Month: July 2019

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Johnson & Johnson — Shares of the pharmaceutical and consumer goods company fell 4% after Bloomberg News reported that the U.S. Justice Department is launching a criminal investigation into whether or not the company lied to the public about potential cancer risks in its talcum baby
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Polish cryptocurrency exchange Bitmarket has just shut down without warning. According to a brief message posted late on July 8 on its website, Bitmarket – said to have been Poland’s second-largest crypto exchange – stated: “We regret to inform you that due to the loss of liquidity, [from] 08/07/2019, Bitmarket.pl/net was forced to cease its operations.
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A Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange called Bitpoint has suspended operations after it lost $32 million to a hacking last night. The company that runs the exchange, Remixpoint, discovered that ¥3.5 billion worth of various digital currencies had disappeared under its management. Bitpoint Hacked and Suspends Operations According to the exchange, the funds went missing from a
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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, co-founders of the New York-based crypto exchange Gemini, may soon join the Libra Association, the consortium governing Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency. “We’re definitely looking at it in earnest and we’re excited about the project,” Cameron told CoinDesk Tuesday. Tyler added that in their view, Libra is a harbinger of cryptos to come:
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U.S. President Donald Trump attends a bilateral meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping during the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Citigroup kicks off earnings season on Monday. Traders enter with a singular focus on company guidance. Bears believe second-half guidance will be cautious and lower than expected
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Check out the companies making headlines in the premarket: Illumina — Shares of the biotechnology company dropped 15% after Illumina reported preliminary revenue figures that disappointed investors. The company sees second-quarter sales coming in around $835 million. Analysts polled by Refinitiv expected revenue of $887.9 million. Zoom Video Communications, Slack Technologies — Zoom and Slack
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X Miami is among urban properties offering very small residences to those who seek an urban existence at lower cost. X Miami It’s no surprise big city life is increasingly favored by everyone from Millennials to empty nesting Baby Boomers. That’s helping make micro residential units increasingly popular options in cities from Seattle and Denver
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Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington, D.C.,  on Thursday, July 11, 2019. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell echoed what most in the homebuilding industry have been complaining about all year. While the nation sinks into a severe
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While responding to an allegation that Tronfoundation and BitTorrent are involved in a billion-dollar Ponzi-scheme scam that defrauded thousands of investors in China, Justin Sun, TRON’s CEO, says both companies are “fine.” According to the CEO, preparations were being made to launch BitTorrentSpeed on July 8, so people should stop publicizing fake news and pictures.
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The Wallich Residence is located within the Tanjong Pagar Centre (second from right), Singapore’s tallest building. Everett Rosenfeld | CNBC British technology firm founder James Dyson and his wife have bought a luxury penthouse in Singapore for a record 73.8 million Singapore dollars ($54.2 million), according to The Business Times newspaper on Wednesday. The privately
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Metropolitan Commercial Bank maintained accounts for stablecoin issuer Tether and affiliated companies for less than half a year before shutting them down, a spokesperson told CoinDesk. The New York Attorney General (NYAG)’s office, which is embroiled in a legal battle with Tether and its sister company, crypto exchange Bitfinex, filed new documentation Monday showing that Tether
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