Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester said a bigger-than-expected rise in the central bank’s preferred inflation gauge shows the need to keep raising interest rates, but stopped short of suggesting this warranted a step-up to a half-point hike next month. “The inflation readings are still not where we need them to be,” she told Bloomberg News
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Getty Images I was recently at an ETF conference in Miami Beach, and one night a few of us noticed that Bruce Springsteen was playing up the road in Hollywood. We kicked around the idea of going, until someone said that ticket prices were likely $1,000 and up for the sold-out event. We went out
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed to defeat Russia in 2023, as Ukraine marked the solemn anniversary of the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion and a year that forever altered the country and upturned the global order. “A year ago on this day, from this same place around seven in the morning, I addressed you with a brief
U.S. Congressman Tom Emmer has introduced the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Anti-Surveillance State Act “to halt efforts of unelected bureaucrats” from “stripping Americans of their right to financial privacy.” The bill also prohibits the Federal Reserve “from issuing a CBDC directly to anyone.” CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act Introduced U.S. Congressman Tom Emmer (R-MN) announced
Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. Hong Kong moves bullish On Feb. 20, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong launched a consultation on its proposed regulatory requirements for digital asset trading platforms. The SFC requires the licensing by June of all cryptocurrency exchanges operating
S&P Global Ratings upgraded Illinois by one notch Thursday for ongoing progress in chipping away at its debts and rebuilding its rainy day fund. The action — lifting $26.5 billion of general obligation bonds to A-minus from BBB-plus — puts the state back into the single-A category for the first time in seven years and
An anonymous Ethereum investor has lost more than $2 million trading Ether (ETH) since Sep. 9, 2022, on-chain data shows. Buying Ethereum high, selling low Spotted by on-chain monitoring resource Lookonchain, the “stupid money” trader spent $12.5 million in stablecoins to buy 7,135 ETH after it rallied 10% to $1,790 in September 2022. But a
A municipal fintech platform for asset management firms, banks, insurance companies, and municipal advisors is being developed by Assured Guaranty’s new subsidiary, AG Analytics. The platform intends to deliver best-in-class technology and turnkey solutions to replace fragmented data resources used by municipal asset managers, analysts and other market participants. “Many asset managers are using too
For the month of December, 3% of all mortgages in the U.S. were in some stage of delinquency —which is 30 days or more past due, including those in foreclosure— representing a 0.4 percentage point decrease compared with 3.4% recorded in December 2021 and less than a 0.1 percentage point increase compared with November 2022,
The European Central Bank made no profits for the first time in 15 years in 2022 after suffering writedowns on its bond investments, with analysts predicting years of losses following the reversal of its ultra-loose monetary policies. The ECB said on Thursday it would have made an annual loss of more than €1.6bn if it
Let’s take a look at a butterfly options strategy on LOW (Lowes) and see how we would construct the trade and when we would get out of the options strategy. In this options strategy, we will go over the construction of the butterfly strategy as well as how we might trade it and why we
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Today we look at commodity currencies, before moving on to explore currency crosses. We explain what a cross pair is and which are the three most-traded Forex crosses. We finish by touching upon the exotics and explain which is one of the most important exotic pairs. Test and practice your investment strategies in real market
Rejecting nearly all of the challenges to its disclosure statement and plan of adjustment in the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bankruptcy, the Puerto Rico Oversight Board attempted to explain why National Public Finance Guarantee could get preferential treatment. National’s treatment is permissible since it is supported by a “legitimate basis,” the board said, citing
The United States equities markets saw their worst performance of 2023 as concerned investors dumped stocks on Feb. 21, fearing continued rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Although the cryptocurrency markets also gave back some of the gains, the fall was comparatively muted. UTXO Management senior analyst Dylan LeClair said that Bitcoin’s (BTC) correlation
A TV camera points to the U.S. Supreme Court as justices inside heard arguments in Gonzalez v. Google at the court in Washington, February 21, 2023 Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The Supreme Court in a unanimous decision Wednesday ruled that a woman could not use protection under the U.S. bankruptcy code to avoid paying a
In this article INVH TCN-CA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Institutional investors may control 40% of U.S. single-family rental homes by 2030, according to MetLife Investment Management. And a group of Washington, D.C., lawmakers say Wall Street needs to back away from the market. “What we’re saying is don’t have private equity buying up
The capacity of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (LN) recently surpassed an all-time high of 5,000 Bitcoin (BTC). The Lightning Network is a neutral protocol built on top of Bitcoin, and it currently does not have a “native” token attached to it like many decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. Although the Lightning Network’s total liquidity is less than
In this article COIN PANW DKS AMZN TOL LZB BIDU Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Coinbase shares are down more than 83% this year Chesnot | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Coinbase — Shares of the cryptocurrency exchange fell 5% even after Coinbase reported a smaller-than-expected loss for
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, February 17, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Is the growth of passive investing a threat to the stability of the stock market? A new study says you shouldn’t worry. There have been several very successful investing trends in the