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Here’s what a Russian invasion of Ukraine would mean for markets
Fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are on the rise, prompting analysts and traders to weigh the potential financial-market shock waves. “If Russia invades Ukraine, the trade is buy TY,” wrote Bren...
How a Flood of Money Swamped Cathie Wood’s ARK
Fund manager Cathie Wood became a superstar in 2020, after her ARK exchange-traded funds earned some of the highest returns in history. So far this year, ARK Innovation, the largest of Ms. Wood’s ETFs...
Five overlooked tech stocks poised to be the ‘household names of the future,’ according to this money manager
A much-needed market distraction from the churn of inflation worries is getting under way, but it’s not looking like what investors were hoping for as some big bank names are sliding on disappointing ...
I retired at 50, went back to work at 53, then had a major medical issue that left me unemployed – ‘There’s no such thing as a safe amount of money’ for retirement
I had always said I was going to retire when I was 50. I had worked and saved since I was 16. Retiring without Medicare and Social Security is a scary thing. I wound up retiring then going back to wor...
‘There’s no way the stock market goes up this year — it probably goes down pretty aggressively,’ says hedge-fund honcho Kyle Bass
Don’t expect stock-market gains in 2022 if the Federal Reserve sticks to its guns on rate hikes and tightening overall financial conditions, says Kyle Bass, founder and chief investment officer of Hay...
Opinion: Nasdaq near a 10% correction isn’t the sell signal you probably think it is
There’s nothing magical about a stock index hitting the 10% decline that constitutes what Wall Street considers to be a correction. So we need to stop treating this 10% mark as meaningful. It isn’t. T...
Citadel Securities Receives $1.15B Funding from Sequoia, Paradigm
Citadel Securities, a major market maker, has received $1.15 billion in funding from Sequoia and Paradigm that took its valuation to approximately $22 billion, the company announced. The minority inve...
Wall Street’s Favorite Oil Stocks for 2022—Including an Obscure One
Text size Bing Guan/Bloomberg Several analysts and strategists expect energy stocks to outperform the broader market in 2022, as they did in 2021. Energy tends to do well in inflationary environments,...
Citadel Securities takes in $1.15B investment from Sequoia and Paradigm
Citadel Securities, the market maker arm of Ken Griffin-led hedge fund Citadel, announced that VC firms Sequoia Capital and Paradigm made a $1.15 billion combined minority investment in the market mak...
Here are the ETFs to buy on persistently higher inflation in 2022 and beyond, says BlackRock’s head of iShares strategy
Given an outlook for high U.S. inflation that’s likely to persist beyond 2022, Gargi Chaudhuri of BlackRock Inc., the world’s biggest asset manager, says investors should continue to hedge their portf...
The yield curve is no longer sending a don’t-worry-be-happy signal, warns bond king Jeffrey Gundlach
The S&P 500 SPX, +0.28% snapped a five-session losing streak on Tuesday, after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell vowed the central bank would use its “tools” to get inflation under control wi...
Opinion: Four reasons why value stocks are poised to outperform growth in 2022 — and 14 stocks to consider
Investing is all about being in tune with the trends. Here’s one to be aware of for 2022: Value stocks will most likely beat their growth counterparts. The trend is already under way. Consider: * The ...
Fed has to be ‘far more aggressive…than the Street thinks,’ says academic who called Dow 20,000: ‘This is too much money chasing too few goods’
Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, on Wednesday sounded sanguine about the equity market, even as he conceded that inflation is likely ...
Opinion: Citadel’s $1.15 billion cash infusion isn’t a bailout but the final test of Ken Griffin’s ‘Death Star’
When you add more than a billion dollars’ worth of liquidity to a market maker that already executed more than one of every four trades in the U.S. markets on a daily basis, while simultaneously givin...
These 14 bank stocks are in the best position to benefit from rising interest rates
What would you say if you were told about a company whose stock was trading much lower to expected earnings per share than the S&P 500 Index? At the same time, it’s also expected to increase EPS n...
Nova Scotia Securities Commission Warns about CoinRise
The Nova Scotia Securities Commission yesterday published an investor alert for CoinRise, a cryptocurrency exchange. According to the authority, CoinRise (coinrise.ca) is not registered with the commi...
SEC Chair Gensler Discusses How Securities Laws Apply to Crypto Tokens — Won’t Say if Ethereum Is a Security – Regulation Bitcoin News
The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has explained how securities laws apply to cryptocurrency tokens as he outlined the commission’s priorities in regulati...
Citadel Securities raises $1.15 billion from Sequoia Capital and Paradigm
Stock trading giant Citadel Securities announced Tuesday that it has raised $1.15 billion in a funding round backed by Sequoia Capital and crypto VC firm Paradigm. This is Citadel Securities’ fi...
Crypto Tops Investor Threats for US Securities Regulators – Bitcoin News
U.S. state securities regulators have revealed that cryptocurrency investments are their top investor threat this year. “Before you jump into the crypto craze, be mindful that cryptocurrencies and rel...
Cathie Wood is expecting a ‘bloodbath’ in this segment of the market: ‘autos are one example of…many disturbances out there in the world order’
Cathie Wood, the star fund manager and chief executive of ARK Invest, in a Tuesday monthly market update said that the used car market is where she is expecting possible losses after a surge in values...
A look into tokenised securities
January 11, 2022, 3:11PM EST • 10 min read Quick Take Tokenised securities first launched in December 2020 but are still struggling to gain traction with users. Mirror Protocol historically dominates ...
Paradigm, Sequoia Capital Invest $1.15B in Citadel Securities
Key Takeaways The crypto investment fund Paradigm, alongside VC Sequoia Capital, has contributed to a $1.15 billion investment into Citadel Securities. Citadel Securities accounts for over 25% of the ...
Citadel Securities just raised $1.15 billion: detailed here
Citadel Securities received its first outside investment that valued it at nearly $22 billion, said the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Citadel Securities raised $1.15 billion Venture capital companie...
Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities Valued At $22 Billion After $1.2 Billion Investment From Sequoia, Crypto VC Paradigm
Topline Citadel Securities, the market-maker founded by billionaire hedge fund investor Ken Griffin, announced its first round of private funding ever on Tuesday, taking in nearly $1.2 billion in vent...
Gensler Says Crypto Tokens Raising Funds Should Register As Securities, Stays Mum on Ethereum
In an interview with CNBC, SEC Chair Gary Gensler said that he would not discuss Ethereum’s potential status as a security. He did, however, say that crypto assets that raise funds from the public, wi...
Opinion: A 27-year-old truck driver just became Robinhood’s first big headache of 2022
Less than a week into the new year, a 27-year-old truck driver from Connecticut might have given Robinhood HOOD, -1.76% a whole new thing to be worried about in 2022. On January 6, an arbitrator for t...
SEC Chair Gary Gensler Declares Crypto Tokens Raising Funds as Securities and says they should Register
Gary Gensler, chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has said that the crypto industry still needs to come under securities laws in 2022. He stated that the facts and circumstance...
Expect more than 4 rate increases in 2022, and a lot of market volatility, says JPMorgan’s Dimon: ‘If we’re lucky’ the Fed can engineer a “soft landing.”‘
JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, +0.10% CEO Jamie Dimon said the consumer remains in great shape in 2022 but also said volatility could be elevated in financial markets as the Federal Reserve aims to nav...
Gensler still adamant that most cryptos are probably securities, and will not rule out Ethereum
Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, has just been interviewed on CNBC Squawk Box and continues to maintain the line that most of crypto is a security, without providing t...
These S&P 500 stocks have cratered, but analysts think 12 can turn it around with rebounds of up to 70%
A period of high inflation and rising interest rates has taken out shares of companies with rich valuations. Then there’s the stubborn coronavirus, with variants raising infection rates and causing st...