Bitcoin funding rates had first fallen below the neutral level last month. Before that, the funding rates had been fluctuating at and below neutral for the longest time. This new trend has lasted long...
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Are Bonds a Good Investment When Interest Rates Are High?
if interest rates rise what happens to bond prices Interest rates and bond prices generally move in opposite directions. Thus, when interest rates go up, the price of fixed-rate bonds usually falls. S...
Supply Increases For The First Time Since 2019 As Mortgage Rates Rise And Sellers Cut Prices
Topline After a pandemic-era home-buying frenzy, the number of homes for sale nationwide saw its first annual increase since July 2019 last month, according to real estate brokerage Redfin, which join...
Kazakhstan’s New Law Imposes Higher Tax Rates on Crypto Miners
Miners in the country will now have to pay increased tax rates tied to the electricity prices consumed by these entities. Increased Tax Burden for Crypto Miners Consistent with the rapid advances towa...
Fund giants like Blackstone and Opendoor keep gobbling up homes even as mortgage rates rise — here’s how small investors can lock in higher yields than the big money
Fund giants like Blackstone and Opendoor keep gobbling up homes even as mortgage rates rise — here’s how small investors can lock in higher yields than the big money For most investors, real est...
Purported CPI Rates Drop the Market By 5%, Will Higher Inflation Rates Drag them to the Bottoms?
The inflation rates are about to be announced in a short while from now and the crypto markets are responding extremely negative. It’s been a couple of months that the markets are dropping heavily as ...
President of Kazakhstan Enacts Law Amending Country’s Tax Code To Impose Higher Rates on Crypto Miners
The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has enacted a law amending the country’s Tax Code to impose a higher tax rate on cryptocurrency miners. The increased levy will be based on the amou...
US Mortgage Rates Hit Reverse Ahead of US Inflation Figures
In the week ending July 1, mortgage rates fell for a second consecutive week. 30-year fixed rates tumbled by 40 basis points, following an 11-basis point decline from the previous week to end the week...
US Leads In The Number Of ATM Installations And BTC hash Rates In The World
Although regulations at both the state and federal levels are impeding the growth of crypto business in the US, it has not prevented the increase in crypto ATMs in the country. The US has now become t...
How you can avoid bond fund losses when rates rise
Bond funds that don’t lose money when interest rates rise? Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Such funds do exist, and my guess is that right now you’d jump at the chance to invest in them. That’...
Homeownership just got 5% cheaper as mortgage rates fall off a cliff
Homeownership just got 5% cheaper as mortgage rates fall off a cliff U.S. mortgage rates fell sharply and for the second straight week as monetary policies meant to slow the economy take hold of the h...
Mortgage Rates Fall Again, Home Price Growth Cools, Roe V. Wade Influences Homebuyers
This week in the housing world, mortgage rates declined for the second consecutive week as home price growth slowed, the level of mortgage delinquencies remained low and the Roe v. Wade controversy pe...
Bitcoin Funding Rates Are Climbing As Price Continues To Struggle
Bitcoin has been struggling over the last couple of weeks and funding rates have responded in different ways to the price. Instead of a rise in funding rates when the price had begun to plummet, they ...
Mortgage demand sinks even as rates drop
People wait to visit a house for sale in Floral Park, Nassau County, New York. Wang Ying | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Mortgage rates dropped for the second week in a row, but that didn’t ...
Centralized Crypto Lenders Slash Rates As Markets Slump
There has been a significant drop in the yield rates offered by crypto yield platforms. Circle, the issuer of stablecoin USDC, used to offer rates of 6-8 % APY, ranging from 1-12 months. However, they...
Here’s how far house prices are set to fall as rates go up, according to this forecasting firm
Stocks are veering south post holiday, following earlier optimism over reports President Joe Biden may lower tariffs on some Chinese goods to help ease the inflation sting. There isn’t much to explain...
New Zealand House Prices Drop The Most in 13 Years as Rates Rise
(Bloomberg) — New Zealand house prices fell the most in 13 years in the second quarter as the central bank raised interest rates aggressively to curb inflation. Most Read from Bloomberg Prices d...
ECB to discuss blocking banks from multibillion-euro windfall as rates rise
The European Central Bank is looking at ways to stop banks earning billions of euros of extra profit from the ultra-cheap lending scheme it launched during the pandemic once it starts to raise interes...
It Is Time To Buy Bonds
It is time to add to bond holdings. Bettmann Archive US 10-year note prices are likely to rise through August. The monthly histogram below shows that July and August have been the two strongest months...
Will mortgage rates soon hit 7%? What economists and real estate pros say
Will mortgage rates rise? Getty Images/iStockphoto Mortgage rates have been on a steady climb upwards: While they started the year at around 3.5% for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, they’ve since climb...
Falling mortgage rates have homebuyers so emboldened they’re asking sellers for cash
‘How quickly the tables have turned’: Falling mortgage rates have homebuyers so emboldened they’re asking sellers for cash After a string of steady increases, mortgage rates fell this week — a mixed b...
Leading Crypto Exchanges See Negative Funding Rates, Have The Bears Taken Over?
Prices have been declining across the crypto market and with it has come to a lot of doubt on the part of investors. This is reflected in the deposit and withdrawal trends recorded across the various ...
The Airlines And Airports With The Highest Rates Of Disruptions–And The Least
Topline Airlines and travelers are preparing for a chaotic July 4 weekend filled with travel disruptions amid a surge in flight demand and airline staff shortages—these are the airports and carriers w...
Bitcoin Plunges Below $20,000 Again As ECB Gears Up To Raise Rates ‘At A Faster Pace’ ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     On Wednesday, Bitcoin fell as low as $19,899 following a risk-off by investors after a volatile New York session on Tuesday. Ethereum dipped by over ...
Russian Duma passes bill to remove VAT, lower income tax rates on digital asset sales
The State Duma, the lower house of the Russian legislature, has passed a bill on the taxation of digital assets that exempts their sale from value-added tax (VAT) in the Russian Federation. Some other...
Mortgage demand stalls again, even as interest rates swing briefly lower
After rising steadily for three weeks, mortgage rates dipped slightly last week, prompting a small increase in refinance activity. Activity from homebuyers, however, pulled back further, leaving total...
Watch Fed Chair Powell talk live about the economy, interest rates at ECB forum
[The stream is slated to start at 9 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks Wednesday to a European Central Bank ...
Fund legend Rick Rule says the Fed won’t keep hiking rates aggressively to prevent ‘amazing damage.’ Here are 3 spots he likes for your money
‘They’ll chicken out’: Fund legend Rick Rule says the Fed won’t keep hiking rates aggressively to prevent ‘amazing damage.’ Here are 3 spots he likes for your money The Fed is raising interest rates a...
Maternal Death Rates Soared During Pandemic—Especially Among Black And Hispanic Women, Study Finds
Topline Maternal deaths soared during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly among Black and Hispanic women, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open on Tuesday, underscoring the vast inequali...
Home Prices Finally Cooling Off? Market Slows In April But Demand Remains High Despite Rising Mortgage Rates
Topline Home prices, which have been shooting up since last year, grew at a slower pace in April, showing signs of a potential cool down in the red-hot housing market, according to new data from S&...
Stocks That Could Go To $0 As Fed Raises Rates: Peloton
CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA – JANUARY 20: A Peloton bike on the showroom floor on January 20, 2022 in … [+] Coral Gables, Florida. Reports indicate that Peloton Interactive Inc is temporarily ha...