Shipping containers are piled high at the port of Los Angeles. (Mario Tama / Getty Images) Thirty-thousand high-end snow globes are trapped in San Pedro Bay, split between two shipping containers on two ships in the idle flotilla offshore. One ship arrived in late September; the other in late October. They’ve been stuck at anchor […]
Read MoreGlobal oil markets turned red quickly after Black Friday. WTI futures in New York and Brent in London plummeted more than 12% from their pre-Thanksgiving closes during the crash. They both recovered somewhat by the close, but for Brent Crude Futures, it was still the seventh-worst one-day drop in history. Brent crude settled near $73 […]
Read MoreBill Gates is betting big on US farmland – should you? Bill Gates is best known for revolutionizing personal computing, but lately he’s gotten back to the land. The Microsoft co-founder and his former wife, Melinda, are the top farmland owners in the country, having acquired more than 269,000 acres over the past decade. That […]
Read MoreIt develops, manufactures, and sells photosensitive liquids and films for screen printing, awards and recognition, and dye sublimation markets worldwide. It operates through four segments: Chromaline, IKONICS Imaging, Digital Texturing, and Advanced Material Solutions. IKNX $40.7000 2.5000 % 6.5400 Ikonics Corp Sector : Industrial Products Industry : Machinery – Printing Signal Short Term Trend Long […]
Read MoreOMG, omicron! The new, fast-spreading B.1.1.529 strain of coronavirus declared a variant of concern by the World Health Organization roiled global markets on Black Friday, raising concerns about how the economy and Wall Street may perform in the coming week, following a selloff that wiped out November gains for the S&P 500 index WHO said that […]
Read MoreFamed investor Jeremy Grantham says the next decline will be ‘bigger and better’ than anything in US history — here are 3 of his safe haven stock picks Jeremy Grantham, legendary investor and pioneer of index fund investing, expects today’s sky-scraping stock market to come crashing back to earth. Grantham recently told Bloomberg that investors, […]
Read MoreAssertio Holdings, Inc. (ASRT) Assertio Holdings, Inc., a commercial pharmaceutical company, provides medicines in the areas of neurology, hospital, and pain and inflammation. The company’s pharmaceutical products include INDOCIN, an oral solution and a suppository form for the treatment of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, including acute flares of chronic disease; moderate to severe ankylosing […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Black Friday turned red very quickly for global oil markets. The day after Thanksgiving has been choppy before — fewer traders can mean more volatility — but nothing like this year. The prospect of the freshly named Omicron variant of Covid derailing the world’s fight against the pandemic saw an early morning sell-off […]
Read MoreAfter its launch in 2009, Bitcoin ushered in a new era of blockchain technology and digital currencies. Given all the talk about Bitcoin, you’d think it would be everywhere. Is that really true? How much is Bitcoin worth? Perhaps more importantly, how much of the world’s money is in bitcoins? With the price of BTC […]
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