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1 week ago |
marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
Big players in the crypto industry are in Las Vegas this week for the Bitcoin 2025 conference, which is billed as “the world’s largest Bitcoin event.” Among the speakers are Vice President JD Vance and the White House’s AI and Crypto Czar, David Sacks — another very public signal of the Trump administration’s embrace of crypto. The Biden administration was not exactly seen as being friendly to crypto.
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2 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
Last spring, the National Association of Realtors in a big class-action lawsuit that many people thought might mean a seismic shift in how the home buying and selling process worked — namely that sellers might not continue to pay buyers’ agents’ commissions the way they have for years. But it turns out, very little has changed. Buyers’ agents are still making about the same amount on commissions now as they were before the new rules went into effect, according to a new study from Redfin.
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4 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
It’s been a little over a month now of all this back and forth on tariffs. Ever since President Donald Trump first announced them in early April, businesses and consumers have gotten more anxious and pessimistic, according to pretty much every measure. That includes the New York Federal Reserve’s latest Survey of Consumer Expectations, which came out this morning.
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1 month ago |
marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
The services sector continued to expand in April, for the tenth month in a row, according to the Institute for Supply Management. That’s some better-than-expected economic data. But many businesses in the services sector, especially small ones, say they’re concerned about tariffs. And some are already starting to see prices go up. Overall, this was a good report card for the services sector.
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1 month ago |
marketplace.org | Samantha Fields
It’s been almost a month since President Donald Trump announced he was raising tariffs on all Chinese goods to 145% — that was April 9. And one of the places we’re starting to see the impact of that announcement is at U.S. ports. Almost as soon as Trump raised tariffs on China, U.S. importers started canceling orders. James Knightley, chief international economist at ING, said cargo ships that left China after that date are much emptier and there are a lot fewer of them.
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