Timing the market has been a nagging question for investors ever since the stock market began its decline by roughly 25% in January this year. The right answer likely hinges on whether or not the Fede...
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Why Are My Inflation-Protected Bonds Falling When Inflation Is So High?
Listen to article (1 minute) You would think this would be TIPS’ time to shine. Instead, the prices of Treasury inflation-protected securities—government bonds that are adjusted to keep up with inflat...
Opinion: 4 predictable retirement problems — and how to solve them
When modeling out retirement, people often apply rules of thumb for income timing. The classic one is the “4% rule,” which many people now think is a bit optimistic as a “safe” withdrawal rate. Bey...
Bond markets facing historic losses grow anxious of Fed that ‘isn’t blinking yet’
The Federal Reserve has been showing no signs of letting up on aggressive rate hikes, even as its policies fuel carnage for the ages across the roughly $53 trillion U.S. bond market. As a result, borr...
Oil Prices Hold Steady. U.S. Said to Be Looking at Relaxing Venezuela Sanctions.
Oil prices on Thursday largely held to gains from the previous session despite a report from The Wall Street Journal that the U.S. government could relax sanctions on Venezuela to allow new supply ont...
S&P 500 would be in an ‘earnings recession’ if not for this one booming sector — but that may not last long
Fears of an actual recession are weighing on investors near the end of 2022, but there is another type of recession also in sight: an earnings recession. The S&P 500 index would already be in an e...
OPEC Just Put a New Floor on Oil Prices. Politics Could Break It.
Text size Top oil producers agreed on a major cut in production to boost crude prices, a move denounced by the U.S. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images OPEC’s latest controversial decision to cut p...
Fed may need to pivot by early November, when ‘something breaks’: Scott Minerd
With multiple cracks emerging in global financial markets, the Federal Reserve may be forced to end its aggressive rate hikes “when something breaks” and to pivot by the end of the World Series this f...
Will the stock market be open on Columbus Day?
It’s a regular day of business for the U.S. stock market on Monday, October 10, as equity exchanges stay open for Columbus Day, a federal holiday that also has been recognized as Indigenous Peoples’ D...
Mike McGlone Says Gold Price Is ‘Firming’ — Commodity Strategist Insists BTC, ETH Will ‘Outperform Most Major Assets’ – Economics Bitcoin News
Over the last two days, Bloomberg Intelligence commodity analyst Mike McGlone published the firm’s commodity and crypto outlook reports, and McGlone’s latest analysis details that the price of gold co...
Verizon’s ‘attractive’ dividend and growth potential earn stock an upgrade
Verizon Communications Inc. shares are fresh off their worst quarterly performance in two decades, but one analyst thinks the name deserves a fresh look. Oppenheimer analyst Timothy Horan upgraded Ver...
Short positions are building in Credit Suisse, but it’s still not the European bank with the most bets against it.
Credit Suisse shares have dropped to record lows this week and derivatives bets against it have surged, but the Swiss lender is not even the most shorted European bank in Europe. Make no mistake, shor...
The stock market is wrong: the economy isn’t going to ‘blow a gasket’ just yet, warns economist
While this year’s sharp selloff in stocks might feel brutal, particularly after the carnage of September, the S&P 500 remains about 17.1% above year-end 2019 levels, according to Dow Jones Market ...
10 energy stocks that are analysts’ favorites as OPEC makes oil-production cuts
The OPEC+ group of oil-producing countries has agreed on a drastic cut to the global supply. The speculation has helped oil reverse its recent declines. And that means it’s time to take another look a...
He nailed three big S&P 500 moves this year. Here’s where this strategist sees stocks headed next, with beaten down names to buy.
A Wall Street hat trick may not be on the cards, with stocks in the red for Wednesday. A two-day rally was never a guaranteed exit out of the bear woods anyway, as some say signs of a durable bottom a...
Oil Prices Slip Despite Prospect of Major Supply Cut
Oil prices fell slightly in early trading after two sessions of strong gains, ahead of an OPEC+ meeting on Wednesday when the oil group and its allies are expected to debate the biggest reduction in o...
Global economy will ‘crumble’ if Fed doesn’t stop hiking interest rates, billionaire investor Sternlicht says
““They are going to cause unbelievable calamities if they keep up their action, and not just here, all over the globe,” ” — Barry Sternlicht, CEO, Starwood Capital Group Billionaire Barry Sternlicht,...
Opinion: This week’s big rebound in stocks means the bear market is alive and well
Nhac Nguyen/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Caution: The stock market’s explosive rise in the past two days doesn’t necessarily mean the bear market is over. If anything, the rally suggests that the...
‘This is not healthy’: The latest advance for stocks could signal more pain ahead for markets. Here’s why
U.S. stocks kicked off the fourth quarter with sharp gains as the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +2.80% appears headed for its biggest two-day rally in more than 2½ years. But as tempting as it mi...
21 dividend stocks yielding 5% or more of companies that will produce plenty of cash in 2023
When the stock market has jumped two days in a row, as it has now, it is easy to become complacent. But the Federal Reserve isn’t finished raising interest rates, and recession talk abounds. Stock inv...
Opinion: Your off-ramp for I-bonds is coming up soon if you bought the securities for their juicy 9.6% yield
You can hold on to Series I bonds for 30 years, but if you jumped in when the interest rate skyrocketed to 9.62%, you might be looking for an off-ramp well before then. If you were attracted primarily...
Opinion: This 401(k) bill opens the door to risky assets
Senators Pat Toomey, Tim Scott and Peter Meijer have just proposed a bill in Congress that would allow 401(k) plans to stretch beyond traditional investments like stocks and bonds. And when we say “be...
U.S. Regulators Have to Rely on 70-Year-Old Case Law to Determine What’s a Security or Commodity
SEC and CFTC are working together to regulate the crypto space Gensler admitted that bitcoin is a commodity BTC Price at the time of writing – $19,232.87 Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (...
Opinion: Could there be a stock market rally? Probably. Would it be the end of the bear market? Probably not.
The stock market’s low for the year on the last day in September is likely to be breached in this bear market, according to a contrarian analysis of market timer sentiment. That’s because at no point ...