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Stock futures dipped Tuesday evening after posting back-to-back sessions of losses at the close of the regular trading day, with the Dow swinging to its worst one-day decline since February.  Contracts on the Dow declined another 0.1% after the selloff. Contracts on the S&P 500, and those on the Nasdaq were also lower, after the latter index clawed back intraday losses of more than 2% to end just narrowly in the red. Jitters over prospects of rising inflation have been at the forefront of… Source link

TipRanks These 3 Esports Stocks Have Over 60% Upside in Sight, Say Analysts Competitive gaming, or esports, is a fast-growing subset of the online video gaming industry. Video game popularity, for a long time, was driven by its niche appeal – gamer communities developed, and it seems that every game genre has its own fandom. Fantasy leagues adapted well to online gaming, and the networked systems saw the introduction of massive multi-player role playing games. Like many online services,… Source link

Bitcoin crashed 10% to $49,332 (£68,482) on Friday morning in London, Ethereum slumped 11% to $2,227 after hitting record highs of £2,613 on Thursday. Photo: Getty Crypto markets pulled back sharply after reports US president Joe Biden is planning to raise capital gains tax for the wealthy. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that Biden is considering nearly doubling tax to as high as 39.6%, an increase from the current 20%. Cryptocurrency investors face higher taxes if Biden presses… Source link

TipRanks Analysts Say ‘Buy the Dip’ in These 3 Stocks Smart stock investing shouldn’t be emotional, but investors are only human, after all, making it difficult to follow a rational trading strategy. Investors should remember the advice of Warren Buffett: “We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” What Buffett is advocating is the oldest of market advice: buy low and sell high. Taking this into consideration, we set out on… Source link

A man walks past an electronic board showing currency exchange rates at a securities firm in Tokyo on 12 March. Photo: James Matsumoto/SOPA Images/Sipa USA European stocks suffered a tepid end to the week on Friday, as official data confirmed another economic slump for the UK and futures markets pointed to a tech sell-off on Wall Street later today. The FTSE 100 (^FTSE) was down 0.3% by just before lunchtime on Friday. Data from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed GDP shrank… Source link

Bloomberg Sands to Sell Vegas Hotels to Apollo, Vici for $6.25 Billion (Bloomberg) — Las Vegas Sands Corp., the world’s largest casino operator by market value, agreed to sell its properties in Las Vegas to Apollo Global Management Inc. and Vici Properties Inc. for $6.25 billion, refocusing the company on its successful Asian resorts and other potential opportunities in the U.S.Apollo will run the properties, which will be owned by Vici, a real estate investment trust, the companies said in… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin’s rally hit a speed bump as the world’s largest cryptocurrency witnessed its worst weekly decline in almost a year amid wider losses in risk assets. The digital token slumped 20% this week, the most since the pandemic-fueled selloff last March. The wider Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index, tracking Bitcoin, Ether and three other cryptocurrencies, was down 23% for the same period. Bitcoin fell 5% to trade at $45,672 as of 5:00 p.m. in New York, according to consolidated… Source link

TipRanks 3 Monster Growth Stocks to Beat the Volatility Volatility is back on the menu. Last week brought January’s trading to a close in what amounted to the stock market’s worst month since October. The GameStop saga hogged the headlines as the retail buying frenzy for names with high short interest raised the possibility the market might be exhibiting bubble behavior. Add into the mix the slow rollout of Covid-19 vaccines and the fear of a delayed return to normalcy, and once again,… Source link

People enter a GameStop store in Alhambra, California on January 27, 2021. Photo: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images European stock markets opened lower on Thursday, as a sell-off on Wall Street overnight prompted weakness in equity markets globally. The Dow Jones (^DJI) closed down 2% on Wednesday, its biggest one-day fall since October. The slump came after a downbeat assessment of the economy from the US Federal Reserve and amid a highly unusual battle between retail investors and hedge… Source link

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks Set for Monster Growth in 2021 We’ve turned a new page on the calendar, Old Man ’20 is out the door, and there’s a feeling ‘21 is gonna be a good year – and so far, so good. The markets closed out 2020 with modest session gains to cap off larger annual gains. The S&P 500 rose 16% during the corona crisis year, while the NASDAQ, with its heavy tech representation, showed an impressive annual gain of nearly 43%. The advent of two viable COVID vaccines… Source link