The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, James Bullard, has called for more aggressive measures to combat inflation and reduce the size of the Fed’s balance sheet. “The burden of excess...
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Shiba Inu loses over 30,000 holders in a single day as interest in SHIB wanes
SHIB Inu price at the time of writing – $0.00002239 Its market cap has increased by 1.91% in the last 24 hours Between March 16 and March 17 the number so a 2.74% drop Regardless of the way that the q...
Ethereum Classic: Here’s what’s next after ETC’s 31% rally
This week has seen the most unexpected cryptos rallying on the charts, including the likes of ApeCoin, Origin Protocol, and now Ethereum Classic. For ETC, this has been the first and most significant,...
New XR Experiences Shine At SXSW
SXSW 22 bravely soldiered on in the face of the Omicron surge to plan this year’s festival. Attendance at the first IRL SXSW since 2019 seemed anemic. Local media is saying sales are down 20%, but Hyp...
NFTs will empower musicians to take back control
This surge in NFT sales can partly be attributed to the increased demand for crypto art and collectables. According to Fortunly, there were more than 11 million NFT art sales over the whole of last ye...
Qatar Plans to Issue Digital Bank Licenses and Explore a CBDC: Report
Qatar’s central bank plans to digitalize most of its products, including studying and potentially developing and launching a CBDC. One of the other directives from the institution involves issuing dig...
Green Startups, Flush With Cash, Face Pressure to Make Climate Advances
Green startups hit the lottery last year. Investors have turned cautious since then, putting added pressure on the cash-rich companies to deliver better batteries, more sustainable materials and zippy...
Global Stock Rally Provides Tailwind for Asia Open: Markets Wrap
(Bloomberg) — Stocks in Asia may get a boost Monday from improved risk appetite amid ongoing diplomatic efforts to curb the fighting in Ukraine and growing expectations for looser monetary polic...
Centralized Technology Servers Are Running Rampant
Web3 Problems: The struggle is real. Companies may use the word “blockchain” or “Web3.” But this in no way means they are truly decentralized in nature, says Josh Neuroth of Ankr. Here’s the fix. We c...
Fiat is Still Dominant in terms of Criminal Money: Highlights US Treasury Department
Concerns have always revolved around the crypto assets being used for illicit purposes but the US Treasury department revealed something that is beyond these doubts. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and ...
GM to buy out SoftBank’s stake in Cruise self-driving unit
General Motors is acquiring SoftBank’s stake in Cruise and pouring even more money into the self-driving unit it purchased in 2016. The auto giant has announced that it’s buying out SoftBa...
Oil Climbs as Traders Gauge War in Ukraine, Middle East Tensions
(Bloomberg) — Oil advanced as the war in Ukraine neared the end of its first month, and investors tracked geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. Most Read from Bloomberg West Texas Intermedia...
Zuckerberg Announced Instagram Will Incorporate NFTs
Mark Zuckerberg affirms Instagram plan to add NFTs to the stage in the close to term To move lines up with parent organization Meta’s vision of incorporating with the virtual world, known as the metav...
EIP-1559 Has Burned 2 Million Ethereum
Key Takeaways Ethereum has hit 2 million ETH burned. The blockchain’s next protocol update is “the merge” from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake. With the effects of EIP-1559 and reduc...
Russia Gives Ukraine A Deadline To Surrender Mariupol
Topline The Russian Defense Ministry demanded Ukraine surrender the besieged city of Mariupol on Sunday, stating Ukrainian forces have until 5 a.m. Moscow time (11 p.m. ET) Monday to lay down arms, af...
China’s driverless delivery startup Whale Dynamic targets US market with $2.5M funding
A nascent Nuro challenger from China has its sight set on the delivery market in the US and has just raised some seed funding to advance its ambitions. Whale Dynamic, a Shenzhen-based autonomous deliv...
Lock it in! Homebuyers scramble to secure low mortgage rates before more hikes come
This week’s more than quarter-point jump in mortgage rates is sending a dire message to homebuyers and owners: Time is running out. Weary buyers already facing the worst affordability conditions...
Saudi Aramco to boost oil production spending to help meet rise in demand
Saudi Aramco has said it will boost spending on oil production to meet rising energy demand as chief executive Amin Nasser criticised “totally unrealistic” plans to swiftly transition the world away f...
This Agricultural and Garden Supply Company Is a Perennial
With the onset of spring, a young investor’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of … profits. And in this case, Real Money Columnist Paul Price says he found them rooting around in the garde...
Usurping Dollar’s Dominance an Impossible Task, Fund Giants Say
(Bloomberg) — Dethroning the dollar is easier said than done. Most Read from Bloomberg That’s the conclusion of investors after the breaching of Fortress Russia created fresh impetus among centr...
China’s central bank encourages ‘controllable risks’ in fintech innovation in Alibaba’s home province of Zhejiang
Chinese financial regulators, including the central bank, and the Zhejiang provincial government are encouraging “controllable risks” in the country’s e-commerce hub to spur financia...
‘ETH also has the potential to go five-figure asset post the merge’
The Ethereum mainnet is expected to soon “merge” with the beacon chain proof-of-stake system, thus ending proof-of-work for the ETH blockchain. Mainnet will bring the ability to run smart contracts in...
FTX CEO Calls out crypto Industry for being complied with sanctions against Russia
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has chastised the crypto sector for not communicating its policy around Russian sanctions. According to Sam Bankman-Fried, exchange policies toward Russia look to be anti-reg...
Here’s What it Takes to be a Great Stock Trader
What makes a good stock trader? It’s multiple characteristics, actually. Confidence, analytics, and discipline all play a big role in creating a successful trader. But that’s just for starters, says R...
The Case Against Parking Your Money in Uber or Lyft
When Uber (UBER) – Get Uber Technologies, Inc. Report invented the idea of for-profit ridesharing they arguably changed an industry forever. Lyft (LYFT) – Get Lyft, Inc. Class A Report ...
Deal Could Be Unwound In The Future
Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Many had expected the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block the acquisition of ...
Singapore-Based Gaming Company Razer Struggles to Pivot; Bitcoin Declines After a Positive Week
The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was recently trading about $41,200, off about 1.3% over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin topped $42,000 late during U.S. trading hours Friday, a more than...
U.S Mortgage Rates Hit 4% in Response to FED Monetary Policy and Projections
In the week ending 17th March, mortgage rates surged to 4% levels for the first time since 2019. 30-year fixed rates surged by 31 basis points to 4.16%. 30-year fixed rates had risen by 9 basis points...
The Best New Movies To Stream On Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Amazon, Disney+, Peacock And Apple TV This Week
LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 23: Jason Statham attends a special screening of “Fast & Furious: Hobbs & … [+] Shaw” at The Curzon Mayfair on July 23, 2019 in London, England. ...