Statistics Are Mixed But On Balance Say The Economy Is Weak

Ambiguous economic chart. (Photo by Daniel ROLAND / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL ROLAND/AFP via Getty … [+] Images) AFP via Getty Images If you listen to the White House, you hear that the economy is s...

The High Cost Of The Inflation Reduction Act

One hundred American dollars being printed. getty The right policy mix to address our current economic malaise is tighter monetary policy and pro-growth tax and regulatory policies. While the Federal ...

Far from Putin’s claims of resilience, Russian economy is being hammered by sanctions and exodus of international companies, Yale report finds

Media reports trumpeting the resilience of the Russian economy in the face of the international response to its invasion of neighboring Ukraine are based on misunderstandings that don’t reflect what’s...

Growth accelerates for euro zone

Growth in the euro zone economy accelerated in the second quarter of the year, but the region’s prospects could be hit as Russia continues to reduce gas supplies. The 19-member bloc registered a...

Stock market’s post-Fed bounce is a ‘trap,’ warns Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson

“‘Ultimately, this will be a trap.’” — Mike Wilson, chief U.S. equity strategist and CIO, Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson, who correctly called the stock market’s 2022 swoon, isn’t convinc...

How the Federal Reserve fights inflation through interest rate hikes

Top officials at the Federal Reserve were seeing inflation data come in very hot for months before policymakers moved to wind down monetary policies that were stimulating the economy. A chorus of anal...

Expect Two Recessions, and a Quick End to the Fed’s Interest-Rate Hikes

Forward guidance sounds like a great idea. Central bankers should lay out their longer-term goals to influence financial markets. Just as hockey great Wayne Gretzky would skate where the puck was head...

There Are Signs Inflation May Have Peaked, but Can It Come Down Fast Enough?

Growing signs that price pressures are easing suggest that June’s distressingly high 9.1% increase in consumer prices will probably be the peak. But even if inflation indeed comes down, economists see...

Is the Stock Market Going Up? It Depends on the Definition of Recession.

Text size Tradersat the New York Stock Exchange. Seth Wenig/AP Not since Bill Clinton testified about the meaning of the word “is” has so much hinged on the meaning of one simple word. The word is “re...

Expect Two Recessions, and a Quick End to the Fed’s Hikes

Forward guidance sounds like a great idea. Central bankers should lay out their longer-term goals to influence financial markets. Just as hockey great Wayne Gretzky would skate where the puck was head...

Microsoft Stock Is a ‘Good Place to Hide.’ This Analyst CutsPrice Target Anyway.

Text size Microsoft updated its guidance to reflect higher foreign exchange headwinds ahead of its fourth-quarter earnings report. Jeenah Moon/Getty Images Microsoft won’t be immune to an economic slo...

Google’s stock split won’t matter in a recession, analyst says

Shares of Alphabet Inc. slumped Monday, with MKM Partners analyst Rohit Kulkarni saying the impact of an economic slowdown could offset the benefits from the long-waited stock split taking effect. The...

Recession Fears Are Top Of Mind, But We Should Be More Worried About America’s Weak Economic Growth

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 04: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the Roosevelt Room of … [+] the White House on May 4, 2022 in Washington, DC. President Biden delivered remarks ...

A Double-Dip Recession Is Coming. It Will Be Worse if the Fed Caves on Inflation

A double-dip recession like the one experienced in the early 1980s is likely, writes Robert Heller. Above, a line of people waiting to apply for jobs at a hotel in Tampa Bay, Fla., in 1982. AP/Shutter...

Will earnings season trigger another leg lower for the Dow? Investors hunt for recession clues

Stock-market investors just can’t get off the merry-go-round this summer. A stronger-than-expected U.S. June jobs report on Friday calmed fears that the economy might have already slipped into recessi...

Fed’s James Bullard Says 0.75-Point July Rate Rise Is Likely

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said he is ready to follow the U.S. central bank’s supersize June rate rise with the same thing at the end of this month. “Our goal has been t...

When Will the Recession Start? Sooner Than Investors Think.

About the author: Larry Hatheway is a co-founder of Jackson Hole Economics and the former chief economist of UBS . Economists and pundits who expect recession but not until 2023 may soon be surprised ...

rising costs are squeezing retailers’ margins

Retail businesses in Singapore are grappling with higher costs as rents rise and energy prices soar, the Singapore Retailers Association said.  Cost pressure is a big concern for many Singapore retail...

Opinion: Stocks could drop 50%, Nouriel Roubini argues. Things will get much worse before they get better.

NEW YORK (Project Syndicate)—The global financial and economic outlook for the year ahead has soured rapidly in recent months, with policy makers, investors, and households now asking how much they sh...

Powell says U.S. economy can handle the additional rate hikes that are coming

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday pushed back against economists who argue that aggressive Fed interest-rate hikes have increased the odds of a recession or hard landing for the U.S....

Stocks Historically Don’t Bottom Out Until the Fed Eases

Another week of whipsaw stock trading has many investors wondering how much farther markets will fall. Investors have often blamed the Federal Reserve for market routs. It turns out the Fed has often ...

Why stock-market investors are ‘nervous’ that an earnings recession may be looming

Investors are anxious the stock market may be facing an earnings recession, potentially leading to deeper losses after the S&P 500 index just suffered its worst week since March 2020.  “It’s prett...

70% of economists say America is headed for a recession: poll. How to invest now

Worried about a recession? Here are some tips from pros Getty Images/iStockphoto Many economists say the United States will fall into a recession next year, according to a new poll by the Financial Ti...

‘The economy is going to collapse,’ says Wall Street veteran Novogratz. ‘We are going to go into a really fast recession.’

Veteran investor and bitcoin bull Michael Novogratz doesn’t have a rosy outlook on the economy, which he described as headed for a substantial downturn, with the likelihood of a “fast recession” on th...

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...

Microsoft and Two Other Software Stocks for a Potential Recession

Text size Microsoft is a top pick of Bernstein software analyst Mark Moerdler for a potential recession. Drew Angerer/Getty Images The possibility of a bad recession is on everyone’s mind. On Tuesday,...

Salesforce earnings expected to serve as business-spending bellwether amid economic uncertainty

Salesforce Inc. is expected to have a much more subdued earnings report in the coming week as fear of a recession and inflation, as well as COVID shutdowns in China and the war in Ukraine, are prompti...

How To Invest For 7%+ Dividends As The Market Shifts

Portrait of senior man attending computer and technology education class, looking at camera. getty We all know the markets are undergoing a shift—and it’s time for us to stop and take a look at what i...

Avoiding Recession May Require Moving the Inflation Goal Post

Fed chief Jerome Powell, shown at a May 4 press conference, has said the central bank remains committed to bringing inflation down to 2%. Al Drago/Bloomberg Text size Signs of economic weakness are pi...

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...

The benefits of major cities amid remote work and rent inflation

Many renters believe that a cost-of-living crisis is brewing in America’s major cities. New York City is showing up as a hotspot of rent inflation. The average rent for 1-bedroom apartments in M...

Opinion: ‘I feel like I am reliving the summer of 2008.’ Strategist David Rosenberg sees bear market sinking the S&P 500 to 3,300

The U.S. stock and the bond markets are finally in the process of catching up with our views. We always believed these past two years represented a fake bull market built on sand, not concrete. And fr...