[Fortune, Getty Images] It’s Fed day, investors. Here’s what you’ll need to know. Good morning. Global stocks and U.S. futures are pretty steady ahead of today’s big Fed decision—or, more likely, lack of one. Either way, there will still be plenty of fireworks as Jerome Powell gets grilled on inflation, growth, the […]
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[CNBC, Getty Images] In May, Beijing called for a severe crackdown on bitcoin mining and trading, setting off what’s being dubbed in crypto circles as “the great mining migration.” Texas is an ideal destination for miners, thanks to its abundance of solar and wind power, its unregulated market, and its […]
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[The New York Times] A moratorium on evictions did little to address the bigger problem: The country is running out of affordable places for people to live. The United States averted the most dire predictions about what the pandemic would do to the housing market. An eviction wave never materialized. […]
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(CNN) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now calls the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus, also known as B.1.617.2, a “variant of concern.” The variant of concern designation is given to strains of the virus that scientists believe are more transmissible or can cause more severe disease. Vaccines, treatments […]
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[Acorns] “You can get started investing with as little as $10 or $20 a month and work your way up.” Four years ago, my wife and I had a combined $40,000 debt that we were struggling to pay off. We were living paycheck to paycheck, had no savings, and we weren’t tracking […]
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[NBC NEWS, AP] Demand for online hiring services boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic and remains high amid a perceived worker shortage as the economy opens back up. A day after her interview for a part-time job at Target last year, Dana Anthony got an email informing her she didn’t make […]
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[CNBC, Getty Images] Billionaire investor Mark Cuban is very bullish on the future of DeFi, or decentralized finance, and DAOs, or decentralized autonomous organizations. “There are a lot of financial institutions that should be concerned,” Cuban wrote in a blog post on Sunday. For one, “banks should be scared,” he wrote. DeFi […]
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[CNBC] Fears of inflation in the year ahead hit its highest level on record, according to a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. When inflation rises, savers may consider alternatives for stashing cash. As the economy quickly picks up steam in the wake of the Covid pandemic, Americans […]
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[The Motley Fool, Getty Images] The trading platform’s young traders love some blue chips that they may want to hold for a long time. The narrative that Robinhood traders flock to meme stocks and penny stocks gets old fast. It’s also far from the truth. There are some speculative names […]
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[Insider Monkey, UnSplash] In this article, we discuss the 10 penny stocks Robinhood traders are buying in 2021. Robinhood Markets, the California-based financial technology firm that owns popular stock trading application Robinhood, is expected to debut on the stock market in the coming months, targeting a record market valuation of […]
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