The Senate voted 98-0 to confirm Michael Whitaker, a career aviation executive, to the role of administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration after the positon had been vacant since March 2022. He becomes the first person appointed to lead the administration since Steve Dickson, the Trump-appointed aviation executive, resigned in March 2022. Polly Trottenberg, deputy
From Oct. 9–20, Immutable invited playtesters to try out an early demo of its upcoming mobile game, Guild of Guardians. Guild of Guardians was first announced in 2021. Its utility token, Guild of Guardians Gems (GOG), went up for sale in December 2021, raising over $5.3 million for the game’s development. In addition, over 800,000 individuals
Matrixport, a cryptocurrency trading firm founded by Bitmain co-founder Wu Jihan, has doubled down on its prediction that Bitcoin (BTC) will hit $45,000 by the end of 2023. After first setting its 2023-year-end BTC price target at $45,000 in early 2023, Matrixport reiterated its bold Bitcoin prediction in a blog post on Oct. 24. Titled
This “Crypto City” guide looks at Finland’s crypto culture: The most notable projects and people, its financial infrastructure, which retailers accept crypto, and where you can find blockchain education courses. City: HelsinkiCountry: FinlandPopulation: 1.55 million Established: 1550Languages: Finnish and Swedish, with English widely spoken Jump to: Crypto Culture, Where to spend crypto in Helsinki, Crypto projects
The U.S. Federal Reserve Building in Washington, D.C. Win Mcnamee | Reuters Forecasters have been really wrong on the economy recently, but it’s nothing new: They’ve always been wrong. I was amused yesterday to hear that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was shocked — shocked! — that the economic forecasts of the major Wall Street
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The owners of Canary Wharf Group will inject £400mn of fresh capital into the London office district, which has suffered the departure of key tenants as companies cut back office space in response to hybrid
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The main UN agency bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza has said it will run out of fuel in less than a day, threatening its ability to help roughly 1mn people displaced by the war in
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images As mortgage rates reached a 23-year high last week, the cry went off across markets and social media: Is housing affordability dead? Has a version of the American dream — home ownership, kids, backyard barbecues — died with it? The question is sharp because housing affordability has dropped by
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is former chief of MI6 and UK Ambassador to the UN In the Yom Kippur war, 50 years ago this month, the attacking armies from Egypt and Syria had a clear goal —
A townhouse for sale in the Upper East Side neighborhood of New York City. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Mortgage demand has essentially stalled at the slowest pace since 1995 as mortgage interest rates continue to rise. Total application volume dropped 1% last week compared to the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally
Alicia Glen is leveraging her expertise as former deputy mayor of New York City and head of the Urban Investment Group at Goldman Sachs to build MSquared into a significant women-owned real estate development firm focused on affordable housing. MSquared has raised over $200 million in three years—a feat few women have achieved. Affordable housing
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s official measure of unemployment stood at 4.2 per cent in the three months between June and August this year. The definition is precise. It means that of the population aged 16 or above
Maestrobots, a group of cryptocurrency bots on the Telegram messenger app, is refunding users in the aftermath of a 280 Ether (ETH) attack. The Maestro team refunded the users affected by the Maestro Router 2 contract, the platform announced on X (formerly Twitter) on Oct. 25. According to the announcement, Maestrobots paid a total of
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shares in Worldline fell more than 50 per cent on Wednesday to a record low after the French payments group warned that revenues and margins would take a hit this year from a deteriorating economic
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has fined investment adviser BlackRock Advisors $2.5 million, accusing it of failing to accurately describe investments in the entertainment industry that comprised a significant portion of a publicly traded fund it managed. According to the SEC’s filing, between 2015 and 2019, BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Trust (BIT) made sizeable investments in
Cryptocurrency rug pulls are not too difficult to spot by investors, as the majority of such scams usually share distinct and visible features, according to a new report. Blockchain security auditor Hacken released its latest security insights report on Oct. 25, aiming to spot the trends in Q3 crypto hacks and evaluate how affected projects
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lloyds Banking Group has reported better than expected third-quarter profits but flagged that some of the benefits of higher interest rates are starting to wane. The UK’s largest high-street lender said on Wednesday that statutory
Bitcoin (BTC) faces a “trigger” moment that keeps a $1-million BTC price tag in play, one of its household names says. In a blog post titled “The Periphery” released on Oct. 24, Arthur Hayes, former CEO of crypto exchange BitMEX, said that Bitcoin is already warning markets about the future. “Global wartime inflation” to drive
Several of Wall Street’s biggest names convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the kingdom’s annual Future Investment Initiative, during which they weighed in on risks and opportunities for investors and the global economy. Bankers speaking on panel discussions notably stressed headwinds — particularly in the short term — from multiple wars, an economic slowdown and
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Santander’s net profit rose 20 per cent year on year in the third quarter, as Spain’s biggest lender became the latest European bank to report strong results thanks to record-high interest rates. The bank said
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Deutsche Bank said it would have capacity to increase dividends and share buybacks over the next two years as it reported better than expected third-quarter results. Pre-tax profit at Germany’s largest lender rose 7 per