Never had a retirement account? You’re not alone – 36% of American workers said they’ve never had a retirement account, such as a 401(k) plan or an IRA, a new Bankrate survey found. Generation Z and ...
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The Time for Digital Securities is Now
Last year’s Robinhood GameStop debacle kicked off calls for the modernization of stock market infrastructure to democratize investment opportunities for retail investors. We are seeing increased deman...
Major Investors Hold Ground on Russian Debt Amid Ukraine Crisis
Tensions over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine have put international investors on edge. But some are holding on to Russian debt, betting that a diplomatic solution to the crisis could spark a ...
Citrix Systems Near $13 Billion Buyout by Elliott, Vista: WSJ
Cloud-computing company Citrix Systems is close to a deal to be taken private, The Wall Street Journal reported. Dreamstime Text size This story originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Cloud-c...
Cathie Wood’s ARK Faces Loyalty Test After Tech-Stock Rout
Cathie Wood says the high-risk stocks in the exchange-traded funds sold by ARK Investment Management LLC are so cheap that they will inevitably rise. A surprising number of investors are willing to gi...
SEC Approves BSTX to Operate as Blockchain-Based Securities Exchange
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is one of the most widely known independent authorities in th...
Netflix Co-CEO Reed Hastings Bought $20 Million of Stock
Text size Netflix co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings just made his first purchase of the company’s shares on the open market. Henrik Jonsson/Dreamstime.com Netflix ‘s stock has slumped in 2022,...
When to stop investing in the stock market? Wild price swings are shaking the resolve of some: Is it time to bail out of equities and bonds?
Is it time to bail out of stocks and bonds? This isn’t the market that investors likely signed up for back in 2021 when shares in GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69% and movie chain AMC Entertainment Holdings ...
Opinion: Warren Buffett is teaching meme-stock players and crypto traders some hard lessons about why market fundamentals still apply
In early 2021, age-old investing principles of business valuation were declared passe by meme-stock buyers, SPAC enthusiasts, and crypto-traders. A new generation of market players declared that Warre...
Opinion: The 60%-40% portfolio will deliver anemic returns over the next decade — here’s how to adapt
We have entered a new paradigm of anemic return expectations for traditional asset-allocation models. The prospects of a lost decade ahead are uncomfortably high for portfolios that are 60% invested i...
What to expect from markets in the next six weeks, before the Federal Reserve revamps its easy-money stance
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell fired a warning shot across Wall Street last week, telling investors the time has come for financial markets to stand on their own feet, while he works to tame i...
BSTX gets nod from the SEC to operate a blockchain securities based exchange
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) maintained a firm position when dealing with cryptocurrencies. Different strict rules and regulations were implemented in the past. That said, this deve...
Here are the odds you’ll outlive your money
What year was the worst possible time in U.S. history to retire, from an investment point of view? To put this question another way: What year’s U.S. retirees had the greatest difficulty sustaining th...
Jim Cramer literally drowns Cathie Wood’s ARK as flagship fund falters
Jim Cramer has never been shy to use buzzers and bells to make the occasionally esoteric world of finance more interesting. But the host of CNBC’s Mad Money got even the Twitterverse to take notice at...
BSTX Receives SEC Approval for Blockchain-Powered Securities Exchange
BSTX, a joint venture between tZero and Boston Options Exchange (BOX) Digital Markets, has received the green light from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate a blockchain based...
Opinion: ‘Easter Bunny cartoon cash’ — how Bill Maher called the Bitcoin crash
Young people were already feeling depressed about their future retirement prospects, according to polls. Still more following the collapse of all their cryptocurrency bets, one suspects. More than $1 ...
Cash Pours Into Anti-ARK ETF as Cathie Wood Struggles
Text size Catherine Wood’s innovation-focused ETFs have been falling. PATRICK T. FALLON/ AFP / Getty Images As Cathie Wood’s innovation-focused exchange-traded funds have tumbled amid the latest...
Blackstone Profits Nearly Double as Total Assets Set Quarterly Record
Text size Signage outside the Blackstone headquarters in New York. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg Shares of Blackstone rose Thursday after total assets at the world’s biggest alternative asset manager rose t...
8 tech stocks poised to bounce after Nasdaq plunge, according to AI platform
Nvidia Corp. tops a list of technology stocks that would be expected to bounce back strongly over the next month based on the reaction to past plunges by the Nasdaq Composite, according to an artifici...
Opinion: Warren Buffett’s advice for a volatile market: patience pays
Certainly you’ve been watching the stock market over the past few days. It would be hard not to. Even the most hands-off investor has likely noticed the scare headlines popping up on the evening news,...
Older Investors Have a Lot of Money in Stocks. How to Check if It’s Too Much.
A suddenly sliding stock market is sending a wake-up call to older Americans that maybe they shouldn’t invest like they used to. Many are likely to ignore that call. Thanks to a long bull market that ...
ADB Launches Blockchain Project for Cross-Border Securities Transactions in APAC
To make cross-border securities transactions more secure and efficient in Asia and the Pacific region, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is going a notch higher by deploying a blockchain-powered projec...
These 7 semiconductor stocks may be close to a bottom. This chart pattern shows when and how much they might rebound.
Semiconductor stocks have been hit hard since the industry group rose to a record in early January. Analysts at Jefferies see a “peaking” pattern similar to those of 2014-2015 and 2017-2018, and expec...