Bitcoin traders may have their eyes on a different kind of chart this week. That’s because Friday, July 27 is the date that bitcoin futures contracts offered by derivatives giant CME Group are scheduled to expire. A financial product that lets institutions and professional traders long or short the crypto asset (betting on its future
Month: July 2018
Earnings season, for the most part, has been outstanding. Companies are almost always beating numbers and at least maintaining or raising guidance for the full year. There are a few companies complaining about higher dollar and commodity costs (Illinois Tool Works, Kimberly Clark), but they are the minority. But that rosy outlook changed Monday night,
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have introduced a new bill that would essentially wipe out tens of billions of dollars of Puerto Rico’s $73 billion in outstanding debt. The proposed legislation entitled the “U.S. Territorial Relief Act of 2018,” which counts Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), and Kamala Harris
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Dinosaurs, even the carnivorous kind, need to keep their lawns neat.Casey Lewis Real Estate Group Agents. What will they think of next? Sometimes they’ll perk up the listing photos of an empty house with pictures of a cute baby. Sometimes they’ll offer the services of an olfactory
Southern California home sales hit the brakes in June, falling to the lowest reading for the month in four years. Sales of both new and existing houses and condominiums dropped 11.8 percent year-over-year, as prices shot up to a record high, according to CoreLogic. The report covers Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura, San Bernardino
A major fight is brewing between Dunkin’ Brands and Starbucks, but only one is emerging victorious. Over the past two years, Dunkin’ shares have rocketed around 50 percent higher, while Starbucks has fallen more than 10 percent. Matt Maley, equity strategist at Miller Tabak, says Dunkin’s massive rally could be circling the drain. “It’s up
BitMart Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, will soon be opening a new community listing market for their utility token, BMX. Projects will be able to obtain investment from supporters in the form of BMX and use it to list their tokens on BitMart Exchange as a trading pair for BMX. All transaction fees
Crypto investment startup Bitwise is seeking regulators’ permission to offer an exchange-traded fund (ETF) tied to the top 10 cryptocurrencies. The Bitwise HOLD 10 Cryptocurrency Index Fund ETF would track the returns on the startup’s HOLD 10 Index. That index is the basis for a passive investment fund which itself invests in the top 10 cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin (BTC) price has climbed above the $8,100 mark for the first time today since mid-May. Source: CoinMarketCap Big Week for Bitcoin Bitcoin’s bull run this week is leading many to predict a return of its 2017 bull run that pushed BTC to almost $20,000. Source: CoinMarketCap July 16th seems to have started this run
When the first read on second-quarter U.S. GDP data gets released Friday, its expected to be good enough to grab some big headlines. But no one is expecting the growth to be anywhere near as good as things got in the years under President Bill Clinton or those of President George W Bush. A battery pack is installed in a
Shutterstock San Francisco-based Bitwise Asset Management has filed a registration statement for a publicly-offered cryptocurrency index ETF with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company said in a statement that the new ETF will track the returns of Bitwise’s market-cap-weighted index of the 10 largest cryptocurrencies, the HOLD 10 Index. It is intended to serve both
Bitcoin (BTC) has had a bullish start to the week, but the momentum could wane in the next few days, technical studies indicate. The leading cryptocurrency rose to a two-month high of $8,130 on Bitfinex today, having witnessed an inverse head-and-shoulders breakout last week. The 40 percent rally from the seven-month low of $5,755 reached
Fintech company Square is boosting its small-business lending with an eBay partnership announced Tuesday morning. Square Capital, the lending arm of the payment start-up, will be available to eBay sellers looking to expand their business operations. Starting in the third quarter, merchants on the site can apply for a loan as small as $500 and
Shutterstock Thanks to a new strategic partnership, homebuyers in 15 states can now see faster (and fully digital) closings on real estate transactions. As of this morning, digital notary platform Notarize has partnered with Title Resources, a national title company, to offer electronic notarizations to its customers. The deal opens the door to 100% digital
The nationwide housing shortage continues but is especially troublesome for homebuyers with a budget of $250,000 or less, Susan Wachter, professor of real estate and of finance at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, told CNBC on Monday. Rising labor, land and material costs are slowing down the supply, “except at
Sarissa Capital Management chief investment officer Alex Denner spoke with CNBC Pro for an exclusive interview from the Delivering Alpha Conference in New York, and detailed his case for investing in Biogen. Like other shareholder activists, Denner’s approach focuses on improving the strategies of companies to unlock otherwise trapped equity value. Having previously served as
Crypto community responds to Mastercard outage: Global payment giant Mastercard suffered a huge outage last week that led to a substantial hold-up in users’ transactions. Mastercard down – users report card payments failing due to glitch https://t.co/UxaCec5vhQ pic.twitter.com/XsSlIlqaLQ — Frédérique FP (@Frederique_FP) July 16, 2018 First reported by the Financial Times on July 12th, the outage
Some say a “decentralized exchange” is an oxymoron. Perhaps not, but for now it’s not much more than an aspiration. Over the past year, dozens of cryptocurrency trading platforms have marketed themselves as decentralized exchanges. While models vary, the term implies they allow users to trade on a peer-to-peer basis, and more importantly, without using
Shutterstock For so long fixed-income investors have felt financially pressured to invest in real estate investment trusts (REITs), dividend-paying stocks and high yielding securities they never thought would fit their risk profiles. So why’d they do it? Because back then bond yields were so limbo-low. Fast forward to a more hawkish Federal Reserve. They promised
Billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman, one of this generation’s most successful and highly watched investors, is closing his hedge fund Omega Advisors after 27 years and will convert it to a family office. Cooperman, 75, characterized the move as returning client money at a high after a run of strong performance, citing a famous
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price clocked a two-month high of $7,820 today and looks set to extend gains further, a key cryptomarket gauge indicates. CoinMarketCap’s bitcoin dominance rate, an indicator that tracks the percent of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization contributed by the leading cryptocurrency, rose to 46 percent today — the highest level since December 20 — adding
Bitcoin continued its rally Monday, shrugging off regulatory and security worries that have dragged down cryptocurrency prices this year. The world’s largest and most popular digital currency rose 5 percent to a high of $7,770.58, according to data from CoinDesk, and is up roughly 20 percent in the past week. It broke above the $7,000
Founder of Big LivesAmanda Hakan Sam Alston is the founder of Big Lives, an experiential retail platform that replaces traditional brick-and-mortar and ecommerce with curated, retail events in homes and unique spaces. Alston dreamed of opening a store since she was kid, and finally took the leap in 2017 to start Big Lives after ten
What you don’t know about insurance policies can cost you. That’s the new finding from a national survey by comparison website insuranceQuotes. “Reading your insurance policy can be kind of boring, but you need to be well informed,” said Jason Hargraves, the company’s managing editor. For example, you might think you’re covered when you’re not,
Two JPMorgan ETFs, the JPMorgan BetaBuilders Japan ETF (BBJP) and the JPMorgan BetaBuilders Europe ETF (BBEU), have seen massive inflows of investor cash since last Wednesday. Assets in BBJP have leapt 6,936 percent in one week, while assets in BBEU jumped 1,863 percent. This represents by far the most significant amount of new money into
The third round of blockchain rankings has been released by the Chinese government. Yet again, China ranks EOS number one. The rankings, released by the government-backed China Electronic Information Industry Development (CCID), evaluate the public blockchain networks with three different metrics. The metrics include technology, applicability, and innovation. Previous Leaders CCID released its first set
The popular crypto data tracker CoinMarketCap is instituting changes in light of what it called “concerns” over fake volume figures. In a blog post, published on July 19, the site said that it had already dropped a minimum volume requirement for exchanges listed on the site, a policy it said was originally pursued “in order
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at an event where he signed an executive order establishing a National Council for the American Worker. President Trump hosted leaders of the private sector to sign a Pledge to Americas Workers to create solutions to issues affecting the American labor force, and to create more than 500,000 opportunities for
Shutterstock Bitcoin’s wall of worry is quite different than the stock market’s wall of worry. The equity world is concerned with the effects on earnings of interest rates, the price of oil and the latest thinking of the current White House occupant. With the crypto-currencies, all of that is interesting and ultimately relevant, but the
You may have heard of a lagging or leading indicator before. Maybe your friends have tossed around terms like bullish or bearish divergences, oversold or overbought conditions and what signals you should use to enter or exit the market. While there are many tools that can assist with this, one often overlooked indicator is called
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