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(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin is sustaining a record-breaking run, lifted by the unprecedented amounts of capital flowing into crypto products as well as a looming reduction in the digital token’s supply growth. Most Read from Bloomberg The original cryptocurrency reached an all-time peak of almost $72,881 on Monday and was trading at $72,220 as of 7:15 a.m. in London on Tuesday. A record $2.7 billion flowed into crypto assets last week, according to a report from CoinShares international Ltd.,… Source link

Wall Street may be cheering on the recent downtick in the rate of inflation by way of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), but Walmart (WMT) isn’t ready to declare an end to sky-high prices just yet. “I can’t call that,” Walmart CFO John David Rainey said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above) when asked if inflation had peaked. “Food inflation, in particular, has been pretty persistent. We see it in mid-teens growth [in grocery sales]. In general merchandise, we have seen more progress, but I can’t… Source link

‘They will come to a bad ending’: A year since its $69K peak, Bitcoin has plummeted more than 70% — here’s why Warren Buffett has hated cryptocurrency all along It’s been a tough year for Bitcoin and its backers. And even back in 2018, the Oracle of Omaha predicted that it and other cryptocurrencies were headed for trouble. “They will come to a very bad ending,” Warren Buffett told CNBC at the time. After hitting an all-time peak of around $69,000 per unit on November 10, 2021, the world’s… Source link

Verizon (VZ) doesn’t plan to moderate its network infrastructure investment, even as recession concerns loom. “I think the last six, seven years, we have planned exactly how we’re going to invest in the network,” Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “This is our peak year. We’re going to do somewhere around $22 billion in capex, that’s our guidance. And one portion is our business as usual, and then the other is that the new spectrum we bought last year is actually… Source link

Verizon (VZ) doesn’t plan to moderate its network infrastructure investment, even as recession concerns loom. “I think the last six, seven years, we have planned exactly how we’re going to invest in the network,” Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “This is our peak year. We’re going to do somewhere around $22 billion in capex, that’s our guidance. And one portion is our business as usual, and then the other is that the new spectrum we bought last year is actually… Source link

The tight U.S. labor market may have reached a new peak this year with wage growth soon to follow. Last month employers added a surprise 528,000 jobs — a stunning figure that doubled Wall Street estimates and reflected the labor market fully recovered from pandemic job losses — while the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “What you have right now is effectively peak employment,” ZipRecruiter CEO Ian Siegal told Yahoo Finance (video above)…. Source link

A broad sell-off in technology stocks has dragged Cathie Wood’s main Ark Invest fund into the gutter – and it looks like it will take a long time for the popular ETF to dig itself out. The average holding in Ark Innovation (ARKK), Ark Investment Management’s namesake flagship exchange-traded fund, is currently down over 70% from its five-year high, according to fresh data from market research firm Bespoke Investment Group. The rout in ARKK’s portfolio brings the investment vehicle 60%… Source link

It’s been a turbulent past couple of days, to say the least, for Netflix (NFLX), a stock which saw two consecutive trading days of declines after an underwhelming earnings report. Netflix’s Q4 earnings report estimated it would add an additional 2.5 million subscribers in Q1 2022, significantly lower than the 6.93 million expected. A new Bank of America (BAC) report found that, in light of the Q4 earnings report, Netflix would likely require more time than previously expected in order to… Source link

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

(Bloomberg) — The 2021 Bitcoin bubble is deflating and hitting a $1.3 trillion industry built on to-the-moon speculation and rampant leverage. The damage from the latest selloff is spreading across the world of crypto loans, options and futures — wiping out money-spinning strategies from the famous basis trade to yield farming. Even with Wednesday’s rebound, Bitcoin at around $31,700 is still trading near the lower end of its range over the past two months, and down about 50% from the April… Source link