“‘Bitcoin will be the winner because bitcoin is a digital commodity and it’s the least controversial of everything.’” — Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy In an interview Thursday morning on CNBC, MicroStr...
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FTX’s stunning collapse nothing like Theranos, says venture investor and crypto bull Tim Draper
Tim Draper, founder and managing partner of Draper Associates and Draper University, balked at comparing the stunning implosion of crypto trading platform FTX to the notorious biotech startup Theranos...
FTX bankruptcy: Tom Brady, Steph Curry set to lose big from company’s collapse
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried lost his entire $16 billion fortune in just a few days after his company filed chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday, but he’s not the only high-profile investor ...
‘A lot of people have compared this to Lehman. I would compare it to Enron’: Larry Summers comments on FTX bankruptcy
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is likening the collapse of troubled cryptocurrency exchange FTX to the meltdown that engulfed Houston-based energy company Enron two decades ago. In an in...
U.S. stocks could rally another 25% now that Fed no longer has ‘back against the wall’ in inflation fight
One of Wall Street’s most implacable bulls has laid out his argument for why he thinks U.S. stocks can continue to rally into the year’s end after Thursday’s game-changing October inflation data. Tom ...
Crypto and tech are the first dominoes to fall as stimulus liquidity dries up, says this money manager. Here’s what could happen next.
Read: Sequoia on its FTX investment: Some surprise to the upside, and some surprise to the downside JPMorgan is predicting a “cascade of margin calls, deleveraging and crypto company/platform failures...
‘Voters are looking for help’: With control of Congress too early to call, here are 3 burning tax questions
A day after midterm elections, it remains uncertain whether either party will end up with Congressional control or whether it will be a divided Congress — and that has consequences for these tax quest...
Rivian shows ‘improvement’ but Wall Street remains cautious on the stock
Wall Street cheered “signs of improvement” for Rivian Automotive Inc., but remained cautious about the stock on worries that the electric-vehicle maker still faces a steep production ramp. Rivian RIVN...
‘We’ve seen this before,” warns BofA. Why inflation could take until 2024 to fall to 3% and weigh on stocks.
U.S. stocks roared higher Thursday after October’s consumer-price index showed inflation rising at a less aggressive annual pace than expected, spurring hopes that the Federal Reserve’s inflation flig...
U.S. Treasury says currency-market intervention should be reserved for ‘very exceptional circumstances’ in response to Japan’s September move
The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday said it expects currency-market interventions, like Japan’s in September, should be reserved for exceptional circumstances, as it kept Tokyo on a list of partn...
ASML stock soars toward biggest gain in 20 years
The U.S.-listed shares of ASML Holding N.V. ASML, +14.57% ASML, +9.74% shot up 12.8% toward the biggest one-day gain in 20 years in midday trading Thursday, after the Netherlands-based semiconductor e...
NIO shares soar in Hong Kong despite earnings miss
NIO Inc. 9866, +17.06% shares soared in Hong Kong, tracking Wall Street gains overnight as slower-than-expected U.S. inflation buoyed markets and helped investors shrug off the Chinese electric-car ma...
One reason the rich get richer
Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald disagreed about the rich. Fitzgerald, who had stars in his eyes, supposedly said, “The rich are different from the rest of us.” “Yes,” repli...
FTX lent over half of its customer funds to affiliated trading firm: WSJ
Embattled crypto exchange FTX, once the third-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, reportedly lent more than half of its customer funds to its affiliated trading firm Alameda Research, exposing ...
Dow gets more than 400-point boost from just 4 stocks
Shares of four of the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s DJIA, +3.70% components are seeing price gains of more than $10, which are adding more than 400 points to the price-weighted index. Shares of...
U.S. Post Office swings to $56 billion profit in latest year due to benefit from PSRA enactment
The U.S. Postal Service recorded a fiscal 2022 net profit of $56.0 billion, after a loss of $4.9 billion in the same period a year ago, due primarily to a one-time benefit of $57.0 billion recorded fo...
Binance CEO in internal memo: ‘I had very little knowledge of the internal state of things at FTX’
“‘It was less than 24 hours ago that SBF called me. And before that, I had very little knowledge of the internal state of things at FTX.’” — Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao o...
Haleon PLC 3Q Organic Revenue Rose 8.1%
By Michael Susin Haleon PLC said Thursday that organic revenue for the third quarter rose, driven by increased pricing and higher volumes. The consumer-healthcare business, which was spun out of GSK P...
Disney stock tumbles to worst day since 2001 after ‘massive earnings downgrade’
Walt Disney Co. has a profit problem, and that’s helped send shares of the media giant to their worst daily performance in more than two decades. Though Disney DIS, -13.16% notched record sales during...
Telos stock plunges 69% as soft revenue guidance prompts downgrade from D.A. Davidson
Shares of cybersecurity company Telos Corp. TLS, -68.84% plummeted 69% Wednesday, after the Ashburn, Va.-based company beat third-quarter earnings estimates but cut revenue guidance for the year as it...
Merrimack stock rockets 200% after positive trial data on Onivyde pancreatic cancer treatment
Shares of Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc. MACK, +212.75% skyrocketed 199.5% toward a 4 1/2-year high in morning trading Wednesday, after the France-based biopharmaceutical company Ipsen IPSEY, +3.10% I...
‘It’s a touchy subject’: My in-laws live in our basement. They gave us our 20% down payment. Should we charge them for renovations?
Last year, my husband and I approached my in-laws to see if they wanted to live with us. We had learned that my father-in-law had terminal cancer but could still live five to seven years in remission,...
Plug Power results come in below Street view following warning
Plug Power Inc. shares fluctuated between small gains and losses in the extended session Tuesday after the hydrogen- and fuel-cell systems company made good on its warning a few weeks ago and results ...
R1 RCM stock suffers record selloff of more than 51% after rare profit miss, physician customer missed payment
Shares of R1 RCM Inc. RCM, -49.76% plummeted a record 51.7% toward a 4 1/2-year low in afternoon trading Tuesday, after provider of revenue cycle management services to health care providers missed qu...
GE stock gains after tender offer to buy up to $7 billion of debt securities
Shares of General Electric Co. GE, +0.65% rose 0.4% in morning trading Tuesday, after the industrial conglomerate announced a tender offer to buy up to $7 billion worth of outstanding debt. GE said th...
‘I have never before seen a CEO take responsibility as he does’: investor Bill Ackman comments on Sam Bankman-Fried in now-deleted Tweet
Bill Ackman, famous hedge fund billionaire investor, defended former chief executive of crypto exchange FTX Sam Bankman Fried’s leadership in a now deleted Tweet on Thursday. “You have to give @SBF_FT...