Category: Activity

November 13, 2018

For investors, it may be a case of nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. So says CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer, who warned Monday of a very “serious correction” in a day that saw the Dow skid 600 points […]

November 12, 2018

What the heck happened to oil prices? But more significantly, what does it mean for the broader stock market and the global economy? That is what has some Wall Street investors scratching their noggins, as crude futures and U.S. stocks […]

November 7, 2018

Bitcoin prices moved higher Wednesday, trading above $6,500 for the first time since mid-October. A single bitcoin BTCUSD, +1.13% was last changing hands at $6,523.57, up 1.3% since Tuesday at 5 p.m. Eastern Time on the Kraken exchange. The move […]

November 6, 2018

The platform, which is backed by “King of the Disruptors”, Brett King, has been doing pretty well. It was founded in 2014, but has been trading since 2017. Since that time it has transacted more than €34 million to date […]

November 5, 2018

Bitcoin opens Monday where it has kicked off the majority of recent sessions, trading mostly unchanged. Early Monday a single bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.10% was fetching $6,423.21, down 0.1% since 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday on the Kraken crypto exchange. […]

November 2, 2018

Bitcoin prices are trading mostly unchanged Friday, but on track to log back-to-back weekly losses, and the fifth over the past six weeks. In early Friday trading, the price of one bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.35% was last changing hands at $6,359.11, […]

November 1, 2018

European stocks saw mixed trading action Thursday to kick off November, with the pan-European index rising, while London’s equity market retreated amid a surge in the pound following reports that an accord on Brexit may be at hand. How did […]

October 31, 2018

Ten years ago, as Lehman Brothers was declaring bankruptcy and the global economy was lurching into recession, the idea for an alternative currency was being quietly built online. On October 31, 2008 bitcoin was born — and in the past […]

October 30, 2018

The current pricing environment for property/casualty insurers is “modestly positive,” with commercial and personal auto rates rising by mid-to-high single digits, homeowners and commercial property rates rising by low-to-mid-single digits, and commercial casualty rates showing smaller changes, according to a […]

October 29, 2018

Another insurance company has gone to federal court in New Mexico to avoid paying millions of dollars in claims from victims whose trust funds and savings were embezzled. The Albuquerque Journal reported the Cincinnati Insurance Co., based in Fairfield, Ohio, […]