The Tesla dealership in Eatonville, Florida is seen on March 1, 2019, the day after Tesla announced that it was closing its retail stores as a cost-cutting measure, in a shift to on-line only sales. Paul Hennessy | NurPhoto | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell Wednesday: Netflix — Shares
Wisconsin’s projected budget surplus swelled by $2.9 billion according estimates published by the non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau, setting the stage for a fresh partisan fight over where to direct the windfall. The annual January review projects that the state will now close out the fiscal biennium June 30, 2023 with a $3.8 billion net balance.
One doesn’t often hear of a six-bedroom estate that sits under seven roofs. Villa Sul Mare off Nassau, the Bahamas, makes the most of its acre location along the waterfront by spreading out the living spaces within a lush green setting. Located on the aptly named Paradise Island, the property plays to its tropical locale
The Federal Reserve laid the groundwork for interest rate hikes Wednesday. At the conclusion of its two-day meeting, the central bank said it will aggressively unwind last year’s bond buying after a variety of inflation reports reached their highest levels in decades. Although interest rates will stay near zero for now, Fed officials set the stage
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and ruling Ak Party officials met earlier this week to discuss the metaverse, with the president calling for comprehensive research on the subject. Erdoğan has reportedly urged the Ak Party to study the metaverse, cryptocurrencies, and how transactions are made using them, according to a Daily Sabah report. At a
Authorities in Belarus have no intentions to adopt stricter rules for the country’s crypto space. That’s despite neighboring Russia, a close partner in many areas, considering a blanket ban on а number of activities related to cryptocurrencies as suggested by the central bank in Moscow. Belarus to Keep Favorable Crypto Regulations Officials in Belarus do
The team behind the popular blockchain explorer and analytics platform Etherscan has launched an Ethereum-based wallet-to-wallet instant messaging service dubbed “Blockscan Chat.” Blockscan is currently in beta testing mode, and it currently enables users to engage in an instant wallet-to-wallet chat, access chats from multiple devices, block spammy or unwanted addresses and get notified on
Municipals faced more cuts to triple-A benchmark yields with the five-year hitting 1%, a level not seen on Refinitiv MMD’s curve since May 2020 and the 10-year at 1.34%, a high not seen since April 2020 when the market was in recovery from the initial COVID-induced selloff. U.S. Treasuries were slightly weaker while equities ended
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Buyers should cool off on cryptocurrency concerns and make some long-term investments instead, SkyBridge Capital’s Anthony Scaramucci told CNBC on Tuesday. Some people think bitcoin is “rat poison,” as billionaire investor Warren Buffett once described it; others think it’s the worst thing to ever happen to civilization, Scaramucci said in a “Squawk Box” interview. “Everyone
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., January 21, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Should you be worried? On Monday at one point, the S&P 500 was down 10% from its recent highs. However, investors who are panicking should bear in mind long-term trends. What’s
In this article NAVI FFIV MSFT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Microsoft Developer Day in Singapore on May 27, 2016. Charles Pertwee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell Tuesday: Texas Instruments — Shares of the semiconductor company popped more than 4% on the back of a
The Biden administration’s aversion to infrastructure projects that add new highway capacity is a one-size-fits-all outlook at odds with reality of 50 different state-based transportation systems. That’s the message the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials passed along to Stephanie Pollack, deputy administrator of the Federal Highway Administration in a Jan. 19 letter.
Homeownership offers tons of benefits to Americans. Homeownership unlocks tons of tax benefits that you are otherwise not open to as a renter, mortgage interest deduction being just one of many examples. Beyond this, homeownership has also been a hallmark of the American dream since the founding of the United States. Property taxes generated by
Demand for office space is likely to rebound from depressed Covid pandemic levels long before retail properties, property billionaire Sam Zell told CNBC on Tuesday. “Everything between the top mall and the corner grocery anchor mall … [there’s] a serious question as to its viability,” Zell said in a “Squawk Box” interview. “I think retail
The pain trade has been an unwelcome sight across the cryptocurrency market since the start of 2022 and over the past 24 days Bitcoin (BTC) and the altcoin prices have drifted, leading some analysts to suggest that a bear market is at hand. Despite traders’ concern that another extended crypto winter could be starting, it
Selling pressure on the short end continued on Monday and triple-A benchmark yields were cut by as much as five basis points there while U.S. Treasuries pared back earlier gains and equities rebounded from a large selloff earlier in the day. Ratios rose with the day’s moves with the municipal to UST five-year at 64%,
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 5, 2018 in New York City. Getty Images It’s a sea of red in the stock market on Monday, and there are several factors that are dragging stocks down in January. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as much as 1,000
Traders on the floor of the NYSE, Jan. 21, 2022. Source: NYSE Two factors that determine the direction of stock prices are 1) expectations of earnings increasing or decreasing, and 2) the market multiple (price/earnings ratio), which is an estimate on what investors are willing to pay for a future stream of earnings. Both are