Mr. John J Ray III, CEO of FTX and representative of the Chapter 11 Debtors in the U.S., made a statement on December 12th and 13th, 2022 in court filings, claiming that the Securities Commission of t...
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Bahamas securities commission backfires at FTX’s management
The Bahamas regulators recently had a feud against the new FTX management team. SCB (The Securities Commission of The Bahamas) shared an official statement on January 2. According to the statement, t...
After a rough 2022, U.S. stock futures rise ahead of first trading week of 2023
U.S. stock-market futures rose Monday, suggesting gains ahead of the first trading day of 2023. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, +0.22% jumped more than 200 points out of the gate, but initi...
XRP and Cardano (ADA) Have Always Been Securities, Crypto Exec Says
Alex Dovbnya A cryptocurrency executive claims that XRP, SOL and other crpytocurrencies are actually unregistered securities As the Securities and Exchange Commission is attempting to define which cry...
Silvergate Capital hit with class action lawsuit for Securities Law violations
Pomerantz LLP — a firm dedicated to representing the rights of defrauded investors — filed a class action lawsuit against Silvergate Capital over alleged violations of the Securities Exchange Act. The...
Startups End a Bruising 2022, Stare Down Another Challenging Year
Startups had a dismal year by nearly every measurement in 2022, from plummeting investment to scarce public listings, and data point to a 2023 that could be even more difficult. As markets tanked in e...
These money and investing tips can help you ring in a profitable new year
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS The stock market has been rang...
Why the consumer is ‘critical’ for investors to watch in 2023 as bear market ‘not yet complete’
The fate of the U.S. consumer is weighing on the outlook for markets in 2023. “The issue is that consumers are actually spending at a pace that is faster than their income growth, and have been for t...
Acacia Research says inquiry found former CEO may have misused funds
Acacia Research Corp., a company that buys other companies, and its former chief executive are in a fight that involves allegations of potential misuse of corporate money. Acacia ACTG, -1.17% on Frida...
Bahamas Regulator Says It Seized $3.5 Billion in FTX Crypto Assets
Bahamas securities regulators said they seized digital assets valued at $3.5 billion from FTX’s local operation in mid-November as the cryptocurrency exchange spiraled toward collapse, a figure that F...
An Oil ETF Outpaced Crude by 5 Times Last Year. The Downside: Volatility.
Shares of the U.S. Oil exchange-traded fund surged 5.2% in the week before Christmas, and ended up 27% for the year. Oil prices did rise last year by nearly 5%, but how did an ETF that tracks them out...
The EV Market Is Growing Rapidly. How to Invest in Beneficiaries.
Brian Demain has a healthy respect for efficient markets and downside risk. In college, Demain wrote his senior thesis with guidance from Princeton University economics professor Burton G. Malkiel, go...
Stocks cement worst year since 2008 as S&P 500 logs 4th biggest drop since inception
U.S. stocks polished off their worst year since 2008 with a loss on Friday, bringing the year-to-date decline for the S&P 500 to 19.4%, its largest calendar-year drop since 2008, Dow Jones Market ...
Troubles at Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Began Well Before Crypto Crash
Sam Bankman-Fried built the cryptocurrency exchange FTX on the reputation of his trading firm, Alameda Research LLC. Alameda was applying Wall Street-style wizardry to the crypto world—and outsiders t...
Stock-market investors face 3 recession scenarios in 2023
With the U.S. stock market on track for its biggest annual decline in over a decade, fears that efforts by the Federal Reserve and other major central banks to bring down a surge in inflation will spa...
Opinion: 11 predictions for money, technology, stocks and crypto for 2023
Here are some 2023 predictions for financial markets, the economy and stocks. I’ve spent the last year and a half being cautious in the wake of the Bubble-Blowing Bull Market that finally ended early ...
Bahamas Securities Commission Holds FTX Users’ Assets Temporarily
Bahamas regulator holding FTX assets on a temporary basis. FTX Japan is planning to return users’ assets. Some of the FTX users are selling their claims at steep discounts. As per a December 29 statem...
Bahamas Securities Commission seized $3.5B in customers’ assets from FTX
According to a statement released on December 29, the Bahamian regulator Bahamas Securities Commission gained possession of digital assets valued at $3.5 billion at FTX Digital Markets shortly after t...
Bahamas Securities Commission Holding FTX deposits Worth Over $3.5 billion.
In the protracted and gloomy drama involving FTX and SBF, it would seem that we have finally heard some positive news about the assets of users that the criminal mastermind was spending frivolously. T...
Warren Buffett jumps into local politics to fight Omaha streetcar project
OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett broke with his practice of staying out of local politics to urge his hometown of Omaha to abandon its planned streetcar project because he says it’s t...
Opinion: The stock market is range-bound over the short term. Don’t expect that to last long.
The U.S. stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 Index SPX, +1.75%, has struggled this week overall, during what is typically a seasonally bullish period. That is what Yale Hirsch termed “the San...
Dow up over 350 points, stocks rebound after jobless claims data deemed ‘welcome news for the Fed’
U.S. stocks advanced on Thursday afternoon, erasing losses from earlier in the week during the second-to-last trading session of the year. The main indexes built on premarket gains after U.S. weekly j...
Here’s a New Year’s resolution: resist the temptation to bet on the top mutual fund of 2022
Beating the stock market is not that big of a deal. What’s really impressive — and what you should be looking for when using performance scoreboards to choose a mutual fund — is one that has beaten th...