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 Points Michael Saylor compared bitcoin to New York City and its economy on Monday as the cryptocurrency rose to fresh records, calling it “cyber Manhattan.” “We’ll just keep buying the top forever, every day is a good…

 Points Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s note sent this fall to employees about corporate culture drew headlines for his five-day-in-the-office mandate. But Jassy’s messaging on an increased ratio of individual contributors to managers raises a much bigger question about organizational…

From equities to cryptocurrencies, financial markets defied naysayers in 2024. But as the curtain starts to fall on the year, where to from here? As the curtain falls on 2024, one thing is clear: the…

Traders have slammed the brakes on the sharemarket’s Santa rally, concerned higher tariffs promised by US president-elect Donald Trump could slow the pace of interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. Last week, US markets slipped…

The bull market charged forward in 2024 and readers of The Australian Financial Review’s Monday Fundie column were hungry for stock tips. While much of the sharemarket’s gains this year have been powered by the ASX’s largest…

If the stock market’s indecisive churn in recent weeks is nothing more than some prolonged post-Thanksgiving digestion, it’s about time for the tape to prove it to ward off concerns that it’s something more serious.…

 Points Costco on Thursday beat Wall Street’s quarterly earnings and sales estimates, as it got a boost in part from higher membership fees. Here is how the warehouse club did for the fiscal first quarter compared…

Australian shares fell minutes after the open, tracking losses in New York as the technology rally petered out and investors refocused on the outlook for interest rates. The S&P/ASX 200 dropped 0.7 per cent, or…

AMP has invested $27 million in bitcoin, becoming the first major superannuation fund to buy into an asset class that has previously been shunned by big fund managers in the $4 trillion retirement savings industry…

Investors should look beyond an ASX-listed company’s dividend yield when screening for income stocks, says Wilsons Advisory, arguing that using the measure in isolation does not accurately reflect long-term potential. Indeed, investing for income by…