Robinhood Markets , which revolutionized the online brokerage industry, could be in play now that interest from cryptocurrency exchange FTX was made public. This is could spur other potential bidders for Robinhood in what could be one of the year’s most anticipated transactions. Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX, said Monday that he was … Read more
Look out above, the dip buyers are back in town. Stocks are soaring – for now – as Wall Street returns from a long holiday weekend, with Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifying in front of Congress this week. The buying mood comes after the S&P 500’s worst week since March 2020, including its fall … Read more
The SPAC boom brought a wave of companies to the public markets promising years of rapid growth and profits to investors. Two years since the boom began, many of these companies are already warning they may go bust. At least 25 companies that merged with special-purpose acquisition companies between 2020 and 2021 have issued so-called … Read more
Nvidia Corp. investors may have received the all-clear signal they have been waiting for to start buying the stock again, but some on Wall Street were wondering if the signal was a clear one Thursday. Nvidia NVDA, +5.16% shares have been ripped in half from their all-time high of $ 333.76 in roughly the past … Read more
Stock index futures are bouncing around on the 100th day of trading this year, with the Dow and S&P 500 headed for the worst annual start since 1970 and the Nasdaq its worst ever. This choppy market can’t help itself, because “there are too many unknowns,” Stephanie Link, chief investment strategist and portfolio manager at … Read more
After more than a decade of standing in the way of US regulatory inspections of Chinese companies’ auditors, authorities in China have been unusually vocal in recent months about their desire to resolve what has become a major drag on overseas-listed Chinese stocks like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Baidu Inc. The change in tone … Read more
VMware Inc. shares rallied Monday as Wall Street chimed in on reports that Broadcom Inc. is looking for a threepeat when it comes to software acquisitions. VMware VMW, +24.78% shares surged to finish up nearly 25% at $ 119.43 for a market cap of $ 50.29 billion. Late Sunday, several news outlets reported that Broadcom … Read more
Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch, and I’ll walk you through the latest and greatest in digital assets this week so far. Find me on Twitter at @FrancesYue_ to send feedback, or tell us what you think we … Read more
US stocks closed sharply higher Tuesday, after retail sales data for April suggested the economy remained healthy and as investors weighed remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. On Monday, the Dow finished less than 0.1% higher, the S&P 500 closed 0.4% lower and the Nasdaq fell 1.2%. The declines followed another losing week for … Read more
This is the time of the quarter when investors get to see what changes Warren Buffett and the management team at Berkshire Hathaway have made to the conglomerate’s stock portfolio. The big splash in Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s BRK 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the end of the first quarter is that … Read more