Just days after a creditor offered to help Core Scientific avoid possible bankruptcy, reports have emerged confirming the Bitcoin (BTC) mining company’s fate. Core Scientific is reportedly filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Texas owing to falling revenue and low BTC prices. On Dec. 14, financial services platform B. Riley offered to provide Core Scientific
Famed investor Bill Gross said he expects big trouble ahead should the Federal Reserve keep hiking interest rates. “The economy has been bolstered by tremendous amounts of trillions of dollars in fiscal spending, but ultimately when that is used up, I think we’ve got a mild recession, and if interest rates keep going up, we’ve
I attempted to spend two weeks travelling in El Salvador living on Bitcoin. I tried to pay for every single thing with Bitcoin, or Satoshis, small amounts of Bitcoin. Spoiler alert, I failed. Outfoxed by car hire companies (fortunately my car of choice was not Fiat); stubborn restauranteurs, a parking meter, pupusas, and a fancy
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin If you plan on raising your cash investment income in 2023, a position in REITs (real estate investment trusts) may help you do it. REITs are dividend-paying entities that own or finance real estate. They can make their money through rents, property sales, interest income or
A ‘For Rent’ sign in front of a building on December 06, 2022 in Miami Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Rents for both single-family homes and apartments are still rising, but at a far slower pace, as inflation squeezes consumers and landlords lose pricing power. Rent growth in November slowed for the 10th
ESG is beset from every angle. Republicans want to cancel it. Business leaders are muffling their former enthusiasm. Some money managers have even scrubbed the three letters from their funds. To meet this fraught moment, brand executives who work with some of the largest US companies, including Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, have had
Health chiefs have warned they cannot guarantee patient safety when ambulance workers launch strike action on Wednesday, as Rishi Sunak refused to reopen this year’s NHS pay deal. Health secretary Steve Barclay met ambulance unions on Tuesday to discuss cover for 999 calls during the strike in England and Wales, but the talks broke down
S&P Global Ratings lifted the University of Illinois back into the double-A category citing the flagship public university’s surpluses and healthier state government finances that reduce the threat of aid cuts. S&P last week raised the rating to AA-minus from A-plus. The upgrade impacts auxiliary facilities system revenue bonds and certifications of participation. The university
John Carmack, the founder of renowned company ID Software and executive consultant on VR for Meta, has announced he is leaving Meta. Among the reasons for this departure, Carmack signals that there are inefficiencies and self-sabotage at Meta that have affected the work that the company is doing regarding its VR (virtual reality) and metaverse
In this article DIS WYNN MGM LVS TSLA MESA CCL CZR META WBD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Visitors learn about a Tesla model S at the auto exhibition area of the 5th China International Import Expo in Shanghai, China, November 7, 2022. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Check out the companies
Every hipster knows that Brooklyn is what Manhattan used to be: the desired destination of young creative people. Now, one of the last major parcels along the East River that speaks of the area’s history is the site of a brilliant new building that evoke Greenpoint’s former life as a boat-building mecca. “This project is
This $58,808,000 mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean is one of the largest homes for sale in Malibu. At 16,600 square feet, it’s the grandest single-structure residence in town and a whopping 4,100 square feet bigger than the next-largest home on the market. The Bali-inspired residence at 11870 Ellice Street, named the Kaizen House after a
Municipals were weaker by a basis point or two Monday, while U.S. Treasuries saw larger losses across the curve and equities ended down following continued central bank assertions on raising rates. “U.S. stocks were unable to hold onto gains as recession worries run wild and as global bond yields surge higher after former Fed’s Dudley
The congressional committee probing last year’s violent attack on the US Capitol has voted to recommend that the US Department of Justice pursue criminal charges against former president Donald Trump for his role in the failed insurrection. During its final public hearing on Monday, the bipartisan nine-member panel unanimously said Trump should be prosecuted for
The Nigerian government will reportedly soon pass a law that will recognize the usage of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies as a means to keep up to date with “global practices.” The news was reported by Nigerian-based masthead Punch Newspapers on Dec. 18 following an interview with House of Representatives Committee on Capital Markets Chairman
The Capital Region Medical Center in Missouri will hold an investor call Monday as it works to finalize a forbearance from 2022 covenant defaults in an effort to buy time to stabilize its troubled financial condition. Capital Region reported non-payment related defaults in a Dec. 8th post on the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s EMMA website.
Bitcoin (BTC) starts the week before Christmas with a whimper as a tight trading range gives BTC bulls little cheer. A weekly close just above $16,700 means BTC/USD remains without major volatility amid a lack of overall market direction. Having seen erratic trading behavior around the latest United States macroeconomic data print, the pair has
In this article LULU ORCL XRAY NKE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Domino’s will roll out 800 custom-branded 2023 Chevy Bolt electric vehicles at locations across the U.S. in the coming months. Domino’s Despite the encouraging signs that the economy is throwing our way, the lingering fear of a recession occurring in 2023 has
In this article TSLA WBD LEN NVAX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Tesla (TSLA) – Tesla fell 1.2% in premarket trading after an SEC filing showed that Elon Musk sold another $3.6 billion in shares. The stock is down 55% year to date through Wednesday.
Crypto markets threw a nice head fake this week by rallying into resistance on a “positive” Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, before retracing the majority of those gains right after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell took on a surprisingly hawkish tone during his post-rate-hike presser. The Fed hiked interest rates by 0.50%, which was well