Mega-mansion developer Mohamed Hadid has reduced the price for a property overlooking Beverly Hills to $50 million, down 50% from the original asking price of $100 million. Called Olive Hills, the undeveloped land near Franklin Canyon in Los Angeles surfaced for sale in July, roughly six months after a series of events led the entities
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Even though the Federal Reserve didn’t raise its benchmark rate Wednesday, your borrowing costs may still start to head higher. Rising prices brought on by the economic recovery are paving the way for the central bank to unwind last year’s bond buying. While the central bank said that interest rates will stay near zero for now,
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While Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi signed into law minimum wage increases for the island, they will not address long-term economic growth issues, economists said. Pierluisi on Tuesday signed the law, which will raise the minimum to $8.50 per hour on Jan. 1 from $7.25 per hour. The wage will increase to $9.50 per hour
S&P Global Ratings has singled out states’ underfunding of retiree medical benefits as a key credit risk for states. States continued to sharply underfund their OPEB plans and unfunded liabilities ticked upward in fiscal 2020, S&P analysts reported in their annual survey published Monday. During the economic expansion preceding the pandemic, few states pursued and
Chinese markets fell on their first day of trading this week after a public holiday as concerns built in global markets over a possible default by property developer Evergrande on an international bond repayment. But the losses were not as heavy as feared after the real estate company, which has total liabilities of more than
Bloomberg Intelligence Commodity Strategist Mike McGlone believes it is only a matter of time before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approves the country’s first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). In an interview with Stansberry Investor host Daniela Cambone on Sept. 21, McGlone asserted that Canada is extending a competitive lead over the United States
Charlie Javice, Founder/CEO of Frank, which is a college financial aid start-up. Source: JP Morgan JPMorgan Chase has acquired college planning platform Frank to deepen relationships with students and their parents, CNBC has learned exclusively. Frank is an online portal with tools that help students apply for and negotiate financial aid, enroll in online courses
In this article H ADBE SFIX FDX People walk around the International Hotel Grand Hyatt during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic on May 21, 2020 in New York City. VIEW press | Corbis News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell Tuesday: FedEx – Shares of the shipping company
Ether (ETH) price fell below the $3,000 support on Sept. 20 as global markets entered a risk-aversion mode. The Invesco China Technology ETF (CQQQ) closed down 4.2%, while the SPDR S&P Metals and Mining ETF (XME) lost 3.8%. Some analysts pointed to the potential ripple effects of the default of Evergrande, a major Chinese real
A custom home destined to be the next legendary estate in Los Angeles is coming to market in Bel-Air for $55 million. The ground-up new construction, located on Saint Cloud Road in the desirable East Gate section, evokes the works of master architects Paul R. Williams and Roland Coate with its Georgian-inspired design. The team
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., left, hugs Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., outside of the Capitol on Tuesday, August 3, 2021. Rep. Bush was preparing to do a tv interview while waiting for official word from the Biden administration on an eviction moratorium renewal. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images A group of Democrats
Todd Bunton, CFA, Growth & Income Stock Strategist at Zacks Investment Research, discusses in this article, http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/180276/this-weeks-growth-amp-income-stock-lyondellbasell-lyb, a stock that might be worth a closer look by investors: LyondellBasell (LYB). This plastics, chemicals and refining company recently delivered a big positive earnings surprise as profit margins expanded rapidly for its products. This prompted analysts to
The Slow Stochastic isn’t necessarily among the top three of most popular indicators but it does have a large and loyal following. Our trading expert David Jones takes a look at the math behind it, ways to adjust its parameters and different tricks and tips on how to get the best out of it. It’s
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot plans to use $1.3 billion of the city’s $1.9 billion in federal coronavirus aid for budget relief through 2023 with the remainder, and $660 million of borrowing, funneled toward social, economic and infrastructure recovery initiatives. Lightfoot presented her plan for American Rescue Plan Act funds alongside her proposed 2022 budget that
Municipals largely ignored the rally in U.S. Treasuries and a massive selloff in equities as participants await another large new-issue week. Without the primary in play and a mostly muted secondary, triple-A benchmark yield curves were little changed, coming nowhere near the moves in Treasuries as the 10- and 30-year UST fell five and six
Executives at crisis-hit Chinese property developer Evergrande have admitted that billions of dollars raised by selling wealth management products to retail investors were used to plug funding gaps and even to pay back other wealth management investors. Evergrande financial advisers marketed the products widely, including to homeowners in its apartment blocks, while its managers pushed
The Bank of Venezuela, one of the biggest state banks in the country, is now experiencing an outage that has left its customers without services for five days. The bank published a PR statement stating this was the result of a “terrorist attack” on the national financial system, being perpetrated in the form of a
Solana has attributed the 17-hour outage it suffered last week to a denial-of-service attack aimed at Grape Protocol’s Sept. 14 initial DEX offering (IDO). In a Sept. 21 blog post, the Solana Foundation stated that bots spammed the network as Grape launched its IDO on the Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) Raydium at 12:00 UTC last
An artist’s illustration of the Axiom modules attached to the International Space Station. Axiom Space The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to retire the International Space Station by the end of this decade, so the U.S. space agency is turning to private companies to build new space stations in orbit – and expects to