Crypto Exchange FTX US Rescues BlockFi With $640 Million Deal

FTX US, the United States division of Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX has signed a  “definitive agreement” worth $640 million with troubled crypto lender BlockFi. According...

Crypto: Hedge Fund Debacle May Ruin Two Prominent Lenders

Two more.  The carnage continues in the crypto industry. Two days after Singapore hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) was forced into liquidation, two of its lenders are being forced to take drastic...

Let’s Shine a Light on Lucid Motors as It Slides Downhill

Lucid Motors (LCID) has seen its market cap slashed and investors hitting the brakes on speculative electric vehicle stocks that had been riding high before the bear market. At its peak in November, L...

Solana-based Crema Finance Hacked for $8.7M in DeFi Exploit

Crema Finance, a DeFi protocol on the Solana network, suffered a security breach in the early hours of Sunday. The hack led to the loss of an estimated $8.7 million which the attacker still holds in s...

Banks Get Burned by Risky Debt, Imperiling Buyout Activity

By Laura Cooper July 3, 2022 9:03 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Investment banks are facing big losses on leveraged buyouts they agreed to finance before markets soured, further chilling the out...

The 60-40 portfolio is supposed to protect investors from volatility: so why is it having such a bad year?

The first half of 2022 has been a historically bad stretch for markets, and the carnage hasn’t been limited to stocks. As stocks and bonds have sold off in tandem, investors who for years have relied ...

Tesla Deliveries In Focus Following Record Quarterly Stock Slump

Updated at 9:35 am EST Tesla  (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc. Report shares, fresh off their worst quarterly decline on record, trimmed their slump Friday as investors brace for what could be a grim rea...

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust’s Discount Is Tempting. Why It’s Not a Slam Dunk.

There is a way to buy Bitcoin for nearly a third less than the market price, but investors do so at their peril. That is the broad lesson to draw from the travails of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (tick...

Crypto’s Domino Effect Is Widening, Threatening More Pain

Turmoil in the digital-assets ecosystem has grown in recent weeks, with losses in cryptocurrencies blowing holes in balance sheets and pushing firms near bankruptcy. After a pair of cryptocurrencies c...

Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows files for U.S. bankruptcy

Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, according to a court filing in the Southern District of New York on Friday. Three Arrows C...

If You’ve Got Time, These Three Dividend Aristocrats Should Pay Off

If you’re an investor with long time horizon, then you should meet these three high-growth Dividend Aristocrats. Dividend Aristocrats, as a reminder, are a group of 65 stocks in the S&P 500 ...

The Best Income Investments Now

Income-oriented investors, it’s time to celebrate. There are suddenly many more opportunities—in areas ranging from junk bonds to real estate investment trusts—after the bear markets in stocks and bon...

ETH Ends the Sixth Day of it Consistent Losses

Ethereum has been on the downtrend since the start of the week and is showing no signs of stopping. It ended the fifth day of the seven-day period with no notable losses but a red candle which continu...

Mark Zuckerberg Has an Original Idea to Get Rid of Employees

Times are tough even for the giants of Silicon Valley that are accustomed to big profits. In recent months, the storm on the financial markets has particularly shaken the Nasdaq index, which is domina...

Coupang Could Make a Bigger Trading Bounce

Coupang, Inc. (CPNG) is a South Korea-based e-commerce company founded by Bom Kim back in 2010 and it got a favorable nod by a sell side firm Friday. Let’s check out the charts and indicators.  ...

General Motors Stock Halted, Edge Higher On Q2 Chip Shortage Hit

Updated at 2:26 pm EST General Motors  (GM) – Get General Motors Company Report cautioned Friday that chip shortages and supply chain disruptions lead to production delays that impacted around 1...

Mark Zuckerberg Makes a Dark Prediction

The mood has changed at the headquarters of Meta Platforms  (META) – Get Meta Platforms Inc. Report, parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, in Menlo Park, Calif.  The atmosphere is beginnin...

NFT Marketplace Quixotic Confirms $100k Exploit via Offering Feature Breach

Quixotic, a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace built on layer-2 scaling solution Optimism, on Friday confirmed an exploit that resulted in the loss of $100,000 worth of ERC-20 tokens.  The attacker ...

My Setup for the Second Half of 2022 Begins With These 13 Stock Picks

Now for the toughest trick. Equity markets just turned in their worst first half since 1970. You do realize how long ago that was, right? I was in first grade. In the blink of an eye, I am now one of ...

Bitcoin Tumbles Towards Washout as Crypto Enters ‘Get Me Out’ Phase

In our June 13 review of bitcoin futures we gave a sober outlook for prices including a price target: “In this daily Point and Figure chart of bitcoin, below, we can see the breakdown and a pric...

El Salvador Purchases $1.5 Million Worth of Bitcoin at $19,000

Bitcoin-friendly El Salvador has bought the dip, adding 80 BTC ($1.5 million) to its balance sheet. The country said it purchased the bitcoins at an average price of $19,000 each. El Salvador Buys 80 ...

Asset-Backed Token Raise to Support the Build of Algae Biomass Protein Farms

SIT is the world’s first blockchain-based algae biomass project offering. The project will be built utilising patented sustainable technology to deliver a pioneering green investment opportunity.  Car...

A New Book Tackles Investing By Blending Stoicism With 21st-Century Data Crunching

NEW YORK – OCTOBER 07: A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange October 7, 2008 … [+] in New York City. Despite a government debt buyout plan, the Dow continued to fall t...

WIN NFT HERO from TRON’s Metaverse Gears Up for the GameFi Stage

TRON aims to expand its GameFi territory with the highly anticipated release of its latest metaverse game, WIN NFT HERO. Like its predecessor, WIN NFT HORSE from the WIN NFT series, WIN NFT HERO was c...

Investing In Stocks: First Half Stunk, Will H2 Be Better?

With the first half of 2022 closing today and the major stock market indexes wallowing near or in bear market territory, it’s natural to wonder if the second half will bring more of the same or ...

Economist Roubini: Why Stocks Poised for 50% Wipeout

The stock market is off to its worst start to a year since 1962, with the S&P 500 dropping 21% in the first half of 2022. Meanwhile, many experts are warning that a recession is likely within the ...

Bitcoin and Ethereum Record Tremendous Losses

The crypto market is going through one of its toughest second quarter. Most cryptocurrencies have significantly lost a large chunk of their value over the last three months. This is attributed to the ...

Singapore Regulator Reproves Three Arrows Capital for Exceeding $250M Threshold

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) disclosed Thursday that it had reprimanded Three Arrows Capital (3AC). The troubled crypto fund manager is charged with providing inadequate information and s...

Crypto Winter Is Coming After SEC Rejects Key Bitcoin ETF

As if crypto bros didn’t have enough to worry about. The Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected Grayscale Investments’ application to convert its $13 billion spot Bitcoin trust into an exchan...

AMD Stock Approaches Key Support Amid Fall to New Lows

Advanced Micro Devices  (AMD) – Get Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Report is declining to new 52-week lows and is now down 54% from its all-time high just just seven months ago. It’s been a brutal ...

FTX to Acquire BlockFi For $25M (99% Discount)

Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto company FTX is on track to acquire troubled cryptocurrency lending firm BlockFi for $25 million, CNBC reported Friday. The deal, expected to conclude as soon as this week, w...

As Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Sink, Here’s When to Dive In

Cruising stocks floated about as well as a sack of bricks on Wednesday. A Morgan Stanley analyst made negative comments about the industry, and questioned one company’s ability to withstand a re...