Month: August 2021

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These five ETFs are the best performers in the bull market that turned ten years old. First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/FDN/profile?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Invesco NASDAQ Internet ETF: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/PNQI/profile?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value ETF: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/RPV/profile?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology Index Fund: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/FBT/profile?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID IShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF: https://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/ITA/profile?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Boeing: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/BA?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Amazon: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/AMZN?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID
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This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industry’s most important news, including influential projects, changes in the regulatory landscape, and enterprise blockchain integrations.   After ThorCHAIN and Chainswap were exploited, it’s safe to say that hacking cross-chain bridges seems to be the style of the season. This
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Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Esther George said the central bank needs to move ahead with reducing monetary stimulus, citing expectations for continued labor-market gains. “Now, with the recovery underway, a transition from extraordinary monetary policy accommodation to more neutral settings must follow,” George said in the text of a virtual speech to
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An artist’s rendering of a Momentus Vigoride transfer vehicle deploying a satellite in orbit. Momentus Space company Momentus will later this week go public on the Nasdaq, a month after settling Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it misled investors. Stable Road Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company or SPAC, on Wednesday announced its
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Dave Panozzo is the co-founding owner of The Panozzo Team-HomeSmart, a real estate team in Phoenix, Arizona. So you recently received your license, you’ve been in real estate for about six to 12 months and you have a few sales under your belt. Whether you are enjoying your current phase of development or feel stuck because
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Brian Hamilton gives us two growth and income stocks for 2018. Triton International: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/TRTN?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID KLA Tencor: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/KLAC?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Follow us on StockTwits: stocktwits.com/ZacksResearch Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ZacksResearch Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ZacksInvestmentResearch
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Australian crypto influencer Alex Saunders is being sued by a disgruntled follower of his YouTube channel and advice service Nuggets News. The plaintiff, New Zealand-based Ziv Himmelfarb, filed a formal written order on Aug. 11 in the Victorian Supreme Court demanding that Saunders repay 479,270 Australian dollars ($353,027) in losses and damages for unpaid loans
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Municipals faced pressure outside of 10 years Wednesday, moving benchmarks on those bonds cheaper by two basis points, while U.S. Treasuries were little changed and new issues showed the spread tightening that continues on sought-after credits. In the primary, an airport deal out of Pittsburgh saw compelling levels for the sector that has seen spread
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Late in the fourth quarter of his tenure, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has punted on a fix for the 70-year-old Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The mayor last week, without mentioning any cost or funding mechanism, announced a plan to keep the city-owned 1.5-mile crumbling, layer-cake triple cantilever from Sands Street to Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn
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A British man working at the UK embassy in Berlin has been arrested on suspicion of passing information to the Russian intelligence services, German prosecutors said on Wednesday. The 57-year-old UK national, named only as David S, was arrested on Tuesday in Potsdam, a town to the south-west of Berlin, following a joint investigation by
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Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wears a ground prototype of the new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), during a demonstration on Oct. 15, 2019. Joel Kowsky / NASA Elon Musk offered SpaceX’s services to help NASA make its next-generation spacesuits, after a watchdog report on Tuesday said the agency’s current
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Among the more than 11,000 listed cryptocurrencies exist a few projects that offer a revolutionary use case capable of improving the way society operates through the integration of blockchain technology.  One such project is Helium (HNT), a decentralized peer-to-peer 5G wireless network that made headlines on Aug. 10 thanks to the successful completion of a
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Municipals felt the pressure of an increase of supply and a weaker U.S. Treasury market, and benchmarks saw two- to three-basis-point cuts to scales, but new issues repriced to lower yields. The 10-year muni hit 0.90% on ICE Data Services scale and just below that on Refinitiv MMD, Bloomberg BVAL and IHS Markit, reaching early
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Municipal market participants question the wisdom of executing Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy without local legislative approval for new bonds and instead relying on court-approved debt, as the Oversight Board is exploring. New bonds are key to Puerto Rico’s exit from bankruptcy, as are cuts to Puerto Rico’s three main pension systems: the Employees Retirement System, Judicial
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SoftBank’s bets on an increasingly uncertain Chinese technology market have become the prime focus for shareholders as Masayoshi Son’s investment conglomerate reported a sharp drop in quarterly net profits. While listings of its portfolio companies helped the Japanese group’s flagship Vision Fund post a profit, the $100bn vehicle took a $6.3bn hit on nine of