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☆ Inside a $22.5 million condo with over 70,000 sq ft of over-the-top amenities
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Ray Parisi | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

This $22.5 million condo in Miami spans 6,200 sq ft with four bedrooms, five and a half baths, but perhaps more impressive than what comes inside those four walls is the mind-blowing list of over-the-top amenities that comes with it. The luxury condo is situated on the 48th floor of the Turnberry Ocean Club Residences in Sunny Isles Beach where the list of amenities span over 70,000 sq ft from sunrise and sunset swimming pools to a $1.2 million beachfront cabana. CNBC's Ray Parisi and real estate broker Senada Adzem of Douglas Elliman take you inside for an exclusive tour.

☆ Eggs are crazy expensive. Plant-based alternatives think you should check them out
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Egg prices are still high at the grocery store — so plant-based egg alternatives are using this moment to make their case. Brands like Just Egg and Zero Egg, which make egg alternatives, say they’ve seen momentum in January. For them, turmoil in the traditional egg market is the perfect opportunity to try to reach potential new customers and highlight the advantages of plant-based eggs. But they’re not interested in plant-based eggs — the texture and flavor is just not there for their needs, Tim Lu said. In the grocery store, egg prices remain elevated, Rispoli noted: “Grocers are not yet passing along those savings.”

☆ My family of 4 spent $600 a night at Disney's Beach Club Resort, and it's one of our favorite hotels
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Kari Becker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

My family of four stayed in a club-level suite at Disney's Beach Club Resort for $600. Themed after a New England-style beach resort, it's located in the Epcot area around Crescent Lake, our favorite resort area to stay in. Here's a look at our recent stay in a club-level suite and why Beach Club has become a top pick for my family. Beach Club is a great resort for groups of all sizesWe'll definitely be returning to Beach Club. After this trip, it's fair to say that Beach Club is one of my family's favorite hotels.

The TGA is a liability on the Fed's balance sheet. This means that when the TGA goes down, reserves go up, effectively administering an injection of liquidity into the system. chartThis runs counter to the Fed's current stance of pursuing a tighter monetary policy, of which draining liquidity from the system via QT is a part. Mark Cabana, head of U.S. rates strategy at Bank of America, calculates that since the Fed's QT program got underway last May, the Fed's balance sheet has shrunk by $406 billion and the TGA has dropped $422 billion. "Fed QT to date has been largely absorbed by lower TGA," he and his team wrote in a recent note.

Proptech customers, employees, and investors said they went from delighted to disillusioned. Proptech investors eager to capture these trends pumped $32 billion into the industry in 2021. As markets deteriorated, disillusionment set in among proptech customers, investors, and employees. Some customers say they were disappointed buying homes via proptech startupsReal-estate startups like Divvy Homes and Better launched under the auspices of helping customers afford quality homes. Investors in proptech firms are taking financial hitsYou don't need to ask proptech investors whether they're disappointed in the sector's performance — just look at share prices.

☆ I work in party hostels all around the world. I clean gross rooms and host all-night pub crawls in exchange for a free place to live — here's what it's like.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Jenny Powers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Taylor Futch works at party hostels and does everything from leading pub crawls to manning the desk. I worked at 4 hostels in 2022After Brazil, I worked at one of Europe's famous party hostels, Rising Cock Party Hostel in Lagos, Portugal, for two months and had an incredible experience. My job is to get to know the guests and host a series of nightly events like beer pong and pub trivia. You're bound to find some interesting things while cleaning inside a party hostel. My birthday fell on a Thursday, which is when my hostel has its weekly party, so I wound up DJing.

☆ Premarket stocks: Japan just delivered a lump of coal to investors across the globe
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

A surprise announcement from the Bank of Japan sent investors spinning and global markets reeling on Tuesday. The country’s central bank signaled that it would reverse two decades of policy precedent and begin to move away from loose monetary policy intended to keep wages and prices high. The Japanese Central Bank loosened the yield on its 10-year government bonds from 0.25% to 0.5%. The central bank said that inflation expectations have risen. Japan’s is the last major central bank to keep rates negative and this signals that it could be shifting its stance.

☆ Vint Cerf Helped Create the Internet on the Back of an Envelope
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

This is largely thanks to a design that Vint Cerf sketched on the back of an envelope while holed up with fellow computer scientist Robert Kahn in a Palo Alto cabana nearly 50 years ago. “Bob and I were like two hands on one pencil,” Dr. Cerf, 79, says over video from his home in McLean, Va., dressed in his usual three-piece suit. “We had a Stanford secretary type it up, and what did we do with the handwritten original? We threw it away! Historians have never forgiven me,” he adds with a laugh.

☆ Here's how the Federal Reserve confused the markets
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Patti Domm | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Markets had flip flopped Wednesday afternoon, after the Federal Reserve released its policy statement and new interest rate and economic forecasts. Swonk noted there is agreement among Fed officials to drive rates higher, and most officials forecast an end point for rates above 5% in 2023. Fed funds futures Thursday showed a high rate of 4.89% by next May, still below the Fed's target. Every month that goes by means there's somebody's debt that matures that's going to be needed to be refinanced at a higher rate." With the economy weakening, I think the inflation rate is going to fall faster than most economists do."

This is one of the reasons why Derbez is telling the story of a fictional resort using both English and Spanish. “I was always criticizing movies where I was seeing 007 (referring to the character James Bond) in Brazil and everyone speaks in English,” Derbez, who's also an executive producer of the show, said in an interview with NBC News. And that’s not the way it is.”The same goes for many TV shows being filmed in Mexico, Derbez said, which also show characters speaking only in English. He wants “Acapulco” to stand out by depicting the multilingual reality that he sees and lives in both countries. Episode nine of season two releases Friday on Apple TV+.

☆ Recession may force Fed rate cut in 2023, sending Treasury yields lower -BofA
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Davide Barbuscia | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"The Fed is likely going to show signs of becoming successful in their attempt to rein in inflation by softening the labor market," he said. "That's probably also going to be allowing for volatility within rates and across markets to compress to some extent." The Fed has raised interest rates by 375 basis points so far this year as it attempts to bring down the highest inflation in decades. Cabana expects the central bank to increase rates three more times until reaching a terminal rate of 5.25% in March. Ten-year Treasury yields - a global benchmark for a swathe of other asset classes - are set to decline from 4% in the first quarter next year to 3.25% by year end, Cabana said.

☆ Degrowth: A dangerous idea or the answer to the world's biggest problems?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Julia Horowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“An innocent 2 or 3% per year, it’s an enormous amount of growth — cumulative growth, compound growth — over time,” said Giorgos Kallis, a top degrowth scholar based at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Action Press/ShutterstockThe UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently cited degrowth in a major report. Investment bank Jefferies said investors should consider what happens if degrowth gathers steam, noting “climate-anxious” younger generations have different consumer values. She’s criticized “fairy tales about non-existent technological solutions” and “eternal economic growth.” And she’s touched on another point degrowthers raise: Is our current system, which has produced rampant inequality, even working for us? Gates, the Microsoft co-founder who’s prioritized investing in climate innovations, admits that overhauling global energy systems is a Herculean task.

After decades of decline, even into negative territory, term premium is rising again. chartchartchart"We are in a tectonic phase of monetary policy and you are getting asset dislocations across the board, including long bonds," said Solomon Tadesse, head of North American Quant Strategies at Societe Generale. A 30-year bond bought and held to maturity by a pension fund, for example, quickly becomes 'off the run,' so liquidity risk ends up lifting the term premium. In the week through Oct. 21 the 30-year bond's price fell for an eighth straight week, the longest selling streak since 2004. If the Fed is successful in driving down inflation or the economy goes into recession, more investors will flock to 30-year bonds.

☆ Debt ceiling fights aren’t new. The next one could unleash ‘Armageddon’
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Julia Horowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Fears are brewing that a showdown between Republicans and President Joe Biden over the debt ceiling in 2023 could present a similar moment of reckoning. “The debt ceiling is probably the biggest institutional quirk in the US that carries with it some global risk and risk to the Treasury market,” Setser said. While brinkmanship over the debt limit has become commonplace, the stakes could be higher now that financial markets are on edge. “If the US does not raise its debt ceiling and defaults on its debt, that is an Armageddon moment,” Day said. Yellen told CNN that it’s “utterly essential” that the debt ceiling is raised when necessary.

☆ Luxury hotel booking programs from Amex, Capital One, Visa, and more can get you free elite benefits like room upgrades and on-property credits — here's how
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Eric Rosen | Tessa Campbell | Read More | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +39 min

David Slotnick/Business InsiderMany travel rewards cards offer elite-like hotel benefits when you book with their online portals. The prices through credit card travel portals are often on par with booking directly through hotels. However, it's only available to Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card and Capital One Spark Travel Elite cardholders. Bottom lineYou might not have a premium hotel credit card or elite status with one of the major loyalty programs. However, that doesn't mean you can't take advantage of credit card booking portals to enjoy perks like room upgrades, free breakfast, and on-property credits.

☆ Risks skew to Fed front-loading rate hikes, says Bank of America's Cabana
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailRisks skew to Fed front-loading rate hikes, says Bank of America's CabanaMark Cabana, Bank of America head of U.S. rate strategy, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss the future of rate hikes, the next move for yields and where Bank of America sees the terminal Federal Funds rate heading.

☆ Stocks could struggle as investors read the Fed's message to mean a recession is more likely
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Patti Domm | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Lerner said investors should also realize that higher rates in the bond market could pressure stocks as investors look for attractive yield elsewhere. Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA, said the more hawkish Fed does not mean the market will keep from rallying in the fourth quarter. The fourth quarter in a mid-term election year is often positive, after stocks crater in September and early October in the typical seasonal pattern. Stovall said he is less enthusiastic about a fourth quarter rally, but it could still happen. "I'm not giving up on a fourth quarter rally, but it might start with a lower case 'r'," he said.

☆ Why Hollywood talent agency UTA bought a $125 million media consultancy 'to build a really wide and strong bridge' between stars and brands
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-24 | by ( Natalie Jarvey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Hollywood agency UTA bought media consultancy MediaLink for $125 million in DecemberThe companies' presence at Cannes Lions signaled how entertainment's ties to brand marketing are deepening. Six months after UTA's $125 million acquisition of MediaLink, the combined company had a debut moment of sorts at the Cannes Lions marketing festival this week. At a large beachside cabana space along the Croisette, signs for "MediaLink, a UTA company" were hard to miss. Inside, reps for both businesses held meetings with a bevy of entertainment, media, technology, and consumer goods brands. Erica Berenstein for InsiderSince joining UTA, MediaLink has absorbed the talent agency's marketing team, and they're finding other synergies.

☆ As families and 'Parrotheads' flock to campgrounds and RV parks, institutional real-estate investors see their next big score
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-23 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Investors are eyeing profits in campgrounds and RV parks as Americans flock to the great outdoors. Camp Margaritaville RV Resort and Cabana Cabins Auburndale, Central FloridaThe trend is also driven by demographics. Sam Zell's Equity Lifestyle Properties, another large REIT that invests in RV parks alongside mobile homes, has also been busy. While it's not clear how much big investors have thrown into RV campgrounds, manufactured housing communities as a whole have seen a burst of Wall Street financing. After looking hard at multifamily and industrial, he settled with RV parks.

The prices through credit card travel portals are often on par with booking directly through hotels. Depending on the issuer and type of credit card you carry, you might have access to special online booking portals where reservations include these sorts of freebies, too. Although you won't earn hotel points or credit toward elite status by booking through this portal, the $100 credit will likely make up for it. More Information Earn 60,000 Membership Rewards® Points after you spend $4,000 on eligible purchases with your new Card within the first 6 months of Card Membership. Note that credit card lenders may use many different variations of credit score models when considering your application.

☆ Washington Post: De când a părăsit funcția, Donald Trump a cerut guvernului american 40 de mii de dolari pentru cazarea pe proprietatea sa din Florida a agenților Secret Service care îl păzesc tot pe
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-22 | by ( Anatolie Esanu | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +2 min

Washington Post publică documente care arată tarifele pe care serviciul secret le-a plătit la proprietățile președintelui Trump până pe 30 aprilie. Trump a stat la Mar-a-Lago (Florida) mai mult de o săptămână, înainte de a se muta la locația din Bedminster, pentru perioada de vară. Foștii președinți beneficiază de protecția serviciului secret pe viață. Biden nu a mai perceput chirie serviciului secret de când a devenit președinte, în ianuarie 2021, potrivit unui purtător de cuvânt al Casei Albe. Totuși, serviciului secret i se permite să cheltuiască mai mult decât limita, dacă misiunea sa de protecție o impune.

Persons: Trump, . Trump, Donald Trump, Greg, Biden Organizations: Washington Post, Washington, Casei Locations: Mar -, Lago, Florida, SUA, Delaware, Palm Beach

☆ O femeie care și-a înscenat moartea după o fraudă de 1 milion de euro a fost dată de gol de pudelul său
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-06 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

O femeie din Germania, a fost arestată de poliția spaniolă pe insula Mallorca, fiind suspectată că ar fi deturnat aproximativ 1 milion de euro de la firma germană de energie solară la care lucra. Femeia a fost dată de gol de câinele său, un pudel de talie mare, scrie digi24. Femeia, în vârstă de 47 de ani, era director regional al companiei cu sediul în Germania și locuia în Mallorca. După ce a deturant fondurile, aceasta și-a schimbat numele și locuința, iar părinții săi au prezentat un certificat de deces atunci când a fost chemată în instanță. Detectivul a descoperit noua locuință a femeii și a informat poliția.

Persons: Detectivul Locations: Germania, Mallorca, Rostock, Santa

Filmul este un voyage magnifique despre conștientizarea libertății, îmbinat priceput cu o imagine fabuloasă a naturii și a sufletului. O prezentare a culturii rusești de periferie și o evidențiere a lucrurilor simple care ne unesc și ne fac oameni. De data aceasta, ne aduce încă o poveste departe de stilul hollywoodian în rol principal cu Ben Foster. O poveste atipică despre maturizare arătată prin intermediul unei relații complicate dintre tată și fiică. Ca să afli mai mult despre filmele favorite la Oscar și despre producțiile înaintate de Netflix la concurs, vezi articolele scrise mai devreme.

Persons: Mircea, Sean Penn, Jon Krakauer, Christopher McCandless, Emile Hirsch, Christopher, Motorcycle, Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara, Gael García Bernal, Alberto Granado, San Pablo, Walter Salles, Guevara, american ., David Lynch, Richard Farnsworth, Sylvain, Teddy, Aleksei, Debra Granik, Winter’s Bone, Ben Foster . Will, Ben Foster, Tom, Will, Peter Rock, Iisus Organizations: Academia Americană, Film, Emory, Disney, Lost Highway, Mulholland, YouTube Locations: Nomadland, Alaska, Americii, America de Sud, Buenos Aires, Guajira, Venezuela, chilian, San, Peru, do Brasil, american, Laurens, Iowa, Mt . Zion, Wisconsin, Irak, Portland, Oregon

☆ Violatori devin, de multe ori, anume „băieții de treabă”. Recenzie la filmul „Promising Young Woman”
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-08 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +27 min

Promising Young Woman a fost nominalizat la cinci categorii ale premiului Oscar. Cu brațele întinse de-a lungul canapelei, Cassie, într-o ținută office, abia se ține trează. Deja un Seth mai matur o abordează pe Cassie și îi propune să o conducă până acasă. Simpatic, un pic stângaci, exact atât cât trebuie ca să te facă să zâmbești, cu un simț al umorul bun, autoironic și… atât de înalt. În martie 2016, Brock Turner a fost condamnat pentru agresarea sexuală a unei femei inconștiente la o petrecere a fraternității.

Persons: Emerald, Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnhum, Alison Brie, Promising Young, , Cassandra, Cassie, Cassie ., Adam Brody ., Seth, O.C, Jerry, William Foster Wallace, Nina, Nina . Ea, Lilith, Ryan ., Alan Monroe, Ryan, Paris Hilton, Bo, Carry, Își, Ryan observi, Ninei, Kill Bill, Alex Monroe, Alex, Brock Turner, Procurorii, Turner, Emily Doe, Chanel Miller, Chanel, decana, Margaret Atwood, Breonna Taylor, Ingrid Escamilla, Marisela, It’s, Lady Gaga, !, Dumitru Petru, Britney Spears, Anthony Willis ., Britney, Ea, Lo, . Lila, C.C . Bloom, Hillary Whitney, Holly, Marin, Thelma, Louise, Kathy, Vera, Beth, Kate, Tully Organizations: Sundance, Promising, Promising Young Woman, universității Stanford, Stanford, Harvard, ., TV8, Facebook Locations: Woman, Paris, Hades, Cassie, Ivy League, SUA, Chanel, Harvard, Beaches, Firefly Lane, dolce

☆ Mister în jurul celei mai izolate case din lume. Cum a apărut și cui aparține
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-19 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Clădirea micuță, albă, este situată pe insula Elliðaey, un loc îndepărtat care se află la sud de Islanda și face parte din arhipelagul Vestmannaeyjar. Elliðaey a fost locuită odată, până prin anii 1930, când cei câțiva rezidenți au plecat în Islanda. Apariția acestei construcții i-a contrariat pe oameni... După ce a fost observată, au început să circule tot felul de zvonuri, inclusiv că a fost construită de un miliardar excentric care intenționa să o folosească drept refugiu în cazul unei apocalipse zombie. Povestea casei de pe insulă a devenit recent virală pe Reddit. Imaginea a fost postată cu mesajul: „Cea mai izolată casă din lume”.

Persons: . Elliðaey, Björk Locations: Elliðaey, Islanda, Vestmannaeyjar, Insula

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