Are stablecoins securities? Well, it’s not so simple, say lawyers

Recently reported planned enforcement action against the Paxos Trust Company by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over Binance USD (BUSD) has many in the community questioning...

Coinbase Argues Its Staking Services Are Not Securities, Criticizes SEC Regulatory Approach – Bitcoin News

Coinbase, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the U.S., has stated that the staking services offered on its platform do not constitute securities. The statements, made in the wake of the $3...

Brian Armstrong Stresses Coinbase’s Staking as Not Securities

Brian Armstrong tweeted that Coinbase’s staking processes aren’t securities. The CEO of Coinbase quotes the blog post created by Paul Grewal. In the blog post, Grewal explains the reasons why Coinbase...

Asian markets slide ahead of U.S. inflation update

BEIJING — Asian stock markets sank Monday ahead of a U.S. inflation update that traders worry might lead to more interest rate hikes. The Nikkei 225 NIK, -1.06% in Tokyo sank 1% while the Shanghai Com...

Blackstone’s Big New Idea Leaves It Bruised

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Inflation data rocked the stock market in 2022: Get ready for Tuesday’s CPI reading

Few things moved the U.S. stock market last year like inflation data and the next reading is due this week. Under the spotlight is the January consumer price index, which is set to be released at 8:30...

Coinbase’s Chief Legal Officer Claims Staking Services Not Securities

Exchange News Staking services do not constitute securities since they do not pass Howey test as per Paul. Grewal claims that neither crypto staking nor Coinbase’s offering fulfils any conditions. The...

Coinbase Claims its Staking Products Are Not Securities as COIN Slumps 22% Weekly

All eyes in the crypto community have been on the SEC and its decision to pursue certain crypto staking offerings in the States. After Kraken, many believe Coinbase will be next to have to settle with...

These money and investing tips can build your portfolio’s offense and defense

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 10 value stocks for today’s ma...

K-1 and K-3 Tax Forms Will Be A Hassle This Year. What to Do About It.

It’s an annual ritual for some investors: watching others file their tax return and pocket their refund while you wait, and wait, for the Schedule K-1 tax forms needed to complete your taxes. Partners...

Why MGM Resorts International Stock Is Worth a Wager

These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the views or rec...

Kraken Questioned By The SEC Over The Sale Of Unregistered Securities

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage What – Kraken has appeared on the radar of the U.S. SEC due to its sale of alleged unregistered securities. Why – The crypto exch...

Crypto Lawyer Thinks Michael Saylor Doesn’t Understand Securities Laws

John Deaton thinks Michael Saylor does not understand security laws.  Previously, the crypto criticized the SEC’s claim that XRP was a security. A 2019 US regulation states that crypto is not a securi...

Why the stock market’s ‘FOMO’ rally stalled out and what will decide its fate

A torrid, tech-led stock-market rally stalled out this past week as investors began to come around to what the Federal Reserve has been telling them. Bulls, however, see room for stocks to continue th...

10 value stocks for today’s market

Did the tide turn away from value in January and back in favor of growth? I’m referring to the relative performance of issues that trade for low ratios of price to net worth (value stocks) and those t...

ChatGPT Has Sparked an AI Craze. How to Build a Long-Term AI Portfolio.

Artificial intelligence has sparked new competition in internet search—for the first time in decades. Here’s how to build an AI portfolio. Feb. 10, 2023 6:06 pm ET It has been more than 70 years...

Coinbase says its staking services are not securities

Missteps in regulating the technology underlying staking ecosystems may have serious — and negative — consequences, including forcing U.S. consumers to less-regulated foreign platforms,  Coinbase Chie...

‘Cash is the cool kid on the block’: High-yield savings accounts, Treasury Bills, money market funds, and CDs — here’s where your cash can earn up to 4.5%

Cash isn’t just the dollar bills you put in your pocket — in this market, it might seem to be a patch of steady ground. There are multiple options: People can put their money in high-yield savings acc...

‘Is my financial planner crazy?’ We’re 55 and 60, five years from retirement and were told we should invest more aggressively

Dear MarketWatch,  Is my financial planner crazy?  I recently saw a MarketWatch article that recommended that one’s retirement portfolio should be 100 minus their age in stocks or perhaps even more co...

‘The short end of the curve is very sexy today’: But where should ETF investors bet on bonds?

Hello! This week’s ETF wrap brings you some of the buzz around fixed income at the recent Exchange conference in Miami, including views from BlackRock, DoubleLine, PIMCO, State Street and Fairlead Str...

Disney Plans to Reinstate Its Dividend and Cut 7,000 Jobs. Nelson Peltz Declares Victory.

Walt Disney stock jumped after the entertainment company topped earnings expectations, while also announcing it was planning to cut jobs and reinstate its its dividend. Disney (ticker: DIS) reported n...

Crypto tumble as concerns over regulation intensifies

Bitcoin tumbled to a three-week low Thursday, as crypto exchange Kraken halted its staking program and agreed to pay $30 million to settle charges brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission....

Deeply inverted Treasury curve narrowly misses reaching 41-year milestone

A bond-market gauge of impending U.S. recessions fell just shy of reaching its most negative reading since October 1981, when interest rates were 19% under Paul Volcker’s Federal Reserve. That gauge, ...

Coinbase Warns of ‘Staking’ Crackdown. The Stock Is Tumbling.

Text size Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images The CEO of Coinbase Global warned the Securities and Exchange Commission might be considering cracking down on a process ...

These 20 AI stocks are expected by analysts to rise up to 85% over the next year

There are always fads in the stock market, but now we are in the midst of what could turn out to be a revolutionary trend that will last much longer than any fad — artificial intelligence. In the Need...

Older workers are fooling themselves when it comes to work, money and caregiving

Denial runs deep when it comes to money and retirement. Older adults are working longer, but at first blush they contend they are working because they want to. Only when pressed do they admit they nee...

Sell your Bank of America shares now, says KBW

Shares of the largest U.S. banks have been performing well so far this year, but David Konrad of Keefe, Bruyette and Woods believes the party is over for Bank of America Corp. Konrad downgraded Bank o...

We are in our early 60s and have a $750K portfolio that is ‘sinking fast.’ But we want to pay for our daughter’s medical school. Who can help us figure this out?

Have an issue with your financial adviser or looking for a new one? Email [email protected]. Getty Images Question: We are in our early 60s and have a roughly $750,000 portfolio that is sinking fa...

SEC Investigates Kraken Over Offering Unregistered Securities

2 hours ago | 2 mins read Editors News The probe is related to some services Kraken provided to customers. U.S. regulators are closely observing digital asset exchanges. The Securities and Exchange Co...

Kraken is facing an SEC probe Regarding unregistered securities

Kraken, the popular crypto exchange, is facing a probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) The regulator has filed the probe to ascertain whether Kraken broke securities rules. The SEC is ...

SEC Investigating Crypto Exchange Kraken Over Securities Violations

The SEC is investigating San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken for violating securities laws, according to reports. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the investigation was at an “advanced...