Municipals were weaker Thursday as outflows from muni mutual funds continued. U.S. Treasury yields rose, with all maturities now yielding above 4%, and equities ended mixed. Treasury yields rose as initial jobless claims came in below 200,000 for the seventh straight week and unit labor costs for the fourth quarter were revised up to 3.2%
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Crypto traders’ urge to create leverage positions with Bitcoin (BTC) appears irresistible to many people, but it’s impossible to know if these traders are extreme risk-takers or savvy market-makers hedging their positions. The need to maintain hedges holds even if traders rely on leverage merely to reduce their counterparty exposure by maintaining a collateral deposit
The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage jumped back over 7% on Thursday, rising to 7.1%, according to Mortgage News Daily. Growing fears that inflation is not cooling off are pushing bond yields higher. Mortgage rates loosely follow the yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury. related investing news El-Erian says the Fed should go
In this article SBNY SI Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of Silvergate Capital plummeted Thursday after the bank delayed the filing of its annual 10-K report as it evaluates events that have happened since the end of 2022. The company, which provides banking services to crypto
In this article OKTA M CRM BOX SI SNOW DLTR TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Salesforce West office building in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Marlena Sloss | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Salesforce — Shares of the cloud software maker
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Dividend investing is a team sport! The goal should be diversification through a PORTFOLIO of dividend stocks. Earlier videos focused on picking good dividend stocks and using features like Pies and AutoInvest to simplify our investing. In this 5th video of the dividend investing series, we look at how to build a resilient dividend portfolio.
Good morning. Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes and Ash Regan went head to head last night in Cumbernauld in the contest to succeed Nicola Sturgeon. Some thoughts on the shape of the SNP leadership contest in today’s note. First fisticuffs The SNP leadership election kicked off in earnest with its first televised hustings last night (livestream
Trading platform Robinhood has launched its Web3 wallet on Apple’s App Store, becoming available to iOS users in over 130 countries. Robinhood shared the news in a March 1 post, stating that users would no longer need to sit on a waitlist to access the new multichain self-custody wallet. Robinhood added that the wallet will
Hundreds of anti-Netanyahu protesters gathered on Wednesday outside a hair salon after the prime minister’s wife, Sara, was spotted at a hair salon nearby. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images New concerns about Israel’s economy are leading global investors to question the money they have in the country. Massive protests have intensified in
On Wednesday, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, announced the launch of a new non-fungible token (NFT) platform infused with artificial intelligence (AI). The AI-centric product is named Bicasso, and CZ said the beta version dropped today and was limited to 10,000 mints. Combining AI and NFTs: Binance CEO Announces Bicasso Artificial intelligence
Municipals were little changed to kick off the month, while U.S. Treasuries were weaker and equities ended mixed. The three-year muni-UST ratio was at 60%, the five-year at 62%, the 10-year at 65% and the 30-year at 90%, according to Refinitiv MMD’s 3 p.m. ET read. ICE Data Services had the three at 64%, the
Chicago voters will choose between Paul Vallas, a former city budget director and Chicago Public Schools chief, and Cook County Board Commissioner Brandon Johnson to replace Mayor Lori Lightfoot who lost her bid for a second term as the city’s upward fiscal momentum took a backseat to worries over crime. Vallas won 33.9% of the
Mortgage rates moved higher again last week, pushing buyers back to the sidelines just as the spring housing market is supposed to be heating up. Mortgage applications to purchase a home dropped 6% last week compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. Volume was 44% lower than the
Vanguard is closing its UK financial planning arm less than two years after its launch in April 2021 after a disappointing number of customers signed up to a new low-cost retirement advice service designed to appeal to millions of savers. The US-based company believed it could start a price war in the UK pensions advice
The price of Ether (ETH) declined 9.8% between Feb. 19 and Feb. 25 after the price resistance at $1,725 proved stronger than expected. Still, the correction was insufficient to break the 6-week-long ascending channel and did not cause Ether derivatives metrics to turn bearish. Ether’s price resilience can be partially explained by the operational failure
An overwhelming share of Americans who sold a home for the first time in the past two years wish they had done something differently (84%). A new Zillow survey conducted online by The Harris Poll finds that even in a sellers’ market, many recent first-time sellers have regrets about the pricing, timing or marketing of
Do you think AAPL (APPLE) is a hot stock? Today we are going to look at setting up a trade on AAPL after earnings wth OPTIONS. Trading options can be a bit tricky, but we will break down this vertical spread hybrid and convert our vertical into a back-ratio spread. This can bring us a
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