Category: Business
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Stock mania has gripped the US throughout the year. And now it’s spreading to Asia, where trading volumes are rising far faster than even in the US: The value of stock trades matched on exchanges, in what is known as electronic order-book trading, gives a sense of the trend. Such…
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A huge untold story of the world today is how far Europe has fallen behind the US economically in recent decades: Here are the 2019 numbers (in 2019 dollars, again World Bank) US: $65,297. UK $42,330. That’s 35% less than the US. Or, the US is 54% better off than…
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Congress is investigating whether traders on Reddit’s Wallstreetbets colluded to drive up the price of GameStop, possibily illegally. But two major legal precedents are on the side of Wallstreetbets: In the DRW case, the CFTC argued the defendants’ orders for a swap contract were “inherently manipulative” because the defendants “understood…
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As Rocket Companies jumped over 70% yesterday, short sellers are feeling the pain: A surge in the shares of U.S. mortgage provider Rocket Companies on Tuesday is estimated to have inflicted losses of $813 million on short-sellers, data from financial analytics firm Ortex showed. More here. Given that this is…
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I came across an interesting stat today: the estimated value of all the gold in the world is $7.5 trillion. Gold and bitcoin are often compared as stores of value with a limited supply. What if bitcoin became as widely accepted and highly valued as gold? At the current market…
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When it comes to storing value, what could be more iconic than Fort Knox, where the US keeps a large portion of its gold reserves? It’s heavily guarded and contains gold worth over $290 billion. But that along with all other US reserves, at $456 billion, are worth less than…
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Shares in Rocket Companies jumped over 70% today, and that optimism is also reflected in the options market: RKT stock was one of the most active stocks in the options market yesterday with total volume of over 365,000 contracts. Call option volume outpaced puts by a ratio of 6-to-1. Overall…
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Rocket Companies, a mortgage originator, has returned solid profits in 2020’s hot real estate market: Boosted by the boom in mortgage refinancing activity, the company had $15.7 billion in total revenue, or more than triple its $5.1 billion revenue in 2019. Its net income, or profit, skyrocketed to $9.4 billion…
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Government bond yields are increasing in many countries, including the US. Australia is already taking action. Europe and Japan also appear to be close: This morning, Australian three-year government bond yields reached as high as 0.15% at the market open, far above the 0.1% ceiling established by the Reserve Bank…
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I started this post planning to write about how silly Dogecoin is. For the uninitiated, Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency based on a meme of a Shiba Inu. Its price has risen by more than a factor of 20 in the last year. Some recent gains have come from Elon Musk…
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