The stock market often makes big moves based on short-term news. When Jerome Powell mentions that interest rates may continue to rise to combat inflation, the Dow and Nasdaq generally drop — unl...
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Fuel Up on These Three Natural Gas Dividend Stocks
U.S. natural gas prices recently reached a 14-year high, as we’re hit with ongoing inflation and the war in Ukraine. As these catalysts are not likely to subside any time soon, natural gas price...
Median U.S. Home Expected to Drop to 4 BTC by End of 2024
Contributed by Adaptive Analysis. Real estate has always been a desired asset worldwide. While other asset classes like stocks, bonds, commodities, precious metals, and crypto are attractive to specif...
Powell’s Speech Was Short Not Sweet: Here’s How It Affects Investors and Traders
Behold, the macro. First, some macroeconomics for the numerically challenged. The data is for July. It is compiled and published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. If you, like me, think inflation ha...
Plug Power Charges Ahead (And Potentially Much Higher) Amid Amazon Deal
Shares of hydrogen supplier Plug Power (PLUG) surged Thursday on the heels of an announcement of a green hydrogen supply deal with online retail giant Amazon (AMZN) . In our July 7 review of PLUG we w...
Animoca Brands Japan Secures $45 Million to Promote Web 3 Technology
Animoca Brands Japan, the Japanese division of Animoca Brands, a Hong Kong-based company driving digital property rights through non-fungible tokens (NFTs), has received $45 million in funding to grow...
Alibaba, Nio stocks rally along with other Chinese names as SEC reaches audit deal with China
U.S-listed shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Nio Inc. were among Chinese names trading higher in morning action Friday after the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has struck ...
When Does The Unemployment Rate Actually Forecast Stock Prices?
Unemployment and inflation – key economic indicators. Getty Images The unemployment rate is a key indicator of the health of any economy. A high unemployment rate indicates that the economy is n...
Emotionless Investing: Finding Growth Without Bias
. Growth Potential With Charles Kirkpatrick Charles Kirkpatrick’s book, Beat the Market: Invest by Knowing What Stocks to Buy and What Stocks to Sell (FT Press, 2008), outlines stock-picking and portf...
Cboe Global Markets Unveils Equity Partners for Its New Digital Asset Business
Leading global market infrastructure provider Cboe Global Markets has on Thursday announced its first group of potential equity partners to buy stakes in its newly acquired business ErisX, to be renam...
Blockchain Firm ThirdWeb Raises $24M From Haun Ventures, Coinbase, and Others
San Francisco-based blockchain company, ThirdWeb, has raised $24 million from leading industry investors such as Haun Ventures and Coinbase. The Series A funding brings the firm’s valuation to $160 mi...
Siam Bank Terminates Stake Acquisition Deal With Crypto Exchange Bitkub
Thailand’s oldest bank, Siam Commercial Bank (SCBX), will no longer follow through with its plans to acquire a 51% stake (over $500 million) in local crypto exchange Bitkub. Coinfomania reported last ...
An Overview of On-chain Metrics for Investing in Crypto
Key Takeaways On-chain data helps analyze investor behavior and potentially identify market trends. While blockchain data brings a unique perspective on investor behavior, one should also consider tec...
Opinion: The Federal Reserve’s Powell has a lot of explaining to do
The Federal Reserve runs a symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year. It’s a rite of passage for many in central banking, in monetary economics and for Fed-watching. Sometimes there is a key Fed ...
AMD, Nvidia, Intel: Things Aren’t Looking Good for Semiconductors
The golden age of chip production appears to be fading, at least for now. The just-completed second-quarter-earnings season confirms that the semiconductor makers are in for a tough time. AMD (AMD) ...
Polygon Says Ethereum Merge Is “Good News” Amid Community Fear
With the highly-anticipated Ethereum Merge fast approaching, the team behind layer 2 scaling solution Polygon has asserted that Ethereum’s upcoming transition to a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mecha...
Tesla Stock Lower On 3-For-1 Nasdaq Split Trading Debut
Updated at 11:50 am EST Tesla (TSLA) shares edged lower Thursday following the trading debut for clean-energy carmaker’s three-for-one stock split on the Nasdaq. Tesla shareholders of record o...
Tether Says It Will Not Freeze USDT in Sanctioned Tornado Cash Addresses
Stablecoin issuer Tether has revealed that it will not freeze USDT tokens in U.S.-sanctioned Tornado Cash addresses. The Hong Kong-based company noted that the USDT would only be frozen if the appropr...
Crypto ATM Operator Bitcoin Depot to Go Public via $885M SPAC Deal
United States-based Bitcoin ATM operator Bitcoin Depot has disclosed its plans to go public by merging with a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) in a deal that values the firm at around $885 ...
Sullivan Bank Partners With Bakkt to Deliver Crypto Services
American-based financial services company Sullivan Banks has entered the world of cryptocurrencies through a partnership with Bakkt Holdings, Inc, to leverage the exchange’s Crypto Connect, designed t...
2 Companies Where Insiders Have Bought Mass Quantities of Their Shares
Equities over the past week and a half have started to give back some of their gains from the large rebound off their mid-June lows. Some profit taking off that rally is understandable given the curre...
Cybercriminals Stole NFTs Worth Over $100M, With 52% Processed Through Tornado Cash
According to a recent study from the blockchain security and analytics firm Elliptic, cybercriminals stole more than $100 million worth of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) between July 2021 and July 2022. ...
Financial markets are bracing for what could be a ‘very hawkish’ Jackson Hole speech by Fed’s Powell
Financial markets are bracing for Friday’s widely-anticipated Jackson Hole speech by Federal Reserve Jerome Powell and expecting that he’ll signal the continued need for aggressive interest-rate hikes...
Nvidia Stock: Here’s What the Charts Say Now
Nvidia (NVDA) on Wednesday is set to report earnings after the market close, and technology investors should be watching closely. The graphics-chip stalwart’s report comes alongside that of S...
Salesforce Reports Wednesday and I Have a Bullish Trade Idea
A little less than two weeks ago, David Tepper’s Appaloosa hedge fund disclosed that it had taken on a new position (200K shares) in Salesforce (CRM) . The stock bottomed in the mid-$150’s...
Why investing in Bitcoin is Worth it?
Many other digital currencies entered the market not long after Bitcoin did. Presently, there are about 4,000 unique digital currency variants. Despite this, Bitcoin is still considered one of the mos...
Should You Consider These 3 Department Retailer Stocks?
. The global department stores market size was valued at $117.2 billion in 2021 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.1% from 2022 to 2028. A department store offers t...
Opinion: The stock market in all likelihood has entered a new bull phase — so you’ll want to own these five stocks
That didn’t take long. The slump in the S&P 500 Index SPX, +1.41% and Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +1.67% after their meteoric rise off mid-June lows has a lot of market commentators asking two ke...