Cryptocurrency scams have fallen a massive 77% from $3.3 billion to $1.1 billion over the first six months of 2023, according to a recent report by blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis. The catch, though, is that ransom attacks are back in trend, with perpetrators pocketing 62.4% more revenue than the first six months of 2022. On
Municipals were steady Tuesday as the new-issue calendar picked up steam, including nearly $1 billion from Texas’ Denton Independent School District and an upsized deal from Utah’s Intermountain Power Agency. U.S. Treasuries were slightly firmer outside of five years and equities ended the session in the black. The two-year muni-to-Treasury ratio Tuesday was at 61%,
US inflation dropped to 3 per cent in June, lower than expected, in the latest sign that the Federal Reserve’s interest rate rises are having an effect on price pressures. The annual increase in the consumer price index slowed from 4 per cent in May to 3 per cent, the slowest rate of inflation since
Pro-Bitcoin (BTC) Investment veteran Cathie Wood is taking some profits from ARK Invest’s large Coinbase holdings by selling a small portion of its stash. On July 11, Wood’s investment firm ARK offloaded 135,152 Coinbase shares ($12 million) from one of its major exchange-traded funds (ETF), the ARK Innovation ETF. According to the trade notification seen
Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The rapid rise of a few already massive tech stocks this year is causing Nasdaq to make unusual adjustments to its popular growth index. The company announced on July 7 that it will do a special rebalance of the Nasdaq 100 Index, which will take effect before the
Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Shutterstock — Shares of the stock image, video and music provider jumped 10% after Shutterstock announced a six-year, expanded partnership with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. Newell Brands — Shares of the consumer goods company jumped more than 10%
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A crane with the China Vanke logo at a residential construction site in China, on Sept. 28, 2021. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese real estate stocks mostly rose after the country announced it will extend two financial policies to support the real estate market until the end of 2024. Hong Kong-listed real
Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. hired Marc Livolsi, formerly of Citigroup, as managing director of public finance marketing. Livolsi, who worked at Citigroup Global Markets Inc. for 25 years until the bank cut his position in February along with two others in its municipal team, will focus on building relationships with public finance professionals as well
Caradano’s native gas-paying token ADA received a big blow at the start of June when the SEC regarded it as a security in its lawsuit against Binance and Coinbase. The lawsuit triggered a 42.5% drop in ADA’s price from $0.37 to a two-year low at $0.21 within a few days after SEC’s lawsuit. Additionally, the
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Environmentally friendly infrastructure got a big boost just before California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the budget on July 1 and then again last week through a grant-funding program. With the budget shortfall this year, lawmakers scrambled to tap the state’s cap-and-trade program and other non-general fund sources to sustain ongoing programs. California lawmakers added money
Nato leaders are set to declare they are prepared for Ukraine to ultimately join the military alliance, in a carefully hedged statement that drew immediate condemnation from Kyiv for its lack of a firm timeframe. A draft of a summit communique under discussion on Tuesday pledges to “extend an invitation” to Ukraine to join the
The upcoming Bitcoin (BTC) halving is set to blow fresh wind in the sails of Bitcoin-focused stocks such as Michael Saylor founded tech firm MicroStrategy. In a research note shared with Cointelegraph, New York-based investment firm Berenberg Capital Markets explained its reasons for a bullish outlook on MicroStrategy (MSTR), which Berenberg has given a $430
In this article NVAX DKNG LCID CVNA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Carvana used car “vending machine” displays vehicles on December 09, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Carvana — Shares soared 10% in midday trading. The company said on Monday
In New York City, discerning buyers are increasingly viewing Passive House design principles as the key differentiator as they size up potential new homes. Happily for them, a growing number of companies are designing using Passive House principles. The Passive House method of construction results in structures that remain comfortable for the occupants, both in
A for sale sign is posted in front of a home for sale on February 20, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Home prices hit a record high in May, rising 0.7% nationally compared with April at a seasonally adjusted rate, according to the Black Knight Home Price Index. Prices, which
Municipals were mixed Monday ahead of a larger new-issue slate while U.S. Treasuries improved and equities were up near the close. Triple-A yields saw a mix of one to two basis point bumps and cuts, depending on the curve, while UST saw yields fall by one to 11 basis points with the strongest moves inside
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes the Bitcoin network needs scalable solutions like the zero-knowledge (ZK) rollups to become more than another payment network. Buterin’s comments came during a Twitter space hosted by Bitcoin developer Udi Wertheimer with discussions revolving around Ethereum’s scaling experiments. A ZK-rollup chain is an off-chain protocol that operates on top of
New York state agencies need to do more to protect the state’s water systems from threats like cyberattacks and natural disasters, according to an audit released by state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. “New York has thousands of water systems supplying drinking water,” DiNapoli said, “but as we’ve seen in other states, this critical infrastructure is increasingly
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has tied Ankara’s approval of Sweden’s Nato bid to his country’s efforts to enter the EU, in a fresh blow to Stockholm’s attempt to join the military alliance. “I call out to those who have kept Turkey waiting at the EU door for more than 50 years, pave the way
Bitcoin (BTC) is selling for a nearly $3,000 discount on Binance.US, providing a significantly better rate than global spot prices — but there’s just one catch. On July 9, a swathe of crypto users began noticing a widening price discrepancy between cryptocurrencies listed on the United States crypto exchange and their global spot prices, with
In this article MDB MU CCL AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO, Micron Scott Mlyn | CNBC The S&P 500 and Nasdaq notched a solid performance in the first half of 2023, thanks to an impressive rally in major tech stocks. However, macro pressures have not abated, with minutes from the
The exterior of Sweetgreen’s Naperville location Source: Sweetgreen Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: JetBlue Airways — JetBlue Airways declined 1.3% in premarket trading after the company said it would end its partnership in the northeastern U.S. with American Airlines and focus on Spirit Airlines. Shares of American Airlines declined about 0.9%,
After a long stretch of increases, in May 2023 rent prices dropped for the first time since Covid, according to the June 2023 Rent report by Rent.com. However, the U.S. housing market is still short 6.5 million homes, as reported by CNN. Data from Freddie Mac shows that not enough homes are being built to
A “For Sale” sign outside a house in Albany, California, on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mortgage rates last week hit their highest level since the end of May, which in turn weighed on mortgage demand. Total mortgage application volume dropped 4.4% last week compared with the previous
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To run a municipality in 2023 means preparing for constant cyberattacks. Cyberattacks have become “an everyday phenomenon” for municipalities, said Omid Rahmani, associate director of public finance at Fitch Ratings. “This problem is not going to get better. In the short term, it’s going to get worse before it gets better.” Moody’s Investors Service found
Nonfarm payrolls rose by 209,000 in June, below economists’ expectations of an addition of 240,000 jobs. Although the figures show a cooling labor market, market observers remained concerned as the average hourly earnings growth held steady at 0.4% from May and 4.4% from a year ago. The report did not alter expectations of a 25 basis