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President Donald Trump faced the risk of yet another potential assassination attempt on Saturday after a gunmen fired shots outside a hotel ballroom he was in while attending the annual White House correspondents dinner. It followed two attempts in 2024 during his presidential campaign, including one that grazed his ear, inches away from a fatal shot. After Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and top administration officials were evacuated from the hotel, the president spoke to reporters at the White House briefing room. He soon pointed to the need for the controversial ballroom he is building on the White House grounds…
Businesses have doled out as much as $4 million for last-minute plans to move boats through the Panama Canal in recent weeks, the Panama Canal Authority says, as Iran war’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz generates a seismic shift in global trade flows. While passage through the canal usually comes at a flat rate via reservations, companies without bookings can pay more to cross through an auction that awards slots to the highest bidder. The alternative would be waiting for days off the coast of Panama City. The demand for slots skyrocketed and the auction prices ballooned in recent weeks as a…
Key takeaways Closing costs are fees associated with buying and selling a home, like taxes and insurance. Buyers usually pay 2% – 5% of the purchase price in closing costs, but this varies. Closing costs are due on closing day when the home is transferred from seller to buyer. When buying a home, there’s one big expense beyond your down payment that you’ll need to save for – closing costs. These fees cover everything from lender charges to title insurance and can add up quickly. In this Redfin article, we’ll break down what closing costs are, how much they typically…
In This Article First-time homebuyers and small investors look for many of the same attributes when considering where to buy real estate: affordability, safety, stability, employment, accessibility, limited competition, and prosperity. That’s why Zillow’s 2026 Best Markets for First-Time Homebuyers also serves as a handy cheat sheet for investors. Kara Ng, a senior economist at Zillow, told CNBC Make It that one thing the top buyer markets have in common is that they are all located in the Midwest or the Sunbelt. In other words, stay away from pricey coastal markets if you’re looking for a good investment. Having a…
In This Article You know the saying, “If it’s too good to be true…” That comes to mind when you discover that big investors still have a loophole that allows them to buy single-family homes, despite President Donald Trump’s proposed ban, putting them in direct competition with the small investors the ban was supposed to protect. The loophole, ResiClub reports, concerns distressed properties. Washington has carved out an exception to the ban, allowing institutions in the single-family space to undertake renovations, putting them in direct competition with fix-and-flip investors and BRRRR landlords. What Trump’s Ban Does and Doesn’t Cover In…
This is the worst real estate investing advice I’ve ever heard—and I KEEP hearing it. If you go on to any “real estate investing” TikTok page, they say the same thing: use other people’s money, wait for the crash, interest rates will go down…and that’s not even the worst of the advice.This type of real estate advice will make investors broke, put them in riskier positions, and stop them from retiring (early) with rental properties. I should know, I became financially free in just over a decade of real estate investing, and I didn’t follow ANY of the advice I’ll…
Intel has spent the last few years trying to reinvent itself and prove it’s still relevant in an AI-centric world dominated by Nvidia’s chips. On Thursday, as Intel crushed Wall Street financial targets, the company had a new message: There’s nothing wrong with being a 58-year-old maker of PC and server microprocessors. “We are embracing our roots as data driven, paranoid, and engineering driven,” CEO Lip Bu Tan said at the start of the company’s Q1 earnings conference call, referencing the famous “only the paranoid survive” philosophy of Andy Grove, the late cofounder of Intel. Shares of Intel surged more…
Brands by Integra has acquired Phoenix brokerage CITIEA, marking the national network’s first Arizona deal and the start of a planned southwest expansion. The partnership brings 72SOLD founder Greg Hague into a national listing strategy role and adds CITIEA’s nearly 1,700 annual transactions and approximately $1 billion in volume to Brands by Integra’s 18-state platform.
Dave:There is a dramatic showdown brewing at the Federal Reserve that could change the course for interest rates, for mortgage rates, and much of the entire economy over the next several years. And it is playing out right now. Back in March, President Trump nominated Kevin Warsch to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve when Jerome Powell’s term is up on May 15th. But the nomination isn’t going as planned. And even if Warsh is confirmed, his job has gotten a whole lot harder in just the last couple of weeks. The President has adamantly called for lower…
The Gates Foundation has commissioned an external investigation of its past engagement with Jeffrey Epstein, CEO Mark Suzman told staff in a memo this week, as billionaire and foundation co-founder Bill Gates prepares to testify before Congress in June about his relationship with the late sex offender. The memo was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. In a statement the Foundation gave the Journal, they said the review was launched in March with help from Gates and the foundation’s independent board members and is expected to deliver an update this summer. It will also examine the foundation’s policies for…