Featured: Community lenders can lead the COVID recovery for small businesses – with an infusion of common equity

This prompted lenders and realtors alike to reimagine legacy processes from the ground up and provide consumers with a more digital-focused experience.

The Nasdaq/NYSE daily volume ratio is at a 20-year high, based on a 10-day moving average. Blame it on speculation in low-priced stocks. Plus, investment-newsletter commentary on bargains in Hong Kong real estate, a coming surge in capital spending, and the allure of non-U.S. markets.

Some 18 analysts picked up coverage of the short-term real-estate rental company.

U.S. stocks opened modestly higher on Monday, as Wall Street tried to kick off 2021 on a positive note.

Tokyo stocks closed lower on the first trading day of 2021 on concerns over the outlook for the domestic economy after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga suggested his government may soon declare a state of emergency in the capital and its neighboring prefectures amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases.

The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, meanwhile, lost 11.90 points, or 0.66 percent, at 1,792.78.

Tokyo stocks opened lower Monday on the first trading day of 2021, as sentiment was hit by a possible second state of emergency over COVID-19 being issued for Tokyo and neighboring prefectures amid a resurgence of infections and increasing strain on the health case system.

The People’s Bank of China and the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission will require domestic banks to limit the ratio between their outstanding property loans and total RMB loans.