Major credit ratings agencies this week downgraded China’s most indebted property developer Evergrande, as concerns over Asia’s junk bond sector rise. Fitch Ratings on Wednesday downgraded China Evergrande one notch from B to CCC, saying that the negative developments surrounding Evergrande may weaken investor confidence, further pressuring its liquidity. A rating of CCC means there’s
Municipals were a touch weaker outside of 15 years Wednesday as U.S. Treasury yields rose after the Federal Open Market Committee minutes were released but pared back losses as the afternoon progressed and were back at Tuesday’s levels near the close. The tapering conversation continues, but Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell said the FOMC
The Federal Reserve has toyed for years with opening something called a standing repo facility to prevent short-term rates markets from blowing up. Following a 2019 disruption and another early in the pandemic, the central bank finally took that step. The permanent repurchase-agreement facility, one for domestic firms and another for foreign ones, will backstop
Yield Guild Games (YGG), a collective of play-to-earn gamers, completed its initial DEX offering via SushiSwap’s Miso platform in under a minute earlier today. The offering saw YGG raise roughly $12.5 million on July 27, with the token sale distributing 25 million tokens or 2.5% of the project’s 1 billion token supply via a dutch
Bitcoin (BTC) returned to $40,000 on Wednesday as bulls and bears waged a tug-of-war for hard-won higher ground. “A lot can happen” from current BTC price levels Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD reaching $40,200 overnight, sealing a rare eight straight green daily candles in a row. Investors had been initially skeptical
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: NYSE The latest volatility in China – with regulators in Beijing attempting to reign in several sectors of the Chinese economy – is only the latest blow for international investors. “The invest in China mantra has always been based on the idea that China
In this article TDOC SBUX GOOGL AAPL The logo of Alphabet Inc’s Google outside the company’s office in Beijing, China, August 8, 2018. Thomas Peter | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines Tuesday after the bell: Alphabet — Google-parent Alphabet saw its shares jump about 3% after a blowout quarterly earnings report. The technology
Just $20 million of the $1 billion in cryptocurrency that Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated to a Covid-19 relief fund in India has so far been cashed out and distributed to aid recipients. Figuring out why the process is not as frictionless as crypto users would hope is the focus of a recent interview
Ali Jamal is the Owner and CEO of Stablegold Hospitality, a real estate investment company. If your real estate business is a small shop and/or just starting out, still trying to grasp its tentacles on future expansion, your marketing department can easily thrive as a one-man band. As the business expands, however, it will need to
A real estate agent stands in the doorway as Giovani and Nicole Quiroz of Brooklyn, New York visit an open house in West Hempstead, New York. Raychel Brightman | Newsday LLC | Newsday | Getty Images The popular 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell back to the lowest level since February last week, and the 15-year
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Kevin Matras shows how to calculate a stock’s price target and how to find stocks currently trading below them. Highlighted stocks include DAR, FCS, GLT, GTIV and WMGI.
Selling with the goal of profiting, also known as shorting, is one of those things that many new traders are baffled by. How can I sell something that I don’t own? How can I win if something appears to be losing? This video answers those questions and more. From the definition of the term, to
The Puerto Rico Oversight Board reached a deal for an improved treatment of the Puerto Rico Infrastructure and Finance Authority rum tax bonds with two bond insurers, which had been key opponents of the central government debt deal. The board announced the deal with Ambac Assurance and Financial Guaranty Insurance Company Tuesday morning in a
Municipals were slightly firmer in secondary trading while new-issues were repriced to lower yields from initial pricing wires. U.S. Treasuries were stronger and equities sold off ahead of the FOMC meeting Wednesday. The current market technicals combined with a slowdown in issuance is creating a general malaise in the municipal market, according to a New
The value of Chinese shares on Wall Street has soared from just a few billion dollars to $2tn over the past two decades as investors turned a blind eye to the precarious legal structure underpinning many of the country’s biggest US listings. But a crackdown by Beijing on China’s $100bn tutoring industry over the past
Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet said on Tuesday that their latest revenues and earnings had surged above the stock market’s already optimistic expectations, confirming that demand for their digital services and gadgets continued to soar as some countries began to emerge from the pandemic. Apple Apple’s profits almost doubled in its latest quarter to $21.7bn, as
The Brazilian authorities seized $33 million linked to a money-laundering investigation involving cryptocurrency exchanges. The operation, called “Exchange Transaction” by the Brazilian police, involved six search warrants in different locations of the country. These searches were directed to find shell companies that used cryptocurrency exchanges for alleged money laundering purposes. Brazilian Police Seize $33 Million
Purchasing a stock that’s being pumped up by hype is going to give you a recipe for disaster. Pump & Dump Concept What does the Pump & Dump concept mean to you when it comes to your trades? More importantly, what does Pump & Dump mean? It means that a group, entity, or person is
Here is what investors need to know before investing in Oil ETFs. (USO, DBO, USL)