S&P 500 marks 1st death cross in 2 years as investors assess Russia-Ukraine ahead of Fed decision

Dow industrials barely gained on Monday, while the S&P 500 logged its first death cross in two years and the Nasdaq Composite slumped to its lowest since December 2020, as investors monitored Russ...

What a Russia debt default would mean for financial markets as Ukraine invasion continues

The threat of a Russian default on sovereign debt is seen near, but investors so far aren’t panicking over any potential hit to global financial markets. “While a default would be symbolic, it seems u...

Opinion: The Fed needs to target a floor for the 10-year Treasury, in addition to radically raising the fed funds rate

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell faces the toughest task since Chairman Paul Volcker tamed the Great Inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s. And a lot of the pressures driving the most virulent ...

here are the most expensive NFTs of the Italian Serie A

Sorare has released the list of the most expensive NFT cards of Italian Serie A players.  Most expensive NFT cards in Serie A At the top of the list is Napoli striker Victor Osimhen, whose 2.0 card ha...

Opinion: Businesses subject job candidates to so many indignities — and then they wonder why they can’t find people?

Business leaders in organizations large and small are facing a common challenge: they can’t find enough workers to fill all their open positions. According to September Labor Department statistics, it...

Opinion: Sanctioning Russia is a masterstroke that will cement the dollar’s dominant role in world affairs

LONDON (Project Syndicate)— The savage fighting in Ukraine has led many to wonder whether Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supposed strategic brilliance is all that it was chalked up to be. Though P...

Dow falls nearly 600 points as Russia says it will begin attacks on Kyiv

U.S. stocks traded lower near midday Tuesday as Russia stepped up attacks on Ukraine and warned it would begin “high-precision” strikes on the capital, Kyiv, as its invasion enters a sixth day. What’s...

It’s time to get rid of Social Security’s not-so-hidden tax

End the Social Security double tax Now comes the news that about half of Social Security beneficiaries expect to be taxed on their benefits this year. So reports The Senior Citizens League, a group th...

Moderna, Alibaba, Coinbase, Home Depot, Etsy, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed for Presidents Day on Monday. Fourth-quarter earning season resumes when Wall Street returns, with results from Agilent Technologies , H...

Moderna, Alibaba, Coinbase, Home Depot, Etsy, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed for Presidents Day on Monday. Fourth-quarter earning season resumes when Wall Street returns, with results from Agilent Technologies, Home Depot, and Medtron...

Inflation’s on fire, and the Fed’s poised to act. Here’s how markets and the economy have reacted to the first hike in a cycle.

After Thursday’s shocking inflation reading showing year-over-year consumer price growth of 7.5%, an interest-rate hike could come quite literally at any time, though the most likely timing would be t...

What a Russian invasion of Ukraine would mean for markets as White House warns attack could come ‘any day now’

Investors on Friday got a taste of the sort of market shock that could come if Russia invades Ukraine. The spark came as Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, warned Friday afterno...

‘If you’re a wage earner you’re going to fall behind’: Ex-Fed insider warns of ‘difficult few years’ due to inflation

Former Federal Reserve insider Thomas Hoenig thinks the U.S. faces a painful reckoning because of high inflation. Hoenig was a lone dissenter eight times in 2010, when the Fed voted to pursue a then-n...

Buy the dip? Why the stock market’s bounce off January lows may prove premature

A big stock-market bounce after an ugly January might reflect misplaced confidence in a previously tried-and-true trading strategy, a Wall Street analyst warned on Monday. “After a tough markdown of s...

Opinion: The Fed is determined to stop wages from rising

AUSTIN, Texas (Project Syndicate)—Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has now committed to putting monetary policy on a course of rising interest rates, which could boost the short-term rate (on feder...

Saving for college: the pros and cons of 529 savings plans, prepaid plans and how to decide

For many, college is one of the best times of a person’s life — but it can also be extremely expensive, and that bill could last a lifetime.  If you expect to be footing at least part of the cost, edu...

What’s old is new again — the Dogs of the Dow are outperforming the stock market

The Dogs of the Dow strategy has been around awhile. It’s where investors pick the 10 stocks with the highest dividend yield in the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the end of the year, and invest equa...

Opinion: The party’s over: The Fed and Congress have pulled their support from workers and investors

Even as the government reports the fastest economic growth in nearly 40 years, the historic gains in income and wealth that inflated the economy in 2020 and 2021 are fading fast. The air is coming out...

Opinion: Thankfully, the Fed has decided to stop digging, but it has a lot of work to do before it gets us out of hole we’re in

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Project Syndicate)—The Federal Reserve has turned on a dime, an uncharacteristic about-face for an institution long noted for slow and deliberate shifts in monetary policy. While the...

Dow tumbles over 600 points early Monday as Wall Street extends decline ahead of Fed decision, earnings wave

U.S. stock benchmarks were under pressure early Monday, falling sharply as the downtrend that has pressured stocks this year continues apace. Investors are watching for an important two-day meeting of...

Global stocks advance with U.S. exchanges shut as traders wait for earnings reports

Global stocks rose and U.S. futures were steady Monday, as investors focused on upcoming corporate earnings and rising interest rates with U.S. exchanges shut in observance of the Martin Luther King J...

Up to three-quarters of the $800 billion PPP flowed to business owners instead of workers, study finds

The benefits of the landmark small-business relief program designed at the height of the pandemic mostly went to business owners rather than workers, a study from leading economists finds. The study f...

Nasdaq Composite ends 3 percentage points from correction, as investors react to Fed, Friday’s jobs report

U.S. stocks ended lower Friday, in a turbulent session that concluded with all three major benchmarks suffering weekly declines, following a monthly jobs report whose headline figure came in far below...

Value stocks have pulled ahead of growth in recent weeks. Is it a head-fake?

U.S. value stocks are beating growth equities in the first week of 2022, extending their outperformance in December and faring better through the broad market slump sparked Wednesday by investor conce...

Is it time to fight the Fed? This veteran strategist says the central bank won’t risk a 20% drop in house prices and a 30% slide in stocks.

The bond bears have been in ascendance this week, even before the release of the latest minutes from the last Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The yield on the 10-year Treasury has jumped 23.7 b...

Dow sheds over 300 points, Nasdaq skids 2.9% after Fed minutes surprise with talk of shrinking balance sheet

Stocks traded lower Wednesday afternoon, with the Dow turning negative, after the release of the Federal Reserve’s last policy gathering in 2021 showed robust discussion around a potentially faster pa...