Author: super@dmin
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Jeff Reeves’s Strength in Numbers: How to invest for income when bonds pay pennies on the dollar
With the U.S. 10-year Treasury note yielding around 2%, it pays to get creative, writes Jeff Reeves.
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Blackstone, Lego owner in $6B Madame Tussauds deal
The family behind toy giant Lego A/S is teaming up with Blackstone Group LP and a Canadian pension fund to buy the owner of Madame Tussauds wax museums and Legoland theme parks in a deal that values the company at GBP4.77 billion ($6.04 billion).
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Asia Markets: Asian markets slip as G-20 meeting kicks off in Japan
President Donald Trump met with the leaders of Japan, Germany and India on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in Osaka, Japan, and said he was optimistic about making trade deals with all three of those countries.
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Snap shorts are down $1 billion in paper losses this year
Snap Inc.’s recent rally has burned short sellers, who have been rushing to cover their bearish positions as shares of the social-media company climbed.
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Cryptos: Bitcoin internet searches have a stunning correlation with bitcoin prices
It’s a crypto chicken-and-egg story for bitcoin. Internet searches for bitcoin are on the rise and that has come as bitcoin prices have been rallying.
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JPMorgan and Capital One had to lower shareholder payouts to get Fed approval
Capital One Financial and JPMorgan Chase had to reduce their planned shareholder payouts in order to get the Federal Reserve to approve the distributions, the central bank said Thursday.
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Brett Arends’s ROI: Bitcoin’s crash hurts the latecomers once again
Just what is the value of bitcoin? Maybe ask a ‘bitcoin analyst.’
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Russell rebalance: Large U.S. companies are getting bigger while the small wither away
FTSE Russell will rebalance its suite of indexes at the close of trade Friday, and changes reflect several broad trends in equity markets over the past year.
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The New York Post: Watch as Paul Manafort arrives at Manhattan court for arraignment
President Trump’s former campaign manager was dressed in blue scrubs while handcuffed as he was led into Manhattan Supreme Court.
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Economic Report: Mortgage rates slump to a 2 1/2-year low
Rates for home loans fell again, taking the most popular product to a fresh low, but with some questions about how long the good times for borrowers can go on.