Crypto is volatile, but KPMG Canada just added bitcoin and ether to its balance sheet. Here’s why

KPMG in Canada has added an unknown amount of bitcoin and ether to its corporate balance sheet.  The firm declined to disclose the amount of cryptocurrencies it purchased, but Kunal Bhasin, blockchain...

Taiwan Semi Stock Is Rising. An Analyst Sees More Demand From Intel and Apple.

Text size Morgan Stanley analyst Charlie Chan upgraded Taiwan Semiconductor to Overweight from Equal Weight. I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing shares are trading higher Monday, ...

Nvidia calls off $40 billion acquisition of Arm: report

Nvidia Corp. is giving up on its attempt to acquire chip designer Arm Ltd. from Softbank Group Corp., according to a report Monday. Nvidia NVDA, +1.68% agreed to acquire Arm for $40 billion in cash an...

Tesla cut a steering component to deal with chip shortage

Employees work at the Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 20, 2020. U.S. electric car company Tesla in 2019 built its first Gigafactory outside the United States in the new Lingang area, w...

Opinion: Trump-related SPACs surge, then fall, as retail investors have their own Joe Rogan experience

Joe Rogan’s podcast future is up in the air, and — for a few hours on Monday — so were the stock prices of some MAGA SPACs. Shares in CF Acquisition Corp VI CFVI, +18.17% soared as high as 39.7% in la...

Nvidia becomes 7th-largest U.S. company as it passes Facebook owner Meta for the first time

Nvidia Corp. became the seventh-largest U.S. company Monday as it overtook Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. for the first time. A reshuffling among the ranks of the most valuable U.S. companies ref...

Trump SPAC stock Digital World Acquisition Corp. plunges on delay news

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images The stock price of the blank-check company that has partnered with ex-President Donald Trump’s social media firm plunged Monday in...

Watch rocket builder Astra launch first Florida mission for NASA

[The company’s webcast began at 12:00 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see the video player above.] Small rocket builder Astra is attempting to launch its first mission from Florid...

ANZ Secures Tim Hogarth as Its New Chief Technology Officer

ANZ announced that it has secured Tim Hogarth as its new Chief Technology Officer, effective from February 2022. In an official press release shared with Finance Magnates, Tim Hogarth, a senior execut...

Sequoia leads $450 million investment in Polygon blockchain

The logo of cryptocurrency network Polygon. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto via Getty Images Sequoia Capital is playing catchup with arch-rival Andreessen Horowitz in the race to invest in what could be the...

Sequoia leads $400 million investment in crypto project Polygon

The logo of cryptocurrency network Polygon. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto via Getty Images Sequoia Capital is playing catchup with arch-rival Andreessen Horowitz in the race to invest in what could be the...

Alibaba Stock Is Falling. SoftBank May Be Getting Ready to Sell Its Stake.

Text size Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group owns almost 25% of Alibaba. Maybe not for long. Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images Technology investor SoftBank may be getting ready to sell some or all ...

5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday, February 7

Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Wall Street edged up after S&P 500, Nasdaq score best weeks of 2022 Traders work on the flo...

SoftBank-backed fintech DriveWealth is adding crypto to take on Coinbase’s ‘unsustainable’ fees

Bob Cortright of DriveWealth Source: DriveWealth DriveWealth, the SoftBank-backed start-up that helps fintech firms like Revolut offer stocks, is getting into cryptocurrency trading, CNBC has learned....

A Big Tech Trade Is Losing Its Luster

The stock market’s popular FAANG trade is starting to show cracks. Investors say they are reconsidering their approach to trading big technology stocks after a week marked by giant swings in share pri...

Apple, Not Amazon, Should Buy Peloton. One Analyst Explains Why.

Text size (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) It’s been reported that Amazon.com and Nike are weighing bids for Peloton Interactive . One analyst said he’s be surprised if Apple also wasn’t in t...

Maame Biney, First Black Woman To Make U.S. Olympic Short Track Speedskating Team, Is Pioneering A New Technology

MONTREAL, QC – JANUARY 26: Maame Biney of the USA reacts after setting a new world junior record in … [+] the 500 meter quarterfinal heat during the ISU World Junior Short Track Championsh...

Buy Cognizant Technology Solutions And Sell Short Macerich

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP The market direction in the next week is unclear. In terms of wave formation, a fifth wave to the downside appears due. However, the s...

Why Alphabet, Nvidia, and Others Belong in the Dow Jones Industrials

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, launched in 1896, has trailed the S&P 500 index of late. That could change if Alphabet , which said on Tuesday that it would split its stock 20-1 (cutting shares ...

Amazon Makes a Big Bet on Rivian, But That’s Not Its Only EV Play

Amazon (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report moves an awful lot of stuff in a whole lot of different ways. The company has a fleet of planes that bring goods to its fleet of trucks so they can be...

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Discusses Proposal to Alleviate Network’s Congestion, High Fees – Technology Bitcoin News

Ethereum’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, and developer Tim Beiko have been discussing a proposed solution to the data transfer gas problem and current scaling issues. Buterin talked about adding a feat...

Giant Pension Sold Apple, Intel, and Qualcomm Stock. It Bought Nvidia.

Text size *** ONE-TIME USE *** The Apple logo Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images One of the world’s largest public pensions by assets made major changes in its investments in large-cap tech stocks a...

Private equity sports investments neared $2 billion in 2021, NBA hot

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These two S&P 500 stocks had their worst weeks ever

PayPal Holdings Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. are both going through business transitions, prompting many investors to run for the hills. Shares of PayPal PYPL, +1.43% and Facebook-parent Meta FB, -0.2...

Nearly two years into the pandemic, Uber and Lyft still looking for a consistent lane

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the ride-hailing industry is still seeking stability. Uber Technologies Inc. UBER, +7.27% and Lyft Inc. LYFT, +3.63% are scheduled to release fourth-quarte...

Snap Stock Had Its Best Day Ever. It Doesn’t Have All of Facebook’s Problems.

Text size Snap said daily active users grew 20% year over year during the fourth quarter to 319 million. Dreamstime Snap stock rocketed higher Friday after the Snapchat parent reported a surprise prof...

Snap earnings spark stock rally that’s so big, it’s making people nervous

A stock moving more than 50% higher in a single session is normally cause for celebration on Wall Street, but Snap Inc.’s big rally Friday was met with skittishness. Shares of the Snapchat parent comp...

Tax season: does the IRS know if you trade crypto? Is your NFT sale or mining income taxable?

Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch. It is tax season in the U.S., and I’ll ...

Rising Battery Prices Add Uncertainty to Electric-Vehicle Costs

Surging prices for the metals that make up electric-vehicle batteries have ended a decadelong decline that brought the cost of EVs to within spitting distance of gasoline-powered vehicles. Newsletter ...

Knightscope Stock—Like Its Security Robots—Has Its Ups and Downs

Text size Knightscope’s robots—and shares—have had their ups and downs. Dreamstime Knightscope is a tiny firm that’s familiar to many investors, if only from news reports about its “autonomous securit...

Cryptos Could Be a ‘Speculative Mania,’ Economist Eswar Prasad Says

Discussions with central bankers at a conference a couple of years ago prompted economist Eswar Prasad to start writing what he anticipated would be a slim volume on how digital currencies could affec...

Washington Commanders should have picked the Red Hogs name

The Hogettes, Washington Redskins fans, stand in a line as they watch Hall of Fame offensive lineman Russ Grim, shown on the monitor, accept his ring during halftime of the Redskins/Colts game at FedE...