Forward guidance sounds like a great idea. Central bankers should lay out their longer-term goals to influence financial markets. Just as hockey great Wayne Gretzky would skate where the puck was head...
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The Stock Market Is Entering Its Weakest Months. What to Watch Out For.
Text size Russia restarted natural-gas flows to Western Europe through Nord Stream 1, but President Vladimir Putin can shut it down again. Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images Bad news on the economy was go...
TIPS, I Bonds Are Smart Ways to Buy Inflation Protection
Illustration by Liam Eisenberg Text size As a consumer, it is almost impossible to escape the ravages of inflation, which rose at a 9.1% clip in the 12 months ended June, based on the U.S. Consumer Pr...
Expect Two Recessions, and a Quick End to the Fed’s Hikes
Forward guidance sounds like a great idea. Central bankers should lay out their longer-term goals to influence financial markets. Just as hockey great Wayne Gretzky would skate where the puck was head...
Bitcoin treasuries data suggest entities withdrew BTC worth $2.1 billion from accounts
The amount of coins kept in bitcoin treasuries has decreased by almost 102,045 bitcoin (BTC), equal to $2.1 billion, since June 5, 2021. The value of one BTC in the previous year increased, hitting $6...
Bitcoin Treasuries Records Show $2.1 Billion in BTC Was Erased From Balance Sheets – Bitcoin News
During the 12 months, public companies, private companies, exchange-traded funds, and even countries have added bitcoin to their balance sheets. As of July 17, 2022, the aforementioned types of entiti...
Circle Claims USDC Stablecoin Is Now Fully Backed by Cash, US Treasuries
Circle, the payments company behind the USDC stablecoin, has released a full asset breakdown of the reserves backing its growing dollar-pegged token. The level of detail provided by Circle in its Thur...
MakerDAO Seeks To Invest $500 Million In Untapped Territories OF Bonds And Treasuries
As the bear market trend is getting more intense, many protocols and other crypto-related firms are making moves for survival. On its part, MakerDAO plans on a minimal risk investment strategy to rais...
The S&P 500 Had Its Worst First Half Since 1970. What the Second Half Holds.
The S&P 500 has posted its worst first half of a year since Richard Nixon’s presidency, and many investors worry it has yet to hit bottom. In the first six months of 2022, the widely followed larg...
MakerDAO Votes To Allocate $500M Into Minimal Risk Bonds And Treasuries
MakerDAO, the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) behind the DAI stablecoin, is voting on how to allocate $500 million in treasury funds. The proposal is aimed at helping the organization navi...
MakerDAO looks to invest $500M into ‘minimal risk’ treasuries and bonds
MakerDAO is currently voting on a proposal aimed at helping it weather the bear market and utilize untapped reserves by investing 500 million Dai (DAI) stablecoins into a combination of United States ...
Stock Market Today: The Dow Edged Higher, While Tech Stocks Rallied
Text size A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The stock market largely gained on Friday, closing out a volatile week of trading. Stability in the bon...
How to Invest Your Cash for the Best Yields, Without Too Much Risk
Inflation is stubbornly high and interest rates on savings accounts aren’t anywhere close to keeping pace. While the yield on a two-year Treasury is now 3.28%, up from just 0.17% a year ago, the avera...
Treasuries Dare Fed to Step Up Hikes or Risk Inflation Defeat
(Bloomberg) — Treasury traders are throwing down the gauntlet to a Federal Reserve that’s fallen further behind in its fight to cool the hottest inflation in four decades. Most Read from Bloombe...
Should You Buy Treasuries?
Should You Buy Treasuries? getty With interest rates going up, Americans are rushing into U.S. Treasuries at a record pace. Wondering if you should buy Treasury notes or bills in your portfolio? Here&...
Decentralized Autonomous Organization Statistics Show $10 Billion Is Held by DAO Treasuries – Technology Bitcoin News
During the early years of the cryptocurrency space, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and smart contracts were discussed in theory. Nowadays many people consider The DAO, launched in 2016 ...
Building a Realtime Vesting Platform for Teams and Treasuries on Solana
Token vesting is an innovative idea that ensures the decentralization of projects and prevents rug pulls. The problem, however, is the complicated nature of the tools used for token vesting, distribut...
Hedge Funds Bet Against 10-Year Treasuries as Yields Approach 3%
(Bloomberg) — Hedge funds are signaling it may be third time’s a charm as to whether US 10-year yields will climb above 3% to stay. Most Read from Bloomberg Leveraged funds become net short on t...
These Mortgage-Backed Securities Offer Hefty Yields, Mild Risk
Text size Bonds from Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac are more attractive than Treasuries or corporates. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Move over TINA, it’s time for TARA. The latter stands for “T...
Is This the Worst Bond Market Ever?
Getty Images getty Back in February, with the unfortunate punctuality of a Swiss watch, we published an article exactly one day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, signaling our idea to overweight...
Circle Says USDC Reserve Backed Entirely in Cash and Short-Dated US Treasuries – Bitcoin News
On May 13, Circle’s chief financial officer Jeremy Fox-Geen published a blog post called “How to Be Stable,” following the aftermath of Terra’s stablecoin implosion. Circle’s CFO explained that since ...
Tether Increases U.S. Treasuries Exposure Amid USDT Dump
Gamza Khanzadaev Increase in treasuries exposure comes along with concurrent cut of commercial papers According to Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino’s statement made during a Twitter Spaces chat on May 1...
DAO Treasuries Now Hold More Than $11B
Key Takeaways Data from Messari shows that DAOs held $11 billion by the end of 2021, with $7 billion held by the 15 largest DAOs. The grand total ($11 billion) represents a forty-fold increase in DAO ...
The Fed’s Interest Rate Hikes Could Be Even Worse Than Feared
Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Tom Williams/Pool/Getty Images Don’t fight the Fed has long been a Wall Street motto. But the nation’s central bank thus far has been a reluctant figh...
The 10-Year Treasury Yield Is Nearing 3%. That’s a Bad Omen for the Stock Market.
Interest rates may finally be getting real. To investors with a sense of history, the near-zero and even negative interest rates of recent years might have seemed unreal, and indeed were unprecedented...
A Key Bond Yield Nears 3%. It’s a Bad Omen for Stocks.
Interest rates may finally be getting real. To investors with a sense of history, the near-zero and even negative interest rates of recent years might have seemed unreal, and indeed were unprecedented...
Stock Outlook Brightens as Jobs Stay Strong, Commodities Prices Decline
Text size The jobless rate held steady at 3.6% in June. Above, looking for work at a job fair in Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images The economy looks resilient, and inflation is coming down. That combin...