Amanda Mier is graduating from UC Berkeley and ready to move to New York! The question is: Can she afford it? Amanda Mier | CNBC After three semesters of online school, I’ve been in denial, but it’s time to face it. I graduate in a month. I wish I could be in college forever (who
Decentralized finance (DeFi) has reshaped the face of the cryptocurrency market over the past year, attracting the attention of both institutional investors and retail traders alike as the traditional financial sector continues to warm up to blockchain technology. While the majority of largest DeFi protocols that have a significant amount of volume and value locked
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak is slowing a proposal he floated in his State of the State speech in January to allow tech companies to create autonomous “innovation zones” similar to county governments. Sisolak had been drafting legislation that would have allowed a company called Blockchains LLC to form its own municipal government on 67,000 acres
The US will share 60m doses of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine with other countries, the White House announced on Monday, as the Biden administration comes under pressure to assist areas struggling to contain a new surge of cases. The White House said no decision had been made yet about which nations would receive the doses, although
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The cryptocurrency space just became a little bit more interconnected after developers created a cross-chain bridge between the Ethereum and Tezos blockchains. Following the launch of the WRAP Protocol, created by Bender Labs, Ethereum-based ERC-20 and ERC-721 tokens can be made Tezos-compatible, allowing ETH holders to interact with the Tezos ecosystem. Token wrapping has become a
Voters will consider $8.5 billion of bonds on local ballots across Texas Saturday, including $884 million of proposals that were rejected Nov. 3. The vote comes a year after the COVID-19 pandemic erased the traditional May bond ballot slate. Some proposals originally scheduled for May 2020 were moved to Nov. 3 alongside the presidential election.
A sign is posted in front of the NVIDIA headquarters on May 10, 2018 in Santa Clara, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images With COVID-19 cases surging again around the world as well as growing concerns about the economic reopening, navigating the current financial landscape can be challenging. In this case, the key is to look for
A traveler wearing a protective mask speaks with an attendant at the Southwest Airlines check-in area at Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. AT&T — The telecom and media stock jumped 4.6%
Chase Garbarino is the Co-Founder and CEO of HqO. We’ve seen it everywhere: Due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote and hybrid work models have increased dramatically in the past year. A Global Work-from-Home Experience Survey estimates that by the end of 2021, 25-30% of the workforce will be working remotely multiple days a
In this article YELP Kevin Kahovec and Mary Kate McGovern chat at Rizzo’s Bar & Inn in Wrigleyville as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions are relaxed in Chicago, Illinois, March 6, 2021. Eileen T. Meslar | Reuters More than 500,000 new businesses opened across the United States in the past year, new data from Yelp showed,
The market capitalization of Tether (USDT), the world’s largest stablecoin, zipped past $50 billion on Monday, in a sign that the cryptocurrency bull market was still heating up. Tether Operations Limited confirmed the milestone on Friday, with roughly 50 billion USDT now reported to be in circulation. Tether’s supply, and hence its market cap, has
Rising oil prices combined with more certainty around Alaska’s handling of its permanent fund helped the state earn an outlook revision to stable from negative on its general obligation bonds from Moody’s Investors Service. The rating agency also affirmed the Aa3 rating on its GOs. While oil prices are a factor in Alaska’s ratings, because
Some of Credit Suisse’s largest shareholders will attempt to remove the board member in charge of risk oversight, in protest at twin scandals that have cost the bank and its clients billions and tarnished its reputation. Andreas Gottschling — a 53-year-old German who has served as chair of the risk committee since 2018, earning a
Ripple Labs cofounder Chris Larsen has a bone to pick with bitcoin and crypto networks that leverage proof-of-work (PoW). Larsen’s latest write-up explains that the crypto industry needs to reconsider PoW because of the effects on the environment. The Ripple executive believes that other types of consensus algorithms have been effective at being secure while
A rosier revenue forecast and new federal relief will help Indiana fund infrastructure projects, pay down some debt, replenish reserves and boost education funding. Gov. Eric Holcomb reached an agreement on a revised budget with his fellow GOP legislative leaders who then passed the $37.4 billion package for the biennium beginning July 1 during the
FG Trade | E+ | Getty Images Company: Harmonic Inc. (HLIT) Business: Harmonic provides video delivery software, products, system solutions, and services worldwide. Its products enable customers to create, prepare, store, playout, and deliver a range of broadcast and streaming video services to consumer devices, including televisions, personal computers, laptops, tablets, and smart phones. The
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Kimberly-Clark (KMB) – The consumer products company’s stock dropped 6.4% in premarket action after it reported weaker-than-expected profit and sales for its latest quarter and gave a full-year forecast that came in below Wall Street consensus. Kimberly-Clark said it faced a number of
Ask anyone from Victoria, Australia, what the wealthiest part of Melbourne is and you will resoundingly hear one name: Toorak. That’s because Toorak’s position as Melbourne’s most elite neighborhood is irrefutable and has been from around the very beginnings of the state of Victoria, which separated from New South Wales in 1851 and 50 years
A home stands for sale in a Brooklyn neighborhood with a limited supply of single family homes on March 31, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Closed sales of existing homes fell 3.7% in March to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 6.01 million units, according to the National Association of