Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg at COP 24, the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Katowice, Poland on 5 December, 2018. Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Investing for climate change had been a niche on Wall Street, often generating sub-par returns, but in the coming
Month: December 2019
This post is part of CoinDesk’s 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Dr Gina C Pieters is an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, and a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative
This post is part of CoinDesk’s 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Leah Callon-Butler is the director of Emfarsis, a consulting firm focused on the role of technology in advancing economic development in Asia. There he was, belting out Fats Waller
For decades, income-minded investors have searched for the best dividend stocks out there. In my experience, the main criteria to look for when betting on great dividend stocks are a history of strong fundamentals, increasing dividend distributions over time, great entry points (technicals), and a history of bullish trading activity in the shares. The hallmark
In the roadside bars of New Billy, a sprawling slum in Malabo, people drink Castel beer and steer clear of politics. “They try to make Malabo like Dubai but that’s not reality — this is the real Malabo,” said one resident of Equatorial Guinea’s capital, pointing to the stream of sewage running down the rutted
While there are no major municipal bond sales slated for this week, next week is an altogether different matter as billions of dollars of bonds and notes are slated to hit the market. Primary marketAnd the supply surge will resume as the market gets back to work in the first full trading week of the
A man dressed as Santa Claus, walks on the floor during the traditional bring-your-kids-to-work day at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., November 24, 2017. Brendan McDermid | Reuters We are in the middle of a classic Santa Claus rally, but when the adults return in January, there likely will be
Workers assemble cars on the line at Tesla’s factory in Fremont. David Butow | Corbis News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Goodyear Tire — The tire company’s stock gained more than 2% after Nomura initiated coverage with a buy rating and $20 target. The firm is optimistic about
Aerial view of Cowboy Recreation and Nature Trail in northern Nebraska, on a trestle over Long Pine … [+] Creek, along the preferred route of the Great American Rail-Trail Getty Twelve months after announcing the Great American Rail-Trail initiative, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) shared news this month that nearly $13 million has been secured for
Libra, the much-scrutinized proposed cryptocurrency from Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), has “failed in its current form,” according to Swiss President and Finance Minister Ueli Maurer. Swiss President Critical of Libra Basket Maurer, who is in the final days of his year-long term as President of the Swiss Confederation, was speaking to the country’s national TV network SRF
GameStop Corp. (GME) reported quarterly earnings on Dec.10, and the stock gapped lower on another miss of earnings per share (EPS) estimates. The stock traded above its 200-day simple moving average (SMA) at $6.61 on Dec 9 and traded as low as $5.18 on Dec. 11. The video game, consumer electronics, and gaming products retailer
Bolivia’s caretaker government said it would expel the Mexican ambassador and two Spanish diplomats, ratcheting up tensions over Mexico’s decision to grant asylum to allies of former president Evo Morales. An estimated nine people are believed to be holed up in the Mexican residence in La Paz, among them a former aide to Mr Morales,
What a difference a decade can make. In 2010, batteries powered our phones and computers. By the end of the decade, they are starting to power our cars and houses too. Over the last ten years, a surge in lithium-ion battery production drove down prices to the point that — for the first time in
This post is part of CoinDesk’s 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Jason Goldberg is founder of OST, which powers the ethereum application layer, and Pepo, an app where people share videos for tokens. As recently as a year ago, even
The IOTA Foundation said it has resolved a software bug that prevented transactions from confirming on the IOTA network for 15 hours. According to a GitHub submission from an IOTA developer around late Sunday night UTC time, a bug in the node software created a “corrupt ledger state.” “There is an edge case where IRI
Whenever you play a hand and your opponents have bid, you have extra information to guide you to the best line of play. The bidding led South to consider his K♦ waste-paper, but he still jumped to 3S. West led 10♦. Pleased that a heart had not been led, South played J♦ from dummy and
Craig Bishop of RBC Wealth Management’s portfolio advisory group, has retired and Tom Garretson will assume many of his responsibilities, the firm said. Bishop was lead strategist of U.S. Fixed Income Strategies at RBC’s portfolio advisory group. He spent 17 years with the firm. Garretson has been named vice president and senior portfolio strategist of
New York Street sign (E 57 St) and skyscraper reflections Getty In Manhattan, pencil-thin is “in.” For models, and also for buildings such as the ultra-thin residential towers on 57th Street that made it the most exclusive address in a global ranking by Knight Frank and Douglas Elliman Real Estate. The two brokerages ranked streets
A $1 Million Budget For most, the word “millionaire,” a term coined in the 18th century, calls to mind images of lavish wealth and extravagant lifestyles. Simply having this much money once represented a ticket to life on easy street. These days, thanks to inflation, cost-of-living increases, and lifestyle changes, retiring on $1 million isn’t
Five people have been stabbed at a rabbi’s suburban home in what New York’s governor called an “act of domestic terrorism”, coming amid a series of anti-Semitic attacks in the region. The attack occurred at about 10pm on Saturday night as people gathered at the home of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in Monsey, north of New
Brendan McDermid | Reuters It has been a year for celebration on Wall Street, with the S&P 500 rising nearly 30%, but investors relying on seasonal trends probably found themselves frustrated as the market defied traditional patterns. January, February and June historically rank in the bottom half of any year for stock performance, according to
An organization that combats corporate fraud will issue guidance for firms using blockchain technology. The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), commonly referred to as the Treadway Commission, will issue guidance to strengthen controls over uses of blockchain in supply chain management and financial services. The Wall Street Journal reported first on
Sometimes things are clear, and to both Camila Russo (write of The Defiant newsletter) and David Hoffman (co-host of the Crypto POV podcast), it couldn’t be clearer that the essential narrative of 2019 was the rise of DeFi as a true market force. In individual interviews as part of The Breakdown’s end of year coverage,
Being ready to retire means more than being ready to stop waking up at 6:00 a.m. to put in long hours at a job you’re not thrilled about. If it were that simple, most of us would retire at 25. What it really takes to retire is a solid grasp of your budget, a carefully
Two years ago, Zhou Xiaochuan, then China’s central bank governor, told a press conference at the 19th Communist party Congress in Beijing that too many procyclical factors in the economy and excessive optimism risked generating “accumulating contradictions that could lead to the so-called Minsky moment”. There is still a danger of a “Minsky moment” hitting China’s
For the 51st week in a row, investors put their money to work in the municipal bond arena as they continued to pour cash into tax-exempt mutual funds. Muni funds are popular with individual investors and, for most of 2019, mom and pop buyers have felt confident enough in the sector to keep on investing,
This 20,000-square-foot stand-alone lifestyle center on the Warren Hills office campus in Warren, … [+] N.J. allows colleagues to meet and recharge away from the conventional office environment. Peter Dant Photography, Courtesy of Vision Real Estate Partners While many young professionals continue to seek dense live-work-play urban areas, growing throngs of their contemporaries are descending
Prospective home buyers arrive with a realtor to a house for sale in Dunlap, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mortgage rates moved just a tiny bit higher, but apparently it was enough to dampen interest in refinances. That caused overall mortgage application volume to fall 5.3% last week compared with the previous
Why Do People Retire Early? Sometimes, retiring early is not planned: a layoff, a long-term illness, or having to care for a loved one may mean that early retirement is unavoidable. In other cases, early retirement is a conscious move to pursue personal interests, such as traveling or pursuing a hobby. Early retirement (or the
The UK government has referred itself to the data regulator after accidentally publishing the addresses of more than a thousand New Year honours recipients. Personal addresses were made available online to the public from 11pm on Friday, before the information was removed from a government website about an hour later. The 1,097-strong list of those
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