K-Shaped Christmas: US High Earners Spend Freely
📋 Key Facts ✓ High earners across the US are actively spending during the holiday season. ✓ Middle-income households are facing financi...
Dec 22Financial Timeseconomics
📋 Key Facts ✓ High earners across the US are actively spending during the holiday season. ✓ Middle-income households are facing financi...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Bitcoin price briefly crossed $90,000 from $88,000 during Asian and European trading before retreating. ✓ Futures open in...
Europe’s top central banker earns almost four times more than Fed chair Jay Powell, FT analysis shows...
One very lucky lottery player from the US state of Arkansas hit the ultimate jackpot on Christmas Eve. Christmas will never be the same again!...
Spot Bitcoin ETFs extended a six-day withdrawal streak as analysts point to seasonal factors rather than weakening institutional demand....
The current jackpot is estimated to be worth $1.7 billion for the drawing on Christmas Eve Wednesday, according to Powerball....
Once a barometer of retail hype, memecoins are closing the year with shrinking liquidity, weaker participation and fading speculative momentum....
Rapid post-Christmas rally unwinds, dragging down gold and other precious metals...
Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Schwab Center for Financia...
FT poll shows preference for former Spanish and Dutch central bank heads to replace Christine Lagarde...
Tourists planning to spend Christmas in Hong Kong have fuelled a surge in guest house bookings since October, driving occupancy and room rates to their strongest levels in five years. But those arrivi...
Metaplanet’s added 4,279 BTC over Christmas to take its treasury to 35,102 BTC as its Bitcoin Income Generation business beats forecasts....
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Crumpled up losing lottery tickets sit in a wastebasket at a liquor store in California. The Powerball jackpot has surpassed $1 billion. The next drawing is on Monday. Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Strategy paused its streak of bitcoin purchases ✓ Added $748 million to its USD reserve ✓ Total f...
Jensen Huang, Jeff Bezos, and Mary Barra all started far from the top. Getty Images Many of the world's most powerful business leaders began their careers in more humble ways. From Jensen Huang workin...
Btc: 87k (0%) | btc.D: 59.0% (0%). Eth: 2975 (1%) | bnb: 855 (+1%) | sol: 124 (0%). Tom Lee bought another $130M in ETH for Christmas, and still holds $1B in cash heading into the new year. REKT drink...
Netflix began hosting NFL games on Christmas in 2024. Brooke Sutton/Getty Images NFL Christmas games have moved to Netflix and Amazon as sports start to shift to streaming. Amazon and YouTube TV lead ...
Ollie's Bargain Outlet plans to more than double its store count in the coming years. Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Ollie's Bargain Outlet was a top destination for last-minute ...
I ventured to SoHo to see the refreshed Target store. Jordan Hart/Business Insider Target debuted an immersive, redesigned SoHo store to showcase its style revamp. The SoHo location features apparel, ...