“During the year when the U.S. hosts, we really drive the agenda” – Monica Hardy Whaley, President, National Center for APEC The 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APE...
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Energy Sector Predictions For 2023
MOJAVE, CA – NOVEMBER 15: A large array of solar panels, located one hour north of Los Angeles in … [+] Kern County, is viewed on November 15, 2022, near Mojave, California. Due to demand,...
U.S. Institutions Are Driving Bitcoin Prices, Matrixport Research
Bitcoin prices have been on the rise in the last couple of weeks and the digital asset has been able to return to its November 2022 levels. This has been a much-needed boost for the market during this...
U.S. SEC probes deeper into crypto compliance: What does it entail?
The U.S. SEC was probing registered investment advisors over whether they were compliant with crypto rules. The investigation was accelerated following FTX’s collapse. The United States Securities and...
Metro areas where U.S. rent prices have dropped the most
Colorful cafe bars at the iconic Beale Street music and entertainment district of downtown Memphis, Tennessee. benedek | iStock | Getty Images Despite broad hikes in rental prices, competition is easi...
Cracking Open the Issue of High Egg Prices
Corporate consolidation in our food system is going on without most of us knowing. Massive companies are controlling a greater and greater proportion of food production. And at a time when we urgently...
Hawley Demands Biden Administration Enforce Bill Banning TikTok From Federal Devices
Topline Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.) has requested the Biden Administration quickly enforce a bill banning TikTok from federal devices, according to a letter sent Friday to the Office of Management and Budg...
U.S. SEC Once Again Rejects ARK Invest’s Proposal for a Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETF
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has turned down another attempt to launch a spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund proposed by Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest and global crypto ETF provide...
Inflation rate slows again to 15-month low, PCE shows, as U.S. economy weakens
The numbers: The cost of U.S. goods and services rose a scant 0.1% in December in yet another sign inflation is cooling off, opening the door for the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates soo...
Meet RAYGUN, The Tiny Midwestern Meme Machine Partnering With The Onion To Speed-Sell Gentle Snark
Pandering to the locals at a RAYGUN store COURTESY OF RAYGUN RAYGUN, the privately held novelty company that’s made a growing business of plastering emerging memes on T-shirts and selling them before ...
FTX reveals creditors; U.S. man spends BTC on hitmen
The biggest news in the cryptoverse for Jan. 26 saw defunct crypto exchange FTX reveal its full list of creditors. Elsewhere, a Washington man has been sentenced to prison for hiring hitmen with Bitco...
U.S GDP Q4 Rates Higher Than Expected at 2.9%
8 hours ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News U.S. economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.9% in the fourth quarter. The new figure demonstrates that economic growth is still occurring in the nation. The dir...
Here’s what a 2.9% growth in GDP means for the U.S. stocks
S&P 500 is trading slightly up on Thursday after the Bureau of Economic Analysis said the U.S. economy ended the final quarter of 2022 in good shape. GDP growth beats expectations According to the...
U.S. Federal prosecutors allege that Sam Bankman-Fried has used money from FTX exchange to invest in the VC
The United States government may have uncovered another another component of Sam Bankman-cryptocurrency Fried’s enterprise thanks to their investigation. According to The New York Times, federal...
U.S. Economy Beats Estimates And Grows 2.9% In Q4
(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Getty Images Key takeaways The U.S. economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.9% in Q4 2022, ahead of the forecast 2.8% It’s the second consecutive quarter of posit...
Curaleaf cutting 10% of staff as it exits three U.S. states
This story has been updated to provide correct figures for the number of states Curaleaf operates in; also the number of total employees at the company. Curaleaf said Thursday it has reduced its staff...
Europe’s Auto Makers Can Handle Conventional Obstacles, But A Trade War?
Trade war between EU and USA,concept photo getty Even if European automakers shake off the expected recession, weather the inflationary storm and face down the China challenge, they’ll have to face in...
U.S. GDP rose 2.9% in the fourth quarter, more than expected even as recession fears loom
The U.S. economy finished 2022 in solid shape even as questions persist over whether growth will turn negative in the year ahead. Fourth-quarter gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and servic...
U.S. Politicians are Actively Promoting Bitcoin and Blockchain
States in the United States are actively involved in Bitcoin Adoption. Texas is the most active Bitcoin state in the United States. The New Hampshire Governor has recommended an energy review to accom...
First Rocket Lab U.S. launch is a success after NASA delays
The company’s Electron rocket lifts off from LC-2 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Jan. 24, 2023. Brady Kenniston / Rocket Lab Rocket Lab‘s first U.S. launch got off ...
Unemployment Is Low, But So Is The Labor Force Participation Rate — What’s Going On In The U.S. Labor Market?
Getty Images Key takeaways Unemployment has consistently fallen since December 2021 One factor behind declining unemployment could be a slow recovery in the labor force participation rate since the on...
FTX debtors, Bahamian liquidators object to U.S. Trustee’s examiner request
Allowing an examiner to investigate the FTX bankruptcy would “come at an enormous cost” and “provide no benefit” to creditors, lawyers for the troubled crypto exchange said in a court filing. T...
Fed Chair Powell’s Speech Warns Of Unpopular Decisions To Calm Price Stability
Getty Images Key takeaways Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made comments at a symposium in Sweden on January 10 that, if taken out of context, could be seen as precursors of unpopular Fed policy i...
Sunrun, U.S. Bancorp, Alphabet, AT&T and more
Shoppers shop at AT&T in the King of Prussia Mall on December 11, 2022 in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Mark Makela | Getty Images Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: News Co...
New U.S. Battery Entrant Targets Fully Domestic Supply Chains
BOMBAY BEACH, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 26, 2019: A woman walks along the shore of the Salton Sea in … [+] Southern California. The shallow saline lake was formed accidentally in 1905 followin...
Charles Hoskinson Mirrors Deaton’s U.S. Crypto Regulatory Predictions
As was reported by CoinPedia a few days ago, popular crypto attorney John Deaton had predicted that crypto regulation isn’t coming to the United States until at least 2025 or even later than that. And...
U.S. Visa Wait Exceeds One Year For Top Sources Of Inbound Visitors; Improvement Needed, Travel Group Says
The wait time for a visa interview at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India was 577 days as of … [+] January 19, the U.S. Travel Association said. Photo dated 2013. (Photo by Priyanka Parashar /M...
‘Catastrophic’ Tornado Sweeps Houston Area As Winter Storm Pummels Eastern U.S.
Topline An apparent tornado passed through southern parts of the Houston metro area Tuesday afternoon and caused extensive damage, marking the biggest impact so far of a massive storm system bringing ...
U.S. Sues Google Over Alleged Advertising Monopoly—Latest Tech Antitrust Suit
Topline The Department of Justice and eight states filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, claiming the tech giant abuses its monopoly on online advertising technology and has stifl...
Subsea Cable From The Mainland To Puerto Rico
Man with a plan for Puerto Rico. Alternative Transmission It is big. A big idea. Some of the world’s biggest energy and engineering companies are interested in it, as is the Department of Energy. The ...