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‘Material risk’ looms over stocks as investors face bear market’s ‘second act’
Stock-market investors have been adjusting to the jump in interest rates amid high inflation, but they have yet to cope with profit headwinds faced by the S&P 500, according to Morgan Stanley Weal...
Stock market’s wild gyrations put earnings in focus as inflation crushes Fed ‘pivot’ hopes
Unrelenting inflation has dashed hopes for a quick pivot away from aggressive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, which in turn is undermining the U.S. corporate earnings outlook for 2023 and ...
How Alternative Investments Saved the Day for Big University Endowments
University endowments, battered by stock-market losses, posted their worst fiscal year since the financial crisis. The largest funds, however, were helped by higher allocations to alternative investme...
Higher Heating Bills Poised to Hit U.S. Households This Winter
High fuel prices have been a big driver of inflation, pumping up the cost of summer travel and air conditioning, and federal energy forecasters say that staying warm this winter will be more expensive...
Classic 60/40 investing strategy sees worst return in 100 years. How about 40/60?
Rules of thumb in investing appear to no longer apply in the carnage of 2022 in financial markets. Advocates for the 60/40 portfolio split, designed to capture the upside of stocks, but offer investor...
‘Growing wealth gap and rising inflation … hurt the global economy at almost every turn,’ Jamie Dimon says
What a difference 25 years can make. The world today is a markedly different place from the world that existed at MarketWatch’s inception in October 1997. JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, +1.66% CEO Jami...
Tether Says It Has Ditched Commercial Paper. It’s a Good Sign for Stablecoins.
Tether said that it no longer holds commercial paper in its reserves, favoring U.S. Treasuries instead in a move that addresses worries about the quality of assets backing the world’s most popular sta...
It turns out that bonds may be a riskier investment now than stocks
Stocks are riskier than bonds — everyone knows that. At least until this year. So far in 2022, long-term U.S. Treasurys have significantly underperformed U.S. stocks. The Vanguard Long-Term Treasury E...
The debt vigilantes are back, and even U.S. assets will struggle. Here’s what to buy instead, says one veteran fund manager.
Markets are struggling to extend the previous session’s impressive rebound. There may be a number of reasons why a worse-than-expected inflation report was eventually shrugged off with such vigor on T...
The Stock Market Rebound Fizzled. Why a Real Bottom Could Be Forming Soon.
Investors seemingly can’t stop trying to pick a stock market bottom, no matter how bad the news—and it continues to backfire. The day for a real bounce, however, may be coming soon. Consider: This pas...
There’s no rush to buy I-bonds
This week’s worse-than-expected inflation report led to turmoil in more than one market, but you only read about one of them. The market that got all the headlines was in stocks, since in the wake of ...
Here’s how ‘rare’ S&P 500’s ‘violent’ reversal was after Thursday’s inflation report — and what history shows may come next, according to Bespoke
The U.S. stock market took an unusual swing after Thursday’s inflation report. “Shortly after the open, the S&P 500 index had dropped nearly 4% from its pre-market highs before staging an epic ral...
Fed’s benchmark interest rate may peak above 5% after Sept inflation data, some economists think
When the Federal Reserve started to raise its benchmark policy interest rate by super-sized 0.75 percentage points in June this year, a few Fed officials and private sector economists talked about how...
This is how high interest rates might rise, and what could scare the Federal Reserve into a policy pivot
The stock market’s reaction to the latest inflation report Thursday underlined just how confused and fearful investors are. The S&P 500 SPX, +2.60% plunged as much as 3% shortly after the open as ...
Why stocks scored a historic bounce after another hot inflation report
Stock-market investors can be forgiven for feeling a little dizzy after a day that saw stocks plunge in reaction to another round of hotter-than-expected inflation data only to surge higher and extend...
Here’s how much more U.S. households will pay to heat their homes this winter
Americans face a tough winter, with one government agency warning that most households will see a sharp increase in heating costs this year, as natural-gas prices look to post their largest yearly per...
Thursday was ‘one of the craziest days of my career’ in markets, says Rick Rieder
Investors have witnessed some “pretty crazy” times in financial markets these past few weeks, with Thursday’s wild fluctuations ranking among the “craziest days of my career,” said Rick Rieder, the ch...
Opinion: $22 billion in I-bond sales can’t be wrong. Why you may want to buy them even when their rate resets soon
I-bonds’ sky-high interest rate is poised to fall to 6.48% when they reset next month, according to industry experts. Still, that would be the third-highest level since they were sold in 1998. Though ...
‘The mood has turned darker’: Desperate to outrun inflation, people are making big (and easy) changes to their habits. You can too.
We never were the same after last summer. Stubbornly high inflation rates in recent months and several interest rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve are impacting consumer behavior. That’s according...
These 11 stocks can lead your portfolio’s rebound after the S&P 500 ‘earnings recession’ and a market bottom next year
This may surprise you: Wall Street analysts expect earnings for the S&P 500 to increase 8% during 2023, despite all the buzz about a possible recession as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary pol...