The surge in egg prices has stood out in a year when Americans saw their bills balloon across the grocery store. Average egg prices jumped 49.1% in November compared with those a year earlier — the largest annual percentage increase among all grocery items in that period, according to the consumer price index, a barometer … Read more
Drug overdose deaths among adolescents surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, driven overwhelmingly by illicit fentanyl, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Monthly drug overdose deaths nearly tripled among adolescents ages 10 to 19 during the first two years of the pandemic. Deaths rose from 31 in July 2019 to … Read more
New York CNN — Canada in 2023 is closing its doors to foreign investors who want to purchase homes. A new Canadian law took effect January 1 that essentially bans foreign buyers from buying residential properties as investments for two years. The law was passed because of a spike in Canadian home prices since the … Read more
Investors finally got the inflation reading they were looking for, and are likely to get a split government for the next two years. That combination propelled stocks to their best weekly showing since June. On Friday, the S&P 500 even briefly crossed the 4,000 threshold, a level it hadn’t breached in two months. The S&P … Read more
Gold and other precious metals are trading at their highest levels in more than a month, and it isn’t because of the midterm election. Instead, the metals are rising thanks to a consistent slide in the U.S. dollar this fall from its multiyear highs. Source link
According to Chainalysis data, Russia’s stablecoin usage has increased since the onset of the war, due partly to ordinary Russian citizens seeking to protect their assets. Source link
Celsius announced that users could cumulatively withdraw up to $50 million from all the locked accounts. These funds are for users who own Celsius Custody Program and Withhold Accounts. This latest decision to reopen withdrawals has spiked the price of CEL by 50%. As of September 2, CEL’s price stood at $1.67, showing a good … Read more
The first monthly gain since March, bitcoin mining revenue increased 10% in August. Bitcoin Mining Revenue Soars Approximately $657 million was earned by miners last month, according to statistics gathered by The Block Research. In the most recent update published on Wednesday, the difficulty of mining bitcoin increased by 9.26% while the hash rate increased … Read more
While 499 other billionaires have struggled to add to their fortunes this year, the world’s third richest man has made a whopping $60 billion. With a total net worth of $137 billion, Indian-born Gautam Adani’s extraordinary wealth gain in 2022 has far surpassed that of any other billionaire, many of whom have seen their fortunes … Read more
Hiring surged in July, with U.S. employers creating 528,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday. That far exceeded economist expectations for gains of 250,000 new jobs during the period. It was also a jump from the previous month, when businesses added 372,000 jobs despite the highest inflation in 40 years. The unemployment rate … Read more