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Economy

“A $560 Billion Property Warning Hits Banks From NY to Tokyo”

“…New York Community Bancorp’s decisions to slash its dividend and stockpile reserves sent its stock down a record 38% on Wednesday, with the fallout dragging the shares to a 23-year low on Thursday. The selling bled overnight into Europe and… Continue Reading…

Precious Metals

“Gold Demand to Hit Record With Central-Bank Buying, WGC Says”

“Overall consumption climbed by about 3% to 4,899 tons last year, supported by strong demand in the opaque over-the-counter market, as well as from sustained central-bank buying, according to the WGC’s full-year report. That’s the highest total figure in data… Continue Reading…

Business

“UPS to Cut 12,000 Jobs and Mandate Return to Offices Five Days a Week”

https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/ups-to-cut-12-000-jobs-as-delivery-business-slows-d832f1d2?siteid=yhoof2 The article is behind a paywall so I’ll just speak about the title. It seems like UPS isn’t doing to well. The order to return to offices is because of commercial real estate offices they rented. It’s a waste… Continue Reading…

Stocks

“Billionaire Carl Icahn Has $9.9 Billion Invested in These 5 High-Yield Dividend Stocks”

1. Icahn Enterprises LP 2. CVR Energy3. Southwest Gas Holdings4. FirstEnergy5. International Flavors & Fragrances https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-carl-icahn-9-9-105000752.html I’m can’t copy and paste the entire article so I just listed the 5 stocks he’s invested in. The majority of his stock picks… Continue Reading…

Energy

“One activist investor is taking on BP, urging the oil giant to scale back green pledges”

“Activist investor Bluebell Capital Partners is pushing for BP to urgently change tack, saying it is “highly debatable” whether the oil major’s strategy of reducing fossil fuel investments in favor of clean energy has any chance of succeeding…” https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/30/bp-activist-investor-urges-oil-giant-to-scale-back-green-pledges.html It has zero… Continue Reading…

Stocks

“The Ultimate Growth Stock to Buy With $1,000 Right Now”

“…Investment research firm Fundstrat’s Tom Lee predicts that the S&P 500 index will jump as much as 30% this year from 2023 levels. The Nasdaq-100 index is also seeing forecasts of robust gains in 2024 following the impressive 54% jump it clocked in 2023.… Continue Reading…

Business, Stocks

“Walmart Announces 3-for-1 Stock Split and 150 New Store Openings”

“Walmart has been busy. Walmart declared a 3-for-1 split Tuesday night. Then Wednesday morning, the company said it was planning to build or convert more than 150 stores within the next five years—on top of remodeling 650 stores over the… Continue Reading…

Cryptocurrencies

“DOJ and SEC unveil charges in $1.9 billion HyperFund cryptocurrency fraud”

“The Department of Justice on Monday announced criminal charges against two people and the guilty plea of a third person for orchestrating a worldwide $1.9 billion cryptocurrency Ponzi fraud scheme known as HyperFund, among other names. The Securities and Exchange Commission, in a related civil action, charged two… Continue Reading…

Business

“Is American Journalism Headed Toward an ‘Extinction-Level Event’?”

“For a few hours last Tuesday, the entire news business seemed to be collapsing all at once. Journalists at Time magazine and National Geographic announced that they had been laid off. Unionized employees at magazines owned by Condé Nast staged a one-day strike to protest imminent… Continue Reading…