The bond market’s worst-case scenario isn’t a Fed rate of 6%. It’s this.

A doomsday scenario for bonds in 2023 wouldn’t be the fed-funds rate reaching 6% by July. A bigger worry would be if U.S. inflation that’s been slow to retreat starts heading higher annually, said Jas...

New York Attorney General Sues Crypto Exchange Coinex — Claims Trading Platform Offers Unregistered Securities – Regulation Bitcoin News

New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued cryptocurrency exchange Coinex “for failing to register as a securities and commodities broker-dealer and for falsely representing itself as a crypto e...

Should you buy an annuity for your retirement?

Annuities are a popular retirement income vehicle with many insurance agents, registered representatives and financial advisers. They probably have as many supporters as detractors. Here are some of t...

U.S Judge Classifies Flow’s NBA Top Shot NFTs as Securities

3 hours ago | 2 mins read Editors News Already the SEC has started regulation by enforcement approach. The ruling comes as Top Shot’s Moments matched the criteria for an investment contract. U.S. Dist...

Are NBA Top Shot NFTs Securities? The Jury Is Out

Are NBA Top Shot NFTs… securities? A US federal court is evaluating exactly that, courtesy of a new class action lawsuit. The ruling likely will only be a testament for Dapper Labs and their NBA Top S...

NBA Top Shot NFTs Are ‘Plausibly’ Securities, Judge Rules in Dapper Labs Lawsuit

Ad United States District Court Judge Victor Marrero has ruled in a case against Dapper Labs that NFTs associated with NBA Top Shots are likely securities. On Feb. 22, Marrero denied Dapper’s request ...

NBA Top Shots NFTs Might Be Securities, Rules Federal Judge in Dapper Lawsuit

Dapper Labs will be forced to face a lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that the NFT Top Shot NFT Moments on its platform are unregistered securities, following a judge...

Federal Judge Rules NBA Top Shot NFTs May Be Considered Unregistered Securities – Bitcoin News

A federal judge, Victor Marrero, ruled on Wednesday that the NBA Top Shot non-fungible tokens (NFTs) issued by Dapper Labs may meet the requirements to be considered an unregistered security. The case...

Opinion: No ‘soft landing’ is in the cards from Fed rate hikes. Look for recession and a buying opportunity once stock prices decline.

Is the bear market of 2022 over? Are we already in the early innings of the next great bull market? The S&P 500 SPX, -0.16% finished 2022 with a 19% decline (its biggest pullback since 2008). Mean...

Intel’s dividend cut shows the need for quality. Here are 20 dividend stocks screened by UBS.

Stocks that pay high dividends can provide comfort during times of market turmoil. It is much easier to be patient if money is rolling in, and a strategy of reinvesting dividends may outperform when t...

Dapper Labs’ NBA Top Shot Moments NFTs are securities, federal judge rules

Legal • February 22, 2023, 1:26PM EST NBA Top Shot Moments NFTs meet the requirements to be considered a security, a federal judge said in a court filing on Wednesday, giving the green light to a clas...

‘Not a time to buy’: S&P 500 exiting ‘best era’ in decades for earnings growth amid ‘dried up’ liquidity

The U.S. stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 index, appears to be exiting the “best era” for growth in earnings per share in decades as sources of liquidity have dried up, according to resear...

Just how bad were holiday sales? The world’s biggest retailers are about to tell us

The nation’s retailers limped into last year’s holiday season with too much stuff that people didn’t want. We’re about to find out how much of it they were able to get rid of, and how much an avalanch...

Already worth $19 billion, Ray Dalio will be paid ‘billions’ more after retiring from Bridgewater: report

Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s biggest hedge fund, is to be paid billions of dollars via an exit package he secured upon retiring from Bridgewater Associates last year, according to a report by the...

Wall Street Expects Brutal Coinbase Earnings. Why an Analyst Upgraded the Stock.

Wall Street is mostly muted ahead of earnings from Coinbase Global expecting to see deep losses and the lowest quarterly sales in two years from the cryptocurrency broker when the group reports earnin...

Invest right now in the stock market? Why bother when cash could be king

The harder question for investors nearly a year into the Federal Reserve’s inflation fight is whether buying the dip in stocks is wise, or earning a cool 5% yield on safe-haven Treasury bills, a cash ...

Al Gore’s Firm Sells Alibaba Stock, TSMC, and Shopify. It Bought TI.

Generation Investment Management, chaired by former Vice President Al Gore, recently made big changes in its portfolio, reshuffling its holdings in the semiconductor business as its money managers cit...

At 55 years old, I will have worked for 30 years — what are the pros and cons of retiring at that age? 

Dear MarketWatch,  I currently own one home, no mortgage with rental income. I own another home that will be paid off the year I turn 55. Both valued at $750,000.  I have a 401(k) and other stocks and...

The US SEC Seeks to Expand Categorization of Securities: Experts

The US SEC is pursuing theories that would expand the definition of what constitutes a security. The SEC alleges wrapped tokens to be securities because they are a “receipt for security”. The Regulato...

I’m a single dad earning $100,000 – how do I maximize my retirement dollars?

Dear MarketWatch,  I make over $100,000 a year, and expect to for the foreseeable future. As of now, I am contributing 8% of my income to my 403(b) with a 3% 401(a) match; all Roth. It would be more, ...

SEC Sues Terraform Labs and Founder Do Kwon For Securities Fraud

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged Singapore-based Terraform Labs and founder and CEO Do Hyeong Kwon—better known as Do Kwon—with securities fraud involving its algorithmi...

Terra tokens declared securities; BUSD market cap down 15%

Ad The biggest news in the cryptoverse for Feb. 17 saw Terra-related tokens lose part of their value as the U.S. SEC declared them to be securities. Meanwhile, Binance saw the market cap of its BUSD s...

Generous Bond Yields Prove There Is an Alternative to Stocks

Return with us to ancient times, when dinosaurs ruled, at least in technology terms. It was early 2007, when Blackberries were in everybody’s mitts and the first iPhone hadn’t yet gone on sale, let al...

Will Warren Buffett retire? What to look for in his annual letter.

Warren Buffett is an inspiration to retirees everywhere. In the 27 years since he reached what the Social Security system said was his full retirement age, shares of his Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B, +0.0...

These money and investing tips can hold up your portfolio if the market melts down

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 Why the stock market’s pullbac...

Why Wall Street’s growth-heavy Nasdaq Composite is still rallying as Treasury yields rise

Stock-market investors should not blindly follow the established narratives suggesting rising Treasury yields usually spook technology and growth stocks but focus on underlying economic trends which a...

‘The risk is that we’re going to hit the brakes very, very hard,’ Larry Summers says

“‘The risk is that we’re going to hit the brakes very, very hard.’ ” — Larry Summers Almost a full year of monetary-policy tightening by the Federal Reserve appears to be having little impact on price...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Swoops In to Buy Shopify Stock After Recent Slump

High-profile fund manager Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management has increased holdings of e-commerce company Shopify and shed chip maker Nvidia the group said in a statement. ARK snapped up about $3...

Terra-related tokens dump as SEC labels them securities

Ad Terra-related tokens lost an average of 5% in the last 24 hours following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) charges against Terraform Labs and Do Kwon, according to CryptoSlate’s ...

SEC Charges Do Kwon With Offering Unregistered Securities

Key Takeaways The SEC filed a lawsuit against Terraform Labs and Do Kwon. It claims that Kwon sold unregistered securities and violated anti-fraud provisions of federal securities laws. The agency wan...

Do Kwon, Terraform Labs Hit With SEC Lawsuit Alleging Securities Fraud ⋆ ZyCrypto

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued Terraform Labs and its CEO Do Hyeong Kwon — better known as Do Kwon — for securities fraud...