This week was a rather volatile one for the investors in cryptocurrency miners. There was no company-specific news or developments, so why did the fuel-cell stock gain so much in value? The metaverse has just begun, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says it will be "much, much bigger" than the physical world.
The recent spin-off of its managed infrastructure business into a company called Kyndryl NYSE: KD removes a noncore business from its balance sheet. Also, management promised that the two companies would maintain the current combined dividend. The company crushed Wall Street's estimates on Monday, and many analysts praised the performance the next day.
Yahoo Finance's Technology Editor Daniel Howley joins the Live show to break down how Alibaba is seeing its slowest sales growth ever, especially during this month's Singles' Day sale amid e-commerce crackdowns by the Chinese government. Dow 30 36, Nasdaq 15, Russell 2, Crude Oil Gold 1, Silver CMC Crypto 1, FTSE 7, Nikkei 29, However, should inflation rise, then both stocks and bonds may well fare poorly. This is a BETA experience. You may opt-out by clicking here.
More From Forbes. Nov 11, , pm EST. Nov 11, , am EST. Nov 10, , pm EST. Financial market participants are brilliant at extrapolation. Every piece of marketing material announces that past performance is not a guide to the future. Every piece also assumes that it is. But intellectual apathy is not the only reason why the industry keeps buying bonds. And there will be more of this to come. So a reasonable expectation from here would be for real bond returns to be a bit like they were in the decades after the war: negative.
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The first is to hold those bonds until their maturity date and collect interest payments on them. Bond interest is usually paid twice a year. The second way to profit from bonds is to sell them at a price that's higher than what you pay initially. Bond prices can rise for two main reasons. If the borrower's credit risk profile improves so that it's more likely to be able to repay the bond at maturity, then the price of the bond typically rises.
Also, if prevailing interest rates on newly issued bonds go down, then the value of an existing bond at a higher rate goes up. Investing in bond funds Bond funds take money from many different investors and pool it all together for a fund manager to handle.
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