The 2022 IPO Market: A Dearth of Volumes and Names

Investment bankers had a brutal year. One big reason: a dearth of initial public offerings. Thirty-seven companies went public in 2022 and raised a mere $7 billion, the lowest amount of IPO proceeds s...

U.S. stocks end higher, but S&P 500 logs 3rd straight weekly decline ahead of Christmas

U.S. stocks ended higher in a choppy, preholiday session Friday as an inflation report and a raft of other data did little to change expectations that the Federal Reserve would likely continue hiking ...

Equity funds suffer largest ever weekly outflows: BofA Global

Investors withdrew billions of dollars from equity funds at a record pace in the days after the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and European Central bank raised interest rates in mid-December and...

How a Santa Claus rally, or lack thereof, sets the stage for the stock market in first quarter

It’s the time of the year when the traditional seasonal lift for U.S. stocks known as the “Santa Claus rally” usually takes place. But unlike past holiday seasons, this one may get bogged down by the ...

Stocks Limp Toward 2023 as the Data Show Few Signs of a Clear Direction

Stocks limped on the low volumes of the pre-Christmas week, battered by conflicting data and leaving investors with a muddled outlook going into 2023. It’s a dynamic in which good news and bad news te...

Inflation Is Slowing Down, PCE Data, the Fed’s Preferred Measure, Shows

Inflation is slowing, but consumers aren’t spending as much as hoped this holiday season, data showed Friday. The core personal-consumption expenditures price index, or PCE deflator, was up 0.2% in No...

Stocks remain overpriced, even vs. the dot-com bubble. But you can still find good picks in these 2 sectors.

After stocks surged to their best gains in three weeks following strong consumer sentiment data, Thursday is looking less spirited with stocks in the red as we close in on the long Christmas weekend. ...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Trading Hours for Christmas.

This holiday season hasn’t exactly been filled with cheer for investors: Companies have been battling inflation and market volatility—and a recession seems to be looming ahead. On Thursday, the market...

Coinbase plunges 86% in 2022, amid FTX-inspired slump. But one analyst says ‘you have to have a multiyear time frame.’

Hello there and seasons greetings! This is Mark DeCambre, Editor in Chief at MarketWatch. The hottest story in crypto land remains FTX, even as we hurtle toward 2023. It is a fast-evolving situation. ...

Dow ends nearly 350 points lower after strong economic data, bearish comments by David Tepper fuel worry about rate hikes

U.S. stocks ended well off session lows but still fell sharply, after a round of upbeat economic data and a warning from hedge-fund titan David Tepper that he was “leaning short” against both stocks a...

Why Compound (COMP) and Rate That Crypto (RTC) Price Tipped to Surge In 2023

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp After a rough 2022 for cryptocurrencies, many look to 2023 to find the best tokens. In 2023, many cryptocurrency experts predict Compound (COMP) and ...

Is a 2023 stock-market rebound in store after 2022 selloff? What history says about losing years.

History shows back-to-back losing years for the stocks are rare — but the size of the market’s drop in 2022 with no sign the Federal Reserve is ready to ride to the rescue means investors should bewar...

Why the Bank of Japan’s surprise policy twist is rattling global markets

Anchors aweigh? The Bank of Japan sent shock waves through global financial markets Tuesday, effectively loosening a cap on 10-year government bond yields in a surprise move seen as potentially pointi...

Compound heads towards its support of $27: Will COMP revive?

The Compound was founded by economists Robert Leshner and Geoffrey Hayes and is a decentralized protocol. It is developed on a system of accessible smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain that allo...

Tesla’s Elon Musk Has a Finance Lesson For Investors. They Disagree.

There is little time off for investors following Tesla these days. The weekend before Christmas is no exception. In the past couple of days, there have been more tweets about the electric-vehicle make...

Why Atlanta Tops the Hottest 2023 Real Estate Markets

Atlanta is hot. Georgia’s capital tops the National Association of Realtors’ list of markets to watch in 2023, based on 10 metrics, including housing affordability, employment conditions, and populati...

The stock market is tumbling because investors fear recession more than inflation

A stock-market paradox, in which bad news about the economy is seen as good news for equities, may have run its course. If so, investors should expect bad news to be bad news for stocks heading into t...

Stocks Could Return About 10% in 2023—But First, They’re Going to Fall

For U.S. investors, 2023 could seem like two years wrapped in one, with the stock market first falling in anticipation of a recession, only to rebound as the outlook improves toward 2024. The one cons...

The Fed Is Making a Mistake—and the Stock Market Will Pay the Price

We all make mistakes—but the Federal Reserve may be making a bigger one than most. That could mean another difficult year for the stock market in 2023. Those concerns were front and center this past w...

Who Replaces Elon Musk if He Drops Another Notch on the Rich List

Elon Musk’s wealth has taken a beating lately, making him only the world’s second-richest person. More declines could place him in third in a shift that would highlight how vast wealth can be found in...

Stocks could face another explosion of volatility Friday as $4 trillion of options expire in ‘quadruple witching’

Stocks have been on a wild ride this week, and conditions could still get weirder as traders brace for “quadruple witching” on Friday, when a flurry of equity options and futures contracts expire. In ...

Stocks are closing out a dismal 2022 as the Fed fights inflation. Here’s what history says comes next.

Stock-market investors have plenty of reasons to feel gloomy heading into 2023: Inflation is still high, the housing market is sputtering and the Federal Reserve just raised interest rates by another ...

Compound [COMP] whales intensify accumulation, even as price fails to grow

The count of COMP whales has grown significantly in the last three months. Price, however, continues to fall.  Ranked as the 9th DeFi protocol with the largest total value locked (TVL), Compound Finan...

Compound DAO sued by plaintiffs who held only $100 in COMP tokens

Three complainants. $100. A possible class action. Compound DAO is among eight defendants listed in a case brought by three complainants who claim they suffered damages after buying COMP tokens,...

Opinion: Opinion: The Fed should pause rate hikes since inflation has slowed — it won’t

The Federal Reserve should declare an immediate cease fire in its war against inflation and hold its benchmark interest rate steady instead of raising the federal funds by a half percentage point to a...

Tesla Stock Fell Again. Here’s Where It Could Be Headed Next.

Tesla stock is down again, and investors once more are pointing fingers at Twitter. Fixing Twitter might not be enough to fix shares of the electric-vehicle giant, though. Technical stock market analy...

CPI days have been among the most volatile for stocks this year. Here’s what to expect ahead of Tuesday’s report

Many investors are hoping that beaten down U.S. stocks will finish 2022 with a “Santa Claus rally” after the S&P 500 logged back-to-back monthly gains for the first time in more than a year in Oct...

Tech Stocks Could Keep Falling but IAC Stock Already Looks Like a Buy

With the Nasdaq Composite down more than 30% over the past 12 months, almost every tech stock is cheaper than a year ago, and there is temptation to bottom-fish. There’s a big difference between cheap...

Opinion: Opinion: Household wealth falls $13.5 trillion, second worst drop on record

American households lost about $6.8 trillion in wealth over the first three quarters of 2022 as the stock market SPX, -0.73%   DJIA, -0.90%   COMP, -0.70% shed more than 25% of its value, the Federal ...

Smart December Investments: Oryen Network, Venus Protocol and COMP

When compared to conventional finance, the DeFi is still relatively new. As a result, we frequently get new and innovative ideas. All investors make decisions, but only those who do so wisely and with...

Why stock-market investors shouldn’t count on a ‘Santa Claus’ rally this year

Investors, like kids on Christmas Eve, have come to expect Santa Claus will get down the chimney, march over to Wall Street and deliver the rewarding gift of a stock-market rally. This year, however, ...

Boeing Retires the 747, and the Age of Jumbo Jets

The Boeing 747 has retired. The jets still fly—but new ones won’t be built. On Tuesday, the last 747 rolled off an Everett, Wash. assembly line. This is no surprise. CEO Dave Calhoun said in July 2020...