Analysts at financial giant JPMorgan say the reduced cost of producing Bitcoin (BTC) may hurt the price of the leading digital asset. According to a new report, JPMorgan analysts say Bitcoin’s cost of...
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The S&P 500 Has a New Price Target. The Market Is Getting Dicey.
Text size Bank of America’s strategists believe that earnings forecasts will fall, bringing stock prices down with them. Amir Hamja/Bloomberg Bank of America strategists lowered their price targ...
Celsius Owes Users More Than $4.7 Billion
Celsius Network LLC has a roughly $1.2 billion hole in its balance sheet, with the majority of its liabilities owed to the cryptocurrency lender’s users, according to a Thursday filing by Chief Execut...
Bitcoin Price Could Fall to $13,000 as Crypto Miners Cut Costs
Text size Miners appear to be using less electricity to produce cryptocurrencies. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images Bitcoin miners have come under pressure from a one-two punch of rising energy costs an...
‘I just wake up and cry’: Voyager and Celsius bankruptcies have destroyed some crypto investors’ confidence in centralized platforms
Yotsy Ruiz recently bought his first ever crypto hardware wallet — a Nano X from Ledger. He is transferring all his crypto holdings that he can still move to the small physical device which looks like...
JPMorgan Earnings Are Coming. What to Expect.
Text size Analysts expect JPMorgan Chase’s earnings to drop nearly 25% year over year. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Another bank earnings season is upon us. JPMorgan Chase will step up to the pla...
Cardano Founder Mocks Chinese Banking Crisis with Ironic Statement
Gamza Khanzadaev Cardano founder points out irony of traditional finance amid China’s ongoing protests The founder of Cardano, famous crypto-entrepreneur Charles Hoskinson, ironically commented ...
Nvidia Stock-Price Cuts Pile Up as Street Worries Over Gaming, Crypto Risks
Text size An Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti gaming graphics card. Courtesy of Nvidia Wall Street analysts are falling over themselves slashing their projections for Nvidia. In April, Barron’s cautioned in...
Can Maker’s ‘world-first’ move merge DeFi with traditional banking
Maker was one of the most-discussed altcoins of the week. The Decentralized Finance protocol proposed the move of integrating the traditional banking system into its ecosystem. The response being over...
Swiss Post’s banking arm developing in-house crypto custody platform
Switzerland’s Post Office is set to onboard cryptocurrency trading through its banking arm PostFinance as user appetite for custody grows in the country. Some 2.6 million users that currently bank wit...
We have 25 years until retirement and are saving 25% of our income — are we doing it right? And are we saving too much?
My wife, 33, and I, 40, have our own 403(b)s, Roth accounts (maxing their contributions this year for the first time) and pensions as part of our retirement plan. My wife contributes 14% of her pay t...
Will Coinbase go bankrupt? Crypto CEO says there is ‘no risk of bankruptcy’
““We have no risk of bankruptcy.”” That’s a quote from Brian Armstrong, chief executive and co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase COIN, -10.63%. In a series of tweets on May 10, Arms...
Big Banks Report Earnings This Week. Here’s What Wall Street is Watching.
Text size CEO Brian Moynihan says Bank of America is always prepared for a recession because it has no choice but to be ready, Davis Turner/Getty Images The big banks start to report their earnings th...
Cryptocurrency Is Coming to Your Credit Cards
Cryptocurrencies are a volatile investment today, but card companies including Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. are betting crypto will one day be used routinely for everyday purchases from food to cloth...
Crypto Rout Deflates Some Web3 Startups Buoyed by Push Into Digital Tokens
The cryptocurrency rout has spread to startups that offer users digital tokens, pushing down digital asset prices and driving away hordes of users. The startups—part of what has been called Web3—allow...
Paid Off College and the Mortgage? Here’s How to Allocate Your Freed Up Cash.
Retirement savers who’ve paid off their mortgage or have made their last college payment should take a moment to celebrate. Then they should get busy putting their newfound windfall to work. Given th...
How to Bottom-Pick a Stock
Text size Chewy stock has gained 63% since we made it a pick. That’s every trader’s dream, but it requires getting the timing right—and a whole lot of luck. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Buying winning stoc...
JPMorgan, Delta, Morgan Stanley, TSMC, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Second-quarter earnings season is here. More than a dozen S&P 500 firms report this week, including several major banks. JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley go first on Thursday, followed ...
iHeart, Audacy, Clear Channel Stocks Fall on Forecast of Ad Market Slowdown
Text size Stock in iHeart has lost about two-thirds of its value so far this year. Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Clear Channel The prospect of an imminent economic recession has triggered a rush to th...
Home prices may still rise, but car values are set to fall from pandemic peak: Goldman
Homes and vehicles are two big-ticket items that most American families will require financing to obtain. There’s some good news — and bad news — when looking at both assets in the next two years, acc...
Bank of Mexico Minutes Show Board Open to More 0.75-Point Rate Increases
MEXICO CITY—Bank of Mexico governors all agreed to raise the reference interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point last month to rein in inflation, and most are willing to consider further i...
Fed’s James Bullard Says 0.75-Point July Rate Rise Is Likely
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said he is ready to follow the U.S. central bank’s supersize June rate rise with the same thing at the end of this month. “Our goal has been t...
Banking Circle Adopts USDC as Currency on its Payment Rails
Banking Circle, an European Union (EU) regulated payments bank has announced that it has integrated the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin into its payment rail. According to the startup, the integration of t...
These 10 stocks from a sector that is a bear-market bulwark have upside potential of up to 30%
During times of uncertainty, it can help to look at what happened during other down cycles for stocks. True, we don’t know when the stock market will hit bottom during this cycle, or if it already has...
The Stock Market Had a Great Week. Can the Good Times Last?
Text size *** ONE-TIME USE *** People attend the Mega Job Fair held at the FLA Live Arena on June 23, 2022 in Sunrise, Florida. The job fair had 8,000 jobs available from 100 different employers and e...
EU-regulated firm Banking Circle adopts USDC stablecoin
Banking Circle, a European bank focused on cross-border payments, is adopting a major U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin for payment rails. The firm officially announced on Friday the adoption of the USD C...
These companies hopped on the crypto train when times were booming. Which are exposed in a downturn?
During recent cryptocurrency booms, companies have been quick to jump on the trend, whether by reorienting their entire businesses around the buzzy theme, building meaningful crypto features alongside...