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The post April home sales disappoint as higher mortgage rates weigh on buyers appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Prospective buyers arrive during an open house in Rancho Cucamonga, California, US, on Saturday, May 9, 2026. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sales of previously owned homes in April were essentially flat compared with March, rising just 0.2% to 4.02 million units on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis, according to the National Association of Realtors. Housing analysts were expecting a gain of more than 3%. April sales were unchanged year-over-year. This count is based on closings, so contracts likely signed in late February and March. The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage ended March in the high 5% range, according to Mortgage News Daily, and then shot up sharply, due to the start of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. “Despite mixed macroeconomic signals—including a record-high stock market and historically low consumer confidence—home sales were modestl
Read full articleThe housing market imbalance may drive innovation in real estate investment, boosting interest in tokenized assets and decentralized finance. The post US home sellers outnumber buyers by 630,000, the largest gap ever recorded appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
CoW DAO approved CIP‑86 to offer discretionary grants of up to 100% to victims of April’s cow.fi domain hijack, with detailed claims due by May 14 and payouts targeted by May 31. CoW DAO has formally approved a user compensation…
The post Meghan Trainor’s New Album Brings Her To A Career Low On The Charts appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Meghan Trainor’s new album Toy With Me debuts on the Billboard 200 at No. 198, marking a new low for the pop singer on the competitive albums roster. HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA – MAY 10: Meghan Trainor visits the Trü Frü backstage portrait studio at iHeartRadio’s 102.7 KIIS FM Wango Tango concert on May 10, 2025 in Huntington Beach, California. (Photo by Sara Jaye/Getty Images for Trü Frü ) Getty Images for Trü Frü When Meghan Trainor scored her first hit a little more than a decade ago with the body positivity anthem “All About That Bass,” she was heralded as a new kind of pop star. Trainor built her name as a songwriter before launching her own artist career, and she looked to the past to find a sound that wasn’t present in contemporary top 40 pop. For a time, it seemed that Trainor would become a long-standing hitmaker. Trainor’s debut album Title produced several top
The post US President Donald Trump rejects new Iran peace proposal as ‘totally unacceptable’ appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. US President Donald Trump and Iran rejected each other’s latest peace proposals to bring an end to the war in the Middle East as the two sides struggle to maintain a fragile ceasefire, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives,’” he said in a social media post, calling it “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE,” said Trump. According to the source, which cited people familiar with the response, Iran’s latest proposal would dilute some of its highly enriched uranium and have the rest sent to a third country, but it also called for guarantees the transferred uranium would be returned if talks fail and ruled out dismantling its facilities. WTI Oil FAQs WTI Oil is a type of Crude Oil sold on international markets. The WTI stands for West Texas Intermediate, one of three major types including Brent and Dubai Crude. WTI
The post Elvis Presley Charts A New Top 10 Album In America appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Elvis Presley reaches the top 10 on Billboard’s Vinyl Albums chart again as Epic: Elvis Presley In Concert opens at No. 8, earning the late superstar one more bestseller. A portrait of American singer and actor Elvis Presley holding an acoustic guitar circa 1956. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images) Getty Images Several weeks ago, Elvis Presley debuted a new album on a number of Billboard charts. The set, titled Epic: Elvis Presley In Concert, accompanied a movie of the same name directed by Baz Luhrmann. The Australian filmmaker spent years working with Presley’s estate to finally bring his life story to the big screen in what turned out to be the Oscar-nominated, Austin Butler-starring Elvis. Several years later, Luhrmann utilized never-before-seen performance footage to create something of a documentary and something of a performance film, Epic, which was paired with the soundtrack of
The post Spot Bitcoin ETFs Log 6th Straight Week of Net Inflows for First Time Since August appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have recorded a sixth consecutive week of net inflows, marking the longest such streak since August 2025. The current six-week run stretches from the week of April 2 through Friday, pulling in a combined $3.4 billion, according to data from SoSoValue. The strongest week came in mid-April, when inflows hit $996.38 million for the week of April 17, while the streak’s weakest showing was the week of April 2 with just $22.34 million. The most recent week logged $622.75 million. The run marks the longest streak of consecutive net weekly inflows in more than nine months, when a 7-week ran from June 13 to July 18, 2025, drew in roughly $7.57 billion, including $2.72 billion for the week of July 11 and $2.39 billion the following week. Bitcoin ETFs weekly inflows. Source: SoSoValue Notably, last week ended on a sour note,
Bloomberg reported Digital Asset Holdings is raising money at a $2B valuation in a round led by a16z Crypto, which comes less than a year after an earlier nine-figure round.
The post Jobs report: Retailers hire big, defying consumer warning signs appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. A woman walks past a “Now Hiring” sign in front of a store on January 13, 2022 in Arlington, Virginia. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images Retailers are ramping up hiring this year, defying economic concerns as consumers keep shopping. The retail trades added nearly 22,000 jobs in April, accounting for almost one-fifth of total job growth, according to preliminary federal data released Friday. Nearly 15.5 million employees now hold retail industry jobs, the most since July 2024. Consumers have kept their wallets open in the face of war in Iran, higher gasoline prices, faster inflation and President Donald Trump’s tariff policy. Lately, a solid consumer has left retailers confident enough to hire more workers to stock shelves or staff cash registers. “This still shows how resilient spending has been, even amid a lot of the uncertainty,” said Cory Stahle, senior economist at jo
