$30 million in missing gold bars, a couple on the lam from the FBI and a corgi nicknamed ‘Nugget’: the inside story of a precious metal Ponzi scheme
A precious metals dealer who recently went on the lam after being convicted in a $30 million Ponzi scheme involving gold and silver bars, has...
U.S. car sales at ‘recessionary levels;’ inflation, interest rates are concerns
U.S. new-car sales dipped below an annualized 13 million vehicles in May, prompting analysts at RBC to say they are at “recessionary levels,” although demand...
Summer Worker Shortage Means Things Will Be Closed. Again.
Many Americans hoped this would be the first normal summer after two years of Covid-19 disruptions. A chronic labor shortage means it probably won’t be....
Rising Rates Are Battering Mortgage Lenders
Mortgage lenders are scrambling to survive a sharp drop-off in the number of homeowners refinancing their loans, with demand drying up as interest rates rise....
‘We did not have a plan for a country to shut down’ — Cisco stock plunges 13% as China lockdown affects supply and outlook
Cisco Systems Inc. shares plunged in the extended session Wednesday after the tech bellwether’s revenue forecast came up more than $1 billion short of Wall...
Coinbase stock slides toward all-time low as crypto trading falls off
Coinbase Global Inc. swung to a loss in its most recent quarter and posted lower-than-expected revenue as it lost 2.2 million crypto traders from its...
‘The pandemic boom in home sales is over’: Mortgage rates soar to highest level since 2009 as the Fed pressures the housing market
Mortgage rates are skyrocketing thanks to the Fed, but buyers who can tough out this difficult, changing market will be rewarded. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage...
‘You don’t want to own bonds and stocks’ in this environment: Paul Tudor Jones
“‘You can’t think of a worse environment than where we are right now for financial assets…Clearly you don’t want to own bonds and stocks.’” —...
‘Buyers of a median-price home are looking at a monthly mortgage payment that is almost 50% higher than it was a year ago.’ The 30-year mortgage rate dips slightly to 5.1%
The interest rate on the country’s benchmark mortgage product edged downward for the first time since early March, but that doesn’t mean the housing market...
A Big Risk Hanging Over European Banks: Leveraged Loans
Europe’s banking regulator is growing antsy about a booming market for banks: loans that fuel riskier borrowers and the global deal-making machine. That corner of...