It's Time to Think of International Business Machines Corp as Blockchain

While we have been pointing out IBM's exposure to blockchain for quite a while now, investors may finally be buying in. Of course, it could be the fact that IBM stock pays a 3.7% dividend yield and trades at 11.8 times forward earnings estimates. But that “catalyst” has always been there. Further, analysts
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“We find that removing negative gearing would result in lower house prices, higher rents and homeownership rate … the welfare analysis suggests that eliminating negative gearing would lead to an overall welfare gain of 1.5% for the Australian economy in which 76% of households become better off.
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January is a good time for homeowners to review the responsibilities that come with homeownership and to continue to take the steps necessary to protect their investment. Mortgage rates are within a whisker of where they were in January of last year and still near their historic lows. If you have not yet
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International Game Technology logo International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT) was downgraded by analysts at ValuEngine from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report released on Wednesday, January 3rd. Several other equities analysts also recently commented on IGT. Bank of America raised
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Just a few weeks ago I was in Utah for the holidays, spending time with the many family members my husband and I both have there. At one family gathering, a cousin began talking about how he bought a brand new home and sold his own home all without a real estate agent on a site called Homie.
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Morgan Dempsey Capital Management LLC boosted its holdings in International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) by … Private Capital Management Inc. now owns 3,425 shares of the technology company's stock valued at $497,000 after buying an additional 1,425 shares during the last quarter.
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The New York bank said its partnership with AutoFi is the latest in its efforts to work with FinTech companies to help customers with their finances. Recently, Chase has inked partnerships in the areas of mortgage origination, small business lending, B2B payments and mobile payments. “We are thrilled to
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While he touched on how some technologies will specifically affect the commercial real estate industry, Kasselman emphasized the importance of everyone being aware that business leaders and intellectuals are already realizing many of these changes. Among some of the more immediate large-scale
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But now, thanks to a partnership with Westcor Land Title Insurance Company, Notarize is bringing fully digital mortgage closings to 16 new states. The new partnership with Westcor expands the list of supported states to include Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska,
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Goldman Sachs will start offering home improvement loans to borrowers this month, its latest push into the world of consumer lending – a business the … be able to quickly finance a loan, Talwar said, and a customer won't have to tap into a second mortgage or their home equity in order to finance it.
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TORONTO — Two of Canada's largest banks increased their fixed-rate mortgage rates amid rising yields on the bond market and a strengthening economy. The Royal Bank of Canada says its posted five-year fixed mortgage rate moved to 5.14 per cent Thursday, up from 4.99 per cent. The bank's special
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Real estate stocks have tumbled since the start of the year as rapidly rising Treasury yields have rocked the rate-sensitive sector. The real estate sector of the S&P 500 dipped 0.8 per cent by midsession on Friday, taking its year to date decline to nearly 5.4 per cent and making it the worst performing
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The Key Bank Mortgage (KBM) Loan Officer (LO) is responsible for covering a cluster of retail bank branches on the origination of residential mortgage loans. LOs are expected to balance their work schedule between time spent in each of their assigned branches and Center of Influence (COI) calling
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Next time you look over at someone typing away on a computer at the coffee shop, you might be looking at someone creating the next big Star Wars script. In a piece published in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Rian Johnson, the writer and director for last year's blockbuster Star Wars: The Last
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TORONTO — Two of Canada's largest banks increased their fixed-rate mortgage rates amid rising yields on the bond market and a strengthening economy. The Royal Bank of Canada says its posted five-year fixed mortgage rate moved to 5.14 per cent Thursday, up from 4.99 per cent. The bank's
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The Bitcoin boom was the big financial story of 2017, as the price soared into the stratosphere – though many experts have dubbed it the Bitcoin bubble, convinced a crash is just around the corner. So will 2018 be the year that cryptocurrencies came of age? Are they a safe investment, or are they an
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PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG) shares are down more than -2.12% this year and recently decreased -1.50% or -$0.67 to settle at $43.88. Edison International (NYSE:EIX), on the other hand, is down -1.45% year to date as of 01/10/2018. It currently trades at $62.32 and has returned 0.05% during the
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Consumer confidence is the lowest in the Indian real estate market in the past 10 years, ever since the market showed the first signs of nervousness. The worst part is that there is no hope of a market revival sometime soon as the homebuyers have already taken a conscious decision to stay away from
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Commenting during the company's earnings call, CEO Jamie Dimon said loosening mortgage lending requirements is something that he would like to see, adding there are probably people who deserve credit who are being declined. “We are not [talking] about going back to subprime, but loosening
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