Last night I went to the roller rink again. It was Saturday evening and the lights were neon, the music was disco and the conga line was 12 people deep. Dinner was a hotdog soused in American mustard; drinks were Shirley Temples and malted shakes. The atmosphere was pure joy. I am not alone in my obsession.
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A typical clan gathering with the Boxers is a beautifully rambunctious scene: events are typically held either in West Sussex or in the sumptuous private dining room of the Grade II-listed Georgian Brunswick House where Jackson Boxer opened his restaurant 12 years ago. “It’s a wonderful, anarchic kind of shed full of chandeliers,” says the chef-patron.
Ripio, an Argentina-based cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that it will expand its operations to the U.S. The company, which serves more than 4.5 million customers in Latam, received a license in the state of Florida to operate and will start offering its Ripio Select services to companies and institutional investors. Ripio Expands Operations to US
Tycoon Gordon Tang and his wife Celine are proposing to take Chip Eng Seng private in a deal that values the Singapore-listed property and construction company at $565 million ($412 million). The couple’s Tang Dynasty Treasure offered to buy the rest of Chip Eng Seng for S$0.72 a share, according to regulatory filings on Thursday.
Turning 30 is a landmark in any young man’s life but for Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, his 31st year proves seismic. He wakes one day from a protracted slumber and rises, naked, from his bed. Whereupon it becomes clear that, as Woolf writes, in one of the most astonishing sentences in English literature, “he was a
Zero-knowledge (ZK)-Rollup tech company StarkWare has officially open sourced its new programming language compiler, Cairo 1.0, which will soon be supported on Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution StarkNet in Q1 2023. The news was announced by StarkWare — the company behind StarkNet — in a Nov. 25 Twitter post. StarkWare’s rollup technology and recursive proofs offer
South Korea’s largest crypto exchanges have announced they will delist WEMIX (WEMIX) — the native token of gaming company Wemade’s blockchain platform Wemix — alleging the firm provided “false information” in response to an investment warning it was issued. Bithumb, Upbeat, Coinone, Korbit and Gopax — which are part of a collective called the Digital
Germany’s central bank is predicting a slowdown but no significant correction in the country’s property market despite warnings of overvaluation, according to a report published Thursday. Claudia Buch, vice president of the Bundesbank, told CNBC’s Joumanna Bercetche: “We do see a slowdown in the price growth for residential real estate, but it’s not that the
Good morning from London. With our US colleagues tied up with that peculiar but much-loved tradition of doing Christmas-without-the-presents a month before actual Christmas, the UK energy team is running the show. If you need some respite from all the giving of thanks, consider Energy Source your refuge. No one will try make you have
In today’s episode of let’s talk stocks, we’re going to discuss 4 different types of iron condor setups so that you can see the variations to trading iron condors. Most people start with a balanced iron condor, but beyond that, we have unbalanced or skewed. These skewed iron condors can be constructed in a bullish
Mortgage applications rose 2.2% last week compared with the previous week, prompted by a slight decline in interest rates, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. Refinance applications, which are usually most sensitive to weekly rate moves, rose 2% for the week but were still 86% lower than the same week one year
In this article CSG.N-CH DE MANU JWN C Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Bloomberg Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Wednesday: Citigroup — The stock dropped 2.2% after Citigroup was told it must address weaknesses in its management of financial data by U.S. banking regulators. Those regulatory groups said the issues
Germany’s footballers covered their mouths for their team photo ahead of their World Cup game against Japan, in what appeared to be a protest against Fifa’s decision to ban the wearing of “One Love” armbands as a symbol of diversity. The German government also expressed disappointment at Fifa’s decision, saying the rights of the LGBT+
The U.S. higher education sector is pressured by declining enrollment and inflation-adjusted tuition revenue declines, according to Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings. In the current fiscal year median enrollment is expected to decline by 0.4% for private universities and by 1.3% for public ones compared to the preceding fiscal year, said Moody’s Senior Credit
Municipals saw healthy secondary trading on the short-end of the yield curve Wednesday, while U.S. Treasuries saw larger gains out long and equities improved after the Federal Open Market Committee minutes showed an expectation of slowing rate hikes. The improved tone continued Wednesday, with triple-A muni yields falling up to nine basis points on the
As revenue projections inch toward pre-pandemic norms, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans on more capital spending heading into new year, according to its recently proposed fiscal 2023 budget. “We are laser-focused on building a future that benefits all users of our facilities and supports the entire region’s economy,” Port Authority
A non-profit Texas corporation that defaulted on bonds sold to purchase two senior living facilities in Oklahoma aims to sell those assets through its recent bankruptcy filing. Leading Life Senior Living, Inc., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Nov. 18 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, sold $30.275 million of tax-exempt
Increased activity at Houston airports led S&P Global Ratings to boost certain ratings by a notch as the city eyes debt issuance for the three-airport system in the first quarter of 2023. The rating agency raised the system’s subordinate-lien general airport revenue bond rating to A-plus from A with a stable outlook affecting about $2.2
USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin issued by the U.S.-based Circle Financials Ltd, is taking the lead over its top rival, Tether (USDT), when it comes to institutional adoption, according to on-chain data. USDC daily transfer volumes are higher The market capitalization of USDC tokens in circulation comes to be around $44 billion versus USDT’s $65.42
Despite a negative return in the latest quarter, New York State’s retirement fund is “built to weather the ups and downs of the markets,” even with an investment environment termed “challenging,” according to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. The New York State Common Retirement Fund’s estimated value at the end of the second quarter