Author: Fioney Staff
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Square’s Jack Dorsey Only Shows Interest in Bitcoin
This week, Square CEO Jack Dorsey took to Twitter (the other company he serves as CEO of) to talk about cryptocurrency. More accurately, he took questions about Bitcoin, noting that it’s the only crypto asset he owns. But that’s not all — Dorsey went on to suggest that his Square Cash app will share his…
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Study Finds Best and Worst Credit Cities for 2019
If you’ve been paying attention, you may have heard that the average credit score in America is on the rise. In fact, according to the Fair Isaacs Corporation — much more commonly known as FICO — the average now sits north of 700 points. However the personal finance site WalletHub recently sought to find which cities in…
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Plaid Introduces Auth Product, Adding Thousands of Banks to API
If you’re a user of a personal finance app that relies on data provided from your banks, there’s a very strong chance you’ve used Plaid’s API to make that connection happen. Prior to today Plaid offered quick authentications for approximately 3,800 banks, allowing users to simply log into their accounts and provide various apps with…
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Tide Turning on Small Business Optimism?
Throughout 2018 optimism among small businesses was at an all-time high. Month after month, the National Federation of Independent Business’ Small Business Optimism Index showed entrepreneurs were enthusiastic about their future prospects and the economy at large. Moreover, in November, the index celebrated two years of record optimism. Now a new survey from The Wall Street Journal…
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Top 10 Personal Finance Articles of the Month — January 2019
It’s time again for my favorite feature here on Dyer News: a look at my top 10 personal finance articles of the month. With a new year upon us, several bloggers offered tips for a building and sticking to a budget in 2019. Turning to other financial goals, topics of income and investing were also…
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Job Report Exceeds Expectations, Reaches Historic Milestone
It was just yesterday that economists and observers were offering their best guesses for what promised to be an interesting jobs report. Complicated by the longest partial government shutdown in history, expectations had pegged the number of payrolls being added at 165,000. In actuality the report released by the Labor Department shows that the economy…
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Now-Ended Partial Government Shutdown to Complicate Jobs Report
On Friday, the Labor Department will release its monthly jobs report for the first month of the year. While the figures it will contain are expected to be solid, the partial government shutdown that was in place for much of January will lead to a very interesting report overall. For example CNN notes that the…
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Report Suggests Two Groups Responsible for Majority of Crypto Hacks
As the popularity and awareness of cryptocurrencies has increased in recent years, media coverage of hacks and other thefts has also been elevated. This might make it seems as though crypto hackers are common and widespread. However, according to a new report by Chainalysis, as covered by Fortune, the majority of these hacks can likely be…
