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Bitcoin Attempts Price Recovery After a Derivatives-Led Slide to Sub-$56K Fears about a supply glut from the Mt. Gox settlement are unfounded, one analyst said. Bitcoin is looking to regain its footing, having reached five-week lows early Friday in a move market participants said was driven by derivatives. The top cryptocurrency had recovered to $57,200 at press time from the low of...

IRS seized $3.5B in crypto-related fraud money this year as illicit activity multiplies he Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigations Unit (IRS-CI) seized $3.5 billion from cryptocurrency-related fraud cases over the fiscal year of 2021, according to an annual report published by the agency, underscoring how the booming sector has also sparked a rise in the illicit use of crypto. According to...

SEC Raises Threshold for Reg A+ Offerings to $75 Million On November 2, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved amendments, originally proposed in the SEC’s June 2019 concept release and March 2020 proposing release, to its “patchwork” exempt offering framework. The amendments represent important changes for private and public companies that rely on private offerings as part of their strategies to raise capital....

Fed Maintains Interest Rates, Suggests Tapering Of $120B In Monthly Asset Purchases Could Happen 'Soon' The Federal Reserve maintained its target fed funds rate range of between zero and 0.25%. The Fed also said it may soon begin tapering its monthly asset purchases “If progress continues broadly as expected, the Committee judges that a moderation in the pace of asset purchases...

Elon Musk Says Reducing Dogecoin Fee 'Super Important' To Make Adoption At Places Like AMC Theaters Viable  CEO Elon Musk has once again stressed the importance of lowered Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) fees in order to make transactions like the purchase of movie tickets viable. What Happened: Musk’s comments were made on Twitter in the wake of AMC  CEO Adam Aron conducting a poll on the same social network on whether...

Leads Inc. launches revolutionary lead generation and lead conversions technology. Since the official Leads rollout of this new technology they have seen impressive results for clients. Leads Inc. located in El Segundo, CA has recently partnered with Investor Media to deliver full investor awareness and investor marketing campaigns. “We felt that leadS Inc. and investor media was a match made in heaven” The...

Equity Investors will be able to outperform the imminent stock market crash Accredited Investors know that the best returns on investment are achieved by investing early in a companies growth cycle. 2020 will go down in history as one of the most volatile and erratic years on the stock market with historic highs and unheard-of lows. While the US and the...

Wall Street has a new obsession: special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). SPACs are an alternative to the traditional way businesses raise money known as initial public offerings (IPOs). Since January 1, 2021 SPACs have raised over $88 billion, making up 83 percent of public offerings this year and raising more money than they did in all of 2020. As investment banks and professional investors celebrate this booming...

SEC’s Investment Rule Updates and Cannabis Fundraising Recently the SEC updated its rules to simplify the patchwork of regulations to help companies in fundraising mode. This matters to cannabis companies of all types, especially those that want to utilize the available federal exemptions in their securities offerings. In the SEC’s own words, “These amendments will promote capital formation and expand investment opportunities while...

Why Aurora Cannabis, Aphria, Cronos Group, and Other Marijuana Stocks Crashed Today Traders are bailing out of pot stocks. But should they be? What happened Cannabis stocks plunged on Thursday as traders rushed to take profits in companies that analysts say have seen their share prices rise too far, too fast. Here's how some of the most popular marijuana stocks were performing as...