Biden administration threatens to claw back Covid funds from Arizona over school anti-mask policies

U.S. first lady Jill Biden speaks with people during a tour of a COVID-19 vaccination site at Isaac Middle School in Phoenix, Arizona, June 30, 2021. Carolyn Kaster | Pool | Reuters The Biden administ...

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 ...

Bitcoin ETF Launch Hype Fades as Funds Slip in Value, BTC Futures Open Interest Down 38% in 2 Months – Finance Bitcoin News

Following the charged-up debut of the Proshares bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), Valkyrie’s bitcoin futures ETF and the Vaneck bitcoin strategy ETF, interest in these types of funds seems to have f...

El Salvador’s BTC Sees An Erosion Of Values Worth $12 Million In Public Funds

El Salvador was the first nation that had decreed that Bitcoin was a legal currency. However, the move has not been very successful in the country, and things are turning to worse in 2022 with the val...

‘There’s no way the stock market goes up this year — it probably goes down pretty aggressively,’ says hedge-fund honcho Kyle Bass

Don’t expect stock-market gains in 2022 if the Federal Reserve sticks to its guns on rate hikes and tightening overall financial conditions, says Kyle Bass, founder and chief investment officer of Hay...

Funds Lost to DeFi Hacks More Than Doubled to $1.3B in 2021: Certik

The amount of money lost in hacks of decentralized financed (DeFi) projects more than doubled to $1.3 billion in 2021, with centralization the most common vulnerability, Certik said in its inaugural &...

Wall Street’s Favorite Oil Stocks for 2022—Including an Obscure One

Text size Bing Guan/Bloomberg Several analysts and strategists expect energy stocks to outperform the broader market in 2022, as they did in 2021. Energy tends to do well in inflationary environments,...

Here are the ETFs to buy on persistently higher inflation in 2022 and beyond, says BlackRock’s head of iShares strategy

Given an outlook for high U.S. inflation that’s likely to persist beyond 2022, Gargi Chaudhuri of BlackRock Inc., the world’s biggest asset manager, says investors should continue to hedge their portf...

The yield curve is no longer sending a don’t-worry-be-happy signal, warns bond king Jeffrey Gundlach

The S&P 500 SPX, +0.28% snapped a five-session losing streak on Tuesday, after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell vowed the central bank would use its “tools” to get inflation under control wi...

Opinion: Four reasons why value stocks are poised to outperform growth in 2022 — and 14 stocks to consider

Investing is all about being in tune with the trends. Here’s one to be aware of for 2022: Value stocks will most likely beat their growth counterparts. The trend is already under way. Consider: * The ...

Opinion: Citadel’s $1.15 billion cash infusion isn’t a bailout but the final test of Ken Griffin’s ‘Death Star’

When you add more than a billion dollars’ worth of liquidity to a market maker that already executed more than one of every four trades in the U.S. markets on a daily basis, while simultaneously givin...

These 14 bank stocks are in the best position to benefit from rising interest rates

What would you say if you were told about a company whose stock was trading much lower to expected earnings per share than the S&P 500 Index? At the same time, it’s also expected to increase EPS n...

Crypto funds outperformed traditional hedge funds and digital asset benchmarks

A big rally in stocks over the course of 2021 did not translate into outsized returns at some of the world’s largest hedge funds. But their crypto counterparts were able to produce returns that ...

Cathie Wood is expecting a ‘bloodbath’ in this segment of the market: ‘autos are one example of…many disturbances out there in the world order’ 

Cathie Wood, the star fund manager and chief executive of ARK Invest, in a Tuesday monthly market update said that the used car market is where she is expecting possible losses after a surge in values...

Gensler Says Crypto Tokens Raising Funds Should Register As Securities, Stays Mum on Ethereum

In an interview with CNBC, SEC Chair Gary Gensler said that he would not discuss Ethereum’s potential status as a security. He did, however, say that crypto assets that raise funds from the public, wi...

SEC Chair Gary Gensler Declares Crypto Tokens Raising Funds as Securities and says they should Register

Gary Gensler, chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has said that the crypto industry still needs to come under securities laws in 2022. He stated that the facts and circumstance...

‘Bitcoin will untether itself from other assets,’ says exec with note for pension funds

The crypto-market mayhem has even got the first Bitcoin ETF in the red after a stellar debut. According to a Bloomberg report, BITO is now among the 10 worst performers amid the broader market weaknes...

Coal Decline Accelerates, Federal Funds Spur Clean Energy, Millions Of New Electric Vehicles And Chargers

2021 was a landmark year for clean energy and climate policy, from dozens of nations pledging to phase out coal, to the most ambitious federal climate proposals in United States history, to automakers...

How to Invest in Commodities Using Funds

Commodities are rarely exciting—and the price of copper, corn, or even oil doesn’t stir investors the way a tweet from Elon Musk does. Yet commodities sit at the crossroads of three of today’s biggest...

Tesla and Nvidia Picked for Big Gains by Robot Trader. It’s Been Right Before.

Text size Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Images An exchange-traded fund with holdings picked by artificial intelligence is betting on big gains from Tesla and Nvidia in January. It has been right a...

Can Energy Stocks Stay Hot in 2022?

By most measures, 2021 was a good year to be an energy investor. According to research firm Morningstar Inc., energy outperformed every other funds sector, and asset flows into these funds grew a net ...

Robinhood Is Making Changes. Keep an Eye on Its Stock.

Text size Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg Robinhood Markets stock is in the doldrums, down more than 50% from its initial public offering price in July. The company is making moves to reverse that decl...

Best Mutual Funds And ETFs End 2021 On High Note, Led By Midcap Value

Despite increased volatility, stocks ended 2021 and December with strong returns as investors readied for a year of higher inflation and rising interest rates. Some of the best mutual funds and ETFs i...

Markets Are About to Face Off With the Fed. How to Play It.

Text size The Federal Reserve building in Washington. Samuel Corum/Bloomberg There is always a bull market. The trick is trying to find it. Let the pundits wrestle with Wednesday’s sharp decline in th...

Best Mutual Funds New Buys List Led By Financials, Big Tech Stocks

As 2022 gets underway, which stocks are the best mutual funds betting on for the new year? Big tech stocks Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Apple (AAPL), Nvidia (NVDA), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MS...

Coinsuper Struggles after funds freezing

Coinsuper, a cryptocurrency exchange based in Hong Kong, was reportedly struck by frozen funds, disabling the customers regarding money withdrawal. As Hong Kong’s one of the largest exchanges, Coinsup...

The Hottest ETF Sectors for Investors to Bet On in 2022

Many investors are bracing for a more-volatile stock market this year as interest rates, inflation, the pandemic, geopolitical tensions, oil and supply-chain bottlenecks continue to cause uncertainty....

Biotech Stocks Are Due to Bounce Back. This One Stands Out.

Text size Large-cap biotech will offer a smoother ride than small, and Vertex, in particular, looks attractive. Igor Akimov/Dreamstime.com Biotech stocks began the year in much the same way they ended...

After a16z Exit, Katie Haun Plans to Secure $900M for Crypto Funds

Prominent crypto investor Katie Haun is reportedly planning to raise a whopping $900 million for a pair of cryptocurrency investment funds. This could be a significantly large debut for a new venture ...

Unprofitable tech trades are off to an ugly 2022. Here are the ETFs to consider as Cathie Wood’s Ark sinks.

Happy Thursday! In mythology, Janus is a god of transitions who is often depicted as a two-faced deity. A mere three sessions into the month of January, and some investors already may be feeling whipl...

Hong Kong Cryptocurrency Exchange Freezes Its Customers’ Funds (Report)

Dozens of clients of the Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinsuper reportedly complained they can not retrieve funds from the platform. At least seven of them have contacted the police regardi...

Opinion: Social Security blows it again

Social Security had another disastrous financial year in 2022 even as it hurtles toward insolvency. America’s main pension plan saw its investments badly trail the booming markets, competitors, and ev...