Tag: FX

Forget the internet. The discount chain is opening three new bricks-and-mortar stores every day, betting that customers will respond to lower prices in places overlooked by other retailers. When a supermarket in Olive Hill, Kentucky, population 1,500, went belly up, the owner approached Dollar General to see if the company had any interest in taking…

Perhaps Bianca, commenting on Twitter, summed it up best. “Gas prices are doing what I wish crypto was doing -.- going up!” she lamented.  ‘The Seas of Fate’Yes, it has been a rough time for cryptocurrencies. Once considered a safe haven from the stock market, crypto and Wall Street now move in the same direction and…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin American businessman and philanthropist Bill Gates makes a speech at the Malaria Summit at 8 … [+] Northumberland Avenue on April 18, 2018 in London, England. Getty Images Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates isn’t a fan of cryptocurrency. Gates, now fourth-richest person in the world with a net worth…

When “Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance” opened at Disney World’s Hollywood Studios in December 2019 and at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., in January 2020, Disney implemented a virtual-queue system as an answer to anticipated massive crowds. The virtual-queue system was meant to reduce long queue lines and wait times and allow guests to enter the ride in a more…

Slumping cryptocurrencies have not only had to deal with plummeting values lately, but authorities are uncovering more and more crypto crimes that are adding to the industry’s bad name. U.S. tax authorities have said they were following 50 separate leads into scams involving nonfungible tokens and other aspects of the crypto industry. Tax investigators also…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline What might be a lost painting by Pablo Picasso was spotted at the home of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines and the widow of dictator Ferdinand Marcos–who allegedly embezzled billions of dollars from the Philippines before he was ousted–after her son Ferdinand Marcos Jr.…

The stock market does not have to be a sprint.  Yes, some people make money on short-term trades, options, and buying or selling based on technical analysis, but many investors take a long-term “set and forget it” approach to at least some of their portfolios. Investors who think this way generally develop a thesis —…

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…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Former German tennis star Boris Becker—whose off-court troubles have overshadowed his athletic success—was sentenced Friday to two and a half years in prison after a U.K. court found he withheld hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets after declaring bankruptcy in 2017, according to multiple reports. Former tennis…

Can’t blame Coinbase  (COIN) for trying.  The most popular of the crypto exchanges in the United States is scrambling to try to find sources of growth as trading by retail investors has slowed markedly.  It is these same investors, led by young people who have suddenly become rich thanks to their investments in crypto, which…