Gary Gensler had strong words for the crypto industry in a Thursday speech, telling an audience of lawyers that the “vast majority” of the nearly 10,000 existing crypto tokens are securities, being is...
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Bitcoin Prices Are Falling. Why Analysts Say a ‘Massive Capitulation’ Is Coming.
Text size Bitcoin continues to trade at less than one-third its all-time high from November 2021. Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were under pressure on Monday. While...
Forget Bitcoin. Interest in Ether Is Booming Ahead of ‘The Merge.’
Investors have flocked into Ether trades as a critical upgrade to one of crypto’s most crucial networks looms large this month, setting the stage for volatility in the days and weeks to come. Set to b...
Bitcoin Has Stumbled. That’s Not a Good Sign for Stocks.
Text size Bitcoin’s drop isn’t much of a surprise. Interest rates have risen in the past few weeks as markets worry that the Federal Reserve would keep lifting rates to combat high inflation. Risk ass...
Why Did Bitcoin Fall? Is It Because Stocks Slumped Too?
Text size How strong is the link between stocks and Bitcoin? AFP via Getty Images Bitcoin sank Friday and stocks did too. The world’s largest crypto posted losses for the week, as did equities. Could ...
Tech Stocks Are Due for Another Fall
Text size Technology fundamentals are getting worse, not better. One example is weakening demand for consumer electronics. Illustration by Barron’s (Dreamtime 4) For years, tech investors seemed...
Public Pension Systems Join Those Stung by Crypto Crash
Listen to article (2 minutes) Among the investors who bet on cryptocurrency over the past year are pension funds that manage public workers’ retirement savings. Now those funds are navigating the cras...
9 Chip Stocks That Look Like Buys
Text size Nvidia now expects July quarter revenue to be $6.7 billion, up only 3% from the year-ago period. The company had previously forecast $8.1 billion in revenue. Dreamstime These are troubling t...
What Caused Nvidia’s Shortfall? Gamers or Crypto Mining?
Text size Nvidia has been hurt by fading pandemic-era demand for gaming graphics cards. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nvidia warned on Monday that shortfalls in its gaming segment revenue would hamper ...
Disney, Coinbase, BioNTech, Rivian, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size Second-quarter earnings season continues this week, while a pair of July inflation figures and consumer sentiment surveys will be the highlights on the economic-data calendar. On Monday, Tys...
Disney, Coinbase, BioNTech, Rivian, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Second-quarter earnings season continues this week, while a pair of July inflation figures and consumer sentiment surveys will be the highlights on the economic-data calendar. On Monday, Tys...
Block’s Earnings Beat Estimates but the Stock Drops. Here’s Why.
Text size Jack Dorsey co-founded Block and remains its chair but is no longer CEO. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Block said Thursday that Bitcoin revenue at its Cash App unit dropped 34% in the second quart...
For Crypto Customers, a Long Battle Ahead in Bankruptcy
Millions of customers of crypto platforms Voyager Digital Holdings Inc. and Celsius Network LLC have been thrust into a potentially long and painful battle in bankruptcy trying to retrieve their money...
Crypto Prices Crashed, but True Believers Are Holding On
Crypto prices plunged this year, but Drew Larsen says that is no concern. Over the past two years, Mr. Larsen, 54, has poured about 10% of his savings into cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, Ethereum and ...
Is the crypto bear market over? Here’s what to watch.
Bitcoin and ether are on track to record their best month since last October, prompting some investors to ask if the crypto bear market is over. The No.1 cryptocurrency BTCUSD, -0.90% on Friday reache...
Opinion: Fidelity’s bitcoin move getting all the wrong publicity
What would Ned Johnson do? The late, great Fidelity Investments honcho built his family’s Boston-based money management firm into one of the biggest in the world over the course of a long career. John...
Celsius customers write pleas to bankruptcy court to get crypto back: ‘This is an emergency situation, simply to keep a roof over my family and food on their table.’
Some customers of crypto lender Celsius Network, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, have written to the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, with a hope of getting their...
Celsius Owes Users More Than $4.7 Billion
Celsius Network LLC has a roughly $1.2 billion hole in its balance sheet, with the majority of its liabilities owed to the cryptocurrency lender’s users, according to a Thursday filing by Chief Execut...
Bitcoin Price Could Fall to $13,000 as Crypto Miners Cut Costs
Text size Miners appear to be using less electricity to produce cryptocurrencies. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images Bitcoin miners have come under pressure from a one-two punch of rising energy costs an...
‘I just wake up and cry’: Voyager and Celsius bankruptcies have destroyed some crypto investors’ confidence in centralized platforms
Yotsy Ruiz recently bought his first ever crypto hardware wallet — a Nano X from Ledger. He is transferring all his crypto holdings that he can still move to the small physical device which looks like...
Nvidia is hit by another ‘crypto hangover,’ and that isn’t the only problem
While in high demand and short supply for the first two years of the pandemic, Nvidia Corp.’s gaming cards have been hit by declines in three separate pandemic booms in 2022: Personal-computer sales, ...