Month: March 2023

Mark Zuckerberg’s has long been fascinated with Ancient Rome. Now he has his very own triumvirate. The Facebook co-founder on Friday announced the birth of his third child, revealing that he and his wife Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg have named the baby Aurelia. Zuckerberg shared the first photo of his newborn in an Instagram post, calling
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A First Citizens Bank branch in Dunwoody, Georgia, on Thursday, March 23, 2023. Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg | Getty Images Regulators again assured the public that the banking system is safe, as fresh data showed customers recently pulled nearly $100 billion in deposits. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and more than
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Over the last 50 years, Americans have eradicated smallpox, reduced infant mortality rates and deaths from heart disease by around 70%, added a decade to the average American’s life and invented the internet. When it comes to the national poverty rate, however, we’ve made almost no progress. In 1970, a little more than 12% of
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Visualspace | E+ | Getty Images Over the past year, there’s been a wave of confusion around tax reporting for payment apps like Venmo and PayPal, along with e-commerce companies such as eBay, Etsy and Poshmark. But the IRS provided clarification in an update this week. The 2022 threshold for Form 1099-K, which reports third-party business payments to
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In this article OUST Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The New York Stock Exchange welcomes Ouster Inc. (NYSE: OUST), today, Friday, March 12, 2021, in celebration of its Initial Listing. To honor the occasion, Ouster CEO Angus Pacala, joined by Chris Taylor, Vice President, NYSE Listings and Services, rings The Opening Bell®. NYSE Lidar
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In this article BNB.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Binance is the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, handling $490 billion of spot trading volumes in March 2022. Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Binance is the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume and assets, processing $9.5 trillion worth of trades in 2021 alone. But
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Chinese tech giant Tencent released quarterly results Wednesday. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese tech giant Tencent reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue on Wednesday, helped by growth in ads within its growing “video accounts” business. Overall revenue for the quarter ended Dec. 31 came in at 144.95 billion yuan ($21.07 billion), higher than
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When it comes to the U.S. economy, confidence is key. But the banking crisis has threatened to upset how most people feel about their financial picture. “The bank problems are probably making a lot of people think twice,” said Diana Furchtgott-Roth, an economics professor at George Washington University and former chief economist at the U.S. Department of
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In this article PACW FRC COIN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Monitors display Coinbase signage during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Coinbase — Shares of
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A major Wall Street firm is ranking financial instability over inflation as the biggest economic risk for the next three months. In an interview following the Federal Reserve’s quarter point interest rate hike, Wells Fargo Securities’ Michael Schumacher suggested policymakers are underestimating how quickly tightening credit conditions could hurt the economy. related investing news Markets
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In this article XRP.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A visual representation of the digital cryptocurrency, XRP. S3studio | Getty Images The XRP cryptocurrency soared on Wednesday as investors grew hopeful that Ripple, a company closely associated with the token, would win its prolonged legal battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The
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Amid turmoil in the financial sector and uncertainty ahead, the Federal Reserve will likely approve a 0.25 percentage point increase at this week’s policy meeting.  That will mark one year since the central bank began the current rate-raising cycle.   Over the last 12 months, inflation spiked to a 40-year high and only recently started
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In the era of social media influencers, some investors are turning to platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram for answers to their most pressing financial concerns. But advisors recommend scrutiny when seeking guidance online — especially when weighing money decisions with the possibility of harmful consequences. “Because social media is democratized and everybody has a
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Finland has been named the happiest country in the world — again. The Nordic country topped the “World Happiness Report 2023,” published this week by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which measures factors such as income, mental and physical health and societal generosity. According to the report: “Finland continues to occupy the top
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