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Robinhood (HOOD) shares were up more than 7% by mid-session ahead of the trading platform’s first earnings report since becoming a public company. The results are highly anticipated given its retail user base and the stock’s wild ride following its IPO. This is what the Street is expecting, based on estimates compiled by Bloomberg.  Adjusted earnings (loss) per share: -.26 cents Revenue: $559.5 million In line with the company’s “democratize finance for all” theme, the trading platform has… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin hit its highest level since mid-May and continues to build momentum. The largest cryptocurrency gained Sunday for an 11th day in the past 12 and traded up to $42,606, its highest since May 18. Market watchers have pointed to $40,000 as an important inflection point. It was up about 0.5% at $41,739 as of 6:13 a.m. New York time on Sunday. “A run like this certainly suggests some flow backing,” said Jonathan Cheesman, head of over-the-counter and institutional sales at… Source link

Reuters U.S. new home sales hit 14-month low amid supply constraints Sales of new U.S. single-family homes tumbled to a 14-month low in June and sales in the prior month were weaker than initially estimated, the latest signs that expensive lumber and shortages of other building materials were hurting the housing market. The third straight monthly decline in sales reported by the Commerce Department on Monday followed news last week that permits for future homebuilding dropped to a nine-month… Source link

The Republican Party finds itself in befuddling circumstances as former President Donald Trump prepares to hold political rallies again, beginning this weekend with an appearance in North Carolina. Trump was one of the only Republican candidates to lose a high-profile competitive race in 2020. GOP candidates won the majority of close races across the country, in the U.S. Senate, in the U.S. House and in state legislatures and gubernatorial races. Yet the party remains stuck with Trump as its… Source link

‘Bitcoin prices continue to recover from their recent hangover,’ said one expert. Photo: Getty Images Cryptocurrencies are continuing to recover from the weekend sell-off, with bitcoin crossing the $40,000 (£28,258) mark. It still remains far from its record-high of $63,000 though, which it hit earlier this year. Bitcoin (BTC-USD) was up 4.2% to trade at $40,500 on Wednesday morning. Ethereum (ETH-USD), the second-biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, was up roughly 9.4%, trading at $2,896…. Source link

Wall Street benchmarks advanced on Thursday, with investors reacting to jobless claims falling to a new COVID-19 era low, but wary of rising inflation may force the Federal Reserve to normalize monetary policy sooner rather than later.   Good news on the labor market came from government data that showed workers filing for new unemployment benefits fell further below 500,000 in the latest week. Jobless claims set their lowest levels in more than a year as the labor market continued to heal… Source link

undefined It is unclear exactly why supporters have decided 20 April, which is also International Weed Day, will be celebrated as ‘doge day’. Photo: Getty Images Bitcoin and ethereum on Tuesday extended price declines that began last week, while Dogecoin maintained its rally on what supporters have dubbed ‘DogeDay’. Bitcoin (BTC-USD) was down 4.6% to trade at $54,763.19 (£39,152.67) by 9.20am in London. Ethereum (ETH-USD), the second largest cryptocurrency, was down around 5.3% to… Source link

Bloomberg As Sanjeev Gupta Rose From Trader to Tycoon, Several Banks Backed Away (Bloomberg) — British industrialist Sanjeev Gupta’s companies seemed to be prospering until his main lender, Greensill Capital, imploded last month. But long before Greensill collapsed, several banks had cut off the commodity trading business of Gupta’s Liberty House Group.Four banks stopped working with Gupta’s commodity trading business, starting in 2016, after they became concerned about what they… Source link

Federal authorities are warning state and local law enforcement about threats of possible violence by right-wing extremists at a series of protests planned for later this month in Washington and in state capitols, according to an FBI document obtained by Yahoo News. The situational information report, produced by the Minneapolis field office of the FBI, is based on information provided by what it describes as “collaborative sources,” and was issued the week before a mob of Trump… Source link

(Bloomberg) — First it was DoorDash Inc. And now it’s Airbnb Inc. In a 24-hour period, the two startups went public and their valuations skyrocketed, a sign that both companies could have raised a lot more money than they did. Airbnb opened 115% above its initial public offering price, the biggest debut rally on record for a large U.S. listing. Had the shares priced closer to where they started trading — at $146 instead of $68 apiece — Airbnb could have raised $4 billion more for the… Source link