It was an interesting time for the best weekly gain for Wall Street since late 2020 as the devastating war in Ukraine grinds toward the one-month mark. “Stabilizing stock markets point to less cautiou...
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Will Stock Market Rally Continue? Morgan Stanley Weighs In.
Stocks rose sharply last week, with the S&P 500 index climbing 6.2%, its strongest gain since November 2020. The ascent came even as the Federal Reserve on Tuesday raised interest rates. But Morga...
Costco Has a Lot of Cash. Here’s How it May Spend It. (Special Dividend?)
Costco (COST) – Get Costco Wholesale Corporation Report always plans for a rainy day. While the warehouse club steadily expands and returns capital to shareholders via dividends (and occasional ...
Semiconductor Watchlist: Micron, Nvidia Applied Materials
The benchmark PHLX Index (SOX) started at 3,432 this week, up 9.1% over the prior week. The SOX remains down 14% on a year-to-date basis. The week saw a number of major semiconductor funds rising at l...
Goldman Sachs Helps Bitcoin Take a Major Step
Goldman Sachs on Monday took a big step toward the possible wide adoption of bitcoin among institutional investors, such as hedge and pension funds. A step that will undoubtedly reassure some big inv...
FTX Partners Tennis Star Naomi Osaka to Bring More Women Into Crypto
Popular cryptocurrency exchange FTX announced today a long term partnership with four-time Grand Slam singles tennis champion, Naomi Osaka. FTX Partners With Naomi Osaka The partnership will see the t...
Forget Benjamin Graham? These Legendary Investors Have Changed Their Definitions Of Value Investing
Hedge funds broadly continued their rotation from growth to value stocks during the fourth quarter, as was apparent from an analysis of 13F filings. The months- or years-long rotation (depending on wh...
Comparing the Bancor V3 AMM Model With a Regular DEX AMMs
The blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem has experienced enormous growth in value and mass adoption rates. The launch of decentralized finance (DeFi) led to the explosive growth of protocols and pr...
LunaFi Launches Betting Protocol With Decentralized House Pools
LunaFi is the decentralized betting protocol that allows anyone to provide liquidity and “become the house” and earn a share of profit gathered from betting activity on the protocol. The betting space...
Malaysian Ministry Says Bitcoin Is the Future of Finance, Calls for Legalization
The country’s deputy minister of communications and multimedia believes that crypto is the “future of finance.” Malaysia’s Ministry of Communication and Multimedia, through its deputy, Datuk Zahidi Za...
Investing severance package in Bitcoin
In some states, it is possible to accumulate the amount of severance pay in Bitcoin. This is possible in particular for those who use specific private services for the custody of the severance pay, w...
Asia’s First ETF Will Launch in India by End of Fiscal Year
Since November 2021, investors in India have been able to take positions on the cryptocurrency market without having to “put skin in the game,” which means that they have the option to actively partic...
Anaplan Stock Surges on Deal to Be Bought by Thoma Bravo for $10.7 Billion
Text size Photograph by Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Anaplan , a provider of business-planning software, agreed to be acquired by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo for $66 a share, or $10.7 billion. The offe...
GameStop Stock: Is the Company’s Turnaround Plan Working?
GameStop (GME) – Get GameStop Corp. Class A Report sells videogames. It sells other stuff, but walk into one of its stores and look around and you still see walls of videogames. The problem R...
Here’s How Much Companies Can Save With Work From Home
The pandemic started two years ago this month, and as we slowly (and hopefully) begin to transition from the pandemic to an endemic, it’s clear that there’s no going back to the way things were a mill...
This Agricultural and Garden Supply Company Is a Perennial
With the onset of spring, a young investor’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of … profits. And in this case, Real Money Columnist Paul Price says he found them rooting around in the garde...
Here’s What it Takes to be a Great Stock Trader
What makes a good stock trader? It’s multiple characteristics, actually. Confidence, analytics, and discipline all play a big role in creating a successful trader. But that’s just for starters, says R...
The Case Against Parking Your Money in Uber or Lyft
When Uber (UBER) – Get Uber Technologies, Inc. Report invented the idea of for-profit ridesharing they arguably changed an industry forever. Lyft (LYFT) – Get Lyft, Inc. Class A Report ...
These money and investing tips can help you build a proactive ‘all-weather’ portfolio
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS Stock trading during ‘March Ma...
Bearish Bets: 3 Stocks You Should Consider Shorting This Week
Each week we identify names that look bearish and may present interesting investing opportunities on the short side. Using technical analysis of the charts of those stocks, and, when appropriate, rece...
The Ugly Truth About Trump Media Acquirer Digital World’s Shares
The SPAC that’s acquiring former President Donald Trump’s media company is facing a daunting list of negatives as it moves towards closing the transaction. Real Money Columnist Brad Ginesin outlined t...
Can Nvidia Rally Despite an Ongoing Bear Market?
Shares of Nvidia (NVDA) have broken their downtrend from late November. Prices are back above the rising 200-day moving average line but is this just a bounce or the start of a sustained move higher? ...
Opinion: It’s time to buy the best beaten-down stocks in tech and elsewhere, and this winning fund manager shows you how
Sentiment in the stock market is so dark, it’s time to rummage through the hard-hit technology sector to pick up potential long-term winners. For help, let’s turn to tech expert Chris Armbruster, the ...
Don’t Forget About Me: 3 Undervalued Stocks That Look Interesting Now
With the S&P 500 down 8% year-to date, the Russell 2000 off 9%, and uncertainty in the air, I am on the hunt for undervalued names. But with markets so volatile, I am cautious on my buys, and look...
GameStop No Longer a Top Draw At Reddit’s WallStreetBets Poker Table
Do you recall the cult of GameStop (GME) – Get GameStop Corp. Class A Report on Reddit’s popular online investing community WallStreetBets? It was a match made in heaven or well, technica...
Dollar General, Williams-Sonoma, and 3 More Stocks Whose Dividends Are Going Up
Text size Dollar General raised its quarterly dividend by 31%. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Dollar General , Williams-Sonoma , and Equity Residential were among the U.S. companies that said this week ...
Whatever You’re Doing in the Market is Probably Wrong
Sorry, everyone, but Real Money Columnist Paul Price has a bit of tough love headed your way. “The little guy,” he wrote recently, “is almost always wrong. When they yank money out of equities you sho...
Treasuries Are Selling Off. Blame Powell’s Comments on Half-Point Rate Hikes.
Fed chief Jerome Powell, shown Monday at a conference in Washington, D.C., said ‘nothing’ would prevent the central bank from raising rates by a half-point at a coming meeting if needed. S...