Tag: Markets
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All modern economies use money. You have to put your money somewhere. Shouldn’t it be safe? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! The Federal Reserve thinks it should be, and I couldn’t agree more. Over the weekend, the Fed, Treasury and FDIC acted decisively to stop the banking crisis. From…
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I did a double-take when I saw the number. Fails to deliver in shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. passed 2.6 million in June. The report, released today by the Securities and Exchange Commission, covers the first half of the month. Fails to deliver hit 2,653,787 on June 3 before…
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“You’re the one who’s trying to regulate your way into a market victory” Judge Justin Walker Citadel Securities LLC is suing the SEC to stop curbs on high frequency trading: A federal judge challenged a lawyer for Citadel Securities LLC about its efforts to thwart a new kind of market…
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The Problem I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to lose patience with bonds. The yields are rock bottom. Inflation is high. And the interest rate outlook is pointing in one direction: up. This would mean substantial losses for bonds. So I’ve been looking into high dividend stocks as…
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Brokers are selling over $30 billion worth of positions in imploding hedge fund Archegos Capital Management, shaking markets. Wall Street does not know exactly how many positions the fund holds for two reasons: It is very lightly regulated because it’s organized as a “family office,” rather than a typical hedge…
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Ten billion dollar hedge fund Archegos Capital Management is imploding, causing banks to frantically sell its portfolio to stem further losses: One mystery in a dramatic year on Wall Street has been the identity of a trader whose persistent purchases have sent shares in ViacomCBS Inc., Discovery Inc. and a…
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The US government is selling its bitcoin…all $38,000 worth: Tucked away among the Ford, Dodge and Chevy sedans, the 12,000-gallon storage container and the inoperable Caterpillar tractor being auctioned off by the U.S. government is an unusual item: 0.7501 of a Bitcoin. The federal government did not reveal the source…
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For many years, investors in stocks have been able to see how volatile the market is expected to be by relying on a gauge called the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX. This measure, often called the “fear gauge,” reads how much volatility investors are expecting based on option prices. Nothing…
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In the waning days of the Trump administration, the government proposed regulations that would ban anonymity for holders of cryptocurrencies: Users whose wallets now are only identified with codes would have their true identities recorded with the financial institutions they zealously avoided. This proposed regulation has now been passed on…
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I came across an interesting stat today: the estimated value of all the gold in the world is $7.5 trillion. Gold and bitcoin are often compared as stores of value with a limited supply. What if bitcoin became as widely accepted and highly valued as gold? At the current market…
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