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Crypto, Roaring Kitty and Fartcoin: Market speculation picks up to start 2025
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 31, 2024. NYSE Crypto trades jumping. Roaring Kitty boosting meme stocks. Broader market ripping on no apparent catalysts. Animal spirits are on the run at the dawn of 2025 trading. Many speculative pockets of the stock market surged in early trading Thursday, the first session […]
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Cryptocurrencies jump to start 2025, bitcoin rises back above $96,000
Representations of cryptocurrency Bitcoin are seen in this illustration taken November 25, 2024. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Cryptocurrencies rose to start the year, rebounding from recent losses as investor optimism returned to the market. The price of bitcoin rose 2% to $96,711.71 Thursday, bringing its new year gain to about 3% when counting trading from […]
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Bitcoin was the best investment of 2024, but not without its usual volatility
Bitcoin was far and away the best performing asset class in 2024 as new ETFs ushered in more widespread adoption and hopes for deregulation under a new presidential administration lifted digital assets to record levels. But owning cryptocurrency also came with its usual unpredictability and dizzying swings, as this month’s trading clearly illustrates. Bitcoin has […]
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Rate cuts are in the cards in 2025. Here’s what it means for dividend payers
Investors may not be getting as many rate cuts as they had hoped in 2025, but there are still plenty of solid tailwinds for dividend-paying stocks. The Federal Reserve last week penciled in two interest rate cuts in the new year, fewer than the four reductions policymakers predicted back in September. A falling interest rate […]
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Crypto’s political tailwinds in 2025 could push bitcoin to $200,000. What to watch
Crypto investors are ready for the new year, and for bullish post-election market themes – notably a pro-crypto government and the promise of easier regulation – to drive capital into the industry. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies rocketed after the November election – boosted by President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to embrace the industry in his new […]
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10-year Treasury yield back above 4.6% after mixed jobless claims data
Treasury yields were slightly higher early Friday after a mixed set of data on weekly jobless claims. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury was 3 basis points higher at 4.607%, slightly down from its peak earlier in the week but back above the 4.6% level it had not breached since May. The 2-year Treasury was fractionally higher […]
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10-year Treasury yield rises above 4.6% as investors digest jobless claims data
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 17, 2024. NYSE Treasury yields rose Thursday morning as investors digested new data on weekly jobless claims. The yield on the 10-year Treasury jumped 5 basis points 4.633%. The 2-year Treasury traded 2 basis points higher at 4.359%. One basis point is equal to 0.01%. Yields move inversely to […]
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Nvidia sees ‘remarkable’ influx of retail investor dollars as traders flock to AI darling
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, arrives for the Inaugural AI Insight Forum in the Russell Building on Capitol Hill on Sept. 13, 2023. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images As Michael MacGillivray saw artificial intelligence becoming more ubiquitous in everyday life, the 25-year-old wanted his investments to reflect that. It didn’t take […]
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The ‘weight-loss trade’ has stalled. What it will take to revive investor interest
Anyone who’s been on a diet can likely relate: Those first lost pounds are met with a sense of euphoria. The voice inside one’s head screams: “I’ve got this!” But then, it inevitably becomes a slog. The initial novelty wears off, and the real work begins. Investors may see a parallel to the initial elation […]
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Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin wants a meeting as soon as possible about the war with Ukraine
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump delivers remarks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 16, 2024. Brian Snyder | Reuters President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his interest in a meeting regarding the war with Ukraine. “President Putin said that he wants to meet with me as soon as possible,” […]
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