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Some banks and financial institutions offer — or are considering offering — cryptocurrency to their investing clients, a move that strengthens the bitcoin bull case despite recent volatility. Just this week, Wells Fargo (WFC) announced that it would begin to offer cryptocurrency to some clients as interest spikes once again. But the embrace of bitcoin on Wall Street is far from guaranteed. In a note Wednesday from UBS global wealth management, CIO Mark Haefele poured cold water on… Source link

Google’s annual software-focused event is fast approaching, with Google IO 2021 kicking off on May 18. The event this year is online-only, for obvious reasons, but that doesn’t mean it will be short of big announcements. Not much has been confirmed so far, but through a combination of leaks, rumors, the event schedule and past form, we have a good idea of what to expect. Below, then, you’ll find an overview of the biggest things we’re likely to see at Google IO 2021, then further down… Source link

Simplify your commute with these Google Maps tips. Angela Lang/CNET If you haven’t been using the Google Maps app,… Source link

It appears that Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary no longer thinks bitcoin (BTC-USD) is “garbage.” The chairman of O’Shares ETF told Yahoo Finance Live that he’s allocated 3% of his portfolio to the world’s largest cryptocurrency after his native Canada, and a handful of other countries, eased restrictions on institutional buying of the asset. O’Leary said he now views bitcoin as digital gold and a hedge against inflation that will appreciate over time, but he warns “there’s… Source link

Benzinga Unidex Offers a New, Unique Way to Trade DeFi Tokens The DeFi ecosystem is growing again, with its total value locked (TVL) just reaching a new all-time high at $51.78 billion yesterday, April 7th. The DeFi sector is larger than ever, with nearly a year-long steady growth. New projects are emerging all the time, and DeFi participants are in need of a top-quality, reliable place to exchange DeFi tokens. Naturally, with the whole point of DeFi being decentralized, the only exchanges… Source link

Google’s John Mueller advises site owners to be careful not to block Googlebot if they choose to block traffic from an entire country. Mueller addressed this topic twice over the past week. It came up once during the Google Search Central SEO hangout on April 9, and also came up in a Reddit thread. During the Search Central hangout, a site owner submitted a question asking Mueller about blocking a country where they’re receiving an abundance of bot traffic. Here is Mueller’s advice.

As with masks, lockdowns and seemingly everything else about the COVID-19 pandemic, Republicans and Democrats are now sharply divided over the emerging prospect of “vaccine passports” designed to provide proof of immunization against the coronavirus, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. The survey of 1,649 U.S. adults, which was conducted from April 6 to April 8, found that a significant majority of Democrats (61 percent) would favor certain businesses requiring verification of… Source link

Krispy Kreme, which announced plans this week to give a free donut to everyone who gets a free COVID-19 shot, is defending itself against some of the naysayers who think the freebie could have unintended consequences. The donut chain’s well-meaning (and literally sweet) incentive sparked some backlash on social media, with everyone from doctors to comedians pointing out that obesity — which is rampant in the U.S.— is also a prime risk category for the coronavirus. Additionally, there’s a… Source link

As $1,400 stimulus checks arrive in millions of American bank accounts, a lot of the money is likely to stay there for a while. A new Yahoo Finance–Harris Poll finds that 62% of Americans say they need more stimulus money to help pay for necessities, but only 41% expect to actually spend the money that way. The same set of respondents say they only spent 43% of the money they got from two prior rounds of stimulus, in January of this year and March of last year. So stimulus recipients may… Source link

Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Patrick Harker said Wednesday that he does not expect the Fed to raise interest rates in 2022, despite bond market bets that a rate hike could come next year. “I think we’ve got a ways to go,” Harker told Yahoo Finance in an exclusive interview on Wednesday. The yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury reached 1.47% as of Wednesday afternoon, almost 50 basis points higher than where the bond traded a month ago. Higher bond yields imply higher longer-term… Source link