Opinion: 7 Reasons to Stop Worrying and Instead Stick With Stocks
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It’s hard to sugarcoat the stock market’s performance in March. It was undeniably a bad month for investors — and already we’ve seen signs that April may bring continued fireworks. However, after a roughly 6% ...
Bogle on Stock Turbulence: ‘Never Seen a Market This Volatile to This Extent in My Career’
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Jack Bogle hasn’t seen moves like these in his career. Vanguard founder Jack Bogle has been around the block. The 88-year-old investing titan, who is basically the father of passive investing, says this renewed regime ...
Why Stock-Market Investors Should Welcome the Arrival of April
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The blue-chip average gains 1.9% over April, historically, the best of any month The U.S. stock market is coming off a rough March—the worst month for the Nasdaq in more than two years—but at least ...
Dow Regains Footing at 24,000 as Stocks Aim to Shake off Tech Woes to End Week, Month, Quarter
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U.S. stocks opened firmly higher on Thursday, with equity benchmarks attempting to snap a two-session skid fueled by worries about technology shares. Despite a rough patch for the tech sector, the main three benchmarks were ...
EU Markets Watchdog Clamps down on CFDs, ‘Binary’ Options
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European Union financial markets watchdog the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced plans on Tuesday to ban ‘binary’ options sales to retail investors and restrict the sales of Contract for Differences. (CFD) It said ...
Google Is Working on Its Own Blockchain-Related Technology
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Alphabet division developing a distributed digital ledger Company insiders say cloud is natural home for the technology Google is working on blockchain-related technology to support its cloud business and head off competition from emerging startups ...
The Fed is Hogging the Attention, but don’t Forget this Critical Number for the Economy
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Business investment has sped up, but companies need to accelerate investment even faster to help the U.S. economy keep the good times going. If the Federal Reserve’s big get-together is a must-see event for Wall ...
Two Months into MiFID II: How Post-Trade Reporting is Benefiting ETF Investors
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Why trade reporting matters Investors use ETF trading volumes in different ways: for asset allocators it is a useful, real-time window into where money is flowing through the trading day. For others, visible flows provide ...
Cryptocurrencies Should Be Regulated Like Commmodities, Judge Rules
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Nearly two-and-a-half years after the CFTC officially declared that bitcoin and cryptocurrencies more broadly would be regulated like securities, a federal judge has ruled that the agency does, in fact, have the authority to regulate ...
Bitcoin Just Tanked Below $10,000 after SEC Says Crypto Exchanges Must Register with Agency
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The SEC said in a statement Wednesday that online platforms trading digital assets that are considered securities need to register with the agency. Bitcoin quickly fell 10 percent to below $10,000 amid the concerns about ...