If There’s a Recession Coming, Not Even the Fed Could Stop It Now

The word recession is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Influential investor and philanthropist George Soros is talking about it in Davos. The Federal Reserve, on the day minutes are published, is cons...

WeWork founder reinvents himself with $70M crypto carbon credit platform

Three years after being ousted as CEO of WeWork, Adam Neumann has jumped on the crypto bandwagon, raising $70 million in the first major funding round for his climate tech venture Flowcarbon. The proj...

‘I have great plans for myself’: My girlfriend doesn’t understand how her student loan works and rents a pricey apartment. What if we marry — and divorce? 

My girlfriend and I have been in a relationship for seven months, and it is getting more serious. I don’t expect us to get married in the next year but I like to plan ahead and if things keep working ...

Good news for home buyers? Fannie Mae chief economist says the U.S. housing market has finally turned a corner. Here’s why.

The inventory shortage, high prices and rising interest rates have finally bitten. Single-family home sales fell sharply by 16.6% in April to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 591,000, accordin...

‘Real wealth destruction’: This Deutsche Bank chart shows what could happen to assets in a repeat of the stagflationary 1970s.

While the decade is still young, if inflation sticks around for the next few years, things could get pretty ugly for investors. That’s according to this chart from Deutsche Bank, which shows how a ran...

Russian ruble surges on report some capital controls may ease up

The Russian ruble surged on Monday, following a report that the government plans to cut a key foreign exchange limit for exporters. The ruble RUBUSD, +1.83% surged 6.8% against the dollar on Monday, h...

Monkeypox cases are driving up stock prices for these companies

Growing concern about the emergence of monkeypox in Europe and the U.S. has sent shares of several vaccine and drug companies soaring. Though infections are rarely reported outside of Central and West...

Deteriorating earnings revisions could knock stocks down another 5% to 10%, warns Morgan Stanley

U.S. company earnings revisions are “deteriorating quickly,” threatening to deepen the stock-market’s losses so far this year, according to a note from Morgan Stanley’s wealth-management division. “Ne...

Bank of America is raising its hourly minimum wage to $22 — here’s how many people don’t even come close to pay like that

Bank of America workers are getting a pay bump at the end June when minimum wages climb to $22 as a part of the major bank’s longstanding plan to get its starting rate to $25 by 2025. It’s good news f...

The Great Resistance is here. Companies and employees are in a battle of wills over returning to the office.

Amy Faust Liggayu, 32, a market-research project manager based in Tinley Park, Ill., and mother of a 7-month-old son, never imagined she would have a life where she could spend five days a week with h...

75% of Americans feel credit card convenience negatively affects mental health

Many people in the United States believe their mental health is suffering because of the desire to use credit cards, even if they know this is not the best course of action.  Over a thousand people in...

XRP Ledger To See Carbon Credit NFTs With Ripple’s New $100,000,000 Investment Fund

Ripple Labs is announcing a $100 million investment fund that will see carbon credit non-fungible tokens (NFTs) come to the XRP Ledger. According to a new press release, Ripple’s new initiative aims t...

US Corporate Credit Spreads Hover Around ‘Danger Zone’

(Bloomberg) — Investors who are fretting that the Federal Reserve’s campaign to tame inflation is putting pressure on stocks might want to take a closer look at corporate bonds. Most Read from B...

A Near-Retiree Wants to Maximize His Social Security. Here’s Some Advice.

Noli Cabantug has spent his career going back and forth between the public and private sectors. Now, at age 58, he’s wondering what his retirement income will look like and what he can do over the nex...

‘The dip is your friend’: Why some advisers are telling young investors to buy stocks, despite stagflation fears roiling markets

How low can stocks go? This question has made investors nervous, as they fear one bottom after another. The answer: Pick a number. Some analysts say brace for further drops, others expect a bounce. Wa...

Buy the dip or sell the ‘rip’?: What’s next as S&P 500 tests bear-market territory

Investors, already grappling with a sinking stock market and fears that the U.S. economy may be heading for a recession, now turn their focus to the consumer. For one thing, consumer discretionary sto...

Northrop Grumman and 5 More Companies That Raised Their Dividends This Week

Text size Northrop Grumman said it would raise its stock dividend. Courtesy of Northrop Grumman American Tower , Chubb , and Northrop Grumman were among the U.S. companies this week that announced pla...

ProBit Global Introduces Convenient Fiat Option for Traders to Buy Crypto with Credit Card

Place/Date: – May 20th, 2022 at 10:31 am UTC · 2 min read Source: ProBit Global Photo: ProBit Global According to the multinational financial services corporation Visa, consumers buying crypto w...

A bear-market rally could be lurking, but investors should ‘sell any rips,’ says Bank of America

Despite the extensive losses seen for stock markets so far this year, it’s not over until it’s over — and investors should keep selling into any big rebounds higher. That’s the advice from a team of s...

Why one hedge-fund manager invests in Bank of America and says Tether’s days are numbered

Guy Spier, the fund manager of the Aquamarine Fund, has no shortage of praise to pour upon Jamie Dimon, the chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase. “The combination of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan...

5 economists and real estate pros on what mortgage rates will look like for 2022

What should you expect for mortgage interest rates in 2022? Getty Images/iStockphoto Mortgage rates have reached their highest point in 13 years, according to Bankrate’s national survey of lenders. An...

Worried about your investments? Here’s how the smart money made 100% when market gloom was this bad.

The best news for investors that I’ve heard in a long time is that the M.B.A. geniuses who manage the world’s pension funds now hate the stock market with a vengeance. According to the latest comprehe...

Americans are still saving for retirement — and becoming 401(k) millionaires

Americans may be afraid to look at their retirement accounts thanks to stock market volatility, but many investors are still staying the course, according to Fidelity Investments’ most recent data rel...

You bought. They sold. Meet some of the insiders who unloaded $35 billion in stock amid the tech IPO bonanza before it tanked.

A year ago, Heather Hasson and Catherine “Trina” Spear traveled from Santa Monica, Calif., to New York to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. The co–chief executives of FIGS, an onli...

Is Inst.Money adding NEO for credit card purchase support in the fiat ramp platform?

Inst.Money also offers its business partners and other rails users its services related to debit and credit cards services Recently crypto trading and purchasing service provider platform Inst.Money h...

A ‘summer of pain’ for stocks? Nasdaq Composite could plunge 75% from peak, and S&P 500 skid 45% from top, warns Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd

The carnage playing out in the U.S. stock market on Wednesday is likely an amuse-bouche compared with the devastation on the menu for the bulls in the coming months and years, Guggenheim Partners Glob...

‘I partially support my partner of 12 years as his business is, sadly, failing’: I’m 33, and have $300,000 in company stock. Should I sell those shares to pay off my debt of $56,000?

I am 33 years old, I currently make just over $120,000 a year, including an annual bonus, and my company has gifted me with around $300,000 in equity in the firm, although our stock is brand new, so i...

Here’s what a modern Volcker-style inflation fight could look like, SocGen says

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has begun talking about a “softish landing” for the economy as the central bank squares off against high inflation by raising rates and cutting its nearly $9 tri...

Which of Buffett’s bank stocks might make you the most money?

This is the time of the quarter when investors get to see what changes Warren Buffett and the management team at Berkshire Hathaway have made to the conglomerate’s stock portfolio. The big splash in B...

Is it now or never for a stock rally? Fund managers’ cash pile is the biggest since 2001, says Bank of America

Fearing stagflation and higher interest rates, global money managers have been amassing cash at a level not seen in two decades. That’s according to an “extremely bearish” May survey of global money m...

Paxos, State Street, and Credit Suisse Trial Permissioned Blockchain for Same-Day Trade Settlement

Paxos launched a new blockchain-based pilot in partnership with State Street that boasts same-day settlement times (also known as “T+0”) for stock trading. Credit Suisse also participated ...