Stocks tumbled on Friday as the postelection rally fizzled and investors fretted over the path of interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 305.87 points, or 0.70%, to end at 43,444.99. The S&P 500 slipped 1.32% and closed at 5,870.62, while the Nasdaq Composite fell 2.24% to 18,680.12. Declines in pharmaceutical stocks weighed on the 30-stock Dow and the S&P […]
Goldman Sachs, a major global investment bank once critical of Bitcoin, has disclosed significant holdings in Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). In a Nov. 14 filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Goldman Sachs reported about $718 million in holdings in eight Bitcoin BTC$91,361 ETFs. The report disclosed a $461-million investment in BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, the iShares […]
Hedge funds including Millennium Management, Capula Management and Tudor Investment increased their exposure to U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the third quarter, securities filings showed, as a popular election-driven arbitrage trade ramped up. President-elect Donald Trump embraced digital assets during his campaign, promising friendly regulation and to accumulate a national stockpile of bitcoin. The cryptocurrency surpassed […]
Some of the largest banks in the UK may have to pay billions of pounds to consumers over contentious lending practices at car dealers. In response to an October judgement by the UK’s Court of Appeal, many British banks are considering halting auto lending entirely. The court ruled it was unlawful for car dealerships to receive […]
Global oil markets face a surplus of more than 1 million barrels a day next year as Chinese demand continues to falter, cushioning prices against turmoil in the Middle East and beyond, the International Energy Agency said. Oil consumption in China — the powerhouse of world markets for the past two decades — has contracted […]
Investors have been busy for at least the past several weeks bidding up prices in anticipation of what President-elect Donald Trump will do when he takes office. Expectations are running high that potential tariffs won’t lead to adverse outcomes, the 2017 tax cuts will be renewed and be accompanied by others, and deregulation will spur […]
Nearly three years have passed since NFL wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. revealed he would receive his salary from the Los Angeles Rams in Bitcoin. His decision to veer away from getting paychecks in traditional currency raised some questions at the time. Beckham’s 2021 base salary of $1.25 million, along with another $3 million available […]
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price soared to a record of $93,445 late Wednesday but has since retreated to hover around that all-important resistance level of $90,000. This level is identified by a trendline connecting the twin peaks from 2021, making it a key point to watch. Interestingly, a similar trend has played out in the Nasdaq-to-S&P 500 (NDX/SPX) ratio, which […]
Veterans Day is Monday, a federal holiday that has roots to events more than a century ago. The holiday dates back to Nov. 11, 1918, which was the official end of World War I, when an armistice between the Allied nations and Germany started on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh […]
Investors continued to plow money into U.S. stocks, setting new records following President-elect Donald Trump’s historic White House win. The Dow Jones Industrial Average scored its 43rd record of the year, closing above 44,000 for the first time ever. The S&P 500 closed above 6,000 also for the first time in its 51st record close of the year, […]
The U.S. dollar traded close to a four-month peak versus major peers on Tuesday, while bitcoin extended its record rally as investors continued to pile into trades seen as benefiting from the incoming Donald Trump administration. The euro languished near an almost seven-month trough reached overnight, while the yuan wallowed close to a more than […]
The rapidly growing iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) has now blown past one of the biggest funds in an old-school category of investing: gold. According to FactSet, the bitcoin exchange-traded fund had roughly $34.3 billion in AUM as of Friday. That puts it above the iShares Gold Trust (IAU), which had just under $33 billion. The […]
