Op-ed: Don’t buy the sham argument against teaching personal finance in school – CNBC

Nicholas Prior | Getty Images As schools across the country prepare for the coming year, which we hope returns to something like a pre-pandemic normal, the financial literacy community will redouble its efforts to get effective financial education into our nation’s classrooms. After the array of economic uncertainties brought on by a nearly worldwide shutdown, […]

BitMEX Introduces Altcoin and DeFi Basket Indices & Derivatives Contracts, First to be Available 24/7 on Fully Verified Platform – Yahoo Finance

MAHE, Seychelles, July 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BitMEX, one of the world’s leading crypto derivatives platforms, today announced the launch of the BitMEX ALTMEX Basket Index (.BALTMEX) and the BitMEX DEFIMEX Basket Index (.BDEFIMEX), which track the performance of the top ten cryptocurrencies in the Altcoin and DeFi markets, respectively. (PRNewsfoto/100x Group) BitMEX also introduced […]

Iodine derivative kills SARS-CoV-2 within 90 sec – News-Medical.Net

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2), which is the causative agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is often transmitted to others through respiratory droplets from saliva and nasal fluid. When an individual is infected with COVID-19, these tiny droplets contain SARS-CoV-2 viral particles that have a diameter within the range of 0-10 […]

Stock market news live updates: Stocks suffer biggest drop in months as rising COVID cases shake confidence – Yahoo Finance

Rising concerns about inflation and the resurgence of COVID-19 infections among the unvaccinated walloped Wall Street on Monday, with major benchmarks suffering their worst declines since May, even as quarterly earnings continue to reflect a strengthening economic rebound. Fears about broadly rising coronavirus cases drove the Nasdaq and S&P 500 to their biggest drop in […]

Securities and Markets regulatory news, July 2021 #3 | Hogan Lovells – JDSupra – JD Supra

Contents Benchmarks (Provision of Information and Documents) Regulations 2021 UK EMIR: FCA update on reporting LIBOR transition modifications UK MiFIR: FCA statement on supervision of commodity position limits UK MiFIR: FCA consults on LIBOR transition and derivatives trading obligation UK MiFIR: FCA update on data reporting and LIBOR transition BMR: LIBOR removed from list of […]

Exxon Mobil appoints former Diageo executive as finance head – Reuters

July 19 (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) said on Monday it appointed former Diageo Plc (DGE.L) and United Airlines (UAL.O) executive Kathryn Mikells as chief financial officer, effective Aug. 9. Mikells most recently held the finance head role at Diageo and was a member of its board of directors. She has previously served as […]