Connecticut lawmakers approved a $51.1 billion budget that cuts personal income-tax rates for the first time in almost 30 years, while increasing spending on education and housing. “We are delivering the largest cut to Connecticut’s income tax rates in state history,” Gov. Ned Lamont said in a press release Tuesday. The tax cut will benefit
Thousands of security staff at London’s Heathrow airport will stage a month’s worth of strike action this summer in a continuing pay dispute with its owners, putting at risk holidaymakers’ plans on some of the busiest days of the year for travelling. Unite the union said on Wednesday that 2,000 of its members, about 40
As the digital asset market continues to evolve, the use of cryptocurrency ATMs grows with it. Over the past decade, nearly 40,000 cryptocurrency ATMs have popped up worldwide. Bitcoin (BTC) ATM service provider, Bitcoin of America, had carved out a slice of the market but recently closed shop in the United States State of Connecticut
Author of Undressing Bitcoin: A Revealing Guide to the World’s Most Revolutionary Asset and host of The Layah Heilpern Show. Author, podcaster and crypto influencer Layah Heilpern’s unapologetic and sometimes controversial tweets have amassed her an impressive 606,900 Twitter followers. She tells Hall of Flame she fearlessly “speaks the truth about things” and admires others
“Bitcoin has such a marketing problem.” At least, that’s what came to mind for Bitcoin (BTC) advocate and Cointelegraph reporter Joe Hall when he was asked about the weaknesses and strengths of the popular cryptocurrency. While not labeling himself a “Bitcoin maximalist,” Hall believes that most people — including crypto OGs — are shockingly unaware
Readers can be forgiven for struggling to recall the Edinburgh tram scandal but happily the final report of the public inquiry was sent to the printers a few weeks ago. Alas, since the inquiry into this saga of delays and spiralling costs first convened in 2014, it has taken almost as long as the project
In this article PETR’-BR GME NFLX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Netflix gift cards are seen in a shop in Krakow, Poland on June 13, 2022. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Tesla — Shares of the electric vehicle maker added more than 3%
Lloyds Banking Group will seek a sale of the Telegraph Media Group after pushing its parent group into receivership over debts owed by the Barclay family, according to people familiar with the matter. The UK bank has put B.UK, a Bermudian-based holding company that ultimately controls the Telegraph titles and the Spectator magazine, into receivership,
A sign is posted in front of a home for sale on May 11, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Mortgage rates fell back from their recent highs, but demand fell for the fourth straight week. Total mortgage application volume dropped 1.4% last week, compared with the previous week, according to
When Karl Marx said that history repeated itself first as tragedy then farce, he could have been thinking of the Kennedy family. Senator Robert Kennedy was murdered in June 1968 in the ascendancy of his career. Fifty-five years later, his son Robert Kennedy Junior is a leading American conspiracy theorist challenging Joe Biden for the
Turkey’s lira tumbled on Wednesday by the most since late 2021 as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s new economic team began to loosen the shackles that had slowed its fall in recent months. The currency dropped 6 per cent in London trading on Wednesday to a new record low of 23 against the dollar, leaving it down
European stocks fell on Wednesday as traders turned their attention to economic data that offered signals on the likely path for eurozone interest rates. Europe’s region-wide Stoxx 600 lost 0.2 per cent at the market open, reversing gains from the previous session, while France’s Cac 40 lost 0.3 per cent. Germany’s Dax was down 0.1
The public-private partnership in El Salvador to pump $1 billion into creating a Bitcoin (BTC) mining farm has received its first $250 million. This first release of funds kickstarts 241 megawatts (MWs) of Bitcoin mining in El Salvador. The chairman of Volcano Energy, Max Keiser, took to his Twitter on June 7, to announce the
US secretary of state Antony Blinken will travel to China this month, in the latest sign that Beijing and Washington are beginning to stabilise a turbulent bilateral relationship that had sunk to the lowest point in decades. Blinken is expected to visit within the coming weeks, according to two people familiar with his plans. Blinken
Bitcoin (BTC) swiftly erased its month-to-date losses into June 7 as volatility returned to ultimately favor the bulls. BTC price cancels Binance, Coinbase dip Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD hitting $27,388 on Bitstamp — almost a new June high. The pair continued a rebound which had begun the day prior, with
Long-time Bitcoin (BTC) advocate Jack Dorsey has found himself in a Twitter war with several crypto industry pundits after he responded with “yes” to a question asking if Ether (ETH) was a security. The comment caught the attention of Udi Wertheimer, a Bitcoin Ordinals developer at Taproot Wizards, who inferred Dorsey was a “clown” in
A number of memecoins drawing their likeness from the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and its chair Gary Gensler have seen a sharp spike in price following the regulator’s lawsuits against crypto exchanges Coinbase and Binance. One such token is Good Gensler (GENSLR) which rallied more than 260% in the hours following the regulator’s
The writer is senior emerging markets economist at Capital Economics Signs that newly re-elected Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is willing to move away from unorthodox economic policies has led to an increase in investor optimism towards his country. These developments are encouraging but investors should not underestimate the size of the adjustment that Turkey’s
The writer is author of ‘Black Wave’ A dictator invades his smaller neighbour and is placed under sanctions. The American president tries to rally a coalition against the invader and in support of democracy. A foreign army withdraws from Afghanistan and the Taliban rise to power. The Saudis and the Iranians announce a surprise reconciliation. The
The writer is a science commentator Some people covet a rare species of blind Slovenian cave beetle — not because they are enchanted by entomology but because they long for a specimen of Anophthalmus hitleri, better known as the Hitler beetle. The bug, named in the 1930s in homage to the then German Führer, is
It is a quiet way to run a revolution. The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, usually a source of constant source of pronouncements, commitments, strategies and statements about tackling climate change, has been borderline mute this year. Gfanz, as it’s known, billed as a “watershed” by former Bank of England governor Mark Carney when