Don’t bet on a “wall of cash” to come streaming into the stock market. Equity analysts have touted the $4.7 trillion held in U.S. money-market funds as a proxy for the excess cash held by investors that might make its way into stocks. Some money managers say they have keptRead More →
Investors have plowed money into a new exchange-traded fund that tracks the sports betting and online gambling industries, even as professional competition remains closed. It’s a sign, industry-watchers say, of confidence in the longer-term outlook for the sector, as well as a reminder that many people are substituting play inRead More →
Bitcoin automated teller machines (BATMs) will become the next target for regulators, as world governments tighten screws on money laundering. According to Ciphertrace CTO John Jeffries, crypto-cash machines will attract “greater…regulatory focus” in a bid to rein-in alleged cross-border illicit financial transfers. Jeffries urged “the need for more uniform regulatoryRead More →
If you’re an investor who doesn’t want to miss out on the next big trend, you had better pay attention to what’s going on in space. When people think about the space business, they may be excited that on Saturday the U.S. finally regained the ability to send people intoRead More →
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: These money and investing stories, popular with MarketWatch readers this past week, offer ideas about how to manage your financial portfolio and invest strategically at a time when investors have become more optimistic — even as uncertainty about the coronavirus pandemic, corporateRead More →
Note: The original swap suggestions were released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on January 21, 2020. One of the strategies that we employ at CEF/ETF Income Laboratory is something that we have termed “compounding income on steroids,” which is a method that involves exploiting valuation inefficiencies in closed-end funds. OurRead More →
Getty Images The rapid growth of the leveraged loan market has divided opinion. The rapid growth in the leveraged loan market has attracted scrutiny from regulators on both sides of the Atlantic, sparking concern about the risks to the broader financial system in the event of an economic downturn followingRead More →
When Aurora Cannabis Inc. announced last week that co-founder and Chief Executive Terry Booth would retire, it also revealed another loss to come: A quarterly deficit of roughly a billion dollars. Aurora ACB, -1.28% ACB, -1.44% is scheduled to report fiscal second-quarter results Thursday morning, and it is expected toRead More →
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Tesla cars are electric, but the stock lately has been all rocket fuel. Read some of the Tesla stories that captured MarketWatch readers’ attention this past week. Plus, check out a warning about excessive stock-market optimism, and read why a buy-the-dip opportunityRead More →
I’ve previously discussed ESG investing and how investing in what you view as subjective morality is actually nothing more than old school stock picking. I get it – we want to do what’s right and make money. That’s all well and good, but as it pertains to secondary markets andRead More →
Reuters A China-made Tesla Model 3 vehicle is seen at a delivery ceremony in the Shanghai Gigafactory of the U.S. electric car maker in Shanghai, China December 30, 2019. A little over a year ago, when Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk publicly flirted with the idea of taking his companyRead More →
iStockphoto Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Fears about the social and economic impact of the spreading coronavirus, along with general concern that stock markets have run too far, too fast, having shaken many investors’ confidence lately. So it’s not surprising that stories resonating with MarketWatch readers thisRead More →
iStockphoto “Actively-managed non-transparent ETFs” are a mouthful to describe, have taken over a decade to develop and now, thanks to regulatory approvals secured this week, they will soon be widely available to investors. Exchange-traded funds, which have been around for nearly three decades, have a few selling points. They allowRead More →
iStockphoto The Tanger Outlets in Lancaster County. Shares of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers are rocketing higher even as doubts about the future of bricks-and-mortar retailers continue to plague the company, one of the pioneers of outlet-store shopping. But the big share move upward isn’t because investors have had a changeRead More →
© Reuters. Hong Kong Exchange Fund’s 2019 investment income rises to second-highest on record By Twinnie Siu HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s Exchange Fund, which is used to back the Hong Kong dollar, posted investment income of HK$247.2 billion ($31.8 billion) in 2019, the second highest on record, theRead More →
‘Get out of trash. There’s still a lot of money in cash.’ Ray Dalio If there are investors who believe cash is king amid this market bull run, they ought to think again, suggests Ray Dalio. The billionaire founder of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates said during a CNBC interviewRead More →
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Money and investing stories hitting home with MarketWatch readers this past week include an insiders’ look at how value stocks are ready for their close-up after years of being out of the public eye, as well as the latest investing moves fromRead More →
‘I love riding a horse that’s running.’ David Tepper tells CNBC Perhaps, cribbing from the lyrics to the viral song “Old Town Road”, David Tepper is going to take his horse and ride till he can’t no more. That is essentially the sentiment conveyed by the founder of hedge fundRead More →
KKR on Wednesday released its outlook for 2020, and the private-equity giant has some good and some bad news about the U.S. stock market. KKR expects earnings per share of S&P 500 index SPX, +0.37% companies to grow 5%, to $173 per share. While its model expects earnings growth ofRead More →
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Some of the stories hitting home with MarketWatch readers this past week include a report on a potentially big threat to your investment portfolio’s health: the heavy weighting that American households are giving to stocks nowadays. It’s a well-known market rule thatRead More →
Elizabeth Giorgi was used to pitching her company to all-male teams of venture capitalists. Her Denver, Colo.-based company, Soona, specializes in shooting photographs and video, and delivering the results the same day. She recently landed funding from a male VC. Giorgi said she shared her dreams and vision for makingRead More →
Cloud-computing and cybersecurity stocks outperformed broader indexes Monday as shares of Salesforce.com Inc. closed at an all-time high and on heightened concerns of an Iranian cyberattack against the U.S. Salesforce CRM, +4.38% shares closed 4.4% higher Monday at a record $173.45, after touching an intraday record of $173.67, afterRead More →
Though 2019 was a brutal year for weed stocks in Canada and the U.S., that meant it was a stellar year for short sellers, who harvested nearly $1 billion from shorting the top 20 cannabis companies according to a new analysis. As the sector entered the year with big promisesRead More →
The January 1st, 2020, reinsurance renewal saw markets diverge, leading to wide variances in pricing and capacity across geographies and lines, while judicious reinsurers applied greater importance on relationships. As a result, the January renewal season concluded later than in recent years, according to Willis Re, the reinsurance broking armRead More →
In 2011, pioneering venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wrote an op-ed called “Why software is eating the world,” introducing his thesis that what we now know as Internet 2.0, an industry of platforms like Facebook and Twitter, would replace the old world of desktop computer hardware. Nearly a decade later, ifRead More →
