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• Amid the FOMC meet and SEC busy with meetings for Spot ETF applications, crypto board saw meme coin BONK topping the gainers' list.
• Bitcoin and Ethereum witness a drop of 4% each during the week.

Ramit Sethi, self-made millionaire, author of "I Will Teach You to Be Rich"and host of upcoming Netflix show "How to Get Rich," knows that you're probably not going to accidentally get rich. 

Building wealth often means making sacrifices and tough decisions on how to invest your money and time. Putting easy-to-follow guidelines in place for yourself can make those choices go quicker and help you stick to your wealth-building goals.

"Take all the decisions that you have to make in a given month ...

Dow stocks are known as the bellwethers of the economy, and they are some of the most stable businesses in the world. But lately, some of the Dow stocks have been beaten up because they have missed some important industry changes.

As we look forward to 2024, I think the problems that Dow stocks Disney (NYSE: DIS), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) have faced over the past few years will turn around and provide opportunities for investors.

Disney's life beyond cable TV

(Bloomberg) -- Investors are facing a pivotal week as a key measure of inflation that hits Tuesday and the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision on Wednesday are expected to set the tone for the stock market and economy heading into 2024.

Growing speculation that the Fed is done hiking rates and will start cutting by mid-year is fueling a sharp drop in Treasury yields and rekindling investors’ risk appetite. The S&P 500 Index has added roughly $4 trillion in market value since late Octo...

In recent weeks, bond yields plunged, and investors have grown euphoric that the Federal Reserve would slash interest rates next year.

But hold on, says Harvard economist Ken Rogoff, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

“Even with the recent partial retreat in interest rates, they remain well above the ultra-low levels to which policymakers had grown accustomed, and they are likely to stay at such levels even as inflation retreats,” he wrote on Project Syndicate....

A couple of small-cap stocks that have the potential to achieve significant gains next year are InMode (NASDAQ: INMD) and Bitfarms (NASDAQ: BITF). Here's why t...