Ether (ETH) entered a slightly bullish channel earlier this month, and currently the price is marching toward the $3,800 level. Despite the recent turbulence, Ether bulls are set to bag a $53 million profit on this Friday’s weekly options expiry. Investors also appear to be disinterested in Ether’s recent underperformance versus Bitcoin (BTC), and to
On Oct. 14, bulls flexed their muscles and showed their intent to push the price of Bitcoin (BTC) closer to its $65,900 all-time high. One reason for the move is the steady chatter about the possibility of a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) being approved by the end of October. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView
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. This week China is back to work after its week-long national day celebrations, an event that is always filled with flag-waving, military parades
Rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West is selling his 3,888-acre ranch in Cody, Wyoming for $11 million, almost exactly two years after he first purchased it. In 2019, West purchased the property, formerly called Monster Lake Ranch, and had plans to build a massive home and two underground garages on the property. It seems those
One would be hard-pressed to find a private estate for sale in all of France with more notable gardens. They are, in fact, listed by the French Ministry of Culture as one of the country’s more than 300 Remarkable Gardens of France. The 9 hectares, or about 22 acres, of park-like grounds and formal gardens
Lee Kiser is a multifamily expert, active broker and Principal of Kiser Group, Chicagoland’s leading multifamily brokerage firm. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (way back in the 1970s), CRE investors’ ability to expand to new markets was hampered by a horribly inefficient industry. A west coast property owner could not easily explore
Nick Ron, CEO of House Buyers of America, is a tech-savvy industry veteran with over 20 years of experience as a real estate investor. The rapid rise in demand for housing and the sharp increase in home prices have led many to ask, “Are we in a bubble?” The short answer is no. Low inventory has plagued
The record-setting housing market has brought anecdotes of frustrated home shoppers being repeatedly outbid and using risky strategies, such as waiving contingencies, to be competitive. And a new Zillow analysis of the age, sex, race and income of home buyers over a decade reveals Millennials and Baby Boomers — two of the biggest generations in
Prospective homebuyers view a kitchen while touring a house for sale in Helotes, Texas. Matthew Busch | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mortgage rates continued their trudge higher last week, leaving most homeowners with little to no incentive to refinance. Homebuyers, already battling a pricey market, lost more purchasing power due to those higher rates. The
Global investor Barry Sternlicht told CNBC on Wednesday he continues to hold a cautious view on investing in China. “We’re not investors directly in China,” the chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group said in an interview on “Squawk Box.” “It’s not a China thing, so much as countries where we think the deck is stacked or we can’t
A foreclosure sign in front of a house in 2007. Getty Images Foreclosures are starting to surge as government and private sector programs designed to help homeowners deal with the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic have begun to expire. Mortgage lenders began the foreclosure process on 25,209 properties in the third quarter, a 32%
In this article ETC.BF= BTC.BS=-USS Tony Andrews | Twenty20 U.S. homebuyers apparently aren’t all that interested in paying their mortgages in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. United Wholesale Mortgage, which made its public debut in January via a special purpose acquisition (SPAC) merger, began piloting crypto payments in August in a first for the industry. But CEO Mat Ishbia
An exterior view of China Evergrande Centre in Hong Kong, China March 26, 2018. Bobby Yip | Reuters BEIJING — The People’s Bank of China said Friday that indebted developer China Evergrande is its own case, and that most real estate businesses in the country are stable. Property giant Evergrande has $300 billion in liabilities
The long wait for a Bitcoin exchange-traded product could soon be over according to sources reported by financial media giant Bloomberg. Citing “people familiar with the matter” Bloomberg has reported that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to approve the first Bitcoin futures exchange-traded funds in the country. The anonymous sources said: “The
Bitcoin has surpassed the $60,000 mark briefly for the first time since April 2021. The price has been boosted by reports suggesting a Bitcoin futures ETF is likely to begin trading in the United States as early as next week. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro indicate that Bitcoin prices have been on a slow grind
Bitcoin (BTC) may have hit highs of $60,000, but calculations suggest that the price level will matter much more to bears, not bulls. In a tweet on Oct. 14, popular Twitter account TechDev again highlighted historical data which has so far accurately tracked Bitcoin’s highs and lows. How about an 80% BTC price crash to…
United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), one of the largest wholesale and purchase lenders in the United States, is ditching Bitcoin (BTC) payment plans after running a test. UWM officially announced Thursday that the company has successfully conducted its first-ever cryptocurrency mortgage pilot, accepting five crypto payments in October and one in September. The firm did not
The central bank of Russia is trying to evaluate the amount of Bitcoin (BTC) held by local investors amid a massive amount of money not returning to banks following the pandemic-fueled withdrawals. According to Elizaveta Danilova, head of the central bank’s financial stability department, the Bank of Russia is polling local cryptocurrency investors to estimate
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul threw down a marker when she leaned on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to reconsider the $2.1 billion LaGuardia AirTrain project. Her move comes amid wider debate about regional infrastructure. Municipal bond analyst Joseph Krist called it “the first significant capital project to fall victim to
We sell a short competitive refunding. The financial advisor informs us of the low bid, and we make the award. Then, the FA resizes the maturities for the coupons on the winning bid. Because it is a competitive bid, we know we got the best deal available, the only problem is, we didn’t. What went
California Treasurer Fiona Ma unveiled a new online program to teach local government and school board members about the ins and outs of issuing debt. The program created through the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission, which Ma chairs, has an educational mandate. “What we are about to unveil will be the first of its
Peter Delahunt, who helped build Raymond James’ municipal team over 26 years with the firm, has been wooed out of retirement to do the same for StoneX. The global firm has a large fixed-income team and had made a decision to go big on munis seeing opportunity in the sector at the height of the
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has agreed to give a portion of the water it gets from the State Water Project to the region’s water wholesaler to help smaller water districts that are facing greater challenges amid a severe drought. The State Water Project was constructed after World War II to funnel
Muni issuers and borrowers should be considering climate risks and disclosing them in offering documents, a process that requires an important legal analysis. That was a major takeaway from a Wednesday discussion at the National Association of Bond Lawyers’ The Institute conference. Climate risk disclosures have been singled out by Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman
Chicago plans to return to the market in force over the next year to tap a portion of $4.66 billion of existing borrowing authority and $4.4 billion of newly requested capacity in a mix of new money and refunding deals under its general obligation, securitization, and revenue-backed credits. A tender offer is also under consideration.
The Puerto Rico Oversight Board offered to eliminate further pension cuts for current pensioners from the Plan of Adjustment and to make funding promises if the local government approved laws, including new bonds, that would support the plan. The board sent a letter signed by Chairman David Skeel on Thursday to Gov. Pedro Pierluisi, Senate
Puerto Rico bankruptcy Judge Laura Taylor Swain denied motions for bondholders and wage claimants to have until Oct. 25 or beyond to cast their vote on the proposed Plan of Adjustment. On Wednesday, Swain rejected bondholder Peter Hein’s motion to extend the deadline for retail bondholders. The motion would have extended the voting period from
Municipals were stronger as the New York Urban Development Corp. led the primary with $1.76 billion of taxable and exempt sales tax bonds in the competitive market while Refinitiv Lipper reported a rebound in fund inflows. Triple-A benchmarks were bumped a basis point in spots along the yield curve, but the asset class has underperformed
The Ascending Triangle: -It resembles accumulation. -It is a bullish pattern. -It doesn’t have to happen on an uptrend, but it is very helpful when it does. -The top of the triangle is fairly straight and the bottom of the triangle is ascending. The stock ascends and descends between these two lines of the triangle.
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