Howard Hanna expands into northern New England with Portside
About six months after giving up its Cyprus licence, Squared Financial appears to have gone dark on its Seychelles-based offshore operations as well. The contracts for difference (CFD) broker is not allowing new account openings for either individuals or corporate clients. The broker’s website is constantly showing the message “failed to check email. Please try…
By Sammy Hudes CREA is now expecting a total of 463,336 residential properties to be sold throughout the year, representing a 1.4% decline from 2025. That marks a reversal from its April forecast of a one per cent gain, which itself was a downgrade from the association’s January prediction of 5.1% growth year-over-year. The national…
TradeStation retail customers now have access to a suite of CME futures contracts on individual U.S. stocks. The available instruments include both standard-sized and micro-sized contracts across more than 50 leading U.S. stocks. The firm joined a growing list of brokers, including Schwab, NinjaTrader, EdgeClear, Optimus Futures and Plus500, who have already unlocked access to…
Colorado continues to sit out the data center boom as tax policy and power problems push developers elsewhere. Wikimedia Commons/Spicypepper999 Downtown Denver As the artificial intelligence data center gold rush increasingly spreads across the Rockies, Colorado has largely remained on the sidelines. CBRE has identified the Mountain West as one of the fastest-growing frontiers for…
Retail brokers handled $30.4 trillion in monthly FX and other trading volume in the second quarter of 2026, according to FM Intelligence. That is 9.3% below the first quarter’s $33.5 trillion, yet it leaves activity within 1.4% of the same period a year earlier. The quarter-on-quarter dip reads as a step back from a first-quarter…
Micron Technology (MU -0.27%) started the year incredibly hot, rising 325% for the year at its peak. However, it cooled off after July arrived, and the stock has sold off a fair bit. It’s now down over 20% from its all-time high, but I think that will change after Sept. 30. Why? Micron reports results…