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Chinese billionaire Jack Ma Seeks Stablecoin Licenses in Hong Kong and Singapore

Trade Brains

This strength stems primarily from its iron grip on the Chinese market. Stablecoins Stablecoins provide essential stability within volatile cryptocurrency markets. Asset managers like BlackRock now also offer tokenised money-market funds. Universally recognised, Alipay dominates mobile payments globally.

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Where Will Housing Go From Here? | Weekly Market Commentary | August 22, 2022

James Hendries

As the housing market slowed, so did prices. However, homes do not stay on the market long. Over the last two months, homes were on the market for an average of only 14 days, three days shorter than a year ago. Outside of the onset of the pandemic, July levels were the lowest since late 2015 when the real estate market was.

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What a Week | Weekly Market Commentary | August 1, 2022

James Hendries

These days a Federal Reserve (Fed) policy meeting alone gets a lot of headlines and has market participants on the edge of their seats. Here’s the good news: Markets liked it. Here’s the good news: Markets liked it. Fed Meeting Recap: Market Gets a Whiff of a Pivot. if the labor market remains stable.

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Weekly Market Insights – November 20, 2023

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

Weekly Market Insights: November Rally Continues Presented by Cornerstone Financial Advisory, LLC Stocks extended their November rally last week as investors cheered lower-than-forecast inflation data. The MSCI EAFE index, which tracks developed overseas stock markets, increased 3.36%. Both were below market forecasts.

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Market, Stocks, and Bonds Lessons Learned from 2022 | Weekly Market Commentary | January 9, 2023

James Hendries

Investors have been carefully dissecting Federal Reserve (Fed) officials’ words for decades, and depending on the composition of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), its bark is often worse than its bite. At the start of 2022, markets expected the upper bound of the fed funds rate to stay below 1%. Caveat emptor.

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Transcript: Ron Shaich, Au Bon Pain, Panera Bread & CAVA

The Big Picture

00:09:05 [Speaker Changed] So you licensed the spot. So the first thing I began to realize after the IPO was that the market pays for growth. And we began to develop a, a, a belief that the really important signal that needed to be read, the deeper trend was that consumers were rejecting the mass market. Yeah, yeah, sure.

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Managing Volatility | Weekly Market Commentary | July 18, 2022

James Hendries

Markets rarely give us clear skies, and there are always threats to watch for on the horizon, but the right preparation, context, and support can help us navigate anything that may lie ahead. How businesses, households, and central banks steer through the rough air will set the tone for markets over the second half of 2022. If the U.S.