The Market Marauder Show

Generational wealth is a term that has resonated with families and investors all over the world. Generational wealth is pretty self explanatory but it consists of building wealth and passing it down to the next generation. The are many prominent families who have grown there wealth throughout the years and this is the goal for most people. Building generational wealth can be obtained by anyone who...

ISO 20022 is a term that has invaded the crypto world. ISO stands for The International Organization for Standardization and many companies around the world use these standards to run there organizations. I will be reviewing the ISO 20022 standard and how it applies to the crypto ecosystem. ISO 20022 is an ISO standard for electronic data interchange between financial institutions. It describes a...

Bitcoin's price has had a monthly range of about 47k - 35k. This price action for some seems like a time to get out of the market, but for others it is seen as a great buying opportunity. Bitcoin has has its days of massive ups and downs. Some investors believe that the bull run for Bitcoin is over while others believe that it is just starting. There are multiple market factors that are altering t...

The FOMC just recently released there projections to raise interest rates in March. The DOW Jones fell 68 points and the S&P fell 1.2%. Facing both turbulent financial markets and raging inflation, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday indicated it could soon raise interest rates for the first time in more than three years as part of a broader tightening of historically easy monetary policy. In a m...

YouTube is considering offering non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as a way “to help creators capitalize on emerging technologies including things like NFTs," CEO Susan Wojcicki wrote in an open letter about the video streaming platform's 2022 priorities. Wojcicki said her team is looking ahead to the future and has been following everything happening in Web 3 “as a source of inspiration to continue innov...

Facing both turbulent financial markets and raging inflation, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday indicated it could soon raise interest rates for the first time in more than three years as part of a broader tightening of historically easy monetary policy. In a move that came as little surprise, the Fed’s policymaking group said a quarter-percentage point increase to its benchmark short-term borrowin...

Crypto miners that are slated to go public soon are likely to face a tough few months following the recent drop-off in bitcoin's price and the broader crypto market. The slump in crypto prices could affect companies such as Core Scientific, which is planning to become a public company through a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Co...

Top chipmaker TSMC notched a new quarterly sales record at the end of 2021 boosted by continued demand from top clients including Apple and Qualcomm for semiconductors. The Taiwanese foundry, which manufacturers chips for other companies, reported December revenue of 155.38 billion new Taiwan dollars (about $5.6 billion) — a record number for a single month, and up 4.8% from November. Shares of Ri...

Crypto exchange Binance. US is building a space in Portals, a metaverse platform built on the Solana blockchain. Portals recreates a dense urban environment where users can explore buildings and interactive rooms. PayPal (PYPL) is looking into launching its own stablecoin as the company grows its crypto business. WisdomTree, an asset manager with over $76 billion in assets under management, announ...

General Motors unveiled a new personal self-driving electric concept car from GM’s luxury brand Cadillac on Wednesday during the CES technology show. The sleek two-passenger car, called InnerSpace, is part of Cadillac’s Halo Concept Portfolio, which debuted a year ago at CES with an urban air mobility vehicle and a shared autonomous shuttle. General Motors plans to build a work truck version of it...

Shiba Inu has launched a beta version of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) to give users more authority to decide on crypto projects and pairs on the ShibaSwap platform. The dogecoin rival will release Doggy Dao in a “stage-by-stage” metric and phased approach. The first phase called “DAO 1″ will be implemented within the next few days. The DAO 1 phase will focus on “providing immediat...

Apple capped off a stunning rise on Monday when it briefly became the first company to touch a $3 trillion market value before closing the day just short of the mark. The relentless rise of Apple’s stock speaks to the power of Apple’s capital return program. In the past years, Apple has been the biggest repurchaser of its own shares in the S&P 500 by far. Apple spent $85.5 billion to repurchas...

Golden State Warriors star guard Stephen Curry is partnering with sports apparel brand Under Armour on an NFT drop to celebrate his new record as the National Basketball Association’s all-time top three-point shooter. In honor of this record-breaking shot, the collection will feature 2,974 non-fungible tokens that are digital replicas of the Under Armour-made “Curry Flow 9″ sneakers Curry was wear...

Student loan borrowers got some happy news this holiday season: They’ll have an additional three months before they have to start making their payments again. The payment pause, which has been in effect since March 2020, was scheduled to expire Jan. 31, but the Biden administration announced it was extending the relief until May 1. Outstanding student loan debt in the U.S. has surpassed $1.7 trill...

Apple corporate and retail workers are holding a walkout on Christmas Eve to demand better working conditions and have issued a list of demands — but it isn't clear how many staffers are participating. The labor walkout, called for on Thursday and executed on Friday, urges consumers not to shop in stores or online. It calls for Apple to meet a number of demands, including hazard pay, benefits for...

Blockchain technology is central to the development of the metaverse and Web 3, Goldman Sachs said in a research report. For Web 3, blockchain allows for the “partial elimination of centralized control,” the note says. In the future, users will be able to log in without the need for a third party, such as Meta, Google or Apple, the note adds. Web 3 is the third generation of internet services whic...

FedEx on Friday received the first of 500 electric delivery trucks from BrightDrop, the newly formed EV unit of General Motors. It’s a moment both companies call a “tipping point” for EVs for package delivery and logistics. While only a small part of the FedEx Express fleet of 87,000 vehicles, the Brightdrop EV600 trucks represent a big commitment to sustainability for the global carrier as it aim...

Dogecoin surged as much as 33% after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electric-car maker would accept dogecoin as payment for its merchandise. One of Ukraine’s oldest commercial banks, Tascombank, is planning to test an electronic hryvnia, a digital version of its sovereign currency. The electronic hryvnia will be built and tested on the Stellar network and be deployed via global fintech platform Bitt...

Toyota, one of the world’s largest automakers, is planning to invest 4 trillion yen ($35 billion) to build a full lineup of 30 battery-powered electric vehicles by 2030. It aims to also increase global sales of battery electric vehicles by 3.5 million units a year by the end of the decade, CEO Akio Toyoda said Tuesday. Most of Toyota’s current electric vehicle sales are hybrid electric cars that a...

Several southern U.S. states, including Texas, Georgia, Louisiana and Florida, have confirmed cases of the omicron Covid-19 variant as the highly mutated strain takes root in half of all U.S. states. Twenty-five U.S. states have detected cases of the new strain, a number that health officials expect to increase in the coming weeks, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and...

Inflation accelerated at its fastest pace since 1982 in November, the Labor Department said Friday, putting pressure on the economic recovery and raising the stakes for the Federal Reserve. The consumer price index, which measures the cost of a wide-ranging basket of goods and services, rose 0.8% for the month, good for a 6.8% pace on a year over year basis and the fastest rate since June 1982. Ex...

Celebrities are coming to the metaverse, and they’re bringing their merchandise with them. Universal Music Group (UMG) has partnered with avatar company Genies, the label announced Thursday. Previously, some of the label’s artists, including Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber, had personally tapped Genies for avatar versions of themselves. DeFi Land has added a FM radio tower to there game that plays...

Weekly jobless claims tumbled last week, reaching a fresh 52-year low as the U.S. jobs market climbs out of its pandemic-era hole, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Initial filings for unemployment insurance totaled 184,000 for the week ended Dec. 4, the lowest going back to Sept. 6, 1969, which saw 182,000. Satellite imagery and data specialist Planet began trading Wednesday on the New York...

For years, Amazon has been quietly chartering private cargo ships, making its own containers, and leasing planes to better control the complicated shipping journey of an online order. Now, as many retailers panic over supply chain chaos, Amazon’s costly early moves are helping it avoid the long wait times for available dock space and workers at the country’s busiest ports of Long Beach and Los Ang...

Retail numbers begin to tumble as more shoppers move from in store sales to online sales. The U.S. economy created far fewer jobs than expected in November, in a sign that hiring started to slow even before the announcement of the new Covid omicron variant, the Labor Department reported earlier in the day. Nonfarm payrolls increased by just 210,000 for the month, though the unemployment rate fell...