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Market Losses Can Reduce Your Tax Bill for Years. Here’s How.
This year’s market mayhem could shave your tax bill for years to come. With just weeks to go, 2022 is poised for steep negative annual returns in both stocks and bonds, a correlated collapse that has ...
FTX lent over half of its customer funds to affiliated trading firm: WSJ
Embattled crypto exchange FTX, once the third-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, reportedly lent more than half of its customer funds to its affiliated trading firm Alameda Research, exposing ...
Crypto Is Losing a Big Trader. A Top Exchange May Also Be Worthless.
The world of cryptocurrency remains in turmoil. The dust hasn’t settled, but it looks like the market will lose one one of its most influential trading firms, and possibly one of the largest exchanges...
Binance CEO in internal memo: ‘I had very little knowledge of the internal state of things at FTX’
“‘It was less than 24 hours ago that SBF called me. And before that, I had very little knowledge of the internal state of things at FTX.’” — Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao o...
Binance Takeover of FTX Is a Huge Red Flag for Crypto
One of the most dangerous moments in any hurricane is when the eye passes. Gale winds give way to calm, tempting those hunkering down to come out and assess the damage only to find that more of the st...
Opendoor Vents the Roof – WSJ
Zillow’s decision last year to jump out of this burning house is suddenly looking kind of smart. Opendoor Technologies said Thursday that its automated home-flipping business sold 33% more homes than ...
PayPal earnings forecast heads higher, but revenue outlook sends the stock lower yet again
PayPal Holdings Inc.’s cost-savings story began to play out in the latest quarter, but that wasn’t enough to satisfy investors as the digital payments giant also cut its revenue forecast for the full ...
More than 1 in 4 workers making $200K or more now say they live paycheck to paycheck. So even rich people are struggling to save, and pros offer 3 solutions
As many as 93% of rural and 92% of urban consumers say they’re noticing higher prices due to rising inflation, according to a report. Getty Images/iStockphoto Making bank doesn’t mean you have loot sa...
PayPal Reports Earnings Today. What to Expect.
PayPal may be in the midst of a turnaround but Wall Street still expects the payments company to post a sharp drop in earnings when it reports third-quarter financial results after the bell Thursday. ...
PayPal’s ‘once beloved story’ is ‘back in vogue’ despite some noise
Headed into PayPal’s third-quarter earnings report, there’s a lot of noise. The company faced backlash in early October for a policy change stating that users could be fined up to $2,500 for spreading...
SoFi stock rockets as earnings deemed ‘outstanding’
Shares of SoFi Technologies Inc. were flying higher in premarket trading Tuesday after the financial-technology company posted results that were dubbed “outstanding” by one analyst. Though the company...
Visa beats on earnings, increases dividend by 20%
Visa Inc. topped earnings expectations for its latest quarter, with the company’s chief executive calling out strong spending trends despite “short-term uncertainty.” The company reported fiscal fourt...
Tether Says It Has Ditched Commercial Paper. It’s a Good Sign for Stablecoins.
Tether said that it no longer holds commercial paper in its reserves, favoring U.S. Treasuries instead in a move that addresses worries about the quality of assets backing the world’s most popular sta...
Opinion: How you can save $60k for a home down payment without risk or waiting forever
Yes, starting from zero and trying to save a bit each month will take a while. To put together that princely sum, you’d have to save $500 a month for around nine years in a high-interest savings accou...
How credit cards ruined the airport lounge
This article is reprinted by permission from NerdWallet. Years ago, there were business travelers and there were leisure travelers, and nary did the perks of the high-flying former trickle down to th...
Visa ‘stands to lose the most’ from Fed’s new debit-card rules, analyst says
Newly solidified Federal Reserve guidelines on debit-card routing could have some impact on the financial performance of payment-technology companies, but the latest rules weren’t as onerous for the c...
Opinion: This 401(k) bill opens the door to risky assets
Senators Pat Toomey, Tim Scott and Peter Meijer have just proposed a bill in Congress that would allow 401(k) plans to stretch beyond traditional investments like stocks and bonds. And when we say “be...
TechStars CEO On The Future Of FinTech
Toronto, Canada – Maëlle Gavet, CEO, Techstars Getty Images Key Takeaways While cryptocurrency remains questionable, blockchain applications and Web3 have plenty of business potential. The incub...
Why Interest Rates Are Rising Everywhere—Except Your Savings Account
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It’s Time to Buy Tech Again. Here Are 20 Stocks to Start With.
One cruel truth the stock market confirmed this past week is that trying to pick the bottom for technology stocks is a fool’s errand. The Nasdaq Composite’s terrible September—it was down 10.5% on the...
Crypto Investors Got Burned by Celsius. Then They Battled Back.
Cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network LLC attracted scores of people over the last five years who wanted to make money betting on bitcoin. After a crypto crash pushed the company into bankruptcy this ...
Crypto Bill That Would Have Transformed Industry Vetoed by California’s Newsom
Text size California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Bloomberg Philanthropies California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday vetoed a bill that would have brought strong regulatio...
Bitcoin Could Hit $500,000 in Next Decade, Says MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor
Text size Bitcoin prices have plunged this year. Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images Bitcoin could reclaim its November 2021 all-time high by 2026 and surge even higher if its valuation fundamentals change, ...
You need to understand the FTX debacle even if you have no investments in crypto
The sudden collapse of FTX, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, underlines how important it is for any investor to learn about the risks they take when they park their money with a ligh...