s CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Tuesday, the Dragon Perpetual Futures Index (DRGN-PERP) tracks a basket of coins including BTM, IOST, NEO, NULS, ONT, QTUM, TRX, and VET, based on a weighted average of their respective prices. FTX is
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell holds a news conference following a closed two-day Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, September 18, 2019. Sarah Silbiger | Reuters Stocks were slightly lower and bond yields were near lows of the day after the Fed signaled a pause when it said it would move to “assess” its
The Federal Reserve cut rates again. Here’s what it means for you. Getty The Federal Open Market Committee decided to cut the federal funds rate yet again today, lowering its target range to 1.5-1.75%. This marks the third time the Fed has cut rates in as many months. According to the FOMC itself, “Although household
The Federal Reserve‘s decision to cut interest rates by a quarter point for the third time this year is meant to bolster the economy. Everyday Americans may lose some ground. On the one hand, lower rates often mean cheaper loans, which can impact your mortgage, home equity loan, credit card, student loan tab and car
View Bitcoin looks set to post the first monthly gain since June. The percentage rise, however, may be less than 10 percent as the daily chart is reporting signs of buyer exhaustion. A triangle breakdown on the hourly chart, if confirmed, could yield a pullback to support at $8,820. A high-volume contracting triangle breakout will
As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee cut the fed funds rate target 25 basis points to a range of a 1.50% to 1.75%. “This action supports the Committee’s view that sustained expansion of economic activity, strong labor market conditions, and inflation near the Committee’s symmetric 2 percent objective are the most likely outcomes, but
Sign up on the podcast platform of your choice to make sure you don’t miss an episode: By Jonathan Liss 2018 was a banner year for mutual fund capital gains distributions – and not in a good way. Roughly 79% of mutual funds distributed a total of $540B in capital gains to investors – the
Bitcoin (BTC) has made some serious upward movement in the last few days. In less than 24 hours, the world’s largest cryptocurrency shot up over 40% to $10,350, having traded as low as $7,300 the previous day. The undoubtedly bullish movement represented BTC’s fourth-largest single day movement ever, and the biggest since 2011. However, some
More people could be in danger from rising sea levels than previously thought, a new study says. The report, published on Tuesday by Nature Communications, found that by the end of the century as many as 630 million people could live on land below projected flood levels. This is three times greater than prior estimates.
Chinese state-owned media are attempting to quell the rush into crypto stocks following President Xi’s statement to “seize the opportunity” afforded by blockchain. State-backed agencies are publishing material meant to encourage “rational” investments, amid this surge in speculation in blockchain and fintech firms, Reuters reported Tuesday. On Monday, over 100 public fintech companies – tied
An oil well owned and operated by Apache Corp. in the Permian Basin of Garden City, Texas. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Third-quarter growth is expected to come in at a weakish 1.6%, with the biggest hits to come from slowing business investment. The first reading on real GDP for the third quarter is expected
Berlin-based Alicja Kwade’s first permanent public installation in the United States, “Absorption,” … [+] is located at Avery Lane in San Francisco’s Transbay neighborhood. STUDIO PHOCASSO SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Related California recently unveiled the first permanent public art installation in the United States for Berlin-based artist, Alicja Kwade. The installation was commissioned for The
A realtor holds an open house in Somerville, MA. Pat Greenhouse | The Boston Globe | Getty Images Pending home sales, which are measured by signed contracts to buy existing homes, rose 1.5% in September compared with August, according to the National Association of Realtors. That was the second straight month of gains. Sales were
Canadian startup Ledn, which offers bitcoin-backed fiat loans, now also offers dollar-pegged DAI loans, connecting bitcoin users with ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Ledn co-founder Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, a Venezuelan expat, told CoinDesk this new partnership with stablecoin promoter MakerDAO was driven by customer demand. Out of “thousands” of users, more than half of Ledn’s
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s reliance on state action to help wipe out an $800 million 2020 budget gap and structurally balance the city’s books by 2022 is weighing on support from market participants and city council members alike. The shared concern is over the uncertain prospects that state lawmakers will allow the city to shift
ETF Overview First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund (FVD) focuses on dividend stocks based on Value Line’s safety ranking. The safety ranking is based on stock price stability as well as financial strength of these stocks. FVD’s portfolio of stocks are constructed based on equal-weightings and rebalances every month. FVD’s portfolio has higher exposure
Bakkt, the cryptocurrency trading platform launched by the Intercontinental Exchange, is planning to launch a consumer-focused app in the first half of 2020 to enable retail customers to make transactions with cryptocurrencies. Consumer Adoption Ambitions In an ambitious move to enable the widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies, Bakkt Chief Product Officer Mike Blandina said in a
Virgin Galactic‘s leadership expects millions of space tourists will want to fly in the next decade, more demand than can be fulfilled by both Richard Branson’s company or Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, its closest competitor. “Ultimately we think this is going to be a capacity constrained market – more people are going to want to
There’s one big word we are not hearing this earnings season. There are plenty of issues causing agita for investors this earnings season: China, industrial slowdown, auto sales slowdown. The one word that is not being uttered on conference calls: recession. The U.S. consumer — the engine of global growth — is still holding up,
Lebanon is far from a poster child for cryptocurrency adoption. News of Lebanese banks shuttering to prevent a bank run was met with predictable enthusiasm from the global bitcoin commentariat. People in Lebanon can no longer send foreign currencies, mainly dollars and euros, abroad. Further, due to heavily restricted banking access and limited liquidity provided
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