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☆ A Filmmaker Needed a Quiet Place to Write. Where Better Than a Tuscan Villa?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-18 | by ( Kurt Soller | Ricardo Labougle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Moya initially planned to find a more permanent home in Paris after his working holiday. Instead, after visiting the 2,475-square-foot apartment, he decided to stay in Florence so he could write in solitude. The astronomer Galileo Galilei stayed here several times in the 17th century, until the family of artistic patrons eventually sold it off. “I like empty spaces and complete austerity because I travel for work. “But here, the question was, ‘How do we respect the woodwork?’”

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When 2023 began, a single bitcoin could be had for less than $17,000 after losing more than 75% of its value. Now, bitcoin is getting another boost on the prospects of creating a much larger pool of investors. IShares Bitcoin Trust appeared to be temporarily removed Tuesday, but was back online as of Wednesday. Still, the most recent surge bitcoin goes beyond single developments or participants, Kaiko research analyst Riyad Carey notes — crediting “more of a broad market rally" around spot bitcoin ETF prospects. Despite the recent excitement around bitcoin, crypto is still a risky bet.

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☆ Oil and natural gas prices are climbing again as risks multiply
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Anna Cooban | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“The oil market is very sensitive to developments with the Israel-Hamas war,” he told CNN. Risks to natural gas supplyThe situation in Israel has also weighed heavily on the European natural gas market. Egypt produces a lot of its own natural gas in addition to imports and processes some of it into LNG for shipping abroad. “This has obviously created a lot of nervousness and heightened the geopolitical risk within the European gas market,” Tomas Marzec-Manser, head of gas analytics at ICIS, told CNN. And Marzec-Manser thinks Europe’s upcoming winter will be bearish for the gas market.

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☆ Crypto crackdown: Is there anywhere safe left for crypto investors in the US?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“Look, we don’t need more digital currency,” Gensler told CNBC on Tuesday. “We already have digital currency: It’s called the US dollar. Many crypto investors appear to be abandoning so-called “alt-coins” and sticking with the relatively more reliable OG virtual currency, wrote Ed Moya, a senior market analyst with Oanda. Bottom line: “The SEC looks like it is playing Whac-A-Mole with crypto exchanges,” Moya wrote. Because of that, crypto investors will have to decide whether they are confident that the offerings on various exchanges will remain available to trade.

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☆ Banking crisis: Why markets are still freaking out about banks
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Similarly, southeastern regional bank First Horizon was teetering, having scrapped a $13 billion merger with Canada’s TD bank. That market pessimism was echoed by Bill Ackman, the billionaire investor, who tweeted Thursday that regional banks broadly are in trouble. Without a miracle from DC, the outlook for regional banks is not great. There is so much pessimism percolating on Wall Street, smaller banks are going to get crushed. That means we can expect more bank failures, and more Wall Street panic, in the weeks and months ahead.

New York CNN —This week, the go-to bank for US tech startups came rapidly unglued, leaving its high-powered customers and investors in limbo. Silicon Valley Bank, facing a sudden bank run and capital crisis, collapsed Friday morning and was taken over by federal regulators. Founded in 1983, SVB specialized in banking for tech startups. At the same time, venture capital began drying up, forcing startups to draw down funds held by SVB. By Friday morning, trading in SVB shares was halted and it had abandoned efforts to quickly raise capital or find a buyer.

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