When mortgage rates hit 7% in the fall, Austin-based mortgage broker Aaron Kovac was a little spooked. After a stunning rise in home sales amid ultra-low interest rates, “the market just went absolut...
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Sports Industry Is Being Upended As More Broadcast Games Move To Streaming
Photo by Gavin Roberts/MacFormat Magazine/Future via Getty Images. Future via Getty Images Sports fans are increasingly have to search for what options are available for viewing their favorite games, ...
Bitcoin Risk-Reward Calculation is Being Upended by Rising Rates
(Bloomberg) — A funny thing happened to Bitcoin as interest rates started to rise: trading volumes went way down. Now market-watchers are grappling with the implications and what a world of less...
Japan central bank wants urgent crypto regulation and warns of the global settlement system potentially being upended
A senior Bank of Japan (BoJ) official has said that a common framework is urgently needed by the group of 7 nations in order to regulate cryptocurrencies before they “upend” the global settlement syst...
Amazon, Starbucks workers push for unions after Covid upended labor market
Workers stand in line to cast ballots for a union election at Amazon’s JFK8 distribution center, in the Staten Island borough of New York City, U.S. March 25, 2022. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Th...
No one knows when the pandemic will end after omicron upended most hope
Residents wait in line at a Covid-19 mobile testing site in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, U.S., on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Senior U.S. health official...