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The S&P 500 last hit a new all-time high on January 3, 2022. The market has been slowly but surely working its way back to new highs but we’ve been underwater for nearly two years now: The market is within spitting distance of new highs but stocks have gone nowhere for almost two years. We’re a little less than four years into the 2020s and half of those years have seen no new highs but there have already.
Image source: Getty Images If you've had your eye on buying a house lately, you've likely felt the sting of opening the Zillow app and finding suboptimal homes for sale at suborbital prices. You can thank both the pandemic-fueled home-buying frenzy and soaring mortgage interest rates for the sticker shock. The average selling price for a home has jumped 27.7% over the past three years.
Blackstone Inc. is the frontrunner to win a roughly $17bn portfolio of commercial-property loans from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s sale of Signature Bank debt, according to people familiar with the matter. Regulators seized the failed bank in March and have been marketing loans backed by retail, industrial, office and apartment buildings. FDIC officials are now in final discussions to declare Blackstone’s bid as bringing the lowest costs to the agency, some of the people said.
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Image source: Getty Images Many people are in the habit of using payment platforms like Venmo for personal or small business use. These platforms make it easy for independent contractors and individuals to get paid. The IRS wants to crack down on third-party payment reporting and was initially planning to require these platforms to issue a 1099 form to anyone who received more than $600 in payments in 2023.
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Shares of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) gave up 1.5% of their value on Tuesday, but are getting all those losses back -- and more -- on Wednesday morning, rising 2.1% through 10:45 a.m. ET. The e-commerce giant initially stumbled on reports that company founder Jeff Bezos had gifted some 1.6 million Amazon shares (worth nearly $240 million) to charity, and might be preparing to sell between 8 million and 10 million more shares in the near future -- more than $1 billion in stock sales.
I’ve been writing about how demographics are destiny in the housing market for nearly a decade (see here, here and here). This has mainly been from the perspective of millennials because that’s my demographic. Following the Great Financial Crisis, many pundits assumed millennials would never settle down, own a home or buy a car. They would simply live in a big city and eschew the typical path to the suburbs.
Prima Assicurazioni, an insurance start-up backed by some of the world’s largest private equity firms, is seeking indicative offers this week to bring in a new minority investor and raise fresh cash, two people close to the matter told Reuters. A deal could value Prima Assicurazioni, which sells online motor and home insurance policies supplied by third parties, at around 1bn euros ($1.1bn), one of the people said.
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Once a rising star among Alibaba's (NYSE: BABA) diversified businesses, Alibaba Cloud has fallen from grace lately, with revenue growth coming to a halt. And just when investors hoped that a complete spin-off of Alibaba Cloud from the group would rekindle growth and unlock shareholder value, the parent company's recent decision to cancel the spin-off further confused investors.
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Image source: Getty Images If you could win thousands of dollars for keeping your cash in the bank , would you save more? That's the question that credit unions and fintech firms alike are asking. And for many Americans, the answer appears to be a resounding "Yes!" Prize-linked savings accounts, which offer a cash lottery just for depositing your money, are on the rise.
After some shuffling of its business in the last couple of years, small IoT (Internet of Things) chip stock Semtech (NASDAQ: SMTC) has fully completed a boom-to-bust cycle. After nearly doubling in value from 2020 to late 2021, Semtech stock is now down more than 80% from those late 2021 all-time-highs and remains near multi-decade lows. Management is predicting sales to remain relatively stable in the next quarter, but profit margins to dip further as global economic worry mounts.
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Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been in red-hot form on the stock market in 2023. Shares of the semiconductor giant have more than tripled so far with eye-popping gains of 237%, which has taken its market cap well beyond the $1 trillion mark. Nvidia currently has a market cap of $1.2 trillion, up from just over $350 billion at the beginning of the year. This massive surge is a result of the terrific acceleration in the company's growth recently thanks to its dominant position in the artificial intelli
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Image source: Getty Images There's a reason so many buyers have struggled to purchase a home -- prices are high at a time when mortgages are expensive to sign. Mortgage lenders slashed their rates in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic fueled a broad economic crisis. But mortgage rates have risen sharply since early 2022, putting more of a strain on buyers at a time when home prices are high.
Image source: Getty Images If you managed to secure a mortgage loan in the salad days of 3% rates in 2020 and 2021, you might feel very lucky indeed. As of this writing, the average rate on a 30-year fixed loan is sitting at 7.44%, according to Freddie Mac, a figure more than double the rock-bottom rate many people were fortunate enough to scoop up just a few short years ago.
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