Grayscale Investments, a subsidiary of the Digital Currency Group (DCG), has been in contact with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the definition of the status of three ...
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These money and investing tips can help you roll with the Fed’s inflation-fighting punches
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U.S. stock futures sink following Friday’s Wall Street rout
U.S. stock-index futures plunged Sunday, after Wall Street sank Friday following hawkish comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that the fight against stubborn inflation would continue, ...
Week’s Best: Fee Hike at Vanguard
Vanguard has long maintained two platforms—a legacy mutual-fund-only offering and a brokerage—but it is now pressuring longstanding mutual-fund customers to switch over to the brokerage wing or incur ...
Opinion: U.S.-China relations just got a whole lot better, boosting the prospects of these three stocks
If you are laser-focused on inflation and the Federal Reserve’s policy, you might have missed a key breakthrough in U.S.-China relations that will boost U.S.-listed China stocks over the next six mont...
How retirees can survive a bear market
Wait until the VIX gets a lot lower before putting any sideline cash back to work in the stock market. That’s the implication of a 2019 academic study in the Journal of Financial Economics. Entitled “...
U.S. states fall short of pledges to cut ties with Russia
Driven by moral outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, U.S. governors and other top state officials made it clear: They wanted to cut their financial ties with Russia. A few stat...
Fed chief Powell ‘did what he needed to do’ in Jackson Hole, Larry Summers says
“ ‘The Fed is positioned as well as it can be — given the credibility losses and mistakes that there have been — with these remarks to manage things going forward.’ ” — Larry Summers Former U.S. Treas...
Fed’s Powell sparked a 1,000-point rout in the Dow. Here’s what investors should do next.
Now might be the time to consider hiding out in short-dated Treasurys or corporate bonds and other defensive parts of the stock market. On Friday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell talked of a wi...
Samsung Securities To Launch A Crypto Exchange In South Korea Next Year
Samsung is considering the launch of a crypto exchange in South Korea. The firm’s investment arm is trying to launch an exchange a second time after stopping its initial plans due to a lack of key tal...
Shrinking the Fed’s balance sheet sheet is not likely to be a benign process, new Jackson Hole study warns
“If the past repeats, the shrinking of the central bank’s balance sheet is not likely to be an entirely benign process and will require careful monitoring of the banking sector’s on-and off-balance sh...
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...
Here are 5 reasons why energy stocks look like a buy despite rising 74% in a year
Stocks in the S&P 500’s energy sector still have plenty of upside despite their 74% surge in the past 12 months, according to Jeff Buchbinder, chief equity strategist at LPL Financial. The strong ...
The Fed isn’t pivoting. Why were stock investors the last to know?
After Friday’s brutal session for stocks, it appears equities were the last asset class to accept the notion that the Federal Reserve likely won’t be pivoting to a less aggressive monetary policy stan...
Alibaba, Nio stocks rally along with other Chinese names as SEC reaches audit deal with China
U.S-listed shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Nio Inc. were among Chinese names trading higher in morning action Friday after the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has struck ...
The Charles Schwab Corporation under investigation for violations of the securities laws
Apparently, the Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE: SCHW) violated securities law and the Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announced on August 25, that it is investigating...
Samsung Securities Gears up to Launch Its Own Crypto Exchange by 2023
Reportedly, South Korean securities companies are looking to make their way into the crypto industry. As per their plan, these companies are about to set up their own digital asset exchanges by the fi...
Opinion: The stock market in all likelihood has entered a new bull phase — so you’ll want to own these five stocks
That didn’t take long. The slump in the S&P 500 Index SPX, +1.41% and Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +1.67% after their meteoric rise off mid-June lows has a lot of market commentators asking two ke...
Opinion: The Federal Reserve’s Powell has a lot of explaining to do
The Federal Reserve runs a symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year. It’s a rite of passage for many in central banking, in monetary economics and for Fed-watching. Sometimes there is a key Fed ...
Ontario Securities Commission Flags Kucoin, Other Crypto Firms as Unregistered
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) today issued an alert flagging 13 companies that “are not registered to deal or advise in securities in Ontario,” including the Seychelles-based MEK Global Limi...
Coinbase Hit With $5M Lawsuit Over Exchange Crashes, Alleged Securities Violations
A Coinbase customer is suing the San Francisco-based exchange for $5 million for failing to properly secure customers’ accounts and “flouting” federal securities laws, among other allegations. The la...
Canadian Securities Exchange Commission Flags Unregistered Crypto
The Ontario Securities Commission (OCS) has issued a consumer alert warning residents against unregistered cryptocurrency platforms. The Commission’s most recent warning comes in a series of actions t...
Ontario Securities Commission Warns Unregistered Exchanges
Exchange News The OSC imposed trading restrictions in 2021 on centralized crypto exchanges. Binance declared in March of this year that it will no longer accept Ontarian residents. A total of 13 firms...
Ontario securities regulator warns against Kucoin in latest alert
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has issued another consumer alert calling out a swath of crypto firms, including Kucoin and its affiliates, for not being registered to deal in the Canadian pro...
Financial markets are bracing for what could be a ‘very hawkish’ Jackson Hole speech by Fed’s Powell
Financial markets are bracing for Friday’s widely-anticipated Jackson Hole speech by Federal Reserve Jerome Powell and expecting that he’ll signal the continued need for aggressive interest-rate hikes...
Ex-OpenSea Exec Argues NFTs Are Not Securities to Dismiss Insider Trading Charges
Lawyers for former OpenSea product manager Nate Chastain have filed a motion to dismiss the insider trading charges against the ousted NFT marketplace employee. Filed Friday, the motion argues that NF...
Opinion: The fundamentals of the stock market have improved markedly, but few investors have noticed
You’ll know that the bear market in stocks is nearing an end when investors remind anyone who’ll listen that equities are fairly or even undervalued. We’re not there yet. When bull market sentiment is...