Coinbase Inc. , one of the leading cryptocurrency exchange and digital wallet services, has hired Tina Bhatnagar to help it cope with overwhelming customer demand. Bhatnagar will be Coinbase's vice president of operations and technology, the San Francisco-based company said in a blog post
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President Donald Trump dove back into negotiations over immigration legislation on Monday, hours after the Senate indicated it would move to end a three-day government shutdown. The president met for lunch with six conservative Senate Republicans — Tom Cotton of Arkansas, John Cornyn of Texas
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Due to unaffordable prices in Australia's most expensive housing markets and lacklustre wage growth, many aspiring first-home buyers are turning to alternative methods of entering the housing market. An emerging trend is fractional property investment (also known as property crowdfunding). It allows
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âWe're thrilled to have such an innovative data provider like iEmergent joining our preferred partner network,â said Jim Park, Chief Executive Officer of The Mortgage Collaborative. âOur members are going to be truly impressed with the forward-looking information at their fingertips on the Mortgage
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The UK has helped to prompt a boom in European crowdfunding and peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, according to new research from the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School. While the UK remained the largest alternative finance market in Europe by far, at â¬5.6bn (£4.9bn), the rest of Europe
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Landlords counting on downtown Los Angeles as a cash machine may be in for the same bout of pain as their counterparts in Manhattan, where a flood of supply has started to drive down rents. More than 4,000 new apartments are forecast to hit the Los Angeles market this quarter, according to CoStar
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The reality confronting each of Memphis' three publicly traded Fortune 500 companies is a little different as the year gets underway, with one of them the breakaway favorite in terms of investment and opportunity. FedEx Corp., which just landed in the No. 9 spot on the Fortune list of the World's Most
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Now in its 35th year, Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list is considered a definitive report card on corporate reputations. Fortune collaborates with Korn Ferry to identify and rank the world's most admired companies. The rankings are compiled by querying thousands of executives, directors
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Casino magnate Steve Wynn is planning a fourth hotel in Las Vegas, a vote of confidence in a city still coping with lower attendance since an Oct. 1 mass shooting. The new hotel will be built on the site of the former Frontier hotel, across Las Vegas Boulevard from Wynn's two existing properties.
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The White House official who spoke to Bloomberg confirmed that Trump was unhappy with Ross last summer and wanted his Commerce secretary to be more aggressive on trade. Trade actions often get caught up in international bureaucracy or require congressional input that can slow down progress,
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From Wells Fargo's recent purchase of its London headquarters to the ongoing additions at Westfield Century City in Los Angeles, several companies are getting major real estate upgrades this year. According to experts, footwear brands and retailers are among those that should turn their attention
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Amazon.com Inc. will generate an extra $300 million annually by increasing the monthly cost of Prime membership by $2, according to Cowen & Co. The online retailer announced Friday that it would increase the price of Prime to $12.99 for customers making monthly payments, which totals $156 a year.
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Recent real estate market conditions indicate that, in general, real estate values in the area have decreased, especially for the higher value real estate. If this trend continues and the Town budget does not decrease, the upcoming revaluation will result in a redistribution of the Town's tax burden e.g., the
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And while the original coverage is an insult to the hundreds of thousands of hardworking Americans trying to help homebuyers build families and communities, the good news is, we can take it. But are Bloomberg's readers not deserving of an explanation? When HousingWire makes a mistake we own it,
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President Donald Trump admitted he was wrong to have then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer attack the media about their reporting on the size of the inauguration crowd last year, according to the latest book providing an inside look at Trump's White House. The book, Media Madness: Donald
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Companies looking to ride the cryptocurrency wave are drawing a stern warning from the top U.S. securities regulator: You better do more than change your name. The Securities and Exchange Commission will be watching firms taking on new names and business models to make sure they're not just
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It appears that SoFi thinks that Twitter Chief Operating Officer Anthony Noto is the right person to lead the online lender out of its recent rough patch. SoFi has been on the hunt for a new CEO ever since Mike Cagney abruptly resigned as CEO back in September amid controversy. SoFi initially
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Home remodeling activity reached a high not seen since 2001, as an improving economy and natural disaster recovery efforts drove demand, according to the National Association of Home Builders. The NAHB's Remodeling Market Index rose three points, to a reading of 60, for the fourth quarter of 2017
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Equitable Bank, which became a chartered bank in 2013, is following the Canada Home Income Plan Corp. CHIP launched in Vancouver in 1986 and by 2001 was offering its product in all provinces. Known as the PATH Income Plan, Equitable's product will be sold through licensed mortgage brokers
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President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on imported solar panels and washing machines, his first major trade move after repeated threats to crack down on what he sees as unfair foreign competition. The U.S. will impose new duties of as much as 30 percent on foreign-made solar equipment, the U.S.
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