Over the past seven days, the crypto market saw an uptick in volatility as Bitcoin (BTC) and Dogecoin (DOGE) price rallied higher simply because of social media activity. In situations like these, traders who make their investment decisions based on emotions tend to incur heavy losses and this is exactly what happened last week. Dogecoin’s
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The spiralling cost of shipping goods from Asia is causing a shortage of consumer goods in Europe for importers of everything from home furnishings, bicycles and sports kit to children’s toys and dried fruits. A dearth of empty containers in China has quadrupled prices on sea trade routes to Europe in the space of eight
In this video you will learn when you should sell a PUT vs BUY a CALL – there are advantages and disadvantages to both, but in certain situations, you may want to buy a call and others to sell a put. We will go on the screen and the risk analysis to show you the
Kevin Matras gives you his checklist for finding winning stocks. Highlighted stocks include CPX, DAN, ENTG, IVC and TWC.
An employee works inside an Office Depot Inc. Susana Gonzalez | Bloomberg | Getty Images Company: ODP Corp. (ODP) ODP Corp. is a provider of business services, products and digital workplace technology solutions to small and medium businesses. The company has a fully integrated business-to-business distribution platform of approximately 1,300 stores and online presence. The
Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images These stocks are making some of the largest moves in midday trading: Mondelez International — Mondelez, which owns snack brands including Oreo and Ritz, dipped 2% despite reporting better-than-expected earnings. Modelez earned 67 cents per share, topping estimates by one cent, according to Refinitiv. Revenue came in at
The modern live-work residence was designed and built for Faiya Fredman, the late artist who was a … [+] pillar of San Diego’s contemporary art scene. Lucas Parodi | Willis Allen Real Estate Designed by a celebrated modernist for a titan of San Diego’s art scene, it’s no surprise that this modern residence off the
A real estate for sale sign shows the home as being “Under Contract” in Washington, DC, November 19, 2020. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Sharp gains in home prices and a slight rise in interest rates combined to weaken demand for mortgages last week. Total mortgage application volume fell 4.1% from the previous
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan predicted an “enthusiastic” internal discussion over the U.S. central bank’s massive bond-buying program, while vowing to be patient in judging when the economy has made sufficient progress to warrant scaling it back. “I don’t want to associate or even think about associating a time frame with that,”
Ursula von der Leyen has promised Boris Johnson that future EU controls on vaccines will not disrupt contracted supplies of the Belgian-made BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine to Britain. The European Commission president, made the commitment to the prime minister in a tense Friday night call, which followed the Commission’s controversial plan — hastily abandoned — to impose
Michael Frawley had already been dabbling in financial derivatives for a few months when he joined a raucous, profane trade-tipping internet forum last year. Reddit’s WallStreetBets would prove the gateway into the 25-year-old Ohio engineer’s wildest ever bet. GameStop is a struggling bricks-and-mortar video game retailer in a world that is rapidly moving online. The
WallStreetBets and its 3.1 million followers are fighting back against short-selling hedge funds and winning.
The Robinhood website home screen on a smartphone. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Restrictions on Robinhood traders are still tight and getting tighter throughout the day on Friday, now only allowing GameStop holders to buy a single additional share. The stock trading app has also expanded its list of restricted stocks from 13
The Reddit forum WallStreetBets logo on a smartphone arranged in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Brent Lewin | Bloomberg | Getty Images What’s next for the Reddit crowd? Wall Street seems unsure. The “blow-out-the-short-sellers game” is showing signs of exhaustion, but the ramifications are only just being felt. What traders can’t agree on is
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Earnings news from Amazon and Alphabet, the important January jobs report and Washington’s discussion of stimulus could all be important to markets in the week ahead, but none of it is likely to get more attention than the short squeezes driven by retail
Miami’s hot real estate market continues getty Miami’s luxury hot luxury real estate market shows no signs of cooling down. Everyday boldface names in the media announce they are moving to Miami. From out of favor politicians to film stars to mid-list celebrities to Wall Street billionaires Miami is the current must-have address. According
A house’s real estate for sale sign shows the home as being “Under Contract” in Washington, DC, November 19, 2020. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Homebuyers signed fewer contracts to buy existing homes in December, as record high prices and record low supply stood in the way of strong demand. The pending home
Municipal secondary activity was quiet Friday but weakness in U.S. Treasuries and an unsettled equities market led to small cuts to triple-A benchmarks around the five- to 10-year part of the curve. About $7.44 billion of issuance is expected for the first week of February, up from the $5.95 billion issued the last week of
US regulators on Friday said they would review trading curbs imposed by Robinhood and other online brokerages and act on evidence of market manipulation, as GameStop and other targeted stocks resumed their Reddit-fuelled rally. The statement from the Securities and Exchange Commission followed a move by Robinhood, the online broker used by a new army
Anyone who has been in the crypto space over the last few years will undoubtedly be familiar with Dogecoin (DOGE) and how social media activity drives its price action. A “fork of a fork” based on Litecoin (LTC), the coin has earned a unique reputation and a considerable cult status within the cryptocurrency space. Unlike
Robinhood, the online brokerage at the centre of wild trading in GameStop and other hot shares, scrambled to shore up its financial position and public reputation on Thursday after a day of chaos and anger among its clients. The company has drawn down at least several hundred million dollars via a credit facility with banks
In order to really hone in and understand what a portfolio is, let’s take a look at a business example so we took a look at a regular business and how that business can look at its inventory as a portfolio. For example, if we start breaking the business down into a few segments, you’ll
After a volatile decade, clean energy stocks have surged in the past few months.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said Robinhood’s move to stop trading in certain speculative names was in the best interest of the company and its millions of users. “In order to protect the firm and protect our customers we had to limit buying in these stocks,” Tenev told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin Thursday evening. “Robinhood is
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: The New York Stock Exchange The short squeeze craziness continues and discussions are split on three lines: the implications for trading (is there a power shift on Wall Street?), the implications for regulations (what action, if any, will the SEC take? should there be position
Visa and Mastercard credit cards. Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Visa — Shares of the payments giant rose 1% in extended trading on Thursday after beating on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly results. Visa reported earnings per share of $1.42 on revenue of $5.69 billion. Wall
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed millions of Americans, especially young adults, to move in with … [+] family members. getty Saving for a down payment is one of the biggest barriers to homeownership. But for the record number of young adults who moved back home during the pandemic and are fortunate to still have a job, homeownership
Herman Termeer (cq) watches the brushfire at Chino Hills State Park from the roof of his house on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020 in Chino Hills, CA. Myung J. Chun | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Roughly 35 million homes, or nearly one third of the nation’s housing stock, are at “high risk” of a
Municipal yields were steady across the curve as rising U.S. Treasury yields took some of the shine off of a two-day muni rally, but inflows continued to hit records with another multi-billion week. Refinitiv Lipper reported $2.79 billion of inflows into municipal bond mutual funds for the week ending Jan. 27, a record. It was
Online brokers are clamping down on retail investors’ bets on some highly popular but volatile stocks in an effort to protect customers and preserve their own stability during a surge in trading. The new trading limits for shares including GameStop and AMC suggest many of the biggest brokerages and apps for retail trading have begun