It might seem arbitrary to take investing advice from old market adages, but there is one market strategy commonly mentioned ahead of the Jewish holidays – “Sell Rosh Hashanah, Buy Yom Kippur.” This ...
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Moscow Exchange drafting bill on digital financial assets and securities trading: Report
The Moscow Exchange (MOEX) is drafting a bill to allow trading in digital financial assets (DFAs) and securities based on them, according to a report in the Russian press. The stock exchange is writin...
How to get a guaranteed return of 1.3% per year above inflation
TIPS in recent months have become an increasingly attractive option for the fixed-income portion of your retirement portfolio. I’m referring, of course, to the Treasury’s Inflation-Protected Securitie...
Kraken Has No Plan to Delist Tokens Labeled as Securities by the SEC – Incoming CEO
The incoming CEO of Kraken cryptocurrency exchange, Dave Ripley, announced on Thursday the exchange has no plans to delist tokens the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has labeled as secur...
Don’t look for a stock market bottom until a soaring dollar cools down. Here’s why.
It will be difficult for the stock market to stop its slide and find a bottom as long as the U.S. dollar keeps soaring versus its rivals, according to market analysts. Global stocks suffered a bruisin...
Moscow Exchange Drafts Bill to Offer Digital Financial Assets and Securities Trading
According to local media reports, Russia’s Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX) is drafting a bill aimed at making digital assets available for trading on the stock exchange as securities and directly as digi...
5 Dividend Stocks to Beat Inflation and Rising Interest Rates
Dividend stocks are facing stiffer competition, thanks to a big spike in bond yields. A risk-free 10-Year Treasury note was recently yielding 3.7%, up from 1.63% at the start of 2021. That’s well abov...
Kraken’s New CEO Says No Plans to Delist Alleged “Securities” or Register With SEC
Dave Ripley, the incoming chief executive officer (CEO) of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, said the company has no plans to delist crypto assets allegedly classified as securities by the U.S. Securiti...
A historic global bond-market crash threatens the liquidation of world’s most crowded trades, says BofA
Global government-bond markets are stuck in what BofA Securities strategists are calling one of their greatest bear markets ever — which, in turn, is threatening the ease with which investors will be ...
If you’re selling stocks because the Fed is hiking interest rates, you may be suffering from ‘inflation illusion’
Forget everything you think you know about the relationship between interest rates and the stock market. Take the notion that higher interest rates are bad for the stock market, which is almost univer...
Josh Brown: ‘If people don’t get fired, then it’s not a recession’
““You can’t have a recession if people still have their jobs and have no problem getting their next job. So I don’t care what the NBER says. … If people don’t get fired, then it’s not a recession.”” T...
Proof of security? Gensler eyes proof of stake after The Merge
Ethereum’s successful shift from proof of work to proof of stake was a public relations win for the cryptocurrency thanks to dramatically shrinking the network’s energy consumption. But the most infl...
Draft EU Law Could See NFTs Regulated as Securities: Law Prof
The European Union’s landmark and now-finalized Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) draft legislation asserts that NFTs sold as components of large collections possess little to no distinctively unique qu...
CD rates are higher, but should you put your cash in them? Consider your goals.
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Ray Dalio says stocks, bonds have further to fall, sees U.S. recession in 2023
As the world waits for the Federal Reserve to deliver what’s expected to be its third “jumbo” interest-rate hike, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio shared a warning for anybody still hanging on...
If the market passes this upcoming test, stocks will be poised to move higher. We’re not there yet.
There’s still too much bullishness on Wall Street, even after the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s DJIA, -1.70% 500+ point drop Wednesday following the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting and rate hike. Co...
S&P 500 sees its third leg down of more than 10%. Here’s what history shows about past bear markets hitting new lows from there, according to Bespoke.
Stocks fell sharply after the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it was raising its benchmark rate by three-quarters of a percentage point as it battles inflation, with the S&P 500 continuin...
Carl Icahn to investors: ‘The worst is yet to come’
Wall Street icon Carl Icahn has a warning for his fellow investors: “The worst is yet to come.” Speaking on Wednesday at MarketWatch’s Best New Ideas in Money Festival via a remote feed, the 86-year-o...
The Fed raised rates — retirees and near-retirees should do this
Retirees have to watch their spending, especially after the Federal Reserve’s latest rate hike announced on Wednesday. For the third time in a row, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday it would rais...
Brace yourselves, the Fed is about to inflict ‘some pain’ to fight inflation — here’s how to prepare your wallet and portfolio
The Fed is ready to bring the pain. Are you prepared? Weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell cautioned there would be “some pain to households and businesses” as the central bank jacks up inte...
Fed approves third large interest rate hike and signals more before year-end
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday stepped up its aggressive fight against high inflation by agreeing to the third straight super-sized increase in interest rates and signaling more big hikes before the...
Thinking about a Roth conversion? If you have an IRA, consider this ‘bear market bonus’
If you’ve been thinking about converting a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, here’s the good news: This year’s market turmoil may be giving you a golden opportunity to do it. That’s because the stocks an...
Jeffrey Gundlach says bonds are ‘wickedly cheap’ compared to stocks — and offers one way to get a 9% return without much risk
You can forgive Jeffrey Gundlach, a long-suffering Buffalo Bills fan, if he has the NFL on his mind now that the team he supports looks like the Super Bowl favorite. The chief executive of DoubleLine ...
Leaked MiCA draft suggests EU sees some NFTs as securities
According to a leaked draft of the EU Markets in Crypto Assets legislation (MiCA), a new revision reportedly includes mention of fractionalized NFTs. The landmark bill will welcome strict regulations ...
‘She never explained anything’: I’m a senior citizen and I lost $100,000 in the stock market this year. Can I sue my financial adviser?
I am a senior citizen and have suffered major losses to the tune of $100,000 in the recent stock market turmoil. Can I sue my financial adviser? I understand the dynamics of the market as far as its u...
How Ian Balina’s SEC lawsuit may influence future crypto securities cases
Crypto influencer Ian Balina claims he has turned down a settlement agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), denying allegations of unlawfully selling Sparkster (SPRK) tokens. Mean...
4 things to watch when the Fed delivers its rate-hike decision
The Federal Reserve is raising rates on Wednesday. That much is certain. Beyond that, there are weighty questions about whether the central bank’s efforts to bring down inflation can succeed without c...
‘Disinflationary wave is building’ even as investors anticipate aggressive Fed rate increase, says this economist
Signs of disinflation have emerged even as investors fear Federal Reserve Chair Powell and his colleagues will keep battling inflation through aggressive rate hikes that have hurt both stocks and bond...
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...