President Joe Biden is likely to issue an executive order next week directing government agencies to study cryptocurrencies and a central bank digital currency (CBDC), and come up with a government-wide strategy to regulate digital assets, a source told Yahoo Finance exclusively. An administration official familiar with the matter told Yahoo Finance's Jennifer Schonberger the forthcoming directive will commission a study of a CBDC and ask a range of agencies - including the Departments of Treasury, State, Justice and Homeland Security - to develop a report on the future of money and payment systems. Meanwhile, the Director of the Office of Science and Tech policy will do a technical evaluation of what might be needed to support a CBDC system. Here were the main moves in markets as of 9:30 a.m. Construction on new residential homes fell in January for the first time in four months as COVID-related labor shortages weighed on recent progress in building activity. The Commerce Department’s latest snapshot of new home construction indicated housing starts declined by 4.1% last month to an annual rate of 1.64 million after ticking 0.3% higher to a revised rate of 1.71 million in December.|Birinyi focuses on picking individual stocks, not on market averages, and says he doesn’t let such minor things as market corrections affect his strategy. “We don’t focus on 10 percent increases when the market is on its way up,” he said. “We wouldn’t sell stocks just because there’s been a 10 percent gain. For his part, Mr. Yardeni says he views Jan. 24 as a psychologically important moment, too. It represented “a capitulation in the markets” - a juncture at which many investors simply gave up and sold their shares, allowing the market momentum to shift as bargain seekers began to bid up stocks. Mr. Yardeni labels episodes like these as “panic attacks” and says Jan. 24 was the end of the 73rd such attack since the start of a long bull market in 2009. The Russian hostilities and the stock market decline on Tuesday probably represented the 74th attack. “There’s no science here,” he said. Investors panic easily, he said, but they will be better off, most of the time, if they just hang on. “I don’t think we’re in a bear market, is really what I’m saying,” he added. As far as market labels like these go, I’m agnostic. Are we in a bull market, a bear market, a correction or a panic attack? I know only that the geopolitics of the Ukraine crisis make me nervous in a way no simple market decline can. It doesn’t pay to panic. But this week, I’m worried. Theoretically, the Higgs particle emits the Higgs field, a cosmos-wide energy field that bestows everything with mass -- so if the standard model is valid, then the Higgs must exist. We just have to catch it first. In other words, someone robbed the bank and, oh look, it must be the Joker because -- ever the literalist -- he left behind a calling card with his face on it. Meanwhile, the so-called "god particle" lives a brief existence in the wake of an accelerated particle collision -- and then leaves behind a subatomic decay signature. The Joker might be Batman's most famous enemy, but he's hardly the strangest. The same can be said of the Higgs boson, so let's get to know the other subatomic super villains. Something of an E. Nigma, that Riddler. Riddle me this, Batman: How does gravity work? Look, it's not a subject Batman likes to discuss all that much. According to physicists at University of Leicester, gravity would have the curious habit of pulling Batman to his death every time the costumed vigilante tried to use that physically impractical cape.
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