16 minutes ago | Calculated Risk

Weekend: • Schedule for Week of January 24, 2021 • FOMC Preview Monday: • At 8:30 AM ET, Chicago Fed National Activity Index for December. This is a composite index of other...
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Stock futures rise ahead of the busiest week of earnings

4 hours ago | CNBC

U.S. stock index futures were slightly higher during overnight trading on Sunday, ahead of the busiest week of earnings on Wall Street.
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Australia Used-Vehicle Prices Finish 2020 With Another Record

5 hours ago | Economy

Wholesale used-vehicle prices were up 35% from where they ended 2019.
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Stocks will fall at least 30% in a drawn-out bear market, investor David Tice warns

5 hours ago | CNBC

Former Prudent Bear Fund manager David Tice is cautious due to Washington policies, an overvalued market and Covid-19 vaccine concerns.
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Overall bitcoin-related crime fell last year, but one type of crypto hack is booming

6 hours ago | CNBC

Crypto-related crime fell last year to a small fraction of overall trading volume. But some crimes boomed as criminals exploited people working from home.
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China Passes U.S. As No. 1 Destination For Foreign Investment As Coronavirus Upends Global Economy

6 hours ago | Forbes

Foreign direct investment in the United States plummeted 49% in 2020 while investment in China rose 4%.
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The Recovery Will Be Weaker And It Will Take Longer

7 hours ago | Forbes

Markets continue to ignore economic reality and continue to be focused on a rosy set of assumptions about a rapidly approaching post-virus period with demand so pent-up that...
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Platforms, Presidents, & Politics - What The First Amendment Requires

7 hours ago | Forbes

'De-Platforming' by social media firms ironically has conservatives decrying corporate power and progressives defending corporate prerogative. This irony highlights an urgent...
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Three Red Flags Money Managers Are Watching For In 2021

8 hours ago | Forbes

The stock market reacted very positively to the new administration and with strong earnings reported so far some investor are thinking that the stock market only goes up. A...
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Here Are The Biggest Risks To Derail An Economic Recovery In 2021, Goldman Sachs Warns

8 hours ago | Forbes

The investment giant is expecting GDP growth of 6.6% in 2021, unless any of these three things happen.
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Radian: U.S. Housing Market ‘Resilient' During Challenging Year

There is no question that 2020 will go down as challenging year in the history books, across all segments of the markets and everyday life. One thing that remained resilient... Read more ...

The stock market is in risk-on mode as a sharp decline in COVID-19 cases...

Summary List Placement A sharp decline in COVID-19 cases is leading to a newfound risk-on mode for the stock market, Fundstrat's Tom Lee said in a note on Thursday. The bullish... Read more ...

What you need to know on the markets this week: Biden's spending plans...

Summary List Placement Here are the big themes we're looking at in the coming week, plus a chart of Big Tech performance around the world. Joe Biden takes office with a... Read more ...

This day trader just made the biggest trade of his career exploiting the...

Summary List Placement Ryan Hasson, a senior trader at Kershner Trading Group/SMB Capital, just made the biggest trade of his career on an over-the-counter bitcoin stock. Five... Read more ...

An early bitcoin investor says the best time to buy is when nobody's talking...

Summary List Placement An early bitcoin adopter says the best time to buy is when no one's talking about it. He started out with an initial purchase of 2.5 bitcoins in 2013... Read more ...

US stock market bubble may pop soon after Wall Street's coronavirus bonanza...

The second-largest US lender, Bank of America, has warned that the “extreme rally” seen after the market crash triggered by the pandemic formed a bubble in asset prices, and it... Read more ...

Existing-Home Sales: Increase Reaches Highest Level Since Before Great Recession

December hit another historic peak for existing-home sales, experiencing the highest level since 2006 after rising 0.7 percent from the previous month. According to the latest... Read more ...

Zillow: Home Values Continue to Shatter Growth Records

Home prices have been growing for some time, and they continued their “meteoric rise” in December, according to Zillow®'s latest Real Estate Market Report. According to Zillow... Read more ...

Bitcoin whales: what are they - and how are they affecting the...

Summary List Placement A bitcoin whale is a term that refers to individuals or entities that hold large amounts of bitcoin, according to Investopedia. There are around 1,000... Read more ...

China's century: Yuan to dethrone US dollar as major global currency, trend...

China has become the only major economy left standing after the coronavirus pandemic rattled global trade and is set to strip the US of its leading positions soon, Gerald... Read more ...