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...
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How bear markets trick gullible investors
Bear markets like to trick you into thinking they have come to an end. They do that by mounting explosive one-day rallies. Those jumps more often than not turn out to be traps that lure the gullible b...
Debt and Dividends Can Co-Exist. Here Are 5 Stocks That Shouldn’t Wilt.
Despite a hefty debt load, Deere has a healthy dividend-payout ratio that should allow its disbursements to continue. Courtesy of John Deere Text size Although a heavy debt load can sometimes crimp or...
‘We’re in technical recession, but just don’t realize it’: Bank of America sees more ‘shocks’ to come
The shocks aren’t over. Get ready. That’s the timely Friday advice of Bank of America, delivered hours before worse-than-expected U.S. inflation data knocked the wind out of Wall Street and left inves...
Suze Orman says to do this right now if you’re worried about inflation
The rate of U.S. inflation reached a 40-year high of 8.6% in May as overall prices for things including rent, gas and food all remain on the rise. Financial commentator and host of the “Women & Mo...
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...
Americans Lost $544 Billion And Racked Up Debt Last Quarter As Stocks Collapsed And Housing Prices Spiked
Topline Dragged down by the stock market’s worst quarter since the Covid-induced recession two years ago, the combined net worth of U.S. households tumbled by $544 billion in the first quarter, ...
Will El Salvador Default on Its Sovereign Debt in 2023?
More speculatively, El Salvador might be able to secure some financing from large players in the crypto space, the so-called “whales” who want to keep the idea of “nation-state bitcoin adoption&...
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...
Here’s why the stock market gets ‘squirrelly’ when bond yields rise above 3%
Stock-market investors seem to get jittery when the 10-year Treasury yield is trading above 3%. A look at corporate and government debt levels explains why, according to one closely followed analyst. ...
Home affordability has ‘collapsed’ in 2022. What to expect next, according to BofA
The double whammy of surging mortgage rates and skyrocketing home prices has led to “collapsed” housing affordability in America, according to Chris Flanagan’s team at BofA Global Research. The situat...
Michael Saylor takes debt to buy more Bitcoins
MicroStrategy has purchased over 129,000 bitcoins since creating its 1st move to feature the flagship cryptocurrency to its record in August 2020. The company, co-founded by chief operating officer Mi...
Biden Will Reportedly Delay Decision On Student Debt Forgiveness Until July Or August
Topline President Joe Biden will likely delay a decision on federal student debt forgiveness until later this summer, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, leaving tens of millions of borrowers wai...
Analysis: MicroStrategy has taken on $2.4 billion in debt to buy Bitcoin
MicroStrategy (MSTR) has purchased over 129,000 bitcoins since making its first move to add the flagship cryptocurrency to its balance sheet in August 2020. The company, co-founded by CEO Michael Sayl...
‘I’d love to be married now. I would love to be a dad by now. I’d love to have a home by now’: The winners and losers in Biden’s plan to cancel $10,000 in student-loan debt
The Biden administration is planning to cancel $10,000 in student-loan debt for borrowers earning below a specific income threshold. But for borrowers like Johnathan Perkins, 36, the amount of debt fo...
Will Russia Use Crypto to Pay Its Foreign Debt?
Russia is no longer able to pay bondholders through US banks Speculation has it that Russia is about to default on its foreign debt The Russian government is ...
Investors may be in for this rude surprise: History shows inflation can take years to return to normal even when Fed hikes above 10%
History can be a powerful tool, particularly in a high-inflation environment like this one in which no suitable economic model seems to apply. Inflation — running at 8.3% as of April, near a four-deca...
Fed’s quantitative tightening is about to arrive: What that might mean for markets
The Federal Reserve’s almost $9 trillion portfolio is about to be reduced starting on Wednesday, in a process intended to supplement rate hikes and buttress the central bank’s fight against inflation....
A Friend In Need Is A Friend In Debt? Sino-Russian Energy Woes
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, attend the Tsinghua … [+] Universitys ceremony, at Friendship Palace on April 26, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Photo ...
Russia May Turn to Crypto to Pay Off Its Foreign Debt as Sanctions Mount
US Treasury Department officials announced that Russia would no longer be able to pay bondholders through US banks after May 25, 2022 due to sanctions imposed by the Biden administration for its invas...
Record Trade At 19 Of Top 20 U.S. Ports, Inflation, Consumer Debt
The top 20 “ports” accounted for just under two-thirds of all U.S. trade, according to the latest … [+] data. Nineteen of the top 20 registered a record total. ustradenumbers.com Nin...
China faces a nearly $1 trillion funding gap. It will need more debt to fill it.
During the first four months of the year, investment in real estate development fell by 2.7% from a year ago. Pictured here is a project in Qingzhou, Shandong province, on May 15, 2022. CFOTO | Future...
Pay Debt or Feed People Is Hungry Nations’ Impossible Choice
(Bloomberg) — After Sri Lanka defaulted on its debt, Jack McIntyre, a portfolio manager at Brandywine Global Investment Management, started watching rice and grain prices more closely. Most Read...
Durability of U.S. stock- market bounce in question as inflation worries linger ahead of payrolls report
Investors took a breather this week as U.S. stocks bounced back from a weeks long selloff and the latest reading on inflation offered glimmers of optimism to those hoping for a peak in price pressures...
This Rally Could Force the Fed to Raise Rates Higher
The markets make the news, not the other way around, an insight that has been quite humbling to one who has made a living by reporting and analyzing the impact of news on financial markets. Consider t...
Stocks close sharply higher after inflation data; Dow snaps longest weekly losing streak since 1932
U.S. stocks ended sharply higher Friday, with all three major benchmarks booking weekly gains, after the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation for April had the smallest increase in a year ...
Dow books 4th day of gains, stocks rally after Fed minutes signal flexibility on interest rate hikes
Stocks closed higher Wednesday as investors took away a message of flexibility from the release of minutes of the early May Federal Reserve meeting about its path to higher interest rates. How did sto...
Here are 15 high-yield stocks expected to raise dividends the most through 2024
The stock market, shocked by the Federal Reserve’s policy changes to fight inflation, has been gored this year, with growth and technology companies bearing the brunt of the biggest declines. Dividend...
Weekend reads: If you agree that inflation has peaked, buy stocks in this sector
If everyone agreed about the direction of the economy, investing would be easy. But there are mixed signals about whether the rate of inflation has peaked, at least in the U.S. If you are among those ...