Posts From Eric Whitman
Premarket: 6 things to know before the bell
1. Fed rates decision: The US Federal Reserve is expected to raise its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point for the third time this year, to a range of 2% to 2.25%. If it happens, it
The future of Sky Bars and Sweethearts is in limbo after the NECCO factory closed this week. The NECCO plant in Revere, Massachusetts, was shut suddenly Tuesday by its owner, Round Hill Investments LLC, The investment company, owned by billionaire
Lime, the bike and scooter sharing company, is raising about $ 250 million in a funding round led by Google Ventures, according to a person familiar with the deal, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public.
Looks like the New York Stock Exchange wants to be ahead of the pack. The owner of the NYSE has been building an online trading platform to allow its institutional investors to buy and hold Bitcoin, according to The New
The Vietnamese government has weighed in on a $ 658 million alleged cryptocurrency scam in the country, with Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue urging six ministries to “quickly consider and tackle” the issue. The scam apparently entailed fraudulent initial
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Google has appealed against a ruling by India’s competition watchdog that found it guilty of “search bias”, while the website that brought the case also challenged the outcome, complaining the online search giant had got off
Premarket: 7 things to know before the bell
The crowd, most of them wearing masks, squinted up at the raft of multicolored balloons floating near the ceiling, trying to make out the silhouettes of the coins suspended inside each one. And then, against the backdrop of Hong Kong’s
Japan has forced two cryptocurrency exchanges to halt trading as it cracks down on an industry that was shaken recently by a $ 530 million cyber heist. The country’s Financial Services Agency on Thursday ordered Bitstation and FSHO to
One stock has been able to steer clear of all the recent market turbulence: Boeing. Shares of the aerospace and defense giant are up more than 20% so far in 2018 — making it the best performer in the
Stock futures are tumbling again
Dow futures fell more than 200 points Friday, capping off a rollercoaster week on Wall Street. “We’ve got a smorgasbord of negativity this morning,” said Ken Odeluga, market analyst with City Index in London. “It’s been pretty nervous all week