Crypto-related stocks rose, far outpacing the broader crypto market and slightly outpacing the S&P 500, following positive inflation data in the U.S and news that Ark Invest bought the Coinbase di...
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How Alternative Investments Saved the Day for Big University Endowments
University endowments, battered by stock-market losses, posted their worst fiscal year since the financial crisis. The largest funds, however, were helped by higher allocations to alternative investme...
Airline Stocks Have Struggled. Here Are a Few Highfliers.
Some airline stocks trade at five times projected earnings. Why so expensive, you might be wondering. The group’s reputation on capital preservation at the moment ranks somewhere between damaged and U...
Sports And Entertainment Executives Launch Entity To Invest Up To $50 Million In Early-Stage Companies
TORONTO, ON – APRIL 20: James Harden #1 of the Philadelphia 76ers reacts in the first half of Game … [+] Three of the Eastern Conference First Round against the Toronto Raptors at Scotiaba...
Bond markets facing historic losses grow anxious of Fed that ‘isn’t blinking yet’
The Federal Reserve has been showing no signs of letting up on aggressive rate hikes, even as its policies fuel carnage for the ages across the roughly $53 trillion U.S. bond market. As a result, borr...
The stock market is wrong: the economy isn’t going to ‘blow a gasket’ just yet, warns economist
While this year’s sharp selloff in stocks might feel brutal, particularly after the carnage of September, the S&P 500 remains about 17.1% above year-end 2019 levels, according to Dow Jones Market ...
Morgan Stanley says investors should consider this port in the market storm right now
The great British pound selloff, credited with exacerbating a global rout for markets last week, looks set to continue wreaking some havoc on Monday. Economic woes in Old Blighty are adding to the mar...
The S&P 500 sank 5% in a very bad week for stocks. These 20 lost as much as 24%.
U.S. stocks sputtered Friday to close out the week in the red. The day’s declines of less than 1% for the broad indexes paled against Tuesday’s, when they sank 4% to 5%. For the week, the Dow Jones In...
Europe’s Public Markets Offer Happy Hunting Grounds For Private Tech Investors
The expansion of private markets – and the ready availability of capital to technology companies without having to list their shares publicly – has been a key development shaping the global digital ec...
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...
Serena Williams pushes Selena Gomez’s startup to $100 million valuation
In the same Vogue feature where Serena Williams announced her possible retirement after the U.S. Open, the tennis star said she’ll continue to prioritize investment in women-owned businesses. Days la...
Biden will sign the Inflation Reduction Act today. Here’s MarketWatch’s rundown of how it will affect your energy bills, investments and drug costs.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday is scheduled to sign into law the Inflation Reduction Act — the Democrats’ big economic package aimed at addressing climate change, capping drug costs and raising hundre...
WeWork’s Adam Neumann secures millions in funding for his new company Flow
Adam Neumann is back. The billionaire businessman who founded office-sharing company WeWork Inc. WE, -4.70% is back with another company called Flow, a residential real estate company attempting to ad...
Sinema took Wall Street money while killing tax on investors
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equit...
Liberty Media Leads $100 Million Funding Round For Gen Z Sports Channel Overtime As Bezos, Morgan Stanley Up Stakes
In 2023, Overtime’s Dan Porter plans to add more properties featuring female high school athletes. SportsPro via Getty Images As Dan Porter sat in the owner’s suite at Truist Park in Atlanta wat...
Why the S&P 500’s ‘bounce within a bear market’ could fizzle before it hits 4,200
Add another voice to the growing chorus of naysayers about the staying power of the recent rally in U.S. equities. The stock market’s rally since the Federal Reserve’s last jumbo rate hike in late Jul...
How Private equity Won Its Battle Over Carried Interest.
The carried-interest loophole will live to fight another day, a sign that Wall Street’s lobbying prowess remains largely intact in Washington. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz), the last Democratic holdout...
KKR Sells Minnesota Company And Blue-Collar Workers Get A Piece Of The Pie In Employee-Ownership Program
Marv Dupre, shift supervisor at Minnesota Rubber and Plastics’ Litchfield, Minnesota, plant, high-fives as he learns what the sale means for him. Courtesy of KKR P rivate-equity giant KKR made a...
Investing In Knowledge Economy Will Help Make 21st Century Another ‘American Century’
Time publisher Henry Luce first used the term “The American Century” in a piece written in 1941 that urged the United States to forsake isolationism in favor of entering World II and defending global ...
Senate Reconciliation Bill Would Close Carried Interest Loophole. What It Means for Private Equity.
Text size Sen. Joe Manchin wants to eliminate a provision giving favorable tax treatment to the private-equity industry. Alex Wong/Getty Images In a surprise, Senate Democrats reached a deal on a bill...
‘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...
Blackstone Earnings Are Coming. What to Expect.
Text size Blackstone is expected to produce Q2 results of $1.43 a share in distributable earnings. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg Blackstone will kick off earnings season for alternative asset managers when ...
Berkshire’s Munger Finds a ‘Soulmate’
Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger, who has worked alongside Warren Buffett for several decades, made a private investment in a Melbourne-based investment company because its founder is a ̶...
Tumbling Markets Imperil Tech, the Dollar, and Private Equity
Text size Japan has had to intervene to support the sliding yen for the first time since 1998, even as it tries to keep its interest rates low. Akio Kon/Bloomberg The world has been hooked on cheap mo...