The Government Employees Retirement System of the Virgin Islands is preparing a lawsuit against the financially struggling Water and Power Authority for about $7.7 million in past due money. At issue are past due employees’ and employer’s contributions and employees’ loans as well interest on these sums. WAPA has failed to forward the employee and
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Municipals were steady to firmer in spots Monday but underperformed U.S. Treasuries that saw yields fall further while equities ended in the black led by tech stocks. Triple-A yield curves saw one to two basis point bumps while UST ended the session four to nine better after falling double-digits earlier in the day. Muni-UST ratios
In this article FB TWTR DWAC The Truth social network logo is seen on a smartphone in front of a display of former U.S. President Donald Trump in this picture illustration taken February 21, 2022. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp., the blank-check company poised to take Donald Trump‘s media venture public,
Pankaj Nangia | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading. Cadence Design Systems – Shares of computer software company gained 5% after hours following the company’s quarterly earnings reports. Earnings and revenue for the first quarter both came in above consensus forecasts, according to FactSet. The company also issued
Bitcoin (BTC) continues to trade below $40,000 as bears try to flip the level into resistance. The soaring U.S. dollar index (DXY), which is usually inversely related to Bitcoin, favors the sellers. However, it is not all gloom and doom because the Bitcoin bulls seem to be taking clues from the Nasdaq (NDX) which has
Twitter’s board has accepted a roughly $44bn offer to sell the company to Elon Musk, handing control of the influential social media platform to the world’s richest man. Announcing the deal, Musk said “free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy” and described the social media platform as “the digital town square where matters
Mother’s Day is almost here. If you’ve been searching for the best Mother’s Day Gifts, its’s impossible to go wrong with something for the home. After all, clothing is a gamble and jewelry can be pricy. So why not choose something truly special she can appreciate every day. Whether mom’s home is more traditional, contemporary
Anti-Trump demonstrators gather outside of the New York County Supreme Court in New York City, U.S., April 25, 2022. David Dee Delgado | Reuters A New York judge Monday ordered commercial real-estate services giant Cushman & Wakefield to comply with subpoenas about its appraisals of several Trump Organization properties that are being eyed in a
The cryptocurrency market fell under pressure in the early trading hours on April 25, but a brief spurt of bullish price action sparked after media headlines announced that Elon Musk had reached a deal to purchase Twitter for $44 billion. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that after dropping as low as $38,210
Columbus heads into the market this week with a $423 million deal riding tailwinds from a rebounding revenue picture and the resolution of a lawsuit tied to 2020 remote work income tax collections. The triple-A-rated city will take indications of interest on $98 million of taxable bonds in two series on Monday with pricing to
Utah’s top elected officials demanded on Thursday that S&P Global Ratings cease applying environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to the state through the use of what they called a politicized rating system based on indeterminate factors. A letter to S&P signed by Gov. Spencer Cox, Treasurer Marlo Oaks, other state constitutional officeholders, legislative leaders,
We ask the buidlers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector for their thoughts on the industry… and throw in a few random zingers to keep them on their toes! This week, our 6 Questions go to Lili Zhao, director of ecosystem growth at Neo — an open-source blockchain development platform. The A to Z of
In this article CVNA KRNT BKNG GOOGL EBAY Source: NYSE Earnings season is yet again upon us, with prominent names reporting this week. Volatility remains a focus for investors, and inflation has been continuing to compound pressure across all industries. The near-term uncertainty remains blurred, although long-term investing can often cut through the daily noise.
Traders on the floor of the NYSE, April 14, 2022. Source: NYSE U.S. stock futures were little changed on Sunday night as investors looked ahead to a stacked week of earnings, including reports from major tech companies such as Amazon and Apple. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were flat. S&P 500 futures dipped 0.1%, and
Bitcoin (BTC) and several altcoins are trading in a tight range during the weekend, suggesting that investors are undecided about the next directional move. Traders may be waiting for Wall Street to open before placing large directional bets because Bitcoin has been tightly correlated with the S&P 500 in the past few days. The sharp
Emmanuel Macron is set to be re-elected for a second term as French president after defeating his far-right rival Marine Le Pen in the second round of voting on Sunday, according to projections by polling agencies based on early returns. Victory for the liberal internationalist Macron, first elected in 2017, will mean continuity in economic
Christine Quinn might be best known as a cast member on Netflix’s hit show Selling Sunset, but the L.A.-based real estate maven’s latest role goes beyond traditional real estate. Quinn and her husband, Christian Dumontet, a software engineer, tech entrepreneur and investor, who sold his company Foodler to Grubhub in 2017 for $65 million (bootstrapped
Liubomyr Vorona | Istock | Getty Images Money and family – what two subjects bring up more for us? And so when a relative comes to you asking for financial help, and the two are combined, it’s only natural to feel overwhelmed. “Being solicited for money from someone you love can cause discomfort that you
The U.S.-based company Compass Mining plans to sell $30 million worth of bitcoin mining equipment that’s currently located in Siberia. The decision to sell the mining rigs follows the U.S. government sanctioning the bitcoin mining operation Bitriver and ten subsidiaries. Compass is hoping to offload 12 megawatts of capacity, according to a company executive. Compass
Today’s episode is going to be about stock market wisdom. We’ll take a look at a list of 20 different stocks and review them, they’re not in any particular order, but they are the most popular ones, as far as the market goes and as far as trading volume, so I’ll give you some insights