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...
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Retail Sales Flat, But External Factors May Take A Bite Out Of Holiday
Retail sales remained flat from August to September but external factors may impact spending this … [+] holiday season (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images). Getty Images Retail sales remained f...
How To Buy More Than $10,000 Of I Bonds Before The Rate Drops
The Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday released inflation numbers for September. The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose by 0.4 percent in September on a seasonally adjusted ba...
Rates on Treasury I Bonds Will Fall to 6.5% Soon. Get a Higher Rate Now.
The new rate on Treasury Series I inflation-linked savings bonds is likely to be set at 6.5% for bonds purchased starting in November, down from the current rate of 9.6%, Barron’s estimates. The new r...
What stock-market investors will be watching in Thursday’s U.S. inflation report
Hotter-than-expected U.S. consumer-price index readings have triggered some of the stock market’s biggest one-day selloffs in 2022, serving to focus investor attention ahead of the latest measure of r...
CPI, PPI And PCE – What’s The Difference Between U.S. Inflation Measures?
NEW YORK – AUGUST 14: With the focus on inflation, what do the different measures of Consumer Price … [+] Index (CPI) inflation, Producer Price Index (PPI) inflation and Personal Consumpti...
Zillow sees peak rent growth as over, but that isn’t what the Fed’s tracking
A look at Zillow Group’s closely followed rent index shows that last year’s roughly 17% yearly surge in rental prices was probably the peak, with the rate of increases dramatically receding in the pas...
Bulls Get Scorched by FedEx. Don’t Expect the Fed to Help.
Text size FedEx’s disappointing earnings and unexpectedly weak guidance were key factors in this past week’s stock market swoon. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg The stock market faces a doubly poisonous c...
Inflation Is Sticker Than It Looks. Consider the Cleveland Fed’s Data
Text size The food index increased by 11.4% year over year in August, according to the government’s latest CPI release. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Inflation is sticky — and even stickier than it ...
Inflation Hit the Stock Market. These Stocks Could Benefit From Rising Prices.
Text size *** ONE-TIME USE *** John Deere tractors Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Inflation doesn’t want to go away—and the stock market is reeling. Some stocks, though, could benefit if inflation remai...
U.S. inflation roars back in August, CPI shows, despite falling gas prices
The numbers: Falling gas price delivered a second low U.S. inflation reading in a row as the consumer price index rose by just 0.1% in August. But the report also showed inflation has spread more broa...
Is Inflation Finally Cooling Down?
AFP via Getty Images Key takeaways August’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) data was released early Tuesday morning, finding that headline inflation has increased 0.1% in August and core inflation has clim...
Dow Jumps 200 Points As Investors Brace For August Inflation Report And More Fed Rate Hikes
Topline The stock market moved higher on Monday, extending recent gains ahead of a key inflation report this week, with investors hoping for more signs that high consumer prices have peaked as the Fed...
These three potential ‘naked swimmers’ threaten stocks and financial markets
Following a hat trick for all three major indexes last week, both optimism and trepidation are in the air as a new trading stretch begins. But some, like the Kobeissi Letter’s editor in chief and foun...
When Is The September CPI Report, And What Should You Expect From It?
WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 16: U.S. Sen. Todd Young (R-ID) references a chart on rising costs during … [+] a press conference on inflation, at the Russell Senate Office Building on February...
How Should It Affect Your Investment Portfolio?
A picture representing the recent inflation in U.S. currency. Getty Images Inflation is wreaking havoc on budgets across the nation. With the Consumer Price Index (a key indicator of inflation) hittin...
Stocks Could Keep Rising If the Fed Shows Restraint
Text size As the market rebounds, speculative stocks are stirring. For proof, consider Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF, up about 40% since mid-June. David Swanson/Reuters/Alamy What bear market? Stoc...
Why home prices can stay high, complicating the Fed’s battle against inflation
Sky-high housing prices still threaten to complicate the Federal Reserve’s inflation fight, even as America’s market for single-family homes shows signs of cooling in response to sharply higher intere...
Dow Jumps 400 Points After Consumer Prices Cool Slightly In July—Has Inflation Peaked?
Topline The stock market surged higher on Wednesday after a better-than-expected inflation report for July, boosting investor sentiment as consumer prices fell for the first time in months, adding to ...
Don’t be fooled by a drop in U.S. headline inflation. Markets will be attuned to another figure on Wednesday.
Traders, investors and economists are all counting on Wednesday’s consumer-price index report to show a decline in the annual headline U.S. inflation rate for July. But there’s another figure buried i...
‘The real mortgage rate is a negative number.’ As inflation stubbornly sits at a 40-year high, do current mortgage rates look better than they seem?
What is the so-called ‘real mortgage rate’ and does it matter? Getty Images/iStockphoto I write about mortgage rates every week, but recently, I’ve heard some sources chattering about what’s called th...
U.S. inflation surges again and stays at 40-year high, key price gauge shows
The numbers: A key gauge of U.S. inflation rose a sharp 1% in June, led by higher fuel prices, in a sign that price pressures in the economy are still intense and unlikely to relent quickly. The incre...
Buy Healthcare Stocks To Beat Surprise Scourge Of Deflation
Investors should be weary of what the downturn in key commodity prices portends. While the large … [+] investment research firms worry about inflation, deflation is going to be much worse for co...
Dow Falls 300 Points After ‘Ugly’ Inflation Report Adds To Recession Fears
Topline The stock market tanked on Wednesday after the Labor Department reported inflation unexpectedly surged to new highs in June, adding to already widespread recession fears as investors believe t...
U.S. stock futures inch up ahead of CPI data that could show inflation at 40-year high
U.S. equity futures inched higher on Wednesday, though trading was timid ahead of U.S. data that could show stubborn inflation forcing a faster pace of rate rises from the Federal Reserve. How are sto...
U.S. June inflation report circulating on internet Tuesday is fake, Bureau of Labor Statistics says
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday that a release circulating online purporting to show June inflation data, due for release on Wednesday morning, was a forgery. “We’re aware of a fake ...
Commodity price declines may shape Fed’s rate-hike path, says economist
A significant downturn in commodity prices could give the Federal Reserve cover to change its aggressive pace of planned interest rate hikes, according to a report from Capital Economics. The centra...
How inflation affects 2023 tax brackets: You may get an unexpected ‘tax cut’
As you probably know, the federal income tax rate brackets, and many other federal tax parameters, are indexed for inflation using a factor based on the monthly average of changes in the chained Consu...
Opinion: The Federal Reserve is missing a crucial turning point in its fight against inflation because it believes in flawed data
The Federal Reserve can’t see the probable economic crash that is coming because it’s still looking into the rearview mirror, where it sees nothing but high inflation. The danger arises because the co...