Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York University professor and author Jerome Favre | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nicholas Nassim Taleb has reversed his stance on bitcoin. The “Black Swan” author said in a recent paper that the largest cryptocurrency by market cap has failed to satisfy the notions of it as a currency without government, a
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A visual representation of digital currencies. Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images LONDON — Cryptocurrencies aren’t yet big enough to pose a systemic risk to financial stability, Bank of England Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe said Wednesday. “The speculative boom in crypto is very noticeable but I don’t think it’s crossed the boundary into financial stability risk,”
In this article WFC Wells Fargo on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings and revenue results that topped Wall Street’s expectations as it continued to release funds it had set aside during the Covid-19 pandemic to safeguard against widespread loan losses. Shares of the bank rose 0.5% in premarket trading following the earnings announcement. Here’s how the
2022 Jeep Compass Jeep CHICAGO – Jeep is updating one of its smallest SUVs with new technologies and a redesigned interior ahead of the brand’s push into electric vehicles. New features on the 2022 Jeep Compass include active emergency braking and blind-spot monitoring as standard safety technologies as well as optional 10-inch interior screens and
Bill Oxford | E+ | Getty Images Roughly 4 million refunds will be sent this week to people who overpaid taxes on their 2020 unemployment benefits, the IRS announced Tuesday. Due to the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, which became law in March, up to $10,200 in 2020 unemployment compensation was excluded from taxable
Pascal Broze | ONOKY | Getty Images Rising inflation has startled many retirees, who now worry about outliving their savings. The consumer price index for June, measuring the cost of food, gasoline, housing, utilities and other goods, increased by 0.9%, the largest one-month change since June 2008, according to the Labor Department. Although Federal Reserve
David Solomon, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs & Co., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, April 29, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said that China’s recent moves boosting oversight of its technology
For two decades, former New York Yankees star C.C. Sabathia was one of the best and highest-paid pitchers in Major League Baseball, grossing more than $260 million throughout his career until he retired in 2019. In 2008, Sabathia signed what was then the largest contract for a starting MLB pitcher: a seven-year, $161 million deal. In his
U.S. stock index futures were flat in overnight trading on Tuesday, after the major averages finished in the red, weighed down by inflation fears. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 were unchanged. The Dow closed the regular trading session down 107 points, or 0.3%. The decline came
Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co, at a luncheon hosted by The Economic Club of Chicago on November 22, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images News | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase is scheduled to report second-quarter earnings before the opening bell Tuesday. Here’s what Wall Street expects: Earnings:
In this article AAL American Airlines flight takes off from Miami, Florida. Marco Bello | Reuters American Airlines forecast it will report a “slight” pretax profit for the second quarter and better revenue than it previously estimated, sending shares higher. American’s stock was up more than 1% in after-hours trading Tuesday. The carrier is expected
10’000 Hours | DigitalVision | Getty Images Target-date funds have ballooned in popularity over the past 15 years — yet many investors aren’t using them the way they were intended. The funds were designed as a one-stop shop that put retirement savings on autopilot. Investors are meant to park their nest egg in one fund,
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: NYSE Earnings season begins with two major tailwinds: sky high prices and sky-high expectations. On paper, second quarter earnings looks like the mother of all earnings reports, with estimates having risen steadily for the past six months, from expected 45% growth in January to
In this article VZ MA Mastercard and Verizon announced Tuesday a new partnership focused on 5G contactless payments for consumers as well as small- and medium-sized businesses. They hope to have some innovations from the partnership by 2023. The collaboration aims to enable businesses to use emerging payment technologies to turn smartphones in to cash
In this article GSBD David Solomon, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs & Co., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, April 29, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs is set to report its second-quarter earnings before the
Dubai is already home to the world’s tallest building. Now it can lay claim to the world’s deepest diving pool too. Deep Dive Dubai opened on July 7, just 10 days after being named the world’s deepest diving pool by the Guinness World Records. The new indoor pool is nearly 200 feet deep and holds
Allyson Felix celebrates with her daughter Camryn after finishing second in the Women’s 400 Meters Final on day three of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials in Eugene, Oregon. Patrick Smith | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images When runner Allyson Felix heads to Tokyo to compete in the Olympics, she’ll go
Rolf Bruderer | Tetra images | Getty Images The greatest wealth transfer in history is underway, and taxes may take a bite from inheritances without proper estate planning, financial advisors say. It’s estimated that nearly 45 million U.S. households will transfer more than $68 trillion over the next 25 years, according to Cerulli Associates. Baby
Art at the cryptocurrency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami on June 4, 2021. Marco Bello | AFP | Getty Images Cryptocurrencies are in a summer slump as they navigate a two-month correction period following a string of negative stories. Trading volumes at the largest exchanges, including Coinbase, Kraken, Binance
Sterling notes and coins are laid out for a photo. Matt Cardy | Getty Images LONDON — The coronavirus pandemic has further widened the U.K.’s wealth gap, with the richest 10% of households seeing an average gain of £51,238 ($70,977) during the crisis, according to a new report. The U.K.’s poorest households, meanwhile, saw their
The Goldman Sachs booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Getty Images U.S. stock futures were mostly flat on Monday night after the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose to almost 35,000 ahead of the second-quarter earnings season for banks, which kick off Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose by 13
Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg arrives for his arraignment hearing in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., July 1, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Allen Weisselberg, the long-time chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has been removed from several subsidiaries of that
Reykjavik, the capital city of Iceland. Cavan Images | iStock | Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic transformed the way we work almost overnight, most notably in the fact that for millions of Americans, cubicles and commutes disappeared from their way of life. Yet there’s another, just as significant, change that could be happening to work
(Click here to subscribe to the new Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Climate change has been one of the biggest topics of 2021, but private capital specifically, is still in a very nascent stage in making progress in this space. TPG’s Executive Chairman Jim Coulter is raising one of the very few climate funds in existence. Here he is
Getty Images Taxpayers who collected unemployment benefits this year shouldn’t expect another break on their taxes next filing season, financial experts say. Jobless benefits are generally treated as taxable income. But federal lawmakers waived tax on a portion of such benefits received in 2020, after the Covid-19 pandemic led an unprecedented number of people to
Pedestrians relax in the sunshine in Greenwich Park in view of skyscrapers in the Canary Wharf business, shopping and financial district in London, U.K., on Monday, March 29, 2021. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to confirm on Monday that the final easing of lockdown rules
If a student invested $1,300 in Netflix stock in 2014, after three years they would have $4,527. Jill Brady | Portland Press Herald | Getty Images Teenagers haven’t had a better summer for employment since 1953. In June, the unemployment rate for teenagers aged 16 to 19 was 9.9%, the lowest it has been since
An employee of the Internet company Facebook walks through the courtyard of the company campus in Menlo Park, California. Christoph Dernbach | picture alliance | Getty Images When Wall Street analysts take a more bullish stance on a particular stock, it could mean that the name is undervalued and has room to run. The stocks
As Americans recover from the widespread economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, some are already looking ahead and putting “financial defenses” in place to head off the next period of uncertainty. More than half, 58%, of Americans say they’re in “financial recovery mode,” according to Northwestern Mutual’s recent 2021 Planning & Progress Study. The annual survey,
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Stock futures opened mostly flat late Sunday as earnings season kicks off this week. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 25 points, or 0.07%. S&P 500 futures edged 0.08% higher and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.17%. The three major indexes closed