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Coinbase is ‘executing brilliantly’: Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood

Coinbase is ‘executing brilliantly’: Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood

Coinbase (COIN) released its fourth quarter report beating expectations with a revenue of $953.8 million. Bitcoin (BTC-USD) regained its $1 trillion market cap on Wednesday for the first time since 2021. With the rise of bitcoin investing with spot bitcoin ETF approval, many on Wall Street are expressing more interest in the digital asset. Ark Invest CEO and CIO Cathie Wood, a vocal advocate of bitcoin, joins Yahoo Finance to give her insight into the crypto markets, Coinbase’s performance,… Source link

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Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest buys Tesla stock amid plunge, Musk sells

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest buys Tesla stock amid plunge, Musk sells

Elon Musk fan Cathie Wood seized a sizable chunk of Tesla stock (TSLA) late Wednesday after the stock extended a recent skid to its lowest level in more than two years. ARK Invest, Wood’s investment management firm, snapped up 74,862 shares of the electric-vehicle maker across three of her exchange-traded funds, according to a daily transaction report sent via email. The purchase was valued around $11.7 million, based on Wednesday’s closing price of $156.80. The snap-up by ARK also comes… Source link

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Short sellers betting against Cathie Wood’s ARK ETFs are up $2.4 billion this year

Short sellers betting against Cathie Wood’s ARK ETFs are up .4 billion this year

Traders betting against Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest have had a lucrative run this year. Shorting the firm’s family of eight exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has turned investors a mark-to-market profit of $2.4 billion so far in 2022 – more than twice the $941 million profit they made in all of last year, per figures from data analytics firm S3 partners. Of that gain, $492 million has been generated since mid-August, as technology stocks resumed a downslide amid renewed rate hike fears and… Source link

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Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood gives up portfolio manager role at two of firm’s ETFs

Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood gives up portfolio manager role at two of firm’s ETFs

ARK Invest founder and CEO Cathie Wood relinquished her role as portfolio manager at two of the investment management firm’s exchange-traded funds, according to a regulatory filing. William Scherer, who has served as a trading manager at ARK since 2014, has been appointed to handle investments in place of Wood for the company’s two index funds, ARK 3D Printing ETF (PRNT) and ARK Israel Innovative Technology ETF (IZRL) beginning September. The 3D printing-focused fund has a net value of… Source link

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Why Ark Innovation ETF stocks are getting pummeled in 2022

Why Ark Innovation ETF stocks are getting pummeled in 2022

Investors in the Ark Innovation ETF (ARKK) have been fed through the wringer this year, as Cathie Wood’s flagship disruption fund is already down 22% — whipsawing investors in both directions. Of the 44 components of the fund, including Tesla (TSLA), Shopify (SHOP), Zoom Video (ZM), none are currently up on the year — leaving investors to lick their wounds. Since the ARKK topped out just shy of $160 nearly one year ago, rallies have become increasingly short-lived — such as last week’s… Source link

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Cathie Wood’s flagship Ark ETF off to a rough start to 2022 — down 45% from its peak

Short sellers betting against Cathie Wood’s ARK ETFs are up .4 billion this year

With every new year comes a clean slate. For Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest, that doesn’t seem to be the case. The firm’s beaten-down Ark Innovation Fund (ARKK) has hit a new low in 2022 — already. After shedding 7% in Wednesday’s sell-off, the fund is down 9% this week so far and 45% from its peak in February 2021, with the decline marking its worst drawdown since inception in 2014. A rout in growth-oriented stocks that has battered ARKK was made worse on Wednesday as investors mulled the… Source link

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Big Short’s Michael Burry Closes Bets Against Ark, Tesla and Treasuries

Big Short’s Michael Burry Closes Bets Against Ark, Tesla and Treasuries

(Bloomberg) — Michael Burry may have ditched some of his biggest shorts — at least for now. Most Read from Bloomberg Scion Asset Management, which Burry founded and runs as chief executive officer, had cut back to only a handful of positions as of the end of September, according to a regulatory filing made on Monday. Among trades that the firm closed in the third quarter were bets against Cathie Wood’s flagship ARK Innovation ETF, Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. and the biggest Treasuries… Source link

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Cathie Wood’s Ark Dumps 3.9 Million Zillow Shares

Cathie Wood’s Ark Dumps 3.9 Million Zillow Shares

(Bloomberg) — Cathie Wood’s exchange-traded funds sold 3.9 million shares in Zillow Group Inc. on Wednesday as the stock’s rout deepened — a day after buying 288,813 of the securities. Most Read from Bloomberg The stake offloaded was about $255 million, assuming Wednesday’s closing price. That’s about 10 times the value of the shares purchased on Tuesday, when Seattle-based Zillow pulled the plug on its tech-powered home-flipping operation. Zillow’s stock has suffered as investors… Source link

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Cathie Wood’s Ark Lends Name to ETF Tracking Bitcoin Futures

Cathie Wood’s Ark Lends Name to ETF Tracking Bitcoin Futures

(Bloomberg) — Cathie Wood is joining the slate of Wall Street players hoping U.S. regulators will soon greenlight an ETF tracking Bitcoin futures. Most Read from Bloomberg The ARK 21Shares Bitcoin Futures Strategy ETF, ticker ARKA, plans to invest in Bitcoin futures contracts that trade on commodity exchanges, according to a Wednesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Alpha Architect, a white-label issuer of ETFs, submitted the filing, while 21Shares US LLC — an affiliate of… Source link

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Millennials will power a bull market in stocks for decades: Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood

Millennials will power a bull market in stocks for decades: Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood

Cathie Wood tells Yahoo Finance Live that just like baby boomers have heavily influenced the stock market for decades, their children — aka millennials — will be equally if not more important to the investing landscape in the decades to come. And that is one reason why the closely followed Ark Invest founder and CEO is staying long-term bullish on stocks.  “This is the echo of the baby boom,” said Wood on the rise of millennial investors, notably in 2021. Wood referenced research that… Source link

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