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“We’re building more homes, which is necessary. But they’re not wholly designed for the realities women and gender diverse people face,” she says.Michelle Phillips, group chief executive officer of YWCA Australia. For many women and gender diverse people seeking safety and security, YWCA Australia is not just a housing provider, it is their first point of contact with the system. That gap is now being reframed not just as a social issue, but as an economic one.With more than $10 billion committed through the Housing Australia Future Fund, alongside billions more flowing through federal and state housing programs, governments are allocating…

Institutional investors sold roughly 52,500 BTC during the first quarter of 2026, bringing total professional holdings down from 313,000 BTC to 261,000 BTC. That 17% quarter-over-quarter decline, detailed in a new CoinShares analysis of 13F filings, translates to approximately $17.8 billion in remaining value, a 35% dip when factoring in the price damage. The report, published by CoinShares analyst Matt Kimmell around June 3, paints a picture of two very different institutional camps. On one side: hedge funds and brokerages running for the exits. On the other: banks quietly loading up on Bitcoin for the first time in a meaningful…

If you’re curious about the latest trend in the art world, you need to see the Corporeal NFTs art exhibition at No. 7 Center Gallery in Vermillion, South Dakota. The Final Friday art reception will be July 29th from 5-7 pm, and it’s hosted Packard Group LLC and Aaron C. Packard Productions. The Corporeal NFTs exhibition will feature highlights from the collection at Packard Manor. None of this art is for sale, but this exhibition will inspire viewers to invest and expand their own collections. (Unvaccinated guests will need to wear a mask indoors.) No. 7 Center Gallery 05:00 PM…

Women investors are staying invested in SIPs for longer periods, showing improving investment discipline and confidence in mutual funds. According to AMFI data, SIP accounts with a holding period of more than five years now account for 21% of total SIP AUM of women investors in December 2025, up from 11% in December 2020. The number of women’s SIP accounts also rose sharply during the period. The total SIP accounts increased to 2.93 crore while SIP AUM grew four times to Rs 5.26 lakh crore between December 2020 and December 2025. The report said the increase in long-term SIP holdings…

Share this article If you have argued in favour of market-based solutions in some area of society which is under government control, you may have received objections along the lines of ‘I don’t believe the market can handle X’, ‘companies only look at the short term’ or ‘companies are motivated by greed and cannot be trusted to handle X’, where X might be healthcare, care for the elderly or the environment. Why is that? As I demonstrate in my essay ‘Evolutionary Economics’, based on my book ‘Evolution and Social Order’, at its heart, the reason is a fundamental mismatch between our…

Megaport launched a storage product, completing the compute, network, and storage trifecta it began building when it acquired bare-metal provider Latitude.sh last November.The Brisbane, Australia-based infrastructure firm says the addition gives enterprises a single automated platform for all three pillars of IT infrastructure, with no egress fees and connectivity speeds of up to 100 Gb/s (100G).“By aligning storage needs directly with workload requirements on our global ecosystem, we’re combining the performance of dedicated infrastructure with the scalability and flexibility customers expect from the cloud,” Megaport CEO Michael Reid noted.Megaport acquired Latitude late last year, pivoting its core network-as-a-service (NaaS) offering…

Broadcom (AVGO) shares plunged about 15% in pre-market trading on Thursday, after its earnings and AI outlook failed to clear investors’ lofty expectations, sparking a broader selloff across semiconductor stocks. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) fell roughly 4%, Micron Technology (MU) dropped about 5%, while Nvidia (NVDA), Marvell Technology (MRVL) and Intel (INTC) also traded lower.The weakness comes after semiconductor stocks have been on a strong run in recent weeks, fueled by optimism around AI infrastructure capex spending and robust earnings from several chipmakers. Broadcom’s results show that investors are demanding not just strong growth, but consistently rising guidance. The weakness…

Investing.com — Online brokerage stocks are trading higher Thursday after a landmark regulatory change took effect: FINRA’s elimination of the pattern day trader (PDT) rule, ending a more than two-decade-old requirement that forced retail traders to maintain at least $25,000 in equity to execute frequent day trades. Robinhood Markets Inc (NASDAQ:HOOD) is leading the group, trading up 3.62% at $85.85 with an intraday high of $86.78 on volume of more than 13.6 million shares. Webull Corp (NASDAQ:BULL)is up 1.66% at $6.00, while eToro Group Ltd (NASDAQ:ETOR) is gaining 1.76% to trade at $39.88. FINRA’s amendment to Rule 4210, which the…

When Jeff Bezos said that one breakthrough technology would shape Amazon’s destiny, even Wall Street’s biggest analysts were caught off guard. Fast forward a year and Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy described generative AI as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that is already being used across Amazon to reinvent customer experiences. At the 8th Future Investment Initiative conference, Elon Musk predicted that by 2040 there would be at least 10 billion humanoid robots, with each priced between $20,000 and $25,000. Do the math. According to Musk, this technology could be worth $250 trillion by 2040. Put another way, that’s roughly equal to:…

HYPE’s rally reflects growing interest in cryptocurrency projects that generate revenue and use some of it to repurchase tokens. According to Hyperscreener, tokenised real-world assets now account for nearly a third of the platform’s trading activity. https://t.co/H4uEaohDEV Source link