Key Takeaway Crypto coins and tokens are not the same. Coins usually have their own blockchain, but tokens live on another coin’s blockchain. Tokens can become coins. Bitcoin and Ether are examples of...
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Buy the Dip: Digital Turbine, Abiomed, Palo Alto Networks
The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) started the week at 19.28, basically unchanged from one week ago. In a nutshell, the VIX tells traders the demand for options – puts vs. calls – on the SPX ...
Cathie Wood’s ARK Snaps Up Nearly $20 Million of UiPath Stock
Text size Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF purchased 867,331 shares of UiPath on Monday. Courtesy of ARK Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund purchased 867,331 shares of UiPath , th...
Top Tax Write-offs for the Self-Employed
With self-employment comes freedom, responsibility, and a lot of expense. While most self-employed people celebrate the first two, they cringe at the latter, especially at tax time. They might not be ...
We Have a New AbbVie Price Target After Our Previous One Was Reached
AbbVie (ABBV) is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that was spun off from Abbott Laboratories (ABT) a number of years ago. Its blockbuster drug Humira brought in billions. We reviewed the cha...
I’m 41, my partner is 50. We have $800,000 in retirement savings and make $250,000. We want to retire ASAP but know our money won’t last us our lifetimes – what can we do?
I love reading your responses to everyone’s retirement questions, but realized that I haven’t seen one that matches up closely to what I’m hoping to do. I am 41, and my partner is 50. We are both empl...
AMD Is About as Hot as It Gets: Here’s How to Trade It
The news on Monday morning was a little surprising. Long-time Sarge fave Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) had agreed to acquire edge computing startup Pensando for about $1.9B… just weeks after clos...
MicroStrategy Adds 4,167 BTC ($195M) to Bitcoin Stash
Leading global business intelligence software company MicroStrategy has yet again purchased more bitcoins, through its subsidiary MacroStrategy, a few days after obtaining a loan using its Bitcoin por...
22 Stock Ideas From Benjamin Graham, The Father Of Value Investing
. How Benjamin Graham Does It For over 80 years, the works of Benjamin Graham have served as the bible for value investors. Successful money managers such as Warren Buffett and John Neff swear by the ...
Cramer’s Mad Money Recap 4/4: Peloton, Qualcomm, Zoom, Roku
The pandemic stocks have suddenly caught fire again, but that doesn’t mean you should be buying, Jim Cramer told his Mad Money viewers Monday. Now that Covid appears to be fading into the rearvi...
U.S. Lawmakers Propose New Bill to Tackle El Salvador’s Bitcoin Move
U.S. representatives, Congresswoman Norma J. Torres and Congressman Rick Crawford, on Monday proposed a companion bill titled “Accountability for Cryptocurrency in El Salvador (ACES) Act.” The bill is...
US DOJ Seizes $34M Worth of Crypto Linked to Dark Web Fraud
The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has recently seized hold of cryptocurrency to the tune of $34 million traced to illicit dark web activities by a South Florida resident whose identity rem...
Singapore Passes Bill to Tighten Regulations for Crypto Firms
Singapore has now passed a Financial Services and Markets bill that will tighten regulations for crypto firms across the country, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The bill, which was passed on Tuesday, ...
Investment Firm Files Finra Arbitration Demand Against Morgan Stanley
An investor accused Morgan Stanley of leaking information about a large sale of shares of Palantir Technologies Inc., saddling it with millions of dollars in losses. Morgan Stanley is at the center of...
Crypto Investors Store 40% of Assets on a Single Exchange
A Yearly Crypto Security Self audit report published by crypto security company NGRAVE shows that a significant number of cryptocurrency investors still store their assets on a single exchange platfor...
AMD, Qualcomm make software-focused acquisitions as growth in core chip businesses questioned
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. both announced acquisitions on Monday that will help diversify into greater software holdings as analysts question growth in the chip makers’ core busines...
Semiconductor Watchlist: Qualcomm, Micron, NXP
The benchmark PHLX Index (SOX) started the week at 3,366, down 4.05% over the previous week. The SOX is down 14.69% on a year-to-date basis. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) – Get Advanced Micro De...
Get ready for a ‘new world order’ that drives stocks and bonds: BlackRock
It’s an end of an era. That’s BlackRocks Inc.’s BLK, +1.62% Tony DeSpirito, chief investment officer in the U.S. fundamental equities division of the world’s largest asset manager, telling investors t...
China Revises Delisting Rule. But Investors May Want to Sell on the Rally.
Text size The probability of a mass delisting of Chinese stocks like Alibaba may have ticked lower with revised rules from China’s regulators. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images The probability of ...
Cathie Wood Urges Caution About Fed Raising Rates
The asset manager Cathie Wood, chief executive of Ark Wealth Management, has expressed opposition to much more in the way of interest-rate increases from the Federal Reserve. Her thoughts came in a we...
How to Form an LLC for Real Estate Investing
A limited liability company, or LLC, is one of the most common corporate forms in American business. It is relatively easy to establish and allows individuals or small groups to do business under a co...
Has the student loan pause done any good?
Two years after the chaos of the pandemic prompted Congress to pause federal student loan payments, new data show many borrowers have used that extra room in the budget to shore up their overall finan...
UK Government Announces NFT Mint and Plan to Dominate Crypto
The UK government has been making consistent efforts to increase the country’s involvement in the global digital asset industry. In a new development, the UK government has revealed plans to issue a n...
Georgia Reveals Plans to Regulate its Crypto Market
Georgia is currently planning to set up regulatory frameworks that will guide the use of cryptocurrencies in the country. The framework will include licensing, compliance testing, and Anti Money Laund...
Crypto Adoption as Inflation Hedge Takes Off in Brazil and Indonesia
A recent survey conducted by cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has revealed that crypto adoption spiked in 2021. Over 30,000 investors around the world acquired digital assets last year to curb the infl...
Terra (LUNA) DeFi TVL Reaches $30B Milestone
The algorithmic stablecoins platform, Terra, has recently been witnessing increased DeFi activity, with both the network’s total value locked (TVL) and native token, LUNA, reaching new all-time highs ...
U.S. stock futures steady early Monday as traders weigh prospect of more sanctions on Russia
U.S. stock index futures were little changed early Monday as traders weighed the prospect of further sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine. After the S&P 500 index posted a third straight we...
A Software Company’s Shares Are Off 80%, but it’s Still Not an Investment
Companies frequently report better-than-expected sales and earnings. yet see their shares fall in the aftermath. A case in point is Coupa Software (COUP) – Get Coupa Software, Inc. Report, whic...
These income strategies can help protect your stock investments from inflation and a recession
There is always uncertainty in the stock market, but the deflationary cycle that helped feed tremendous gains over the past several decades has ended. Two related strategies can give you downside prot...