The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday settled charges with BlockFi Lending over its failure to register its cryptocurrency interest account, bringing the largest ever penalty against a crypto firm. The SEC found BlockFi violated three areas of federal securities laws – including selling unregistered securities, operating as an unregistered investment company and making “material false and misleading statements” on its website that the loans were over collateralized. “This is… Source link

Top markets for Canada real estate are in Ontario (Getty) Homebuyers are used to Canada’s real estate prices being led higher by big cities like Toronto, but few anticipated what would unfold in smaller cities and towns when COVID-19 hit. The pandemic made many rethink their living situation. Working from home while being cooped up in a small condo wasn’t working, and big-city living was expensive. So, buyers sought out more space and decided to drive until they qualify, especially in Ontario… Source link

Stocks were mixed on Monday as investors eyed the escalating threat of Russian invasion in Ukraine alongside ongoing concerns over inflation and an aggressive move toward policy tightening by the Federal Reserve. The S&P 500 fluctuated between small gains and losses after last week’s roller-coaster sessions on Thursday and Friday. Treasury yields rose and the 10-year yield hovered back near 2%. Oil prices steadied after a recent run-up as Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he was… Source link

Well, the football season has finally come to an end. The Los Angeles Rams knocked off the Cincinnati Bengals, 23-20, in Super Bowl LVI. It was a heck of a game as the Rams scored the winning touchdown with just 1:25 to play and got a dramatic fourth-down stop near midfield to seal the victory. If you backed the Bengals on the point spread, they came through for you yet again. The Bengals closed as 4.5-point underdogs and covered the spread for the eighth consecutive game. And if you’re… Source link

InvestorsObserver is giving Yandex NV (YNDX) an Analyst Rating Rank of 71, meaning YNDX is ranked higher by analysts than 71% of stocks. The average price target for YNDX is $86.428 and analyst’s rate the stock as a Strong Buy. Wall Street analysts are rating YNDX a Strong Buy today. Find out what this means to you and get the rest of the rankings on YNDX! Why are Analyst Ratings Important? Fundamental research of the underlying… Source link

What a world. On Friday of last week, over the course of less than 24 hours, the UK’s competition authority provisionally closed its investigation into the Chrome Privacy Sandbox, and, separately, a coalition of top European publishers filed an antitrust complaint in the EU accusing Google of anticompetitive digital advertising practices. Never a dull moment. Here’s a rundown of what happened. Sandbox patrol After investigating Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies… Source link

(00:00) Dan Wetzel from Yahoo! Sports joins Toucher & Rich to catch the guys up with all news and controversies surrounding this year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing.  (31:40) THE STACK   CONNECT WITH TOUCHER & RICH Twitter:@Toucherandrich||@fredtoucher||@KenGriffeyRules Instagram:@Toucherandrichofficial ||@fredtoucher Twitch:twitch.tv/thesportshub 98.5 The Sports… Source link

Jio Platforms is investing $200 million in Glance, which serves media content, news and casual games on Android handsets’ lockscreen, the two said Monday, the latest in a series of bets from Mukesh Ambani’s empire as it looks to expand its offering to over 420 million telecom subscribers it reaches in the South Asian market. Reliance Industries, the parent firm of Jio Platforms and run by Asia’s richest man Ambani, said its investment is part of the InMobi… Source link

Yandex YNDX is set to give its latest quarterly earnings report on Tuesday, 2022-02-15. Here’s what investors need to know before the announcement. Analysts estimate that Yandex will report an earnings per share (EPS) of $0.17. Yandex bulls will hope to hear the company to announce they’ve not only beaten that estimate, but also to provide positive guidance, or forecasted growth, for the next quarter. New investors should note that it is sometimes not an earnings beat or miss that most… Source link

Google has announced new features to Chrome that can help you find information and get things done easily while navigating the web, the company said in a blog post. Few of these features are available to the public instantly but others are only available in the beta version.  Here are the key features that Google introduced for its Chrome browser. Journeys The Journeys feature of Chrome groups together your search history based on topic or intent. (Image: Google) With Journeys rolling out,… Source link