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Seems like the stock market is not the only thing experiencing a volatility storm lately. Last week my friends, family and I were in Park City, Utah, and a massive 2-foot snow storm hit that made for some amazing glade skiing. Sure enough on the way back home, a massive nor’easter hit that closed many of the major East Coast airports. It’s been a cold, snowy winter here in upstate New York and with just one week until March, it’s hard to believe we’ll begin looking forward to the spring thaw. I’m also seeing early signs that the market’s volatility storm…

A currency dealer monitors exchange rates in front of a big screen showing South Korea’s benchmark stock index (C) and the Korean won/USD exchange rate (R) in a foreign exchange dealing room at the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on April 9, 2025.Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty ImagesSouth Korea and Japan stocks hit record highs Wednesday amid gains in the region, after a tech-driven rally on Wall Street that was fueled by easing concerns around artificial intelligence-led disruption to select industries.Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumped over 1.4% to a fresh high, while the Topix added 0.3%.Similarly, South Korea’s Kospi rose 1.72%…

Some farmers will lose money by opting into environment schemes under new plans to cap payments available for sustainable farming.Emma Reynolds, the environment secretary, said the new system is “fairer”, adding: “Too much of our most productive land was removed from conventional farming.” Farmers will be disincentivised from taking large amounts of their land out of food production and rewilding it for nature, under her plans.After Brexit, England moved from a system where farmers were subsidised based on how much land they managed, to one where they would be paid for delivering environmental benefits.This was paid based on an “income…

President Donald Trump got applause from Democrats and Republicans alike when he called in his State of the Union address for Congress to stop insider trading among lawmakers.

A view of the logo of HSBC bank on a wall outside a branch in Mexico City, Mexico, on June 14, 2024.Henry Romero | ReutersEurope’s largest lender HSBC on Wednesday reported annual pre-tax profit of $29.91 billion, beating the estimates on the back of a strong performance in its wealth division and Hong Kong businesses.While annual profit declines 7.4%, HSBC’s revenue gained 4%, year on year.Here are HSBC’s full-year results compared with the consensus estimates compiled by the bank.Pre-tax profit: $29.91 billion vs. $28.86 billionRevenue: $68.27 billion vs. $67.36 billionThe lender’s fourth quarter profit before tax rose to $6.8 billion,…

Cedar Rapids-based Rayser Holdings Inc. announced its acquisition of Skunk River Block & Pallet, a family-owned manufacturer of custom wood pallets and crates in Pella. Skunk River Block & Pallet joins CarePro Health Services, J-TEC Associates and Midwest Memorials as part of the Rayser portfolio. Darlene Van Hall, Skunk River’s former owner, said the sale to Rayser Holdings was motivated by a desire to preserve the company’s legacy and reward its employees. Rayser was established in 2018 with a goal to diversify and enhance employee ownership.

Home Depot, Lowe’s Companies, Masco, Medallion Financial, and Jewett-Cameron Trading are the five Home Improvement stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Home improvement stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose primary businesses supply products or services for building, renovating, maintaining, or decorating homes—this includes retailers, manufacturers of building materials and appliances, and contractors or home-service companies. For investors, these stocks are typically cyclical and track housing-market activity, consumer spending and interest rates, so they are used to gain exposure to renovation demand and related economic trends. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of…

Bitcoin is heading toward an uncomfortable milestone, a potential fifth consecutive monthly decline if February closes in the red, and the setup is starting to look less like a crypto-specific drawdown and more like a macro-driven repricing.This five-month losing streak would be notable in the post-ETF era and would also be Bitcoin’s longest stretch of monthly declines since 2018, when it posted six consecutive down months during the bear market.At under $63,000, BTC is down by almost 20% this month, which is its largest monthly drawdown since June 2022.Bitcoin Monthly Returns Since 2018 (Source: CoinGlass)However, the negative price streak itself…

U.S. and Iranian negotiators are set to meet again later this week, and President Donald Trump made a clear ask of Tehran in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night ahead of those talks.

BVNK, the enterprise stablecoin infrastructure provider, has secured its Crypto-Asset Services Provider (CASP) licence from the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA).The licence marks a major milestone for the company as the European Union transitions to its new harmonised regulatory framework for digital assets, known as MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets). With the CASP licence secured in Malta, BVNK can now offer MiCA-regulated digital-asset services and passport them across all European Economic Area (EEA) member states.A unified European offeringAccording to the announcement, the new regulatory approval allows BVNK to offer enterprise customers three critical European financial capabilities from a single platform:MiCA-regulated digital-asset…