Families have prevented children from playing outside as Tonga struggles to deal with the ash and psychological effects of last week’s volcanic eruption and tsunami, aid workers and local residents said. Telephone service interrupted. The Red Cross said it was providing 173 households on the main island of Tonga not only with tents, food, water and…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Bitcoin fell below $35,000 Saturday morning to its lowest level since July as a selloff continues in which the cryptocurrency has fallen almost 50% since its record high in November. A Bitcoin image hangs on the wall during the North American Bitcoin Conference held at the James L…
Domino’s (DPZ) – Get Domino’s Pizza, Inc. Report owns 22% of the quick-serve (QSR) market share for pizza in the United States and 20% globally. The company has nearly $18 billion in global sales from its 18,380 stores, of which 98% operate under a franchise model. Those numbers seem huge, but Domino’s CEO Richard Allison,…
Bitcoin’s price has gone from $32,983 on Jan. 22, 2021 to $35,811 on the morning of the same day one year later. In the year between, however, the price dipped below $30,000 in July and climbed above $69,000 as recently as Nov. 10. On a five-year basis, things look a lot better for Bitcoin investors…
What crypto crash? While the rapid skid of crypto value has caused panic on social media and Wall Street, billionaire Michael Saylor seems to have kept his cool. He won’t sell his bitcoin. He doesn’t want his company MicroStrategy (MSTR) – Get MicroStrategy Incorporated Class A Report to let go of its almost $5 billion bitcoin…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Light poles are pictured without power during an outage in Mexico’s electricity network, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico February 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez (Reuters) – Mexico faces risks to economic growth and potential for a credit rating downgrade in the medium term from political developments including the likely passage of a…
© Reuters. Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., January 6, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – Expectations of rising interest rates are bolstering the shares of regional banks, as a tumble in technology stocks pushes investors to search for assets…
© Reuters. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen addresses the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting in Washington, U.S. January 19, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday rebranded the Biden administration’s economic agenda as “modern supply-side economics,” using a Reagan-era phrase favored by Republicans…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline El Salvador, the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, purchased 410 bitcoin for $15 million Friday with the currency trading at its lowest point in six months, President Nayib Bukele announced on Twitter. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele speaks during the inauguration of the ISA World Surfing…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to discuss concerns about a possible Russian military invasion of Ukraine. CBS News foreign correspondent Holly Williams reports from Kyiv, Ukraine. Then former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor joins CBSN’s Lana to discuss the likelihood of a Russian attack.





