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U.S. consumer is soldiering on despite soaring inflation and recession risk, credit card giants say
Shoppers carry bags in San Francisco, California, on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. consumers have demonstrated a willingness to continue to pay higher pri...
New IRS tax brackets and standard deduction could save families hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Now, for the bad news.
In a time of rising costs, the Internal Revenue Service just raised income-tax brackets through new inflation adjustments for next year. It might feel tough sometimes to link the IRS with the concept ...
Why the housing market should brace for double-digit mortgage rates in 2023
Even if Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his cohorts stopped hiking policy rates soon, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate still would climb to 10%, according to Christopher Whalen, chairman of ...
Crypto: the safest credit cards
A crypto card works similarly to a debit or credit card. It can be used to pay for goods or services, wherever the card provider is accepted. Generally, crypto cards are associated with personal cred...
Biden’s EV tax credit rules deal ‘astronomical’ blow to business
DETROIT – The Biden administration’s elimination of tax credits for imported electric vehicles deals a massive blow to Hyundai Motor’s business, an executive for the automaker said Wednesd...
Yes, you can earn 7.5% on a checking account right now — and here’s the deal with it
Some checking and savings accounts are now paying far more. Getty Images/iStockphoto When you see a rate like 7.5% — on a checking account no less — you might think: This can’t be, right? Well it can,...
Why stock market investors should wait for the 10-year Treasury to ‘blink’
When a key part of the U.S. bond market starts shrugging off new Federal Reserve interest rate hikes or tough talk on inflation, it’s probably time to buy stocks, according to James Paulsen, the Leuth...
Goldman Sachs Reports Earnings Today. Everyone Is Watching For This.
Goldman Sachs Group is the last of the big banks to post third-quarter earnings but Wall Street is more concerned over the investment bank’s bigger plans. Over the last few weeks reports have noted th...
‘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...
Credit Suisse Slashes Assets and Staff; Deutsche Bank Faces Fresh Crisis
Credit Suisse is planning to decimate its workforce and sell off key assets as the institution attempts to emerge from a period of financial distress, and Deutsche Bank is being sued by an employee. C...
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 ...
This simple chart reveals how much you need to save at 35 to become a millionaire by 65
What it takes to become a millionaire Getty Images/iStockphoto If you’re in your 30s and already dreaming of retirement, you may be wondering: Just how much do I need to start socking away to retire? ...
Tesla, Goldman Sachs, Netflix, AT&T, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
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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...
What bank earnings tell us about how consumers are doing with high inflation, recession worries — ‘It’s not a crack in current numbers’
For all the worries about inflation’s pinch and the chance of a recession, just-released earnings reports from big banks indicate the wallets of many regular Americans are generally holding up as they...
‘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...
UBS Joins Wall Street Chorus Warning of More US Credit Defaults
(Bloomberg) — The odds are rising that corporate borrowers will struggle to repay their debts as the Federal Reserve opts for jumbo interest-rate hikes to combat inflation, according to UBS Grou...
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...
As the Russian Army Digs In, A Pro-Kremlin Mercenary Company Goes On The Attack in Ukraine—And Begs For Credit
The Wagner Group in Ukraine. Via social media Six weeks after the Ukrainian army launched twin counteroffensives in northeastern and southern Ukraine, Russian forces all across the country are digging...
Opinion: Bernanke’s Nobel prize is harmful because it rewards faulty thinking on how banks actually work
The Nobel Memorial Prize awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig is controversial, to say the least. Mainstream economists are generally delighted that the Nobel Committee has at la...
Cardano’s success isn’t delayed, credit goes to these factors
Cardano’s team, once notorious for delayed upgrades and updates, has been making great strides in the overall development of the blockchain. Following the successful implementation of the Vasil hardfo...
Fed Swaps $9 Billion to Swiss National Bank, Bail Out For Credit Suisse? – Trustnodes
The Federal Reserve Banks have extended $6.3 billion to the Swiss National Bank through the Dollar Liquidity Swap line. That’s after swapping $3.1 billion last week, with Credit Suisse announcing shor...
Citigroup Reports Earnings Friday. What to Expect.
Wall Street will be looking for more signs of Citigroup turnaround when the bank posts third-quarter results Friday. Like all banks, Citigroup (ticker: C) has faced challenges this year as it has had ...
JPMorgan Report Earnings Today. What to Expect.
JPMorgan Chase will kick off the third-quarter profit-reporting for the big banks on Friday, and Wall Street is looking ahead to the numbers with tempered expectations. Speaking at a CNBC conference t...
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 ...
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 ...
How to save a bundle on your tax return
This is Part Two of our list of suggested year-end strategies. Part 1 discusses gaming the federal standard deduction, and managing capital gains and losses. The tax environment is getting friendlier ...