A little over 10 years ago, I had a curious encounter on the metro in Washington, D.C., that ended up changing my life. While mindlessly scrolling on my iPhone to pass the time, I noticed a man cruising on his laptop in the seat across from me. He was wearing a black winter beanie that said “Palantir” on it. Curious about what it could mean, I went onto Google and searched for Palantir. Start Your Mornings Smarter! Wake up with Breakfast news in your inbox every market day. Sign Up For Free » Unbeknownst to me, Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) was a…
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Baku, Azerbaiijan — A new set of global carbon credit trade market standards has been agreed to during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, or COP29, following years of deadlock. Some analysts say that under the guidelines, a bigger number of entities could join a more regulated voluntary carbon credit trading system to reduce emissions. Known as Article 6.4, delegates agreed on the rules for establishing a system that allows trade in carbon credit between individual countries and companies, under the supervision of a centralized U.N. body. These include how to validate, verify and issue credits. Another…
Investing.com – XRP was trading at $1.0514 by 13:48 (18:48 GMT) on the Investing.com Index on Sunday, down 10.52% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage loss since April 13. The move downwards pushed XRP’s market cap down to $60.1775B, or 2.00% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, XRP’s market cap was $83.4407B. XRP had traded in a range of $1.0057 to $1.1575 in the previous twenty-four hours. Over the past seven days, XRP has seen a rise in value, as it gained 73.2%. The volume of XRP traded in the twenty-four hours to time…
The Worth of Art: Financial Tools for the Art Markets. 2023. Arturo Cifuentes and Ventura Charlin. Columbia University Press. “Sorry, but we do not have a magical equation for predicting which artists will be hot next year or whether Andy Warhol’s Marilyns will outperform the S&P 500 in the next five years.” So write Arturo Cifuentes and Ventura Charlin in The Worth of Art: Financial Tools for the Art Markets. What, then, can readers hope to accomplish with the financial tools for navigating the art market that the book’s subtitle promises? The answer: Objectives that are actually achievable, such as…
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Slow-moving Tropical Depression Sara unleashed major rainfall over Honduras this weekend, causing at least one death while forcing thousands to flee their homes and destroying bridges and a highway due to flooding, officials said on Sunday. Airports in the capital Tegucigalpa and industrial hub San Pedro Sula were shuttered, according to civil aviation officials. Sara churned to the northwest where it made landfall on neighboring Belize on Sunday, home to ancient ruins, beach resorts and coral reefs popular with tourists. It also threatened major flooding and swollen rivers. The center of the storm is currently located some…
President Joe Biden’s administration has allowed Ukraine to use U.S.-made weapons to strike deep into Russia, two U.S. officials and a source familiar with the decision said on Sunday, in a significant reversal of Washington’s policy in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.Ukraine plans to conduct its first long-range attacks in the coming days, the sources said, without revealing details due to operational security concerns.The move comes two months before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20 and follows months of pleas by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to allow Ukraine’s military to use U.S. weapons to hit Russian military targets far from…
The restaurant chain says $65 million of that money will go directly to the hardest-hit franchises after the recent E. coli outbreak tied to onions on the chain’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers. Source link
The St. Louis Cardinals clearly are making changes and the first base position is going to look different for the first time since 2018. Superstar first baseman Paul Goldschmidt joined the Cardinals ahead of the 2019 season and has been with the team for the last six seasons. He has been a star with the Cardinals and even took home the 2022 National League Most Valuable Player Award.He now is 37 years old, though, and clearly is nearing the end of his career. Goldschmidt is a free agent now but won’t be returning to St. Louis with the club already…
Tech executives may be warming to Donald Trump’s return to the White House as his quick win sparks optimism for more spending and dealmaking. “Business does a lot better when uncertainty goes away,” IBM (IBM) CEO Arvind Krishna told me at Yahoo Finance’s Invest conference. “We are hopeful that there is going to be a lot more innovation and less regulation. Those are both good for businesses across the board.” Krishna believes a lighter regulatory environment will prompt clients to make investment decisions more quickly and also lay the groundwork for a more favorable deal environment. “If we have more…
Investing.com – EOS was trading at $0.6179 by 14:11 (19:11 GMT) on the Investing.com Index on Sunday, down 10.51% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage loss since July 4. The move downwards pushed EOS’s market cap down to $945.9028M, or 0.05% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, EOS’s market cap was $17.5290B. EOS had traded in a range of $0.6161 to $0.6870 in the previous twenty-four hours. Over the past seven days, EOS has seen a rise in value, as it gained 4.42%. The volume of EOS traded in the twenty-four hours to time…