Indonesia’s regulator has prohibited financial institutions from offering crypto services to protect investors against risks involved in investing in digital assets. The Indonesian regulator, Otoritas...
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TimechainSwap Launches Farming & Liquidity Protocols On Its DEX
Montreal, Canada, 24th January 2022, Timechain, a decentralized exchange aggregator and permissionless lending and borrowing protocol, has introduced Automated Market Maker (AMM) liquidity pools, yiel...
MicroStrategy Will Continue to Put Money Into Bitcoin Despite Drop Says CFO
Despite the recent crypto market decline, MicroStrategy will not stop purchasing more bitcoin (BTC). Phong Le, MicroStrategy CFO, said in a Wall Street Journal report today that the company’s position...
Former Goldman Sachs CEO Makes U-turn, Says Crypto is Happening
Lloyd Blankfein, former Goldman Sachs Chairman, and CEO said “cryptocurrency is happening,” as the asset class continues to grow in popularity and is attracting several trillions of dollars in investm...
As stock market plunges, a star money manager says the Fed is making a mistake by focusing on rates. Here’s what Scott Minerd says it should do instead.
The Federal Reserve is under the gun as the market plunges ahead of its first rate-setting meeting of 2022, and at least one star money manager says that the central bank could be making a policy erro...
Opinion: Retirees in the U.S. do not live on ‘fixed incomes’
As inflation has gained traction in the last year, commentators constantly remark about how it is particularly hard on retirees who live on a “fixed income.” Please stop. Retirees do not live on fixe...
The S&P 500, Nasdaq just staged a turnaround for the ages, marking their largest comebacks since the 2008 financial crisis
It’s a Wall Street comeback for the history books, one that would make the National Football League’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers signal caller Tom Brady green with envy. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0....
Ethereum Surges To $2,400. Are the Bears Finally At Sleep?
Since last week, the crypto market has been plagued by a series of corrections. One of these retracements saw the sector’s worth dip by more than 20% during the last seven days. Unfortunately, the ind...
IBM Earnings Are Strong as Turnaround Takes Hold
Text size IBM sales were up 6.5% in the fourth quarter, to $16.7 billion. Ethan Miller/Getty Images IBM posted strong results Monday for its fourth quarter, with its best sales growth in more than a d...
Ethereum Whale Swallows up Over 600 Billion SHIB ($12.1M) Amid Sell-off
Ethereum whales have continued loading up large amounts of the memecoin, Shiba Inu, with one whale splurging over $12 million in a recent SHIB purchase. According to data from the crypto whale tracker...
OpenSea Reportedly Suffers Front-end Attack; Hacker Gains $800k
The world’s largest marketplace for trading non-fungible tokens (NFTs), OpenSea has reportedly suffered a front-end attack resulting in the loss of 332 ETH ($800k). The attack was first noted by block...
‘Waiting for the perfect moment may not be the best strategy’: 3 things Americans can do right now as stock markets plunge
Americans woke up Monday morning to a stock market in sharp decline. In many ways, it was a replay of what investors have seen in recent weeks. Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.57%...
Myanmar’s Military Junta Imposes Crypto Ban; Penalty of Up to One Year Imprisonment
The military junta in Myanmar has recently drafted a bill that seeks to ban the use of digital currencies and virtual private networks (VPNs) in the Southeast Asian country. The bill, which has alread...
Panic-like selling emerges Monday as stock market tumbles and Dow skids over 1,000 points
Panic-like behavior was starting to set in on Wall Street, at least from a technical perspective. Trading in New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks at midday Monday exhibited panic-like-selling action ...
British Soldier Faces Charges for Stealing Bitcoins and Assaulting Owners
A male British soldier has recently been charged in court on counts of kidnapping and robbery for allegedly stealing a couple’s bitcoins worth thousands of dollars. The 36-year-old soldier identified ...
El Salvador Bought the Bitcoin Dip ; Adds 410 BTC Worth $15M
Central American nation El Salvador has added another 410 BTC to its Bitcoin stash as BTC price slips below $37,000. El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, tweeted on Friday that the country has acqui...
How One Hedge Fund Manager Is Using The Retail Investing Frenzy To Turn A Profit
Retail investors have become a force to be reckoned with over the past few years, but what does the dramatic increase in retail activity mean for hedge funds and other institutional investors? Moez Ka...
Kohl’s Stock Surges as Retailer Feels Pressure From 2 Possible Suitors
Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Kohl’s shares surged more than 28% in premarket trading Monday following reports the retailer could be fielding takeover offers from two suitors. The Wall Street...
Starboard-Backed Acacia Research Makes $9 Billion Bid for Kohl’s. What to Know.
Text size Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Activist hedge fund Starboard Value is behind a group that made a $9 billion bid for department-store operator Kohl’s , according to a report. The bidding...
BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, SOL, XRP, LUNA
Currently valued at $1.61 trillion, the crypto market is down by more than 20% as it opened the week at $2.05 trillion. The industry was considerably stable throughout the first three but took a turn ...
Cramer’s Mad Money Recap 1/21: Microsoft, Tesla, Apple
The air has been slowly escaping the stock market balloon for weeks now, Jim Cramer told his Mad Money viewers Friday. And unless you own the stock of a company that makes real things and has real ear...
These money and investing tips can shelter your portfolio from the stock market’s worst storms
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 Can you name today’s biggest r...
Is the market crashing? No. Here’s what’s happening to stocks, bonds as the Fed aims to end the days of easy money, analysts say
As the stock market has convulsed lower and yields for bonds have surged in recent weeks, culminating in a so-called correction for the Nasdaq Composite Index, average Americans are wondering what’s a...
Opinion: Whenever the Dow and the S&P 500 fall below this key support level, stocks typically come roaring back
Breaking the 200-day moving average is not the kiss of death for U.S. stocks, which might explain why the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.76% on Jan. 24 recovered from a 1,000-point plunge and f...