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What the Fed Rate Hike Means for Your Savings, Credit Cards and Loans
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A 75-basis-point hike? Here are 3 ways the Fed can sound more hawkish this week
The Federal Reserve’s plan to raise its benchmark rate to a neutral level, around 2.5%, by the end of the year is under pressure after a surprisingly strong May consumer-inflation data. “The May CPI w...
Dow tumbles as inflation reading triggers market shock waves: What investors need to know
From Wall Street to Main Street, fears that the U.S. economy could be sliding into 1970s-style “stagflation” have been percolating. References to the sticky situation appeared in news headlines all we...
The stock market and inflation: How the S&P 500 performs on CPI report days
Stock-market investors crowded the exits on Thursday, sending major stock indexes sharply lower a day ahead of another eagerly anticipated consumer-price index reading. Recent history may offer a clue...
U.S. didn’t get any relief from high inflation in May – CPI to show another big gain
Wall Street is looking for a sign, any sign, that U.S. inflation is coming off a rapid boil. But they are unlikely to find much cooling off in May’s report on consumer prices. The consumer price index...
Dow Drops 600 Points Ahead Of Looming Inflation Report
Topline Stocks plunged on Thursday as recession fears continued to weigh on markets and investors nervously looked ahead to a closely-watched consumer price index reading due Friday, with ongoing conc...
This big investor called inflation early and sees it above 7% at year’s end
Far from the bustle of Wall Street, inside his downtown Minneapolis office, Tim Magnusson got his first aching gut feeling about U.S. inflation in May of last year. That’s when U.S. government data sh...
Dow Falls Nearly 300 Points, Treasury Yields Surge As Experts Warn Of A Hard Economic Landing
Topline Stocks fell and rates on government bonds surged on Wednesday as investor concerns about a slowdown in economic growth continued to weigh on markets, while oil jumped to a 13-week high on the ...
Peak U.S. inflation? This obscure corner of the financial market says otherwise
In a little-known part of the financial market that’s had the most accurate reads on U.S. inflation so far, traders are pricing in an annual headline rate on the consumer-price index of 8.5% or higher...
The Stock Market Finally Had a Winning Week. Why It Might Not Last.
Text size Ed Yardeni, founder of Yardeni Research: “We now are raising the odds of a recession from 30% to 40%.” Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg The stock market ended its multiweek losing streak, and l...
U.S. inflation rate slows to 6.3%, Fed-favored PCE gauge shows, in a sign that price pressures could be peaking
The numbers: A key measure of U.S. inflation rose just 0.2% in April to mark the smallest increase in a year and a half, aided by lower gasoline prices. There were additional hints that a surge in U.S...
Inflation may be a lot lower than anyone thinks — even the Fed
U.S. inflation in April plunged to an annualized rate of 4.1% — less than half of where it stood in the prior month. This will no doubt come as a surprise for those of you who focus only on the financ...
The Inflation Measures That Business Leaders Should Follow
Inflation is rising however you measure it. Dr. Bill Conerly based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Business leaders have two concerns about inflation: their own particular selling prices a...
How Inflation Changed The Price Of A Hamburger [Infographic]
Consumers all around the United States are forced to save their dollars and count their pennies as high inflation is putting pressure on household budgets. U.S. inflation rose another 8.3% year-over-y...
I Bonds Set To Deliver Historic 9.62% Interest Rate
What will deliver higher returns over the next 12 months, I bonds or bitcoin? A year ago such a question would have been silly. Today, not so much. Bitcoin BTC has struggled in 2022, down more than 10...
Inflation Isn’t Close to Peaking. Why Prices Will Keep Rising.
The producer price index showed surging prices for meat and fish categories, costs that tend to crop up in the grocery store. Here, a market in Monterey Park, Calif., on a recent day. Frederic J. BROW...
Municipal Bonds Are Down So Much That They’re Buys Again
Text size Al Drago/Bloomberg A funny thing happened in the past week, as news emerged of inflation hitting a four-decade high. A few strategists started looking a bit more positively on bonds, or at l...
Three value stocks that can provide safety as interest rates rise
Stocks have been on a rocky road this year, as investors have tried to anticipate every possible move by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation. Value strategies have held up better than growth strat...
The Safe Investment That Will Soon Yield Almost 10%
There’s no such thing as a free lunch in finance. Except maybe this: The interest rate on inflation-adjusted U.S. savings bonds will approach 10% beginning in May. U.S. Treasury Series I Bonds, or I B...
Markets Are Ignoring 8.5% Inflation Spike And Watching This Number Instead
Topline The stock market moved higher on Tuesday, even after consumer prices spiked 8.5% in the 12 months ending in March, as some investors hope that inflation is showing signs of moderating, with co...
Retail’s Pending Recession Is Fueled By Inflation With Seeds Of Stagnation
The Cyclone rollercoaster at Coney Island at night. (Photo by: Loop Images/Universal Images Group … [+] via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images While everyone awaits the releas...
U.S. inflation jumps again and hits 6.4% rate, the Fed’s favorite price gauge shows
The numbers: The Federal Reserve’s favorite inflation calculator rose a sharp 0.6% in February and kept the increase over the past year at a 40-year high, explaining why the central bank plans to move...
Inflation Spiked 7.9% In February—Hitting 40-Year High Amid Growing Uncertainty Over Record Gas Prices
Topline Consumer prices rose 7.9% in the 12 months ending in February, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department, climbing at the quickest pace in four decades amid an unprecedented ...
Inflation Spiked 7.5% In January—Hitting Nearly 40-Year High
Topline Consumer prices rose 7.5% in the 12 months ending in January, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department, climbing more than economists expected amid an inflationary surge tha...
What Is The Importance Of Inflation For Investors?
Getty Images TL;DR: Inflation has a direct effect on consumer spending, which also affects consumer stocks. Inflation impacts the economy at large, but certain industries like consumer goods and the s...
These 19 large-cap stocks have now dropped at least 60% from their 52-week highs
The latest inflation figures on June 10 were worse than expected and the effect on stock prices was brutal. A list of stocks in the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100 Index that have fallen at least 60% f...