Is Silicon Valley in a recession? The question became more pointed this May 5 in the financial markets. After the Federal Reserve indicated on May 4 that it was entering a phase of aggressive monetary rate hikes to curb inflation, investors’ eyes turned to most of the so-called growth assets, in other words tech. The…
Cryptocurrencies are hot for a lot of reasons — the lure of big profits, the chance to remake the finance world, a pretty cool technology and so on. Sure, there are occasional cryptocurrency heists. And the stuff may be playing an ongoing role in money laundering and dark web transactions. But proponents of the new…
Th garnishment orders conducted by Bank of America (BAC) – Get Bank of America Corp Report against customer accounts were illegal and the retail bank is required to pay a $10 million fine to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The enforcement action from the CFPB occurred because the retail bank processed out-of-state garnishment orders against its customers’…
In recent years, big tech names like Apple (AAPL) – Get Apple Inc. Report, Meta Platforms (FB) – Get Meta Platforms Inc. Class A Report and Amazon (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report seemed almost immune from Wall Street downswings. In fact, for most of 2021 their strong performance masked otherwise dismal showings in many other companies’s…
In a surprise move, a majority of Amazon ( (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report) employees at the behemoth’s Staten Island warehouse voted against joining the union. The win for the online retailer came after another Staten Island fulfillment center was the first to unionize and founded the Amazon Labor Union. The employees at the LDJ5…
Here are five things you must know for Monday, May 2: 1. — Stock Futures Nudge Higher Ahead of Fed Meeting, Jobs DataU.S. equity futures bumped higher Monday, following-on from the largest single-session decline in more than two years Friday, as investors looked to add some beaten down tech names heading into an active week…
Elon Musk is the new Oracle. This title which is accompanied by the respect of both Wall Street and Main Street was previously attributed to the legendary investor Warren Buffett, 91, who is called the Oracle of Omaha. Buffett has inspired respect, admiration, and devotion to the point where the shareholder meeting of his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway …
The volatility in the number of new Covid-19 cases since Oct. 31, 2021, has swung wide over the past six months with remarkably high and low numbers being reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The U.S. has recorded a total of 81.17 million cases during over two years of the pandemic through…
Jeff Bezos is $20.5 billion more poor. The second richest man in the world lost this huge sum in 24 hours. To be more precise, this big loss happened during the April 29 stock market session. Do not worry, however, because the entrepreneur still has a net worth of $148 billion as of April 30,…
This is where the biggest battle in the race for electric vehicles (EVs) will undoubtedly be played: trucks/pickups. This segment of electrification is certainly the one whose margins are not as high as in luxury electric sedans, but it is the one where sales volumes will be among the highest. And. sales volumes equal popularity.…





