PayPal Stock Lost 2 Years of Gains. CEO Dan Schulman Bought Up Shares.

Text size PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman Drew Angerer/Getty Images Nearly two years of gains have been wiped from PayPal Holdings’ market value since the payments company reported a disappointi...

Giant Pension Exited Alibaba and Bought Coinbase, Lucid, and Rivian Stock

Text size Alibaba is no longer a holding in a New Jersey pension fund. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Late in 2021, New Jersey’s state pension bought up newly public stocks that have plunged so far i...

Zillow Is Betting on a Housing Super App. What Wall Street Thinks.

Text size Zillow Group announced plans to shut down its home-flipping business in November. Chris Goodney/Bloomberg Zillow ‘s spectacular decision to shut down its home-flipping business last year has...

Weekend reads: Inflation fear and opportunities for investors

U.S. consumer price inflation rose to a 40-year high of 7.5% in January. That pace is running way ahead of wage growth, and the official figures can mask even more pain, depending on a family’s circum...

Morgan Stanley Wants to Educate Investors on Ethereum

It’s not often that one of the major wirehouses tells clients to pay attention to cryptocurrencies, so when Morgan Stanley Wealth Management introduces a 20-page primer on the cryptocurrency Ether, it...

Zillow’s lost more than $230 million in its iBuying fire sale, but the stock is still surging

Three months after a home-flipping initiative imploded in an embarrassing public display, Zillow Group Inc. reported record revenue from selling the underwater homes Thursday and predicted big sales a...

Affirm stock slammed after early earnings release shows revenue outlook misses

This replaces an earlier report that incorrectly reported how Q2 revenue compared with analyst expectations. It has been corrected. Shares of Affirm Holdings Inc. were plunging in Thursday afternoon t...

This fund sold out of Facebook’s parent and PayPal before their earnings disasters. Here’s what it bought instead.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms was probably the least loved megacap tech stock before its slide over its weak first-quarter outlook, but its sheer size meant it was a widely owned holding — according ...

Bitcoin’s Price Isn’t Done Falling. How It Could Drop to $10,000.

Text size Stifel’s top equity strategist thinks Bitcoin prices could sink to $10,000. Dreamstime.com The bull case for Bitcoin is that it powers up to $100,000, from recent prices around $43,000...

Crypto is volatile, but KPMG Canada just added bitcoin and ether to its balance sheet. Here’s why

KPMG in Canada has added an unknown amount of bitcoin and ether to its corporate balance sheet.  The firm declined to disclose the amount of cryptocurrencies it purchased, but Kunal Bhasin, blockchain...

Taiwan Semi Stock Is Rising. An Analyst Sees More Demand From Intel and Apple.

Text size Morgan Stanley analyst Charlie Chan upgraded Taiwan Semiconductor to Overweight from Equal Weight. I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing shares are trading higher Monday, ...

These two S&P 500 stocks had their worst weeks ever

PayPal Holdings Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. are both going through business transitions, prompting many investors to run for the hills. Shares of PayPal PYPL, +1.43% and Facebook-parent Meta FB, -0.2...

Tax season: does the IRS know if you trade crypto? Is your NFT sale or mining income taxable?

Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch. It is tax season in the U.S., and I’ll ...

Cryptos Could Be a ‘Speculative Mania,’ Economist Eswar Prasad Says

Discussions with central bankers at a conference a couple of years ago prompted economist Eswar Prasad to start writing what he anticipated would be a slim volume on how digital currencies could affec...

Why is bitcoin rallying 10% Friday? Crypto clambers to perch above $40,000 following jobs report.

Bitcoin was in rally mode on Friday, ascending to a two-week high above $40,000. More specifically, the cryptocurrency BTCUSD, +2.41% was trading at around $40,245 on Friday with a nearly 10% gain ove...

Bitcoin Might Be Rallying but a ‘Crypto Winter’ Could Freeze Nvidia’s Stock

Text size Dreamstime Bitcoin and other cryptos bounced sharply on Friday with the world’s largest digital currency rallying above $40,000 for the first time in two weeks. But one analyst is warning of...

PayPal stock still offers ‘four silver linings’ after ‘epic’ selloff, says analyst

Shares of PayPal Holdings Inc. have been pummeled in recent days after the e-commerce company gave a disappointing forecast and announced a change in its business strategy, but one analyst still sees ...

The party’s over for AMC and GameStop investors — but the luckier meme-stock winners are now bracing for a massive tax bill

When Jason Gutierrez kept refreshing GameStop’s performance between work tasks during the wild, early days of 2021, he admits future tax obligations weren’t his No. 1 priority. “It was in the back of ...

Should You Buy PayPal Stock After Its Big Drop? Don’t Rush In.

PayPal refrained from reiterating growth targets, trimmed its forecasts, and said it was shifting strategy away from growing its user base in its latest earnings. Dreamstime Text size PayPal Holdings ...

Here’s Why PayPal Stock Fell Down So Much Today

Text size PayPal stock is on pace for its worst percentage decline on record. Getty Images PayPal stock was in free-fall as investors—and Wall Street—reassessed the payments company after it issued a ...

PayPal Is Plunging. Wall Street Is Reassessing the Stock.

Text size PayPal stock pointed 19% lower in premarket trading Wednesday. Getty Images PayPal ‘s fourth-quarter earnings, and particularly its disappointing outlook, are spooking investors. Wall Street...

PayPal stock sinks after earnings as inflation, spending pressures weigh on outlook

PayPal Holdings Inc. largely matched expectations for its holiday quarter but shares plunged late Tuesday after the company delivered an earnings forecast that came up shy of expectations. Shares were...

PayPal Stock Sinks as Earnings Miss, Guidance ‘Lacks Anything Redeeming’

Text size PayPal stock was sinking after the company reported disappointing earnings. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images PayPal stock was sinking after the payments company reported earnings and guidance th...

The Worst Big IPOs of 2021

Text size Oscar Health shares closed at $6.20 on Friday, down 84% from the IPO price. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg IPOs soared for most of 2021, making the year one of the best ever for companies to list the...

Giant Bank Bought Up Apple, Comcast Stock. It Dropped AT&T and Visa.

Text size German banking giant Commerzbank bought up Apple stock in the fourth quarter. Dreamstime A German banking giant made some abrupt changes in its U.S.-traded investments. Commerzbank initiated...

U.S. Stock Futures Poised for Lower Open on Monday

Stocks are poised to open lower on Monday. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Text size Here’s what you need to know to navigate the markets today. • U.S. stocks are set to open Monday slightly down. On Sunday n...

Visa Stock Is Rising After Earnings Report. May Break Away From Mastercard.

Text size Stock in Visa was up nearly 9% on Friday morning. Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Visa stock achieved its biggest bounce in nearly two years as investors responded to surprisingly strong financial ...

How Low Can Bitcoin Go? The Views Vary.

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Tighter monetary policies are weighing on speculative assets like crypto, Bitcoin crashed from $43,000 to $33,000 in four days and lost 23% of its value. On Jan. ...

Buy Now, Pay Later Comes of Age. Affirm Is the Standout in the Space.

Text size Affirm Holdings Inc. website home screen on a laptop Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Shares of Affirm Holdings were surging Friday after the online payments company received an upgrade to Buy from ana...

Opinion: ‘Easter Bunny cartoon cash’ — how Bill Maher called the Bitcoin crash

Young people were already feeling depressed about their future retirement prospects, according to polls. Still more following the collapse of all their cryptocurrency bets, one suspects. More than $1 ...

Crypto bull says ‘I look at the stock market and it is just starting to correct and that worries me more’: We could see ‘another 20%’ fall ‘for the Nasdaq’

Wealthy investor Mike Novogratz says the days of making easy money on Wall Street are coming to a swift end and he sees more pain in store for stock-market investors in coming months. “I look at the s...

Why the Floor for Bitcoin’s Price Is Zero

Text size What matters for Bitcoin is price momentum. Dreamstime A few thoughts early in the trading week: Recent crypto buyers who are sitting on deep losses surely don’t need me reminding them that ...