Bitcoin (BTC) has been struggling to sustain the $47,500 support since the Dec. 4 crash, a movement that wiped out over $840 million in leveraged long futures contracts. The downside move came after the emergence of the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus and recent data showing U.S. inflation hitting a 40-year high. Bitcoin/USD price at
Month: December 2021
Amid rising prices, supply chain disruptions and labor shortages, governments are increasingly eying so-called progressive development agreements, or PDAs, as a way to minimize uncertainties as they embark on complex infrastructure projects. The move can reduce risks and costs and deliver a project faster, said Moody’s Investors Service analyst John Medina. “Construction costs are very
Chicago wrapped up the pricing on $1.45 billion of refinancing bonds Thursday after structural tweaks and a $1 billion tender and exchange allowed the city to scale back on the deal’s size and still meet a $250 million savings target. A look at the 10-year in the tax-exempt pieces showed spreads narrowed sharply from the
In this article QUOT SDI Productions | E+ | Getty Images Company: Quotient Technology, Inc. (QUOT) Business: Quotient Technology operates as a digital media and promotions technology company that offers power integrated digital media and promotions programs for brands and retailers. The company operates through two segments: (i) Promotions segment, which offers digital coupons and
In this article AMCX Shopping carts are lined up in front of a Costco store on February 25, 2021 in Inglewood, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Friday: Costco — Costco shares rose more than 6% after the warehouse retailer posted its latest quarterly numbers a day
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Vitalik Buterin outlines ‘endgame’ roadmap for ETH 2.0 With the
San Miguel de Allende in central Mexico is often associated with baroque architecture, a historic central core and captivating city views. This country home, set on 10 acres about 8 kilometers or 5 miles from the city, offers a different perspective. The gated hacienda near the tiny town of Loma de Cabras takes in the
Poorer neighborhoods are hotter than wealthier ones. That’s the overriding finding from the New York City component of a national project to map urban heat islands. Scientists have long known that urban areas generate heat, but until now they’ve not been able to map them street by street. On a searing summer day in New
The American politician and attorney serving as the 46th governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, announced the state’s 2022-23 budget proposal last week and proposed an idea to let businesses pay state fees with crypto assets. The governor’s “Freedom First Budget” suggests creating a department in Florida to accept state fees in cryptocurrencies. Florida Governor’s Freedom
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Municipal bonds were steady for the eighth straight session Friday as U.S. Treasuries were slightly better and stocks rose after Consumer Price Index data came as expected, though the highest since 1982. “U.S. stocks rallied after the latest inflation report did not come in as hot as many were expecting. Wall Street did not see
Much to the chagrin of cryptocurrency proponents who call for the immediate mass adoption of blockchain technology, there are many “digital landmines” that exist in the crypto ecosystem such as rug pulls and protocol hacks that can give new users the experience of being lost at sea. There’s more to investing than just technical analysis
Turmoil at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, including a former general manager’s guilty plea to felony bribery, should not affect its Kroll Bond Rating Agency ratings. LADWP holds Kroll’s AA-plus rating on its water system revenue bonds and AA on its power system revenue bonds. The outlook on both ratings is stable.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell attends the House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 30, 2021. Al Drago | Reuters In the coming week, the Federal Reserve could decide to speed up the end of its bond-buying program and signal that 2022 is the year it expects to start hiking
Haiti, a Western Caribbean country torn by a tragic past, natural disasters, poor leadership, and ineffective foreign aid, is not a country that comes to people’s minds when they think of blockchain adoption. For years, Haiti has been among the world’s poorest countries in terms of GDP per capita, as per data from the World
This Gordon Kaufmann-designed home on L.A.’s Westside has deep roots in local history. One of the first properties ever built in Bel-Air, the trophy estate dates to the 1920s when contracting and engineering company owner Arthur S. Bent and his wife Eliza commissioned the architect to design their new home. At the time, the London-born
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Inflation grew at its fastest clip in almost four decades last month — and rising costs are hitting the biggest areas of household budgets. Inflation measures changes in the price consumers pay for goods and services. It jumped 6.8% in the year through November 2021, the largest annual spike
Brian Mayhew stepped into his job before the turn of this century, taking on fiscal responsibility for a set of bridges that urgently needed upgrades to protect them against California’s earthquakes. More than two decades and many billions of dollars in debt later, he will retire as chief financial officer of the San Francisco Bay
Municipal yields held steady for the seventh session in a row in light trading Thursday as the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York’s $2.5 billion of competitive loans were the focus while U.S. Treasuries made gains and equities were mixed on heightened Omicron concerns. Triple-A yield curves were little changed on the day
In this article .DJI CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday the market’s snapback has taken many investors off guard, and it’s being fueled by the rush to get back into stocks as emerging evidence indicates that the omicron Covid variant might not be as serious as first thought. “I think this caught a lot of people
In this article GME LCID AAL BA CVS People walk by a CVS Pharmacy store in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. CVS — Shares of the drugstore chain jumped 3.8% to hit a 52-week high after the company said sales
CoreLogic, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released the Homeowner Equity Report for the third quarter of 2021. The report shows homeowners with mortgages—which account for roughly 63% of all properties—have seen their equity increase by 31.1% year over year, representing a collective equity gain of over $3.2 trillion, and an average
Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall attend the RHS Chelsea Flower Show press day at the Royal Hospital Chelsea on May 23, 2016 in London, England. Max Mumby | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his wife Jerry have paid around $200 million to buy a massive Montana working cattle ranch
The Stacks ecosystem is a collection of independent entities, developers and community members working to build a user-owned internet on the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain. Stacks’ STX cryptocurrency was distributed to the general public through the first-ever Securities and Exchange Commission-qualified token offering in the United States. Mitchell Cuevas, head of growth for the Stacks Foundation,
Despite issuers’ hopes, a compromise defense bill passed by the House Tuesday night failed to include a provision allowing for expanded use of pandemic relief funds. The provision, which the Senate passed in October as standalone legislation, likely won’t be taken up this year, though some supporters continue to hold out hope. The legislation would
Secondary trading saw an uptick and some pressures emerged on munis, but benchmark yield curves were little changed to weaker by a basis point in spots, again outperforming taxables. U.S. Treasuries slid further with the largest rise in yields on the long bond, and equities made gains after a mixed open. ICE Data Services and
Decentralized finance (DeFi) offers one of the most widely applicable use-cases for distributed ledger technology and today it is one of the main avenues for the wider adoption of blockchain technology. Last week, as the wider crypto market corrected and Bitcoin (BTC) dropped by 22%, DeFiChain (DFI) bucked the trend and rallied 76% to establish
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa arrives at the International Space Station on Dec. 8, 2021 after launching on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. NASA TV Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday, where he’ll spend nearly two weeks visiting as a private space tourist. Maezawa launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft along
In this article ROKU NCLH PLAY SFIX Source: Stitch Fix Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Stitch Fix — Shares of the digital personal shopping company plummeted 23% after reporting disappointing guidance for the fiscal second quarter and the full year. Stitch Fix also missed estimates for its fiscal first quarter active customers. The
Major cryptocurrencies Ether (ETH) and Dogecoin (DOGE) made the list of the world’s top searched terms in 2021 on Google On Dec. 7, Google released its traditional annual list of the top searches for the year, breaking them down into several categories including searches, news, people, games, movies and others. According to Google Trends’ Year
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