Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were gaining strongly on Tuesday, with the crypto sector kicking off 2024 with a broad-based rally amid expectations that approval of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds will come as soon as this week. Bitcoin has jumped 7.4% to $45,668 over the last 24 hours. The largest cryptocurrency climbed past the $45,000 level for
At Friday’s price of $21.36, they’re off around 5% since his Dec. 6 critique, while many other real-estate investment trusts have risen by a like percentage in celebration of easing interest rates. Block’s claim that the Blackstone trust will cut its dividend by half—as its borrowers struggle to refinance at higher rates—has stirred the hornet’s
Published: Dec. 29, 2023 at 4:31 p.m. ET Shares of Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust Un CAR.UT shed 0.14% to C$48.80 Friday, in what proved to be an otherwise all-around favorable trading session for the Canadian market, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index GSPTSE rising 0.14% to 20,958.44. Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment
Published: Dec. 27, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. ET By Adriano Marchese Stocks in Toronto were solidly higher in the first trading day in the shortened week following Christmas Day and Boxing Day in Canada. Nearly all sectors were driving the increase in the session, led primarily by health tech, process industries and materials. Consumer durables
Coinbase Global and MicroStrategy were leading a raft of cryptocurrency-related stocks higher on Wednesday. The companies were among those being boosted by Bitcoin’s rally and MicroStrategy pouring more money into the asset. Coinbase shares were up 6.1% at $182.53. The cryptocurrency exchange is trading at its highest levels since early 2022 and has outpaced the
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Published: Dec. 21, 2023 at 5:23 p.m. ET Shares of Federal Realty Investment Trust FRT rallied 1.17% to $104.45 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 1.03% to 4,746.75 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.87% to 37,404.35.
Opinion: ‘All systems go’ for investors as stocks power 2023’s gains into 2024
The stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 Index SPX, has continued to move higher over the past week — ignoring the one big down day (70 points) and putting that in the rearview mirror. SPX has made new 2023 highs, and the all-time highs just above 4800 are within shouting distance. It seems