Anyone with an eye for detail will be awestruck at this Spanish Colonial Revival estate in Santa Barbara’s Hope Ranch enclave. La Sonrisa was designed in 1931 by Floyd E. Brewster, a protégé of architect George Washington Smith, who worked with Carleton Winslow Sr. on the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. The property sits
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Builder sentiment in the market for single family homes rose one point in July to 56, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. It marks the seventh straight month of gains and the highest level since June 2022. A reading above 50 is considered positive sentiment. Builders say low supply
Michael Barr, vice chair for supervision of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve, testifies during a House Committee on Financial Services hearing on Oversight of Prudential Regulators, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2023. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images The Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator expressed caution Tuesday
Owners of some defaulted revenue bonds issued in 2018 for a senior living community in Plano, Texas, reached a binding settlement with the project’s bankrupt owner that calls for the re-issuance of debt. The agreement involves nearly $57.3 million of Series A and B senior bonds sold through the New Hope Cultural Education Facilities Finance
Theodore Roosevelt’s reputation is as a crusading “trust buster”, standing up to business and battling corporate concentration in the early years of the 20th century. The US president was also a frustrated regulator, who argued that “a succession of lawsuits is hopeless from the standpoint of working out a permanently satisfactory solution” to the issues
Donald Trump said he was the target of a criminal probe into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, raising the possibility he could face fresh federal charges in the coming days. In a development he described as “horrifying”, Trump said he had received a letter from the US Department of Justice
Carbon prices are supposed to provide a readout of progress — or the lack of it — in the energy transition. The EU’s Emissions Trading System prices the element at about €86 per tonne of carbon at present, close to historic peaks. That looks odd to one trader, Per Lekander at Clean Energy Transition. He
Bitcoin (BTC) targeted new month-to-date lows at the July 18 Wall Street open as bulls refused to give up on $30,000 support. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView BTC price: Heavy resistance risks weekly downtrend Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC price action dropping after a modest rebound from $29,675 — its worst
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has filed proposed amendments to Rule G-3 on professional qualifications with the Securities and Exchange Commission that would add an exemption for municipal advisors currently forced to requalify their registration after a two-year lapse in their Series 50 exams. The rule amendments make it so that those who have experienced
Decentralized applications could tap into improved privacy features as blockchain firm Oasis launches its confidential EVM-compatible blockchain Sapphire. Sapphire and the Oasis Privacy Layer (OPL) are now live, allowing existing decentralized applications (DApp) on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) networks to make use of the blockchain’s privacy-first features without having to carry out cross-chain swaps for
While account abstraction in Ethereum is perceived to be a catalyst that could onboard a billion users, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared some challenges in implementing the new feature on the blockchain. Buterin, speaking on July 18 at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) event in Paris, explained some of the key innovations that modern account
Complacency about productivity improvements is holding back UK businesses compared with most of their G7 counterparts, according to a business survey. A poll of more than 4,000 G7 business leaders by the government-backed charity Be the Business revealed a stark gap between the confidence of small and medium-sized UK companies and their actual capabilities. The
In this article NOV.N-CH MASI BK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A pedestrian walks by the Pinterest headquarters on April 09, 2019 in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Check out the companies making the biggest moves before the bell: Bank of America — Bank of America added 0.4% in the premarket after
The United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accepted Valkyrie’s Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposal for official review. According to data from the SEC’s Nasdaq rulemaking list, Valkyrie’s proposal for its spot Bitcoin ETF entered the official docket on July 17. Valkyrie’s listing on the docket is the second spot Bitcoin ETF proposal
The author is a member of the House of Lords, chairman of geopolitical advisory for Rothschild & Co and a former UK national security adviser Last week’s Nato summit had three tasks: consolidate support for Ukraine; strengthen the alliance’s military capabilities; and deepen ties with Pacific allies in facing the common challenge of China. Did it
Jacques-Louis David’s painting of Napoleon crossing the alps. The enduring achievements of the former French leader are largely bureaucratic, not military, successes To judge by the trailer, Ridley Scott’s biopic of Napoleon will entertain, inspire and extravagantly miss the point. But then so did the paintings of the same subject by Jacques-Louis David. Napoleon wasn’t,
Saudi Arabia and Turkey are seeking to broker a deal to repatriate Ukrainian children taken to Russia and held in children’s homes or adopted by Russian families, according to four people familiar with the talks. Officials in Kyiv and Moscow are compiling lists of the thousands of children moved to Russia since President Vladimir Putin’s
Tesla co-founder JB Straubel’s battery recycling start-up is in talks to raise $700mn in a deal that would value it at almost $5bn and help fund the company’s first major plant in Nevada. Straubel established Redwood Materials in 2017 to reshape the supply chain for electric vehicles by recycling the materials in batteries and reducing
“I see music as fluid architecture,” legendary singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell told the New York Times in a 1991 interview. Debbe Daley saw it as an inspiration for interior architecture when she remodeled a room in her Portsmouth, New Hampshire home as a music studio for herself and her husband. The interior designer and
An environment of healthy competition is being fostered between the Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem’s top development firms building zkEVMs to scale the network, according to one of Polygon’s co-founders. Jordi Baylina, technical lead of Polygon Hermez zkEVM, spoke to Cointelegraph ahead of the start of EthCC in France. With builders from across the Ethereum ecosystem converging
UK grocery price inflation eased for a fourth consecutive month in July to the lowest rate this year, according to research published on Tuesday. The annual pace of grocery price growth eased to 14.9 per cent in the four weeks to July 9, down from 16.5 per cent in the previous month, according to research