Investors looking for signs as to whether the rally in U.S. stocks will continue in the latter half of August may find some meaningful clues on Friday, when $2.3 trillion in equity-linked options are ...
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Hedge funds pile up $125 billion bet against the S&P 500’s big summer rally
A more than $125 billion institutional short position has been building up against the U.S. stock market, driven by hedge funds, according to BNP Paribas. Futures contract data points to a sharp incre...
I’m 65 and want to retire in 6 months. I have a $125K annuity, plus $100K of money that I’m not sure what to do with. Should I get professional help?
Is a financial planner right for you? Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I had $225,000 in my 401(k) and then I rolled over $125,000 to an annuity at 7%, as I wanted income. I just turned 65 and want ...
Australian Securities Commission (ASIC) Accepts First Spot Crypto ETF
Investment management firm Monochrome has announced that its other entity, Vasco Trustees Lid, has received authorization from the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) to operate ...
SEC Sues Dragonchain Over Unregistered Crypto Asset Securities
The founder of Dragonchain and related entities are facing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that they violated federal anti-fraud provisions for their roles in raising $16.5 mil...
Australian Securities Exchange Eyes Blockchain-Based Tokenized Assets – crypto.news
On Tuesday, August 16, 2022, the trial program by Zerocap to showcase Synfini’s ability to support tokenized assets was officially a success. ASX’s Tokenization Push The Australian Securities Exchang...
Why target-date funds may sabotage your retirement
If you’re like most of the 30 million or so people investing in a target-date fund mutual fund inside your retirement account, you’ve likely adopted a set-it-and-forget-it attitude toward your nest eg...
SEC Charges Dragonchain With Selling $16.5 Million In Unregistered Securities ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has pressed charges against Dragonchain for allegedly raising over $16 million in an offering of unregist...
Ford’s green bond sees $5 billion in demand as Biden signs climate bill
Investors swarmed over Ford Motor Co.’s new $1.75 billion green-bond deal on Tuesday to help boost its development of more electric vehicles. Order books for Ford’s F, +0.67% speculative-grade debt de...
Should You Do a Roth Conversion? How It Can Help With Your Taxes.
The first half of this year marked the worst performance for the S&P 500 since 1970. With inflation soaring and interest rates rising, the index posted a loss of 20.6%. The dire sentiment may hav...
SEC Slams Dragonchain With Lawsuit for Selling Unregistered Securities
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against entities related to Dragonchain along with the founder and controlling person, John Joseph Roets, alleging that the defendan...
Buffett and Berkshire added big to their bets on Ally, Occidental, Paramount and Activision. But these other 6 stocks also got a vote of confidence.
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. added to nine stock holdings during the second quarter, reduced holdings of four and sold two outright. That’s according to Berkshire Hathaway’s BRK.B, +1.26% ...
SEC Charges Dragonchain for Selling Unregistered Securities
Key Takeaways The SEC is charging Dragonchain Inc, Dragonchain Foundation, The Dragon Company, and Dragonchain founder and CEO Joe Roets for allegedly selling unregistered securities. The agency claim...
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...
Australian Securities Exchange completes world-first blockchain settlement scheme test
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), one of the world’s leading securities exchanges has successfully completed the world’s first blockchain settlement scheme as the entity seeks to streamline op...
Australian Securities Exchange takes step towards tokenized asset trading
Companies on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) could be able to trade tokenized bonds, equities, funds, or carbon credits after a successful proof-of-concept trial led by the digital asset inve...
Crypto.com Inks Agreement to Operate Under Canada’s Securities Watchdog
Crypto.com becomes the first cryptocurrency exchange to commit to offering crypto products in line with the rules of the Ontario Securities Commission. The document called a Pre-Registration Undertaki...
The World’s Largest Hedge Fund Sold 5 Chinese Stocks. Here’s Why.
Text size Bridgewater Associates no longer owned stock in Alibaba Group Holding as of June 30, according to a regulatory filing. Alibaba’s headquarters in Hangzhou, China, is pictured above. STR...
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...
Why BlackRock says the stock market’s big summer rally isn’t worth chasing
With U.S. stocks briefly sputtering to start the new week, strategists at the research arm of the world’s largest money manager are weighing in with words of caution. In a note released on Monday by t...
These Funds Hold Just 1 Bond. Why They’re Revolutionary.
Text size Since bonds don’t trade on exchanges, investors need to trade through one of the broker-dealers over the counter. Al Drago/Bloomberg Investors may still be scratching their heads about...
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, billionaire investor dubbed India’s Warren Buffett, dies at 62
NEW DELHI — Veteran stock market investor and Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, nicknamed India’s own Warren Buffett, died Sunday in Mumbai city, Press Trust of India news agency reported. He wa...
These money and investing tips can protect you if the bears take a swipe at this stock market rally
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 These small-cap stocks will le...
Public Pension Systems Join Those Stung by Crypto Crash
Listen to article (2 minutes) Among the investors who bet on cryptocurrency over the past year are pension funds that manage public workers’ retirement savings. Now those funds are navigating the cras...
Opinion: These small-cap stocks will lead the market if the rally has legs
If stock market FOMO is starting to bug you, but you’re hesitant to buy stocks, here’s a fix: Go small. Small companies are still super-cheap. These aren’t companies whose CEOs grab headlines when the...
‘Irrational expectations’ are keeping commodity prices unsustainably low, warns Goldman
A previous version of this report incorrectly spelled the name of Jefferie Curry of Goldman Sachs. It has been corrected. A combine harvesters of Astarta-Kyiv agri-industrial holding harvests wheat on...
How to feel rich and get more out of life
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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...
Did the stock market ‘misinterpret’ Fed again? What strategists say about the reaction to the July minutes
Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s meeting in July — at which policy makers hiked the benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points, indicate stock-market participants were too quick to price in a “less ...