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Brace for a volatile 2022, but cling to this tech stalwart when the storm comes, says investment adviser
The pain is piling up for equity investors after the long U.S. holiday weekend, with bond yields at levels not seen since early 2020, and oil prices tapping 2014 highs. The pace of Federal Reserve mon...
Coinbase’s NFT Platform to Allow Purchase With Credit & Debit Cards
Coinbase Global Inc will start allowing users to buy non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with credit cards and debit cards following its new partnership with Mastercard. To simplify the experience of buying NF...
I only make $41K a year, but owe $189K in student loans. What should I do?
Advice for paying down student loans Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: “I will owe about $189,000 on my student loans when repayment starts. I’m so stressed. I got let go from my job and lost my apar...
Credit Suisse Chairman Quits After Breaching Covid-19 Rules
Text size António Horta-Osório, former chairman of Credit Suisse AFP via Getty Images Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório has resigned only 8 monthsafter being appointed, following a board inv...
Amazon Scraps Plan to Stop Accepting Visa’s U.K. Credit Card
Text size British shoppers will continue to be able to shop on Amazon with their Visa credit cards. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Amazon.com will continue to accept Visa credit cards in the U.K., the e...
I’m a nurse with $106K in student loan debt. How can I get out of debt faster?
Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I have a graduate degree in nursing and a stable job, but I’m still $106,000 deep in student loan debt. Recently, when all student loan payments were suspended, I wa...
Credit Suisse needs to salvage reputation after chairman quits: Analysts
The logo of Swiss bank Credit Suisse is seen at its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland March 24, 2021. Arnd Wiegmann | Reuters LONDON — Credit Suisse Chairman Antonio Horta-Osorio resigned on Sunday ...
Amazon halts plan to stop accepting Visa credit cards in the UK
An Amazon warehouse in Warrington, England. Nathan Stirk | Getty Images LONDON — Amazon has scrapped plans to stop accepting Visa credit cards in the U.K. The e-commerce giant was expected to prevent ...
Georgia’s Film And TV Tax Credit Hits Record $1.2 Billion In Reimbursements
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – AUGUST 03: A street artist paints a large mural for HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” … [+] on a wall in Williamsburg, Brooklyn during Phase 4 of re-opening ...
Fed needs to ‘shock and awe’ the market with one big rate hike, Bill Ackman says
Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman said the Federal Reserve needs to deliver old-fashioned “shock and awe” to financial markets by delivering a much larger onetime increase to benchmark intere...
Banks’ Earnings Show Lenders Aren’t All the Same. It’s Time to Pick and Choose.
Text size JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup both reported declines in trading revenue. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The time has come to take a stock-picking approach to investing in banks. That was the le...
Roaring U.S. housing market may cool, keep climbing as Fed ends emergency support
U.S. home prices roared almost 20% higher in the past year, giving families who own properties a major boost to their finances during the pandemic. But Wall Street, a key source of home mortgage finan...
El Salvador’s may risk its ‘Credit Score’ because of Bitcoin
Latin American Country El Salvador was the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender President Nayib Bukele was a keen supporter of crypto from always, and hence it is reflected in the country’s ...
Get ready for the climb. Here’s what history says about stock-market returns during Fed rate-hike cycles.
Bond yields are rising again so far in 2022. The U.S. stock market seems vulnerable to a bona fide correction. But what can you really tell from a mere two weeks into a new year? Not much and quite a ...
‘We absolutely believe Ether’ surpassing bitcoin’s total market value ‘can happen this year,’ says ETF expert: ‘The bull case is an Etherum ETF in 2022’
Hello there! The Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ is up over 2% so far this week. That is not where many investors would have bet that the popular exchange-traded fund would be trading now based on the wild acti...
Value Gets Its Moment. Consider These Stocks and ETFs.
Buy the dip, wrote J.P. Morgan’s strategists early this past week. As calls to courage go, it wasn’t exactly Churchill during the Blitz. The dip in this case was a 2% decline, year to date, in the S&a...
Bukele’s Bitcoin trade raises El Salvador’s sovereign credit risk: Moody’s
El Salvador’s historic embrace of Bitcoin (BTC) could have negative consequences on the country’s sovereign credit outlook, according to Moody’s Investors Service. Moody’s analyst Jaime Reusche told ...
Five overlooked tech stocks poised to be the ‘household names of the future,’ according to this money manager
A much-needed market distraction from the churn of inflation worries is getting under way, but it’s not looking like what investors were hoping for as some big bank names are sliding on disappointing ...
Crypto Credit Scoring Protocol CreDA Partners With FilDA
To offer Leveraged and Low-Collateral Lending Users of CreDA’s platform can now earn industry-beating lending rates through FilDA based on their Crypto Credit Score NEW YORK, Jan. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEW...
Wells Fargo Stock Rises as Earnings Easily Top Estimates
Text size Wells Fargo bank David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Wells Fargo shares got a boost early Friday after the bank’s fourth-quarter earnings easily topped Wall Street’s expectations. Profits at the San...
I retired at 50, went back to work at 53, then had a major medical issue that left me unemployed – ‘There’s no such thing as a safe amount of money’ for retirement
I had always said I was going to retire when I was 50. I had worked and saved since I was 16. Retiring without Medicare and Social Security is a scary thing. I wound up retiring then going back to wor...