The cost of hedging against another equity market blowup has risen to its highest level since October as investors brace for a surge in volatility as U.S. stocks head for their worst week in nearly tw...
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Why the stock market’s ‘FOMO’ rally stalled out and what will decide its fate
A torrid, tech-led stock-market rally stalled out this past week as investors began to come around to what the Federal Reserve has been telling them. Bulls, however, see room for stocks to continue th...
10 value stocks for today’s market
Did the tide turn away from value in January and back in favor of growth? I’m referring to the relative performance of issues that trade for low ratios of price to net worth (value stocks) and those t...
The Stock Market Is Dropping Again. This Is What’s Happening.
The stock market is losing steam all of a sudden, probably because investors had just gotten too aggressive in their assumptions about a recovery in the economy and profits in 2024. The market has be...
‘The short end of the curve is very sexy today’: But where should ETF investors bet on bonds?
Hello! This week’s ETF wrap brings you some of the buzz around fixed income at the recent Exchange conference in Miami, including views from BlackRock, DoubleLine, PIMCO, State Street and Fairlead Str...
Crypto tumble as concerns over regulation intensifies
Bitcoin tumbled to a three-week low Thursday, as crypto exchange Kraken halted its staking program and agreed to pay $30 million to settle charges brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission....
Deeply inverted Treasury curve narrowly misses reaching 41-year milestone
A bond-market gauge of impending U.S. recessions fell just shy of reaching its most negative reading since October 1981, when interest rates were 19% under Paul Volcker’s Federal Reserve. That gauge, ...
Coinbase Warns of ‘Staking’ Crackdown. The Stock Is Tumbling.
Text size Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images The CEO of Coinbase Global warned the Securities and Exchange Commission might be considering cracking down on a process ...
Sell your Bank of America shares now, says KBW
Shares of the largest U.S. banks have been performing well so far this year, but David Konrad of Keefe, Bruyette and Woods believes the party is over for Bank of America Corp. Konrad downgraded Bank o...
Commodity Strategist Mike McGlone Says Cryptocurrencies May Be Facing Their First Real Recession – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News
Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone has warned that “cryptos may be facing their first real recession.” The Federal Reserve tightening despite the risk of a recession “co...
15 dividend stocks whose 5% to 10% yields appear safe in 2023 and 2024 by this analysis
Corrected dividend stock screen table, because Hanesbrands had eliminated its dividend on Feb. 2. See note above table. If you are investing in dividend stocks, the last thing you want to see is a com...
‘And then 2022 happened’: I borrowed $500,000 from friends and family to invest in the stock market, foolishly promising a 10% return. Can I avoid legal action?
Dear Quentin, I am a budding options/futures trader with my own sole proprietor investment business. Heading into 2022, I took on a large cash infusion of $500,000 from friends and family under the g...
No wonder Powell didn’t commit to extra hikes. Here are five reasons the January jobs report may be too good to be true.
Traders took heart that Fed Chair Jerome Powell, when he wasn’t being questioned by David Rubinstein on how he gets by on $190,000 per year, didn’t commit on Tuesday to having to be even more aggressi...
‘I am watching my inheritance evaporate’: My brother and sister constantly hit our parents up for money. What can I do to stop this?
I am 46 and single. I have a good job and own my own home but live modestly. I have been fortunate not to have had to ask my parents for anything over the years. My brother and sister, by contrast, ha...
‘Edge of a swamp’: JPMorgan strategist sees ‘one time only sale’ in fixed income as U.S. economy slows
Fixed-income yields “all look good,” and you might want to get some while you still can, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s David Kelly. It’s a “one time only sale,” said Kelly, chief global stra...
U.S. stock futures nudge higher ahead of comments from Fed chief Powell
U.S. stock index futures rose on Tuesday ahead of comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, speaking for the first time since a blowout January jobs report caused traders to shift their inter...
Goldman Sachs ups its near-term S&P 500 target due to brighter economic picture. But that could knock 25% off stocks, strategists say.
Provided there are no more economic surprises, stocks are unlikely to face a near-term meltdown and the S&P 500 could work its way back to 4,000. That’s according to a team of Goldman Sachs strate...
The next few days may reveal whether investors have been riding one big suckers rally, says this strategist.
Stocks are off to a weaker start as caution grips investors following Friday’s monster jobs beat. While subject to revisions, that 517,000 surge in U.S. jobs may have shredded hopes among some that th...
U.S. stock futures point to further losses after payrolls shocker
U.S. stock futures pointed to a second day of losses Monday after an unexpectedly strong jobs report renewed worries about how high the Federal Reserve will have to take interest rates. What’s happeni...
Commodity guru says cryptocurrencies ‘may be facing their first real recession’
As the cryptocurrency market begins to consolidate its bullish advances since the year’s turn, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Mike McGlone has shared his analysis in which he suggests that c...
Bed Bath & Beyond’s lifeline comes at ‘incredible cost’ to shareholders, analyst warns
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.’s equity offering may be a lifeline as the troubled retailer teeters on the brink of bankruptcy — but it could spell trouble for the company’s shareholders, according to Wed...