The first governance vote for decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap has ended in failure, despite the proposal attracting overwhelming support of 98% of votes cast. Despite this, it fell roughly 1% short of the 40 million votes threshold needed for approval by the close of voting. The poll ended earlierRead More →
A recent paper from academics at Leiden Law School suggests that if a crypto exchange or crypto custodian goes bankrupt, investors could well lose control over their stored coins. This happened in Japan’s Mt. Gox exchange collapse, and more recently with the failure of Italy’s BitGrail exchange. Thus, it couldRead More →
U.S. stock futures fell Wednesday night, after a news conference by President Donald Trump failed to reassure investors and as a new case of coronavirus with no known origin was discovered in California. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -1.31% sank more than 300 points, and S&P 500 ES00,Read More →
As if students and parents didn’t have enough to worry about in choosing a college — academics, ambience, selectivity and, of course, cost — the political climate on U.S. campuses is becoming more of a concern. Why? Because “woke” progressivism is received wisdom in academia these days, and students whoRead More →
© Reuters. China’s largest potash producer fails in fifth bid to raise funds SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China state-owned Qinghai Salt Lake Potash Co, the country’s largest potash producer, failed to sell its assets in a fifth round of auctions on Wednesday aimed at raising funds and avoid being delisted fromRead More →
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – An attempt by Deutsche Lufthansa (DE:) to avert a planned cabin crew strike at the airline’s Germanwings unit failed on Saturday as their trade union rejected management concessions as insufficient. An offer by Lufthansa’s short-haul budget division to enter mediation and make concessions on part-time working wasRead More →
‘I’ve owned the Apple Card for 3 months…this is why it sucks’ Apple These unsatisfied customers aren’t giving the Apple Card much credit — and one writer in the popular discussion forum Reddit Inc. outlined what he describes as some of the most salient problems with the card in aRead More →
Asian markets recovered from early losses Monday, as China posted its weakest quarterly GDP growth in at least 27 years. Data on Monday showed the world’s second-largest economy expanded by 6.2% over a year earlier, down from the previous quarter’s 6.4%. The result was the slowest since the first quarterRead More →
Former hedge-fund manager Whitney Tilson isn’t shy about his bearish outlook on Tesla TSLA, -5.22% . In fact, it feels like a bit of an obsession. Tilson calls his decision to cover his short in 2014 “one of the biggest mistakes long or short of my investment career,” and, earlierRead More →
TiVo Corp. shares slid 14% Friday, after the company formally unveiled a plan to split into two separate companies, one housing its platform solutions and software and services and another that will focus on its patent portfolio. The company TIVO, -14.94% has been evaluating a range of strategic alternatives forRead More →
Bloomberg News/Landov Stephen Moore holds up a $20 bill while speaking with Bloomberg on Thursday morning. President Donald Trump, clearly angry at the Federal Reserve over last year’s interest-rate hikes, decided to push forward candidates that he’d selected himself for two remaining vacant seats on the central bank’s board ofRead More →
