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via sdbernard: [OC] Animation of Manhattan luxury property data byu/sdbernard indataisbeautiful Animation showing just how many new luxury skyscrapers are being built over the next three years. A total of 3.5 miles of vertical height! Sources of data are NYC Open Data and Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Tools used were QGIS, Blender and Adobe Illustrator I … Read more

via CaptainMeap: Several months ago, on a particularly boring day, I had a burning passion to use Excel for something; this was the result. A couple of notes about the graph: This graph is not inflation-adjusted and is computed entirely from dollar values in the given year. I had never made something like this before, so please forgive any … Read more

American companies are the largest source of demand for American stocks, and sharp tumbles have come when their buying slows. There are plenty of potential catalysts for the stock market sell-off that has swept through the markets this week. They include rising interest rates, growing tensions with China, expanding federal deficits and increasing regulatory risks for technology … Read more

The owner of Patisserie Valerie has said the cafe chain needs “an immediate injection of capital” to continue trading in its current form. The stark statement to investors comes after the firm uncovered “significant, and potentially fraudulent, accounting irregularities”. It also belatedly discovered HMRC filed a winding-up petition against one of its principal subsidiaries in … Read more

by mormengil Reasons are: Margin loans, unlike mortgages, are not fixed in duration, are not fixed in interest rate, are secured on assets at a certain market value (or range) rather than secured on an asset disregarding it’s future fluctuations in market value. The stock market is much more volatile than the housing market. So prices … Read more

by PayLayHAYL_NO I got a call out of the blue a little over a month ago from a debt collection agency, saying I owed almost $1500 from an ambulance ride I took because of me being involved in a car accident OVER 2 YEARS AGO. While on the phone with the debt collector, I looked … Read more

Treasury officials Wednesday issued new rules requiring all foreign investors in certain deals involving critical U.S. technology to submit to national security reviews or face fines as high as the value of their proposed transactions. The new regulations, which implement a recently passed law to tighten foreign investment reviews, are more expansive than some had … Read more

by COMPUTER1313 April 25, 2018: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-25/a-3-trillion-credit-market-has-corporate-bond-investors-on-edge The high-grade bond market in the U.S. already has the lowest credit quality mix since the 1980s, according to CreditSights, and there are signs investors are getting nervous. A Bloomberg Barclays gauge of average corporate bond spreads has surged to a six-month high since since reaching an all-time low in … Read more

by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Global stocks appear to be taking a pause from their recent skid this AM with US stocks poised for the best day in more than 6-months as we enter the 3Q earnings season US stocks index futures are rising ahead of the open in NY with the Dow Jones minis +1.09%, S&P500 … Read more

BY PATRICK WATSON Trade policy is not a popular or well-understood topic among Americans. It’s even less so among younger Americans. Until now… maybe. I’ve recently visited the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin. There, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) said something that made my ears perk up. She was talking about her visits to high schools around … Read more