Bloomberg Biden Team Boosts Effort to Shield Power Grid From Hackers (Bloomberg) — The Biden administration is escalating efforts to safeguard the U.S. power grid from hackers, developing a plan to better coordinate with industry to counter threats and respond to cyber attacks, according to people familiar with the matter.Top administration officials, including Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Deputy National Security Adviser Anne Neuberger, briefed top utility industry executives on… Source link
Read More »High school kid challenges retired NBA player, and it goes exactly how you'd expect – Yahoo Sports
Here’s an important message that everyone needs to hear: Do not challenge a current or former professional athlete to a contest in his or her sport. You will certainly lose, and lose badly. And if you are foolish enough to challenge a pro to a contest in his or her sport, make sure no one’s recording it. These are two lessons a high schooler learned the hard way. Brimming with confidence, he challenged 11-year NBA vet Brian Scalabrine to a game of one-on-one, and even put up a pair of his… Source link
Read More »Tesla stock is off its high, but it’s not ‘on sale’: trader
TipRanks Analysts Say ‘Buy the Pullback’ in These 3 Stocks The savvy investor knows that the best time to buy is when a stock is priced low – it’s just the old game of ‘buy low and sell high,’ the age-old advice on how to make money. But with the S&P at near record levels, it’s hard to tell when a stock is priced low. The key is just to take them as individuals. The stock market is the world’s greatest real-time experiment in averaging over large mass numbers. The markets as a… Source link
Read More »Bitcoin hit an all-time high — Here’s why Warren Buffett still won’t touch it
Bitcoin hit an all-time high — Here’s why Warren Buffett still won’t touch it The past year has been groundbreaking for Bitcoin. And just recently the cryptocurrency hit an all-time high: Over $61,000 for one unit — late-to-the-party investors bemoaned having missed out. So what does the world’s most famous investor think of Bitcoin? It’s “probably rat poison squared,” Warren Buffett once said. If you listen to the billionaire, cryptocurrency may not be the big financial opportunity… Source link
Read More »Bitcoin hits $60,000 in record high
Bloomberg Trader Arrested as WallStreetBets Phenomenon Finds Echo in Japan (Bloomberg) — A retail investor buys shares in a small company, touts his position on social media and inspires a horde of followers to do the same. The stock price goes to the moon — before crashing back to earth.It’s an all-too-familiar tale to anyone watching the market in 2021, but this wasn’t GameStop Corp. It wasn’t even in America. And it happened in 2018.It was in the Japanese city of Osaka, where a day… Source link
Read More »Bitcoin Spikes to New Record High Over $60K
Bloomberg Bitcoin Hits Another Record as Largest Token Extends Rally (Bloomberg) — Bitcoin is picking up momentum once again, briefly topping $60,000 for the first time amid optimism that the largest digital token will achieve wider adoption.The cryptocurrency was at $59,819 as of 10:08 a.m. New York time, bouncing back from a rout at the end of February following a previous peak set that month. It’s benefiting from optimism in financial markets after President Joe Biden signed the $1.9… Source link
Read More »Forget Buying the Dip, MicroStrategy Buys $15M of Bitcoin as It Nears the All-Time High
Bloomberg Bitcoin Hoard Fuels One of World’s Biggest Crypto Fortunes (Bloomberg) — It’s the latest corporate strategy for companies from Tesla Inc. to Square Inc.: shift a portion of cash reserves into cryptocurrencies as digital assets become more mainstream.Still, few have gone as far as MicroStrategy Inc. Eight months after its first investment, the software firm has a Bitcoin holding worth more than $5 billion.Shares of MicroStrategy have rocketed almost 600% since mid-July, boosting… Source link
Read More »Futures open higher after Dow reaches record high, House passes $1.9T stimulus bill
TipRanks Raymond James: These 3 Stocks Are Poised to Surge by at Least 50% In a recent note on the state of the stock markets, Raymond James equity strategist Tavis McCourt points out a series of policy factors that are playing a role in the current market volatility; the situation is more complex, perhaps, than most of us have been willing to admit. McCourt notes permutations of the SLR rule, political dynamics on the Senate Banking Committee, and the regulatory atmosphere towards potential… Source link
Read More »U.S. Inflation Expectations Hit Decade High as Yields Resurge
(Bloomberg) — U.S. Treasuries tumbled anew on Wednesday, driving long-maturity yields to their highest levels this week and pushing up inflation expectations as traders continued to price in a quicker economic rebound from the pandemic. Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields surged as much as 10.3 basis points to 1.495%, a move reminiscent of last Thursday’s startling selloff in government debt. Meanwhile, a market proxy for the anticipated annual inflation rate for the next half-decade… Source link
Read More »Biden asks high court to drop 2 Trump-era Medicaid cases
The Guardian Covid has killed 500,000 in the US. That’s more than the population of Miami This tragedy was preventable. It happened because Republican politicians believe some people are worth more than others ‘Coronavirus is different, generating neither equal suffering nor equal concern.’ Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP Five hundred thousand deaths can be hard to picture. But we have to try. Imagine, for instance, that everyone in Miami, Colorado Springs or Minneapolis died in the course… Source link
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