Claire Ballentine
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Key 2024 Dates To Get Your Personal Finances In Order
Mark your calendar for these deadlines in the upcoming year
- Sunday December 31, 2023
- Author: Claire Ballentine
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First Bitcoin Futures Exchange-Traded Fund Soon. What It Means
After almost a decade of wrangling with regulators, the ETF industry is finally on the cusp of getting a fund that tracks the price of Bitcoin. But at this point, it may be easier and cheaper for the average investor to just buy Bitcoin.
- Friday December 8, 2023
- Author: Claire Ballentine, Bloomberg
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Shiba Inu's 100% Jump Intensifies Calls For Robinhood Crypto Listing
Robinhood's users would very much like the opportunity to spend their money on a joke based on another joke.
- Friday December 8, 2023
- Author: Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou and Claire Ballentine, Bloomberg
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The Fight To Control The $2 Trillion Crypto Market Is Heating Up
The fight is set to reverberate through the global financial system, where every day brings news of products such as Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, bizarrely named digital tokens and NFT assets
- Friday December 8, 2023
- Author: Claire Ballentine, Alice Kantor and Blake Schmidt, Bloomberg
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Will Interest Rate Hikes Cause A Recession? Here's How To Strategize
The U.S. Federal Reserve just raised interest rates by the most in 22 years, prompting fears that a recession is around the corner.
- Friday December 8, 2023
- Author: Claire Ballentine and Charlie Wells, Bloomberg
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"Impersonal And Shocking": Coinbase Cuts 1,100 Jobs After Hiring Spree
Coinbase, the largest US digital-asset trading platform on Tuesday cut about 18 per cent of its workforce, or roughly 1,100 jobs
- Friday December 8, 2023
- Author: Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou and Claire Ballentine
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"I'm Done With Crypto": Voyager Collapse Hits True Believers Hard
Crypto investors are known for their devotion, but their confidence is cracking as the latest company collapse rattles the industry.
- Friday December 8, 2023
- Author: Claire Ballentine, Bloomberg
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How To Invest In Bitcoin Without Buying Bitcoin
As an investment, its spectacular rally this year has cheered its adherents while raising the curiosity of the non-initiated.
- Friday December 8, 2023
- Author: Claire Ballentine, Bloomberg
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Got Lucky, Got It Right: Newbie Traders Scored Amid Pandemic, Recession
In a year of extreme volatility, the stocks newbie traders love most have soared 56 per cent, beating the usually bulletproof S&P 500 by 45 percentage points, going by Goldman Sachs data.
- Friday December 8, 2023
- Author: SarSarah Ponczek and Claire Ballentine, Bloomberg
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Biden Has Wiped Away $127 Billion In Student Loan Debt
At least some Americans are seeing their student debt wiped away.
- Monday November 13, 2023
- Author: Ella Ceron, Claire Ballentine
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Bitcoin Rebound Fuels Renewed Interest In Crypto Investing
Some financial planners are recommending clients buy the largest cryptocurrency — in moderation.
- Tuesday October 31, 2023
- Author: Claire Ballentine
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Middle-Class Americans Are Rattled By Fed’s Fight Against Inflation
Despite roaring growth and a resilient job market, more middle-class Americans are worried about the state of the economy than a year ago, a Harris Poll for Bloomberg News has found.
- Monday October 30, 2023
- Author: Shawn Donnan, Claire Ballentine, Alex Tanzi
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Rates on Savings Accounts Are Higher Than Millions of Mortgages
The popular high-yield Marcus product from Goldman Sachs now offers an all-time high of 4.3%.
- Wednesday August 9, 2023
- Author: Claire Ballentine
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U.S. Will Have To Write Off Billions In Student Debt Due To Deaths
Some 300,000 borrowers are estimated to have died since March 2020 when the pause was initiated.
- Monday August 7, 2023
- Author: Alex Tanzi, Claire Ballentine
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US Homeowners Are Tapping $9 Trillion in Real Estate Wealth
Higher mortgage rates have made cash-out refinancing less attractive and pushed more people to take out home equity lines of credit.
- Saturday July 15, 2023
- Author: Claire Ballentine, Paulina Cachero