Freedom Has Paid Off For this Indie ETF

Gold and silver exchange-traded funds just experienced eye-popping trading volumes, with sharp price swings that drew in speculators chasing the momentum. The frenzy has cooled a bit, but the underlying forces haven’t disappeared. So what’s really behind the surge in precious met ...  Show more

Cathie Wood is best known for exchange-traded funds, especially her flagship ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK). But ARK also runs a less familiar product: the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX), an interval fund that holds stakes in private companies such as SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic—firms expe ...  Show more

Both Spotify and Apple Music recently published their annual lists of the most listened to artists and songs. Unsurprisingly, Taylor Swift dominated. But delve deeper, and you can also start to see the influence of social media and strength of growing international audiences. Plu ...  Show more

Grammy Award-winning musician, composer, and producer Wyclef Jean says the music industry is broken, which is why he’s now involved with a startup, OpenWav, that’s looking to give the power back to the artists. Through the OpenWav app, launched over the summer, artists can drop n ...  Show more

Warner Music filed to IPO because streaming saved the music industry. Uber shares surged 10% before the weekend on word it’s actually planning to become profitable by the end of this year (*depends how you define “profits”). And Europe’s telecom giants Ericsson and Nokia woke up ...  Show more

“I had sold 250 million records, and I couldn’t believe the response that I was getting when I was a free agent.”Music superstar Jason Derulo opens up about one of the darkest periods of his life, why he almost quit, being overlooked by the music industry despite global success, ...  Show more