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What it Means for Crypto (Opinion)
U.S. Treasury yields edged up Monday as markets focus on inflation woes and recession risk. All eyes are on a two-day Federal Reserve policy meeting that concluded this Wednesday, and the central auth...
Opinion: The Fed vowed to crush inflation with higher rates. Then the stock market rallied. Here’s why. (It’s not good news.)
‘‘We are now at levels broadly in line with our estimates of neutral interest rates, and after front-loading our hiking cycle until now we will be much more data-dependent going forward.’’ The Federal...
15 quality dividend stocks that you can buy on sale right now
John Buckingham, editor of the Prudent Speculator newsletter, paraphrases Warren Buffett when he says “whether it is socks or stocks, we like to buy quality merchandise that is marked down.” And 2022 ...
Ripple CEO gives his opinion on lawsuit verdict 1
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has given his opinion on the potential verdict of the protracted lawsuit between his company and regulatory agency, SEC. The lawsuit has been on for about a year, with the...
Semiconductor stocks have been hit hard, but many are poised for rapid growth. Here are 15 expected to shine through 2024
In December, we listed analysts’ favorite semiconductor stocks for 2022. That hasn’t turned out well. But after chipmakers’ stocks have been hammered, the group is now trading at “normal-level valuati...
‘We get hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties’: My late father left his investments to me and my sister, but gave me more than 50%. My sister wants half. What should I do?
Dear Quentin, My sister is two years older than me. We both are married and have incomes in the low six figures, and our husbands have similar earnings. When she was in her 20s, my sister and her husb...
Columbia seeks public opinion on crypto regulation
The Financial Superintendence of Colombia has published a draft of crypto regulation. As revealed, the draft carefully treats numerous industry issues comparable to what other countries have treated. ...
Opinion: Terra – A lesson learnt for trading platforms?
After millions of new retail traders entered the crypto market in 2021, 2022 started with a downturn, auguring fears of a bear market. With concurrent inflation fears and rising interest rates, tradin...
Opinion: The cloud boom is coming back to earth, and that could be scary for tech stocks
Cloud computing is widely viewed as a recession-resistant business, but the theory has not really been tested since cloud-service providers have not experienced a major economic downturn since becomin...
RBA Governor Philip Lowe Upholds Famous ‘Fiat Over Crypto’ Opinion
25 mins ago | 2 mins read Editors News The RBA Governor says that the crypto did not have currency characteristics. RBA was investigating how the private-sector-issued tokens could work. According to ...
A psychologist’s 5 steps to stop panicking about your 401(k)
In the fall of 2008, when global stock markets were imploding, I happened to be in New York. I switched on the TV in my hotel room and saw financial commentator Suze Orman on Larry King Live. She took...
Nobody Cares About Shiba Inu (SHIB) Anymore, And There’s a Reason For It (Opinion)
Shiba Inu (SHIB) is the second-largest meme-inspired cryptocurrency. It’s safe to say that it was all the rage for a couple of months back in 2021 when its price reached its all-time high on October 2...
Expert opinion: ‘market has put in a bottom’
The U.S. economy is not very likely to plunge into a deep recession, says Brent Schutte. He’s the Chief Investment Officer at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management. Lower low is unlikely Schutte...
Opinion: The SPACsplosion is about to become a liquidation frenzy — and that may be for the best
As the SPAC boom was beginning to rage two years ago, this column asked why in the world any company would want to be acquired by a former chief executive best known for executing one of the worst acq...
Biden Administration Wants Public Opinion on New Digital Asset Executive Order
The U.S. Treasury is seeking the public’s opinion on crypto as part of its mandate under President Biden’s digital assets executive order. According to a new report by the Federal Register, the Secret...
A Double-Dip Recession Is Coming. It Will Be Worse if the Fed Caves on Inflation
A double-dip recession like the one experienced in the early 1980s is likely, writes Robert Heller. Above, a line of people waiting to apply for jobs at a hotel in Tampa Bay, Fla., in 1982. AP/Shutter...
Opinion: Medicare is broken — and not in the way you might think
For nearly every retiring American, Medicare is both universal and universally complex. Yet, Medicare is broken – and not in the way most people think. Every few years, news organizations raise the a...
These 10 stocks from a sector that is a bear-market bulwark have upside potential of up to 30%
During times of uncertainty, it can help to look at what happened during other down cycles for stocks. True, we don’t know when the stock market will hit bottom during this cycle, or if it already has...
How Tether’s Shrinking Market Share Could be Good for Crypto: Opinion
Tether still has the largest market share of all the stablecoins, but it is now around 43%, according to CoinGecko. Glassnode reports that the USDT market share is a slightly higher 45% but still show...
Your retirement portfolio is fundamentally flawed: GMO
All across America, retirees and near-retirees are reeling. They were assured by simplistic “McMoney” financial advisers that bonds were “safe,” that bond returns were steady and predictable, and that...
When Will the Recession Start? Sooner Than Investors Think.
About the author: Larry Hatheway is a co-founder of Jackson Hole Economics and the former chief economist of UBS . Economists and pundits who expect recession but not until 2023 may soon be surprised ...
Opinion: It’s time to buy the selloff in energy stocks, starting with these 4 names
It’s never really a bear market until all the stragglers get taken out and shot. So it was just a matter of time before energy stocks, the big winners for much of the first half of this year, got nail...
Opinion: Which Intel CEO is to blame for the current woes? Or is it actually AMD’s CEO?
As Intel Corp. investors try to parse through the wreckage of its disastrous second quarter, one nagging question will not go away: Which chief executive is to blame for the debacle — current CEO Pat ...