Sequoia leads $450 million investment in Polygon blockchain

The logo of cryptocurrency network Polygon. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto via Getty Images Sequoia Capital is playing catchup with arch-rival Andreessen Horowitz in the race to invest in what could be the...

Peloton shares up on takeover talks, here’s why a deal might not work

Peloton’s stock soared more than 25% Monday, putting it back above its IPO price, as the beaten down connected fitness equipment maker attracts interest from outsiders. Thus far, reports have na...

Spirit Airlines, Peloton, Energizer and more

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Spirit Airlines (SAVE) – Spirit surged 11.4% in the premarket after announcing it would buy competitor Frontier Airlines in a stock swap dea...

Sequoia leads $400 million investment in crypto project Polygon

The logo of cryptocurrency network Polygon. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto via Getty Images Sequoia Capital is playing catchup with arch-rival Andreessen Horowitz in the race to invest in what could be the...

Alibaba Stock Is Falling. SoftBank May Be Getting Ready to Sell Its Stake.

Text size Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group owns almost 25% of Alibaba. Maybe not for long. Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images Technology investor SoftBank may be getting ready to sell some or all ...

5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday, February 7

Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Wall Street edged up after S&P 500, Nasdaq score best weeks of 2022 Traders work on the flo...

Moneta Markets Hires Kitty Yu as Asia Business Development Manager

Moneta Markets, a unit of Vantage (previously Vantage FX), announced on Monday the hiring of Kitty Yu as the broker’s Regional Business Development Manager – Asia. As her official title suggests...

Gold has remained steady as stocks and bitcoin have plunged

A worker removes cooled 12 kilogram gold ingots from their molds in the foundry at the Prioksky non-ferrous metals plant in Kasimov, Russia, on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Get...

Alphabet, Payal and Other Growth Stocks That Can Thrive in a Labor Shortage

Text size PayPal is among companies keeping employees happy, according to Just Capital. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The inability to hire workers and a labor shortage is an oft-repeated concern from ...

Disney, Chipotle, Pfizer, Twitter, Coca-Cola, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited We’re past the peak of fourth-quarter earnings season, but still with many notable companies left to report. Some 75 S&P 500 components are scheduled for this week. Tyson Food...

Stock futures are flat after S&P 500 posts best week of the year

U.S. stock index futures were little changed during overnight trading Sunday after the S&P posted its best week of 2022, boosted by quarterly earnings reports and a better-than-expected January em...

Crypto Users and Exchanges Must Now Report Transactions in Colombia – Emerging Markets Bitcoin News

The Colombian government has issued new regulations that force exchanges and individuals to report cryptocurrency transactions to the UIAF, the anti-money laundering watchdog in Colombia. The transact...

Giant Pension Sold Apple, Intel, and Qualcomm Stock. It Bought Nvidia.

Text size *** ONE-TIME USE *** The Apple logo Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images One of the world’s largest public pensions by assets made major changes in its investments in large-cap tech stocks a...

ConocoPhillips, CME Group and Others Boosted Dividends

Energy exploration and production giant ConocoPhillips (ticker: COP) said it will pay an ordinary dividend of 46 cents a share and a second-quarter variable return of cash of 30 cents a share. That’s ...

Cryptos Could Be a ‘Speculative Mania,’ Economist Eswar Prasad Says

Discussions with central bankers at a conference a couple of years ago prompted economist Eswar Prasad to start writing what he anticipated would be a slim volume on how digital currencies could affec...

GE Stock Could Light Up Your Portfolio. Here’s Why.

Text size General Electric was once known as the company that brings good things to life—but so far this century, holding shares of the conglomerate has been a portfolio killer. That all may soon chan...

Stocks’ Rally Looks Nice. Here’s Why You Should Put It on Ice

Text size Dreamstime For the stock market, this past week had the feel of steering out of a spin after hitting an ice patch—and driving away safely. Unfortunately, the road ahead may be even more trea...

African Web3 Startup Raises $6.45 Million in Pre-Seed Round, Serena Williams’ Investment Firm Participates – Emerging Markets Bitcoin News

An African startup, Nestcoin, said it raised $6.45 million in a pre-seed funding round in which tennis’ star, Serena Williams’ Serena Ventures took part. The startup, which was launched in November 20...

The Jobs Report Reveals a Booming Labor Market. Here’s Where Interest Rates Are Headed.

Text size President Joe Biden speaking about the January jobs report. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Good news for Main Street, not so good news for Wall Street. Once again, a booming labor market is like...

Crypto Markets Add $170 Billion in a Day as Bitcoin Explodes Above $41K (Weekend Watch)

After more than two weeks of trading below $40,000, bitcoin finally made a decisive move to reclaim that coveted level. The entire crypto market followed suit with massive daily price increases from E...

Cboe Global Markets Reports Net Revenue of $391 Million for Q4 2021

On 4 February 2022, Cboe Global Markets published its financial results for Q4 and full-year 2021. With a major jump in diluted earnings per share (EPS), the company posted strong results across its d...

Amazon May Have Saved the Stock Market. But It’s Looking Even Worse for Meta.

After Meta Platforms’ disastrous earnings outlook, the mood was pretty sour. And with investors weighing up the Federal Reserve’s future path for interest rates and the potential impact on valuations,...

Columbia CEO Boyle says early holiday shopping helped boost Q4 profits

Columbia Sportswear’s strong fourth-quarter profitability was helped by consumers starting their holiday shopping earlier than years past, CEO Tim Boyle told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday. S...

Forget About Inflation. Contrarians Expect a Recession and a Drop in Bond Yields.

“Something that everyone knows isn’t worth knowing,” as the famed financier Bernard Baruch once observed. And so I was reminded by a long discourse in the New York Times this past week on why bond yie...

This is a treacherous market filled with extreme stock moves

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday offered viewers his game plan for the next five trading days on Wall Street. The “Mad Money” host’s lookahead came after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ...

I don’t think Rivian will be the next Tesla

Rivian: “No, I don’t think [it’s going to be the next Tesla]. I think that it’s going to be a very unsexy truck maker. I have to tell you, Ford has to sell its stock [in Rivian...

Derivative markets hit an ATH in market share in January, as spot volumes fall 30.2% 

In January, crypto exchanges saw spot volumes reach their lowest level since December 2020, CryptoCompare’s recent market data analysis report revealed. While spot volumes fell 30.2% month-on-month, d...

Here’s where the jobs are for January 2022 — in one chart

Despite a spike in omicron Covid-19 cases, U.S. employers managed to add over 450,000 jobs last month thanks to robust hiring at restaurants and bars, retailers and mail and parcel delivery workers. T...

Cathie Wood Is Sticking With ARK’s “Super Growth” Stocks–and Avoiding the FAANGs

Opinions on Cathie Wood run strong. “She knows nothing more than anyone else,” one reader all-capped me in an email this past week. I think value investors have been waiting so long for a momentum-sto...

Black unemployment rate dips, labor force participation rises in January

A Now Hiring sign hangs near the entrance to a Winn-Dixie Supermarket on September 21, 2021 in Hallandale, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The January jobs report showed some signs of optimism for ...

Amazon, Snap, Ford, Clorox and more

The Amazon logo is seen at the company logistics center in Lauwin-Planque, northern France. Pascal Rossignol | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Amazon — Shares of Am...

Investors Eye Alphabet Among The Latest Stock Splits

AFP via Getty Images Google parent company, Alphabet (GOOGL), recently made its stock much more affordable for the retail investor with a serious stock split of 20-for-1. The third largest public comp...