Sam Drysdale | State House News Service BOSTON — State government leaders in Massachusetts are trying to instigate a building boom to address a housing shortage marked by high rents and sale prices, but a top housing official is now warning that headwinds from Washington could threaten their efforts. “The equity that’s often needed to
In this photo illustration OpenAI icon is displayed on a mobile phone screen with the photo of Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI. Didem Mente | Anadolu | Getty Images OpenAI is in talks to raise a funding round that would value the artificial intelligence startup at more than $100 billion, CNBC has learned.
Without financial aid, the price tag at some four-year colleges and universities — after factoring in tuition, fees, room and board, books, transportation, and other expenses — is now nearing $100,000 a year. But even though college is getting more expensive, students and their parents rarely pay the full amount. Aside from their income and savings, most families rely on
With Federal Reserve rate cuts expected to begin in September, income investors may want to make sure their portfolio is in check. On Friday at the Fed’s annual retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Chair Jerome Powell said, “The time has come for policy to adjust.” However, he didn’t specify the exact timing and the magnitude
The dominance of megacap technology stocks, dubbed the “Magnificent Seven,” has become a problem for mutual fund managers seeking to diversify their portfolios. The group — Amazon , Microsoft , Meta , Alphabet, Apple , Nvidia and Tesla — have led the current bull market and 2024’s rally, increasing their representation in market-cap weighted benchmarks
Investors should be positioned “more defensively” in their portfolios right now, partly because of how expensive markets are, said portfolio manager Brian Arcese. Shares are still expensive despite market volatility and stocks diving in the past few weeks, said Arcese, who works at Foord Asset Management. Arcese, who is also an equity analyst at the
The former CEO of a small Kansas bank was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for looting the bank of $47 million — which he sent to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by scammers who had duped him in a “pig butchering” scheme that appealed to his greed, federal prosecutors said. The massive embezzlement by
Investors are doubling down on stocks, shaking off fears of an economic slowdown in the U.S. which caused a sell-off earlier this month. Global stock markets fell sharply in early August after a rise in unemployment sparked fears that U.S. economic growth could slow more than expected. It led a number of investment banks to
Gold Bars in a pile Alexander Bedrin | Getty Images Gold held steady near its record high on Tuesday as investors awaited U.S. Federal Reserve minutes and Chair Jerome Powell’s speech for indications on how much the central bank will cut rates this year. Spot gold edged 0.2% higher to $2,500.08 per ounce by 0254 GMT,
More and more Americans are losing thousands of dollars to a scheme that takes fraudsters weeks or months to pull off. “Pig butchering” scams earned the name from the idea that scammers use flattery and fake bonding to “fatten up” their victims. The strategy has amassed billions in stolen funds—particularly in the form of cryptocurrencies.