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- Key Points Since President Donald Trump won the presidential election last November, crypto has been in the spotlight. Trump campaigned on making the U.S. the crypto capital of the world, and when he took office in January, his administration got right to work. Whether through legislation passed by Congress, implementing pro-crypto cabinet members and advisors, or a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, the sector has gotten a lift, despite having to navigate economic uncertainty with Trump's tariffs and the high interest rate environment. Many investors believe the crypto bull market will likely continue, or that we might even be in a completely new era of crypto acceptance. Looking ahead, which cryptocurrency is more likely to make a...

- 1 Reason Why Now Is the Time to Buy XRP Key Points XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) has recently seen pullbacks following news that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed its decision on whether the cryptocurrency can be included in new exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Higher-than-expected inflation and recent reports from major U.S. retailers suggesting that inflationary pressures could be poised to worsen in the near term have also weighed on the token's valuation. While XRP is still up 39% across 2025's trading, it's also down 20% from its high. On the heels of recent sell-offs, there's one significant catalyst on the horizon that suggests that now could be a good time to invest in the cryptocurrency. Buying XRP before October...

- Key Points Even after a recent pullback, XRP is up 397% over the last year. Much of that growth is due to the crypto-friendly political climate and the winding down of a lawsuit between the SEC and Ripple, the company that issues XRP. XRP has been one of many cryptocurrencies to explode in value over the years. Doing that again will be challenging, but there's a path for XRP to deliver tenfold returns. Cutting into SWIFT's market could unlock substantial growth for XRP Ripple provides payment solutions for financial companies, focusing on cross-border payments. Ripple's blockchain-based network moves money instantly while reducing fees. It also offers an on-demand liquidity (ODL) feature, which is where XRP comes into play...

- Key Points On a long-enough timeline, another crypto crash is certain. But having certainty about it happening someday is very different from having clarity about the chances of it happening sometime soon. Right now, the balance of evidence suggests the market is more likely to wobble before resuming its upward march than it is to crater. Here's what's going on and why fears of a crash are a bit overblown at the moment. What would actually crack the market Crashes rarely happen without a catalyst. The simplest catalyst for a crash would be a sharp macro shock that sucks liquidity out of risk assets, like cryptocurrencies. Central banks are generally not tightening their policy rates today. The European Central Bank (ECB) cut its...

- Powell Clearly Opens the Door: Markets Surge as Speculative Bets Get Another Boost from Dovish Jay Powell US stocks ripped higher Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell opened the door to a September rate cut during his speech at Jackson Hole — a dovish turn that lit a fire under speculative trades from meme stocks to crypto. "The baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance," Powell said. "Powell clearly opens the door for a September cut," Oxford Economics chief US economist Ryan Sweet wrote in a note. "When Fed chairs open the door for a rate cut, it’s quite difficult to close." That expectation helped ignite a broad risk-on rally, with some of the market’s most volatile...

- Key Points Part of Ripple's original vision for XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) is for it to be the reliable financial plumbing that moves value where it needs to go, especially across international borders where exchange fees and other transfer costs can add up quickly. Given that XRP's price is up by 750% over the last three years, Ripple must be doing something right. Today, the investment thesis for Ripple's expanding financial value chain rests on three jobs to be done: Build institutional-grade infrastructure on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), expand in the geographies that control capital flows, and turn Ripple's new stablecoin, Ripple USD (CRYPTO: RLUSD), into a default settlement medium. Here's how and why each of these three tasks is...

- Key Points Living investing legend Warren Buffett will formally ease into retirement at the end of the year when he steps down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. His legacy will continue through the conglomerate he has led for six decades and turned into a wealth-building force of nature. The stock price has compounded at an annualized rate of 19.9% from 1965 to 2024, giving it a total return exceeding 5,500,000%. That would have turned an initial investment of just $100 back in 1965 into $5.5 million, so it's safe to say that Berkshire has been a millionaire-maker stock. But what might the future hold for long-term investors looking to add Berkshire Hathaway to their portfolios today? Can the stock still help make you a millionaire...

- Key Points Meme coins don't take themselves too seriously, but that doesn't stop people from buying them. Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) is worth $7.3 billion (as of Aug. 21), enough to make it one of the 25 largest cryptocurrencies. For investors who do their homework on everything in their portfolio, the continued success of meme coins is perplexing. Once you see the kind of returns meme coins can offer, it's easier to understand. From $100 to over $10 million Shiba Inu has always traded at a fraction of $0.01, because it started with a massive supply of 1 quadrillion tokens. On Aug. 21, 2020, it closed at a price of $0.000000000117. If you'd bought $100 worth, you would've gotten about 855 billion SHIB tokens. The price at the time...

- Key Points For the year, meme coin Dogecoin is down a dreadful 32%. That's easily the worst performance of any major cryptocurrency. By way of comparison, crypto bellwether Bitcoin is up 22% for the year, and recently hit an all-time high of $124,000 this summer. So, how is it possible that Dogecoin still ranks among the top 10 cryptocurrencies in terms of market cap? And why is it that many investors still consider this meme coin to be a high upside cryptocurrency? The answer might surprise you. Dogecoin coin supply When it comes to Dogecoin, the one thing you need to know is that it has a massive circulating coin supply of 150.5 billion. Thus, even though it still trades for a price of less than a quarter ($0.21), it has a...

- Prediction: XRP Will Trounce Palantir Over the Next 5 Years Key Points So far in 2025, Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) has been a much bigger winner for investors than XRP (CRYPTO: XRP). Palantir's share price has more than doubled year to date despite a recent sell-off. XRP has delivered a gain of more than 40% -- impressive but nowhere close to Palantir's sizzling return. However, past performance is no guarantee of future results, and I predict that XRP will trounce Palantir over the next five years. Here are three reasons why. 1. Valuation Don't get me wrong: I fully expect Palantir to continue delivering robust revenue and earnings growth. My prediction doesn't hinge on the artificial intelligence (AI) and data...

- Moody's Moody's is one of the biggest providers of financial data, credit rating, and analytics services in America. It provides those services to a wide range of companies, financial institutions, and investors, and it shares a near-duopoly in this market with S&P Global. Moody's business is evergreen because its customers rely on its financial data amid bear and bull markets alike. Recessions, wars, and other economic crises can also drive those customers to ramp up their spending on such data with the goal of being able to make smarter financial decisions during uncertain times. From 2024 to 2027, analysts expect Moody's revenue and earnings per share (EPS) to grow at compound annual rates of 7% and 13%, respectively. Its stock...

- Key Points The crypto market is now valued at $4 trillion and includes literally tens of thousands of different cryptocurrencies. However, just a handful of names account for the majority of the value of the entire crypto market. Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), for example, accounts for a whopping 58%. While it might be tempting for first-time crypto investors to dabble in meme coins or highly speculative microcap cryptocurrencies, it's best to focus on high-quality, large-market-cap names with proven track records. Here are the three growth cryptocurrencies you should know. Bitcoin The obvious, no-brainer pick is Bitcoin. This was the first-ever cryptocurrency, launched all the way back in 2009. In terms of growth, it is simply...

- Getting ETH Exposure in 2025: Ether Near Record Highs, Tom Lee Sees $15K by Year End Ether (ETH) is trading near record highs and bullish forecasts like Tom Lee’s $15,000 year-end target have put a spotlight on how investors can best gain exposure to ETH. Market context According to CoinDesk Data, ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency, is trading at about $4,783 at the time of writing, near its all-time highs, reflecting strong investor demand amid growing institutional adoption. Tom Lee, head of research at Fundstrat, CIO of Fundstrat Capital and chairman of BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), noted that ETH could reach $15,000 by the end of 2025. His comments underscore optimism around Ethereum's growing importance for...

- Powell ‘holds the key’ to the next Fed rate move as divided policymakers will likely fail to reach a consensus again, JPMorgan says A consensus view on Wall Street for a rate cut next month doesn’t mean there will be a consensus on the Federal Reserve as policymakers still appear divided. In his Jackson Hole speech on Friday, Chairman Jerome Powell opened the door to a rate cut at the central bank’s meeting in September after months of maintaining a more hawkish stance, stoking a furious rally on Wall Street. His emphasis on growing risks to the labor market coupled with a more muted warning on the inflationary impact of tariffs marked a shift in his tone. But not everyone on the Federal Open Market Committee sounded as dovish...

- Key Points The real estate sector has underperformed the S&P 500 significantly over the past decade. The Vanguard Real Estate ETF delivered a 77% total return for investors over the past decade, compared with a stellar 290% return from the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF. It isn't necessarily that real estate investment trusts, or REITs, are doing poorly as businesses. They aren't. Rather, the underperformance can be blamed on two factors. First is the fact that the S&P 500 -- and especially the megacap technology stocks -- has done incredibly well. The second reason is interest rates. Why interest rates can hurt REIT stock performance REITs are some of the most rate-sensitive stocks in the entire market, and for a few reasons: The...

- Eric Trump to join Metaplanet meeting in Japan Eric Trump plans to visit Japan next month as the Trump family continues to expand its presence in the cryptocurrency space, people familiar with the matter said. The son of the U.S. President is scheduled to attend the September 1 shareholder meeting of Metaplanet Inc., a Japanese Bitcoin treasury company modeled on Michael Saylor's Strategy Inc. Metaplanet, formerly a hotel operator, pivoted to Bitcoin accumulation in early 2024, using business profits to build its holdings. The company says it holds more than $2.1 billion in Bitcoin. Eric Trump was appointed as a strategic adviser to Metaplanet in March. News of his planned trip to Tokyo helped Metaplanet shares recover, with the...

- Better EV Stock: Rivian vs. Tesla Key Points Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has dominated the electric vehicle (EV) market for over a decade, but the company's core business has begun to struggle. Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ: RIVN), meanwhile, is still in the early innings as an automaker but is starting to hit important milestones. Both stocks come with risk, but one has a much better setup for investors right now. Rivian's R2 opportunity Rivian slipped back into negative gross margins in Q2 after two straight positive quarters, with higher material costs due to supply constraints and new tariffs taking their toll. The loss of the federal $7,500 EV tax credit this fall will be another drag. Those are real headwinds, but they don't take...

- Find out how much you could earn with today’s money market account rates. Deposit interest rates (including money market account rates) have been falling over the past year. That's why it’s more important than ever to compare MMA rates and ensure you earn as much as possible on your balance. Overview of money market account rates today The national average money market account rate stands at 0.59%, according to the FDIC. This might not seem like much, but consider that three years ago, it was just 0.07%. So by historical standards, money market account rates are still quite high. Even so, some of the top accounts are currently offering over 4% APY. Since these rates may not be around much longer, consider opening a money market...

- Key Points Following what billionaire hedge fund managers make can be a great idea source for individual investors. While nobody should follow them blindly, understanding why they made purchases when they did can give investors a new perspective on the market. Every quarter, any firm with more than $100 million in investments must disclose to the SEC what its holdings were at the end of the quarter. These reports are then released to the public 45 days after the quarter's end in a Form 13F. This gives investors a gold mine of information to digest, and there's one important move that investors should take note of. Billionaire Bill Ackman and his Pershing Square Capital Management Fund took a massive, $1.28 billion stake in Amazon...

- Bond market rallies after Powell ‘walked a fine line’ with Jackson Hole speech The U.S. bond market rallied Friday on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech, with the drop in Treasury yields signaling that investors expect the Fed’s interest-rate-cutting cycle to resume in September. Powell delivered a “virtuoso performance” during his highly anticipated speech Friday at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium in Wyoming, said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Investment Management, in a phone interview. Powell left himself “plenty of wiggle room” in terms of setting monetary policy, as he “walked a fine line” between the risks of tariffs increasing inflation and a weakening in the...