The cryptocurrency lending platform Babel Finance finally reached a debt agreement with counterparties. Before now, the firm had experienced some difficulties in its operations due to the present mark...
Tag: Debt
Wall Street Faces Billion-Dollar Losses on Sinking Buyout Debt
(Bloomberg) — Investment bankers in the US and Europe are bracing for potentially billions of dollars in total losses on big-ticket leveraged buyouts as they struggle to offload risky corporate ...
The U.S. housing market is teetering on recession. Will the economy soon follow?
The last time the housing market suffered a major meltdown in 2006, it took the entire U.S. economy with it. But history never follows the exact same script twice. The weakening housing market is undo...
Solana whale moves $25M of USDC debt from Solend to Mango Markets
The Solana (SOL) whale that was subjected to the potential takeover by a recent Solend governance vote has gotten in touch with the lending protocol and moved $25 million worth of USD Coin (USDC) debt...
Crypto platform Voyager Digital shares plunge 60% after revealing $665 million exposure to embattled hedge fund; considers issuing default notice
Crypto platform Voyager Digital Ltd. VOYG, -52.50% shares plunged more than 60% Wednesday after the company said its subsidiary Voyager Digital LLC, may issue a notice of default to embattled crypto ...
Powell says U.S. economy can handle the additional rate hikes that are coming
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday pushed back against economists who argue that aggressive Fed interest-rate hikes have increased the odds of a recession or hard landing for the U.S....
Babel Finance Releases Debt Repayment Arrangement Days After Freezing Withdrawals
After crypto financial service provider Babel Finance halted withdrawals and redemptions amid a market slump on Friday, the platform has now taken steps to ease short-term liquidity pressure. In a rec...
Solend introduces $50M borrow limit as whale account begins debt repayment
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Solana-based DeFi protocol Solend has initiated a new proposal to limit the borrowing on the platform to $50 million per accou...
Babel Finance Set to Delay Debt Payments, Refutes Invovlement With 3AC
Crypto lending firm Babel Finance, which abruptly halted client withdrawals and redemptions for all products last Friday, told Bloomberg that it was set to delay its debt repayments after reaching agr...
Crypto lending platform Babel Finance reaches counterparty debt agreement
Hong Kong-based crypto lending firm, Babel Finance, has eased some of its immediate liquidity troubles by reaching debt repayments agreements with some of its counterparties. As previously reported, t...
Is the U.S. stock market closed today? What investors need to know on Juneteenth.
U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday, June 20, in observance of the Juneteenth holiday, which commemorates the end of slavery in America. Officially known as the Juneteenth National Indep...
Babel Finance reaches debt agreement to ease liquidity pressure
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Cryptocurrency lender Babel Finance, which halted withdrawals on June 17 citing liquidity pressure, has reached preliminary ag...
Babel Finance secures debt repayment agreements with major counterparties
Crypto lender Babel Finance has announced that it has secured some preliminary agreements with some of its major counterparties regarding debt repayment amid the current market conditions. The announc...
The 60/40 Stock and Bond Strategy’s Time Has Come Again
Text size Dreamstime It may be time for investors to return to one of the oldest of portfolio management tools to cope with the new bear market. That would be the traditional combination of 60% stocks...
Solend pays users to vote on proposal to liquidate whale wallet OTC and avoid “bad debt”
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Solend, a Solana-based lending platform with over $1 billion in deposits, has voted on a governance proposal to take over a wh...
The Fed Turns Aggressive as Inflation Meets Signs of an Economic Slowdown
Text size At the news conference following the rate hike, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell admitted that the policy-setting committee was taken aback by news of rising prices and weaker-than-expected retail...
Fed’s Waller backs another jumbo interest-rate hike in July
Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said Saturday that he would like to see another 75 basis point interest rate hike at the next policy meeting in late July. Waller supported the Fed’s decision t...
What the Fed’s biggest rate hike in decades means for the bear market in bonds
Historically bad. That’s how the mammoth $53 trillion U.S. fixed-income market has performed this year as the Federal Reserve works to curtail high inflation threatening to wreck the economy. To turbo...
These money and investing tips can help you be smarter in a bear market that might not be average
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS Why bonds haven’t performed be...
I want to retire next year, but I have $25,000 in credit card debt and a major monthly mortgage payment — I also live with my three kids and ex
I’ll be 57 next month and am divorced with three kids living with me. One is 28, she’s working, another is 21 and a senior in college (with a full scholarship) and the youngest is 15 (a sophomore in h...
Bonds haven’t protected you from the bear market in stocks. But this one asset class could have
Would you be interested in an asset class that produces long-term returns that are nearly as good as the stock market but is as uncorrelated with the stock market as bonds are? Of course you would. Bu...
China real estate troubles sent debt indicator to record high
Fixed asset investment data for the first five months of 2022 showed real estate investment declined at a greater scale than it did during the first four months of the year. Pictured here on May 16 is...
Settle Raises $280 Million In Debt to Power E-Commerce Brands
Alek Koenig, CoFounder/CEO of Settle Settle Settle, a fast-growing payments startup, announced today that it has secured up to a $280 million revolving credit facility from Citibank & Atalaya. Thi...
‘The economy is going to collapse,’ says Wall Street veteran Novogratz. ‘We are going to go into a really fast recession.’
Veteran investor and bitcoin bull Michael Novogratz doesn’t have a rosy outlook on the economy, which he described as headed for a substantial downturn, with the likelihood of a “fast recession” on th...
Why stocks and bonds went into relief-rally mode after Fed’s jumbo rate hike
Financial markets suffered an absolute bloodbath in the days leading up to Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision, with stocks plunging and bond yields soaring in the wake of surprisingly hot inflation ...
Fed sees inflation topping 5% in 2022 and then falling rapidly due to higher rates
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday predicted U.S. inflation would exceed 5% by the end of 2022 — much higher than its most recent forecasts — underscoring its more aggressive strategy in raising interes...
El Salvador’s Big Bitcoin Gamble Backfires to Deepen Debt Woes
(Bloomberg) — Most Read from Bloomberg An epic rout that has wiped out about two-thirds of Bitcoin’s value is exacerbating the debt crisis in the world’s most crypto-friendly country. In the yea...
A 75-basis point Fed move is not a slam dunk, former staffer says
In the last 24 hours, investor expectations for the Federal Reserve have coalesced around a 75 basis point hike, nudged in that direction by a Wall Street Journal article. Fed-funds futures markets no...
A 75-basis-point hike? Here are 3 ways the Fed can sound more hawkish this week
The Federal Reserve’s plan to raise its benchmark rate to a neutral level, around 2.5%, by the end of the year is under pressure after a surprisingly strong May consumer-inflation data. “The May CPI w...
Celsius Network Struggles To Stay Afloat With Mounting DAI Debt As Bitcoin Price Drop Threatens Heavy Liquidation
– Advertisement – Bitcoin’s price decrease is pressuring the Celsius Network into taking on more DAI debt as it battles to tablelike its ecosystem. Bitcoin’s downward price action is thr...
Bitcoin has support at $23K, but analysts warn of a dire drop to $8K as global debt unwinds
Bitcoin’s (BTC) month-long choppy price action came to an end on June 13 after a deep market sell-off pressed the top cryptocurrency under the $29,000 support. The move took place as equities ma...
Cruise stocks don’t look at all like they’ve bottomed yet, analyst says
There’s still no compelling reason to believe that shares of cruise operators have bottomed, as a “trifecta of worries” still remain, said Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Woronka. Woronka reiterated the h...