Fidelity to open commission-free crypto trading to retail investors

A sign marks a Fidelity Investments office in Boston, Massachusetts, April 28, 2022. Brian Snyder | Reuters Fidelity Investments is launching a commission-free crypto trading product for retail investors. The firm, one of the largest brokerages in the world handling $9.9 trillion in assets, opened an early-access waitlist to users Thursday morning. The service, called…

Top Wall Street analysts say buy these stocks amid market uncertainty

In this article FFIV TXN JNPR TKR LRN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tim Boyle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Stocks ended Friday on a positive note, but an uncertain week – with a Federal Reserve meeting – looms ahead. The three major averages notched gains for Friday’s session and were higher on the…

Activist Starboard takes a stake in Vertiv, and an opportunity to boost margins is in sight

Kobus Louw | E+ | Getty Images Company: Vertiv Holdings (VRT) Business: Vertiv designs, manufactures and services critical digital infrastructure technologies and life cycle services for data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial environments. The company went public through a SPAC merger in the first quarter of 2020 with GS Acquisition Holdings, a SPAC…

Stock pickers are still positioned for a Fed ‘soft landing,’ mutual fund holdings show

Traders on the floor of the NYSE, Oct. 21, 2022. Source: NYSE Professional stock pickers are still betting that the U.S. economy could skirt a recession, according to Bank of America analysis. Actively managed mutual funds have maintained their pro-cyclical stance with overweights in consumer discretionary and industrials, while having a sizeable underweight in consumer staples,…

Two potential opportunities for value creation emerge as Starboard takes a stake in Salesforce

Gary Burchell | Getty Images Company: Salesforce (CRM) Business: Salesforce is a global leader in customer relationship management (CRM) technology that brings companies and their clients together. It was founded in 1999 and is a pioneer in the cloud software space. It started as a tool to help enable sales teams to increase their productivity…

SPAC liquidations top $12 billion this year as sponsors grapple with tough market, new buyback tax

Chamath Palihapitiya, Social Capital Founder and CEO CNBC A new buyback tax has motivated more and more SPAC sponsors to close up shop before the year-end, adding another headwind to the blank-check space already roiled by a tough market environment. A total of 27 SPAC deals, worth $12.8 billion, have been liquidated this year, according…

Dan Loeb’s Third Point builds stake in Colgate, sees value in pet food business in potential spinoff

In this article CL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Daniel Loeb Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Dan Loeb’s Third Point has built a sizeable stake in consumer giant Colgate-Palmolive, according to CNBC’s David Faber. Loeb sees hidden value in Colgate’s subsidiary, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, a pet food company, if it were spun…

Top Wall Street analysts say buy these stocks to protect against market uncertainty

In this article QCOM META PZZA CHEF DHT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Source: Papa Johns Investors white-knuckled their way through last week as the major averages swung sharply, fueled by key inflation reports. On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average leapt 1,500 points from its low of the session to the highest point…

Cash is king again as money managers are in no rush to embrace risk with Fed raising rates

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 07, 2022 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images (Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Cash, one of the most hated corners of the market for years, is getting some newfound love from money managers as the Federal…

Top Wall Street analysts pick these stocks as the market grows increasingly uncertain

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, June 6, 2022. Peter Dasilva | Reuters Using a market downcycle to accumulate shares of companies with strong fundamentals and prospects can lead to good returns when the market goes up. To that end, keeping an eye on which stocks…

Activist ESG investing — the Goldilocks of responsible investing

Violetastoimenova | E+ | Getty Images ESG has been an incredible movement. It has had a momentum and acceleration that was seemingly unstoppable, and for good reason. Everyone wants to save the climate and support treating employees, customers and communities with respect. Everyone is for good corporate governance. Yet, for several years, many people, particularly…

Thoma Bravo-backed workplace software firms merge as shift to hybrid work creates new opportunities

Pixelseffect | E+ | Getty Images Offices are busier now than they’ve been at any point since Covid first sent employees home in March 2020. But companies are still in the thick of adapting to a more distributed workforce, creating an opportunity for workplace technology companies like Condeco and iOffice + SpaceIQ. The two companies…