The Wall Street bull statue is pictured in Manhattan, New York. Carlo Allegri | Reuters A closely watched survey of global fund managers registered its lowest cash allocation on record this month, underscoring a bullishness on stocks as the equity market nears the end of a strong year. The average cash allocation level of participants in Bank of America’s…
Investors will be able to trade Ripple’s new stablecoin beginning Tuesday, the company has said, after the New York State Department of Financial Services gave its approval earlier this month. The U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, called ripple USD, or RLUSD, will be issued on the ethereum blockchain and XRP ledger and first available on some global exchanges, with plans to…
Bitcoin rallied to a new all-time high on Monday as investors awaited an expected interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve later this week. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by nearly 3% at $106,126.74, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier it rose as high as $107,229.38, a new record. Ether rose 3% to break through the…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington on Nov. 7, 2024. Kent Nishimura | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell can finish his first term leading the U.S. central bank, said Scott Bessent, a hedge fund magnate and President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury Secretary, despite…
Increasing competitive pressures will begin weighing down shares of Advanced Micro Devices , according to Bank of America. Analyst Vivek Arya downgraded the semiconductor stock to neutral from buy and cut his price target to $155 from $180. The new forecast is still 11% above where shares closed on Friday. AMD YTD mountain AMD YTD chart Arya pointed to…
The price of bitcoin soared past the long-awaited $100,000 benchmark for the first time ever late Wednesday evening. By Thursday afternoon, the flagship cryptocurrency pulled back from the milestone. It was recently higher by 0.28% at $99,140.00, according to Coin Metrics, trading at the lows of Thursday’s trading following some profit taking by investors. On Wednesday night, it rose…
Art Cashin, UBS’ director of floor operations at the New York Stock Exchange and a man The Washington Post called “Wall Street’s version of Walter Cronkite,” has died. He was 83 and had been a regular on CNBC for more than 25 years. In the intensely competitive and often vicious world of stock market commentary, Cashin was that rarest…
Goldman Sachs is out with its much anticipated 2025 equity outlook to clients and it calls for stocks to gain 11% from here (12% total return with dividends) as a growing economy and improving profit margins fuel sizable earnings growth. “Our view is predicated on continued US economic expansion, earnings growth of 11% in 2025 and 7% in 2026,…
Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones is raising alarms about the U.S. government’s current fiscal deficit and the increased spending promised by both presidential candidates, saying the bond market may force the government’s hand after the election in addressing it. “We are going to be broke really quickly unless we get serious about dealing with our spending issues,”…
The S & P 500 will serve up a minuscule return over the next decade that falls far short of the booming gains from the last decade, forecasts Goldman Sachs’ equity strategy team, citing today’s high concentration in just a few stocks and a lofty starting valuation. The broad market index will produce an annualized nominal total return of…
