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How to Buy Bitcoin Near Me – A Guide from the Experts
Buying Bitcoin (BTC) is the current gold rush by many crypto investors. Bitcoin has the highest value against the US dollar and also the highest market cap. Although it has had a dip because of the CO...
Fisker Ocean Looks to Make Splash in the EV World
People were lining up in Brooklyn on Sunday morning, and it wasn’t for bagels. The queue on River Street in the Williamsburg section of the New York City borough had come to get a look at the Fi...
Stocks May Be Headed for a Major Skid
Stocks started slipping on Aug. 16, following a two-month rally, as investors began to grasp that the Federal Reserve likely wouldn’t soon pivot away from its interest-rate increases. After Fed Chairm...
Singapore’s Central Bank Labels Crypto Trading “Highly Hazardous”
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) regards crypto trading as “highly hazardous” for retail investors in the country, according to a statement from the central bank’s managing director, Ravi Men...
HODL Hard! Bitcoin Address Records $96M Profit After Nine Years
An old Bitcoin wallet address that has held 5000 BTC for about nine years recently transferred its entire balance to another address, seeing $96 million in profit, despite the broader market decline. ...
Half of Americans investing in crypto say it has done worse than expected
Almost half of Americans who have invested in cryptocurrency say it’s done worse that they expected, according to research published by Pew Research Center. Cryptocurrency market turmoil has diminishe...
I’m 62, single and never had a retirement account. I have $100,000 to invest, but is it too late?
I am a 62 year-old single man and have never had a retirement account. I do own both my home and a rental property which are paid for and I have no other debt. I have $100,000 in savings which I would...
Solana (Testnet) Reports 13,000 TPS on Latest Stress Test
Layer-1 blockchain project Solana could process around 13,000 transactions per second (TPS) in future releases. According to an image tweeted by Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko over the weeke...
7 Top Selling NFTs You Should Consider Investing In 2022
Over the course of the past several years, the market for NFTs has experienced substantial expansion, and this expansion is only the beginning. With the expectation of making a profit from NFTs, a gro...
These money and investing tips can help you roll with the Fed’s inflation-fighting punches
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! More: Learn how to shake up your financial routine at the ...
U.S. stock futures sink following Friday’s Wall Street rout
U.S. stock-index futures plunged Sunday, after Wall Street sank Friday following hawkish comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that the fight against stubborn inflation would continue, ...
3 Fast-Growing Small-Cap Tech Companies That Look Reasonably Priced
While some popular growth stocks have bounced sharply from their June lows and once more sport rich valuations, it’s still not hard to find fast-growing, small-cap, tech companies with unique pr...
Bitcoin [BTC] investors should read this before making investing decision
Bitcoin recorded a sluggish performance this week, with the crypto’s 7-day chart mostly painted in red. The aforementioned depreciation ignited several speculations in the market regarding what is to ...
These Tellurian Senior Notes Are a Screaming Buy!
As the markets plummet on Powell’s continuing confusion, I have been adding to a new position for myself and my clients this week. We are buying Tellurian Inc. 8.25% Senior Notes (TELZ) , due ...
Week’s Best: Fee Hike at Vanguard
Vanguard has long maintained two platforms—a legacy mutual-fund-only offering and a brokerage—but it is now pressuring longstanding mutual-fund customers to switch over to the brokerage wing or incur ...
Opinion: U.S.-China relations just got a whole lot better, boosting the prospects of these three stocks
If you are laser-focused on inflation and the Federal Reserve’s policy, you might have missed a key breakthrough in U.S.-China relations that will boost U.S.-listed China stocks over the next six mont...
How retirees can survive a bear market
Wait until the VIX gets a lot lower before putting any sideline cash back to work in the stock market. That’s the implication of a 2019 academic study in the Journal of Financial Economics. Entitled “...
U.S. states fall short of pledges to cut ties with Russia
Driven by moral outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, U.S. governors and other top state officials made it clear: They wanted to cut their financial ties with Russia. A few stat...
Fed chief Powell ‘did what he needed to do’ in Jackson Hole, Larry Summers says
“ ‘The Fed is positioned as well as it can be — given the credibility losses and mistakes that there have been — with these remarks to manage things going forward.’ ” — Larry Summers Former U.S. Treas...
Fed’s Powell sparked a 1,000-point rout in the Dow. Here’s what investors should do next.
Now might be the time to consider hiding out in short-dated Treasurys or corporate bonds and other defensive parts of the stock market. On Friday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell talked of a wi...
Shrinking the Fed’s balance sheet sheet is not likely to be a benign process, new Jackson Hole study warns
“If the past repeats, the shrinking of the central bank’s balance sheet is not likely to be an entirely benign process and will require careful monitoring of the banking sector’s on-and off-balance sh...
These 3 High-Yield Dividend Stocks Offer Monthly Income
If you use dividend income to pay living expenses, then you’d likely benefit from the small group of stocks that pay up every month, rather than each quarter or semi-annually. Here we’ll s...
These dividend stocks can protect you as the Federal Reserve slows the economy
With Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell set to deliver an important speech Friday, investors may finally begin to take him at his word: The central bank is going to maintain a hawkish stance to co...
Here are 5 reasons why energy stocks look like a buy despite rising 74% in a year
Stocks in the S&P 500’s energy sector still have plenty of upside despite their 74% surge in the past 12 months, according to Jeff Buchbinder, chief equity strategist at LPL Financial. The strong ...
Investing in Dogeliens can save you from the bear market
The cryptocurrency market started to increase its awareness towards the end of 2021. Especially meme tokens and metaverse projects have been engraved in the memories with the huge investments they hav...
The Fed isn’t pivoting. Why were stock investors the last to know?
After Friday’s brutal session for stocks, it appears equities were the last asset class to accept the notion that the Federal Reserve likely won’t be pivoting to a less aggressive monetary policy stan...
Opinion: The fundamentals of the stock market have improved markedly, but few investors have noticed
You’ll know that the bear market in stocks is nearing an end when investors remind anyone who’ll listen that equities are fairly or even undervalued. We’re not there yet. When bull market sentiment is...