French voters began casting their ballots on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election in which far-right leader Marine Le Pen is mounting a strong challenge to the incumbent Emmanuel Macron. A victory for Le Pen, who is sceptical about the EU and Nato and has in the past boasted of her ties
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Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Starbucks announces NFT initiative as union-busting controversy continues Nonfungible tokens
155 local governments experienced losses in 2020 in connection with their public golf courses, in some cases losing enough money to be significant on a local scale. That’s according to a Reason Foundation report that found that of the 221 local governments that reported running golf courses in their 2020 financial statements, 155 experienced total
In this article ENV Cokada | E+ | Getty Images Company: Envestnet (ENV) Business: Envestnet provides wealth management services and software to the investment community. It has an excellent product with 90% retention and secular tailwinds. Envestnet was founded in 1999 by Jud Bergman and Bill Crager. Bergman was chairman and CEO of the company
In this article KR HOOD EPAM Kroger is opening automated warehouses around the country to build a larger and more profitable online grocery business. Kroger Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Friday. Robinhood — Shares of the trading app dropped more than 7% after Goldman Sacks downgraded the stock to sell from
The outlook for projects in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector has begun to improve in recent months as a combination of global events have highlighted the benefits of holding funds outside of the traditional financial systems. One project that has rallied over the past few months is Kyber Network (KNC), a multi-chain cryptocurrency trading and
Round Hill is an estate community of Potomac, Maryland, filled with custom-built mansions in a variety of architectural styles. Prestigious? Yes. Stodgy? Not necessarily. The sellers of an elegant fieldstone estate now listed at nearly $9 million know how to have fun. Inside the more than 21,000-square-foot mansion a full-scale airplane is suspended from the
A ‘TRUMP’ branded helicopter sits near a putting green during a ribbon cutting event for a new clubhouse at Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point, June 11, 2018 in The Bronx borough of New York City. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Fore more years! A judge ruled Friday that the Trump Organization can continue to
Global markets company and Chicago-based derivatives exchange CME Group plans to launch 11 new reference rates tied to specific crypto assets. The reference rates and real-time indices bolstered by CF Benchmarks are typically leveraged by exchange-traded products and other investment vehicles. 11 Crypto Assets Get Reference Rate Treatment From CME Group and CF Benchmarks CME
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority debt negotiations will likely be extended as the authority was struggling with the more immediate concern of a major power outage. Puerto Rico Judge Laura Taylor Swain filed an order Friday afternoon saying the mediation will terminate on June 1 unless the mediation team choses to extend it until July
Russian missiles on Friday hit a railway station in Kramatorsk, killing dozens in the town in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region as Moscow intensified its offensive in the east of the country. “Thousands of people were at the station during the missile strike, as residents of Donetsk province are being evacuated to safer regions of Ukraine,”
Municipals were weaker in spots Friday after another challenging week and the worst-performing first quarter since 1980. Triple-A yields rose one to three basis points amid lighter trading ahead of a smaller new-issue calendar. U.S. Treasuries saw more pronounced losses to close out the week. Muni to UST ratios were at 77% in five years,
In this article UBSG-CH JPM MS Jed Finn, Chief Operating Officer for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Head of Corporate and Institutional Solutions Source: Morgan Stanley After making inroads managing money for the merely wealthy, Morgan Stanley is setting its sights on the richest of the rich — family offices with tens of billions of
A trader on the NYSE, March 11, 2022. Source: NYSE Markets face what could be a hot inflation report in the week ahead and a batch of big bank earnings to start the earnings season. JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock kick off the financial industry’s first-quarter earnings releases Wednesday, with Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and
Having sold millions of albums, Katy Perry is now looking to sell her Beverly Hills Post Office-area mansion for millions. The celebrity retreat, priced at $19.475 million, arrives on market almost a year after the singer-songwriter handed off a second home just down the street for $7.5 million. Though the pop icon and her fiancé,
Arian Taherzadeh seen in photos submitted in a D.O.J. affidavit. Courtesy: D.O.J The landlord of two Washington, D.C., men charged with impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents won a judgment for more than $222,000 in unpaid rent for the five apartments they lived in and loaned out to U.S. Secret Service agents, a court filing
Bitcoin has been hinting at lower levels during today’s trading session. The benchmark crypto was rejected at around $48,000 and has been unable to reclaim its previous highs. Related Reading | Galaxy Digital’s Jason Urban What Will Drive Ethereum To Flip Bitcoin At the time of writing, Bitcoin trades at $43,100 with a 1% and
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday teed up two of President Biden’s four Federal Reserve Board nominees for votes by the full chamber later this month. Schumer took a procedural step before the Senate leaves for a two-week break seeking to limit debate on Lael Brainard’s nomination for vice chair, as well as Lisa
Nato member states have agreed to supply new types of advanced weaponry to Ukraine, alliance representatives have said, as Kyiv prepares for a fresh offensive by Russia in the country’s east. The pledge came after a plea from Ukraine’s foreign minister for western countries to move faster with fresh supplies or instead see “many people
Scott Melker, veteran trader and pocaster, is convinced that major layer-1 protocols should be part of everyone’s investment portfolio. Instead of picking individual crypto projects, such as NFTs or blockchain games, Melker thinks it makes more sense to bet on the blockchain infrastructure on which these projects are built. “Any of these small projects could