Canadian Dollar is regaining lost ground after upbeat Canadian GDP data. US Dollar looks weak despite good US Jobless claims, upward revision of Q4 GDP. The focus is now on Friday’s PCE Prices Index and Fed Powell’s speech. The Canadian Dollar (CAD) is trading higher for the fourth consecutive…

The cryptocurrency market saw a mixed performance early Wednesday, with Bitcoin and Ethereum remaining largely flat and all coins in the top 10 moving less than 3%—except for the resurgent Dogecoin. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, has been trading sideways for the third day in a row after gaining a…

Every day, millions of online shoppers face substantial risk of unwittingly giving too much away – money, information, privacy. To some retailers, this might be gold, but when the gold comes from dark patterns, we need to start applying new rules. “Dark patterns” is the term for the online use…

Edison International has been named as a Top 10 dividend paying utility stock, according to Dividend Channel, which published its weekly ”DividendRank” report. The report noted that among utilities, EIX shares displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics. The report also cited the strong quarterly dividend history at…

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Baltimore was sleeping when the fully laden cargo ship, adrift and without power, slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, bringing it down in seconds. Had the disaster taken place during the daytime, hundreds of cars and trucks could have been on the bridge over a channel leading to one of the busiest ports on the east coast. So it was a mercy it happened in the early hours, and that police got sufficient warning to stop vehicles from driving onto the bridge. But the six people presumed dead from the tragedy couldn’t escape. They were maintenance workers — the…

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Cocoa prices are surging so high, the Easter Bunny might want to hoard its chocolate. Consumers hunting for Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies this year can expect sticker shock similar to Valentine’s Day. Retail chocolate prices rose 11.6% across all of 2023, according to Circana data shared with CNN, outpacing…