Westend61 The market, as we know, is seductive, luring its participants skillfully until they are as hooked as the sea bass that can’t resist the shimmering flies we cast at them on Buzzards Bay. Poor fish. Poor buyers of bitcoin at $61,000, Snowflake at $380, and Teladoc at $290. But just because we fall for
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A child passes by the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building on Constitution Avenue, NW, on Monday, April 26, 2021. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Members of the Federal Reserve now see two interest rate hikes in 2023, according to the central bank’s so-called dot-plot projections. Wednesday’s forecast showed 13
Damien Vanderwilt, co-president of Galaxy Digital, Mike Novogratz founder of Galaxy, and Chris Ferraro, co-president of Galaxy Source: Galaxy Digital Goldman Sachs‘s efforts to help hedge funds and other big institutional clients wager on bitcoin have taken a step forward. The bank has begun trading bitcoin futures with Galaxy Digital, the crypto investment firm founded
Starship prototype SN8 flies above Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX The leader of the Federal Aviation Administration’s space office defended Elon Musk’s SpaceX in front of Congress, despite the company launching a Starship prototype in December without authorization. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a hearing Wednesday on the FAA’s role in spaceflight, with the
In this article CLOV CLNE VIRT The frenzied activity involving so-called meme stocks is being driven by more than just retail investors, the CEO of market maker Virtu Financial told CNBC on Wednesday. “There’s a lot of institutions, professional traders, speculators, whatever you want to call them, engaged in this in both the cash equities
Financial services for cryptocurrency holders have been growing as a subset of the fintech industry for years. Now, crypto 401(k)s are entering the mix. A small 401(k) provider called ForUsAll is now allowing participants to allocate up to 5% of their retirement funds into cryptocurrency. The offering includes 50 different crypto assets including bitcoin, which
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told CNBC on Thursday that the meme stock frenzy — which traces its roots to the online forum website he helped create — is what happens when momentum investing is amplified by technology. “Really, the existence of people getting whipped up and excited about a stock has happened, you know, it’s
A pedestrian passes in front of 200 West Street, which houses the headquarters of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., in New York. Scott Eells | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs is making its U.S. employees report whether they’ve taken one of the Covid-19 vaccines, according to an internal memo sent this week. Employees must inform
Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said he expects to close his SPAC deal to buy 10% of Universal Music Group for around $4 billion later this month. Ackman’s blank-check company Pershing Square Tontine Holdings (PSTH) is likely to finish the transaction by June 22,
Jeff Bezos takes a look at the New Shepard rocket booster on the landing pad after a successful NS-15 flight and landing in April 2021. Blue Origin Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger flight of his space company Blue Origin, which the company plans to launch on July 20, the billionaire announced on
Starship prototype SN10 fires its three Raptor engines as it comes in for the landing. SpaceX The U.S. Air Force is expanding a small development program that wants to leverage reusable rockets, like those SpaceX is building, to deliver cargo quickly to anywhere in the world. Called Rocket Cargo, the experimental military program will be
The market conditions and technology in the mania over current meme stock AMC Entertainment are vastly different from day trading during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, online brokerage pioneer and former options trader Tom Sosnoff told CNBC on Friday. “There’s no comparison between the day traders of 1999-2000, and that first transition into
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. Chairman and CEO Thomas Peterffy. Mike Segar | Reuters Interactive Brokers founder and chairman Thomas Peterffy on Monday issued a warning to investors betting against so-called meme stocks like AMC Entertainment. “It is extremely tempting to short these stocks, but unless you have huge liquid resources, please try to resist the temptation
An AMC theatre is pictured in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, June 2, 2021. Carlo Allegri | Reuters AMC Entertainment, the meme stock that amazed Wall Street recently, rallied double digits on Monday as speculative trading activity in the struggling movie theater gained steam. Shares of AMC jumped
A sign hangs in front of an AMC theater on January 27, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Shares of AMC Entertainment more than quadrupled today as investors continue their buying spree on heavily shorted stocks. Scott Olson | Getty Images Insider-selling activity at AMC Entertainment ramped up like never before during the recent explosive rally driven
In this article .BBKA A customer shops for meat at a Costco store on May 24, 2021 in Novato, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Inflation may look like a problem that will go away, but is more likely to persist and lead to a crisis in the years ahead, according to a warning from