Colombia avoids trade war with US as business community, citizens call for cooler heads
The measures announced by Trump, including a 25% tariff on all Colombian goods that was set to rise to 50% in a week and emergency treasury, banking and financial sanctions, would have had an “immense impact” on the Colombian economy, said Bruce Mac Master, president of business association ANDI.
“It was very worrying how the president (Petro) approached the problem because he was not conscious about all the consequences that it would have for the country,”
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- Bloomberg’s Seyffart noted that the filings highlight how issuers are ‘testing’ the SEC’s limits on which crypto ETFs to allow
- Eric Balchunas noted that the ETFs could be trading as early as April unless the SEC rejects them
- The crypto community on X is divided over the filings,
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- If the Fed holds rates steady this week, banks may do the same for savings rates.
- The best online-only banks and credit unions still have savings rates well above 4% APY.
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Crazy Great Depression Stat Scares Investors
Some things only look crazy in hindsight. Did anyone in 1929 know they were on the cusp of The Great Depression? A tiny minority, at best. The rest, well, they all piled into stocks, and a just few of them too.
Fast forward almost a century and investors appear to be committing the same financial crime,
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If The CEO Is Loading Up, Should You?
Riddle me this. If a stock is so awful why does the CEO keep buying so much of it? That’s precisely the situation with SoFi. The share price is down an astonishing 33% year-to-date and yet the boss keeps acquiring stock at a furious pace, and Motley Fool just ranked it one of the safest banks in America.
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Market Commentary: 54.9% Upside + 9.3x P/E
Trading volume is like oxygen for market makers, and over the past decade off-exchange market makers like Virtu Financial have soaked up a lot of trades from individual investors, creating a fortune for shareholders.