Text size Bitcoin, Ether, and other cryptos have plunged in the past week. Stocks have suffered, too. Dreamstime A cryptocurrency crash has already wiped out $600 billion in digital asset market value...
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Coinbase: Customers Could Lose Crypto If It Ever Went Bankrupt
Text size Coinbase customers don’t have the same protections as bank or brokerage customers. Dreamstime As if crypto investors don’t already have enough to worry about, Coinbase Global (ticker: ...
Retirees Face a Whirlwind Market. Here’s What Advisors Say They Should Do.
Given market conditions, retirees can be forgiven if they feel that investing right now is akin to running with scissors. Risks and uncertainties abound: spiking inflation, Federal Reserve rate hikes ...
Mark Cuban: ‘Crypto is going through the lull that the internet went through’
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban thinks that cryptocurrency is on the same downswing that tech and internet companies hit in the early 2000s. Bitcoin hit a 10-month low as U,S. stocks continued to ...
Bitcoin Keeps Plunging With No Sign of Stopping. Where the Bottom May Be.
Cryptocurrency prices tumbled over the weekend and into Monday, with Bitcoin nearing a yearly low as investors continued to dump risky assets amid a tough stock market and challenging macroeconomic ba...
After a wild week on Wall Street, stock futures slump Sunday
After a volatile week, Wall Street is bracing for more losses as U.S. stock-index futures fell sharply late Sunday. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -1.08% were last down more than 300 point...
Bitcoin Falls to Half Its Peak as Investors Shun Risk
The cryptocurrency’s market tumble over the weekend echoed the broader stock market’s decline last week as investors moved away from riskier assets. Dreamstime Text size The price of Bitcoin fell 5.3%...
Crypto Prices Slump Over the Weekend
The decline of bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, mirrored the slide of the overall stock market. Photo: Kin Cheung/Associated Press The cryptocurrency market fell over the weekend, mirrorin...
This Billion-Dollar Crypto Loan Is Easy to Get, but Gone in a Flash
A hacker who robbed the decentralized stablecoin platform Beanstalk in April had a powerful tool: a $1 billion loan taken out with no collateral, no proof of income and no identity verification. The l...
What Bitcoin Could Be Worth to Fidelity. You’ll Be Surprised.
Text size Fidelity’s push into Bitcoin is raising controversy but could be lucrative for the company. Dreamstime.com Fidelity Investments shocked the retirement industry last month with a move t...
Will stocks tumble further Monday? Bitcoin’s weekend performance may provide some clues
Bitcoin was holding near $36,000 on Friday, after it fell to $35,280, the lowest level since Jan. 23, as U.S. stocks extended losses, while Treasury yields rose and the dollar soared to some of its hi...
Zillow Stock Tumbles After Selling More Homes Than Expected. Here’s Why.
Text size Zillow says it has 1,300 homes left in its inventory, most of which have sold or are in agreement to be sold or disposed. Courtesy of Zillow Faster-than-expected home sales in Zillow’s iBuyi...
What the Fed’s Interest-Rate Increase Means for Your Mortgage, Loans, Savings
The Federal Reserve raised its short-term benchmark rate by a half-percentage point on Wednesday, the sharpest increase since 2000, to a range between 0.75% and 1%. Though widely expected, the move wi...
Crypto enthusiasts sniff at Buffett, Munger comments on bitcoin. ‘It took them decades before they decided to invest in Apple,’ one analyst says.
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger doubled down on their criticism of bitcoin at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting Saturday, while crypto enthusiasts appear unswayed. Buffett, Berkshire’...
Gas prices are up roughly 40% from just a year ago. So you may want to try this method to get ‘basically free money’ for gas — but there’s a catch
Is a gas credit card right for you? Getty Images Amid high inflation, rising prices of crude oil and the war in Ukraine, gas prices have jumped from an average of about $2.88 per gallon a year ago, to...
Apple, IBM, and 14 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends
Text size IBM plans to raise its dividend. Migel Medina/AFP via Getty Images Apple, International Business Machines, and Discover Financial Services were among the large U.S. companies that announced ...
Robinhood Has a Crypto Trading Problem. It Might Soon Be Coinbase’s, Too.
Text size Robinhood reported a significant slowdown in trading volumes in the first three months of 2022. Dennizn/Dreamstime Trading platform Robinhood Markets experienced a stark decline in market ac...
PayPal Trims 2022 Outlook But Beats Revenue Forecast
PayPal lowered its forecast for adjusted profit for 2022 to a range of $3.81 to $3.93 a share. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size PayPal Holdings said its first quarter was a “solid start” but cut...
Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are once again outperforming the stock market. Apple is one big reason but these other 10 stocks also helped
During the long, tech-driven bull market, you may have seen more than one article suggesting Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s investing style was no longer valid. With Buffett leading the congl...
Opinion: Why I don’t want bitcoin in my 401(k)
Hooray! At long last, the company managing my 401(k) plan will allow me to bet up to 20% of my retirement funds on a digital Ponzi scheme that generates no income and has no practical use. Fidelity In...
When Will Coinbase Stock Hit Bottom? JPMorgan Sees Bigger Losses Ahead
Text size Some analysts are getting more bearish on Coinbase stock. Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg When will Coinbase stock finally hit bottom? Investors in the crypto exchange have been riding a slid...
PayPal has been cut in half by Wall Street, but ‘uncertainty’ still looms as earnings approach
After losing more than half its value so far this year, PayPal Holdings Inc. still faces ‘uncertainty’ from Wall Street. PayPal PYPL, +2.03% was an investor darling in the early days of the COVID-19 c...
Bitcoin Prices Fall as Crypto Market Slammed by Hawkish Fed Expectations
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies dropped Monday as expectations that the Federal Reserve will move aggressively to tighten monetary policy continued to rock the digital asset space. Bitcoin fell mor...
GE Stock Is Overpriced, What Ails Teladoc, and More From Analysts
Text size These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the vi...