Texas is home to several rapidly growing cities, such as Austin whose population rose by more than a fifth (21.7%) from 2010’s 790,390 to 2020’s 961,855; San Antonio whose population rose by 8.1% over the same 10-year period, from 1.33 million to 1.43 million; and Houston whose population rose by 9.8%, from just under 2.1
New homes under construction in Miami, Florida, Sept. 22, 2023. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Top real estate and banking officials are calling on the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates as the industry suffers through surging housing costs and a “historic shortage” of available homes for sale. In a letter Monday addressed to
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was held for five years by Hamas in Gaza before he was extracted in a 2011 prisoner swap. The price: more than 1,000 jailed Palestinians. Now Israel faces a hostage dilemma of a different magnitude. During Hamas’ surprise assault on southern Israel on Saturday, the militant group that runs the Gaza
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An Israeli military spokesman on Tuesday offered some advice to Palestinians seeking to flee his country’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip: “get out” through the “open” border with Egypt. The problem is that the Rafah
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Israeli military bombarded more than 200 targets in the Gaza Strip overnight and said it had secured its border with the enclave, three days after an incursion by Hamas triggered the worst war on
In this article AKRO PEP U PLTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Palantir headquarters in Palo Alto, California, May 10, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Palantir Technologies — Shares of the data analytics company added 2.3% on news that the U.S.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As much of Israel slept on Saturday, Hamas militants launched an unprecedented, multipronged dawn assault on the country from the Gaza Strip. The Middle East’s most powerful security force was caught off guard. Hundreds are
Many of the amenities found in the latest kitchen trends are empowered with smart home technology. Here are five described in the influential 2024 Kitchen Trends Research Report recently released by the National Kitchen & Bath Association. I wrote about eight of the report’s sustainability-related observations last week. The role of innovation in kitchen design
Bitcoin (BTC) ground higher on Oct. 10 after the start of legacy market trading saw “de-risking” take over. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView Bitcoin’s price preserves weekly support Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC price stability returning ahead of the Wall Street open. Bitcoin bulls had lost their footing as the week
Blockchain data flagged by Coinbase director Conor Grogan indicates that Alameda Research redeemed over $38 billion for Tether (USDT) tokens in 2021 despite not having the equivalent assets under management. Onchain data shows that Alameda was responsible for minting $39.55B of USDT, a number that is 47% of Tether’s circulating supply today A previous report
The Israeli military bombarded targets in the Gaza Strip overnight and said it had secured its breached border barrier with the enclave, three days after an unprecedented incursion by the militant group Hamas into Israel triggered the country’s worst war in decades. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled their homes, according to the UN, after
Switzerland’s government managed to head off a spiralling European banking crisis when it orchestrated UBS’s $3.3bn takeover of Credit Suisse six months ago — but the long-term pain has only just begun, with $9bn of legal claims already filed and more cases in the works. Debt investors lost out when $17bn of Credit Suisse debt
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The history of the Arab-Israeli conflict has itself become a battleground for scholars offering wildly differing accounts. But here is a selection of the best books recommended by FT specialists on the history and global
The hacker responsible for stealing over $400 million from FTX and FTX.US in November could be using the hype around Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial to further obfuscate the funds, said CertiK director of security operations Hugh Brooks. Only days before the start of Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial, the FTX hacker, known as “FTX Drainer,” began moving millions
In this article 2007-HK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Signage at a residential project developed by Country Garden Holdings Co. in Baoding, Hebei province, China, on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese real estate developer Country Garden Holdings said it expects it will not be able to make all
A Bitcoin developer has proposed a new way to bring more expressive off-chain smart contracts to Bitcoin without needing a soft fork. Announced in an Oct. 9 white paper titled “BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin” by ZeroSync project lead Robin Linus, BitVM enables Turing-complete Bitcoin contracts without altering Bitcoin’s consensus rules. “Any computable function can be
In the decades-long regional hostility between Israel and Iran, Palestinian militant group Hamas has never come fully under the Islamic republic’s sway. It has in recent years taken money from Qatar, learned propaganda lessons from Isis and kept up relations with Egyptian intelligence. But Saturday’s multipronged assault on Israel, cheered on by Iran, has prompted
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The luxury retail market is undergoing a transformation, with sales in the United States forecast to exceed $75 billion by the end of 2023, according to a new report. While the sector is poised for more dollars and space—luxury retailers leased 650,000 square feet in the past year—the focus is shifting away from the mass
In this article DIS ZS XOM SPOT OWL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Exxon gas station sign in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, Oct. 6, 2023. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Walt Disney — Shares of the media giant rose more
At different times over the past century, Americans have found themselves living under the same roofs with family members of multiple generations. The financial hardships of the Depression spawned generational living in many U.S. households. The housing shortage of 1946-50, immediately after World War II, triggered the same full-house phenomenon. Today, it’s happening once again.