When central bankers and economists gather in Jackson Hole, Wyo., this coming week to debate the trajectories of inflation and monetary policy, there will be hopeful talk of peak prices and renewed di...
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The Oil Surplus Could Persist. Expect Prices to Fall
Text size This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Expect Oil Prices to Fall THINK Economic and Finan...
U.S. dollar is now slicing through key technical levels ‘like a hot knife in butter’
The U.S. dollar is back on the upswing and headed toward the year-to-date highs seen in mid-July following a period of relative dormancy over the past month as investors pulled back on expectations of...
Nvidia, Salesforce, Zoom, Macy’s, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Numerous technology and retail companies will report their latest quarterly results this week. Federal Reserve watchers will be tuning into the central bank’s annual confab in Jackson Hole, ...
The U.S. economy is still sluggish — leading indicators fall for fifth month in a row
The numbers: The U.S. leading index fell by 0.4% in July to mark the fifth decline in a row, reflecting a slowdown in the economy tied to rising interest rates and pessimism among consumers. Economist...
The Bulls Still Own This Market. But Cracks Are Starting to Show.
Text size Riskier and more speculative pockets of the market have led the rally, which has coincided with a decline in bond yields. NYSE If it looks like a bull market and acts like a bull market, it’...
What $80 Billion More for the IRS Means for Your Taxes
The last Tax Report came out just as Congress took up the Inflation Reduction Act, and it discussed the bill’s $80 billion in proposed new Internal Revenue Service funding. Over half the new dollars w...
Dow Futures Fall as Wall Street Parses Mixed Signals on Pace of Rate Hikes
Text size Investor focus remains on the Federal Reserve’s pace of future interest-rate increases. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Stock futures pointed to a lower start for Wall Street Friday as inve...
July existing-home sales fall for the sixth straight month, realtors see ‘housing recession’
The numbers: U.S. existing-home sales fell 5.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.81 million in July, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. This is the sixth straight monthly de...
This contrarian investor gave a timely warning for the last big tech top. He now sees the biggest drop of this bear market dead ahead.
When can we truly say goodbye to this bear market? While Bank of America’s global fund managers are no longer “apocalyptically bearish,” some on Wall Street remain wary. Add our call of the day to tha...
20 bank stocks expected to benefit the most from rising interest rates as the Federal Reserve fights inflation
When companies report financial results, analysts tend to make comparisons to the year-earlier quarter. But there are times when sequential improvements can be telling. This is one of those times for ...
Dow Futures Steady as Fed Signals Need to Keep Raising Interest Rates
Text size Federal Reserve officials agreed they need to keep raising interest rates to cool inflation. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Stock futures fluctuated Th...
Did the stock market ‘misinterpret’ Fed again? What strategists say about the reaction to the July minutes
Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s meeting in July — at which policy makers hiked the benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points, indicate stock-market participants were too quick to price in a “less ...
J&J Unit Tells Appeals Court Only Bankruptcy Can Settle Talc Claims
A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary urged a federal appeals court to uphold the controversial legal strategy it used to move to bankruptcy roughly 38,000 lawsuits linking its talc-based products to can...
Ford’s green bond sees $5 billion in demand as Biden signs climate bill
Investors swarmed over Ford Motor Co.’s new $1.75 billion green-bond deal on Tuesday to help boost its development of more electric vehicles. Order books for Ford’s F, +0.67% speculative-grade debt de...
U.S. stock futures slip from 3-month highs as traders await Fed minutes and retail sales data
U.S. stock futures fell back from recent highs as bulls held their fire ahead of the release of Fed minutes later on Wednesday How are stock-index futures trading S&P 500 futures ES00 ES00, -0.74%...
The World’s Largest Hedge Fund Sold 5 Chinese Stocks. Here’s Why.
Text size Bridgewater Associates no longer owned stock in Alibaba Group Holding as of June 30, according to a regulatory filing. Alibaba’s headquarters in Hangzhou, China, is pictured above. STR...
Ready to cash out some gains on this stock market run? An exit path is about to emerge, says this strategist
Welcome to moody Monday, with stock futures down and oil prices getting hit hard after a batch of downbeat data from China, alongside a surprise rate cut. Some say that the global growth engine’s econ...
Walmart, Target, Cisco, Deere, Housing Data, and Other Things for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Earnings season continues next week in what will be an action-packed stretch for retail stocks. Walmart and Home Depot report results on Tuesday, followed by Bath & Body Works , Lowe’s, ...
‘Irrational expectations’ are keeping commodity prices unsustainably low, warns Goldman
A previous version of this report incorrectly spelled the name of Jefferie Curry of Goldman Sachs. It has been corrected. A combine harvesters of Astarta-Kyiv agri-industrial holding harvests wheat on...
Stocks Could Keep Rising If the Fed Shows Restraint
Text size As the market rebounds, speculative stocks are stirring. For proof, consider Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF, up about 40% since mid-June. David Swanson/Reuters/Alamy What bear market? Stoc...
Opinion: Stop misreading the Fed: It’s not getting cold feet about wrestling inflation to the ground
The Federal Reserve isn’t as mysterious as it’s made out to be. It’s not hiding coded messages in its communications. It’s not using obscure metaphors that seem to say one thing but actually mean the ...