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Discovery, Merck, Carnival, Broadcom, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited It’s a full week of annual shareholder meetings, investor days, and earnings reports. Broadcom hosts its annual meeting on Monday, followed by investor events from Merck, Analog D...
Fed’s Williams says could begin reducing balance sheet as soon as May meeting
The Federal Reserve may begin reducing its balance sheet as soon as its May 3-4 policy meeting to address the level of U.S. inflation that have become “particularly acute,” New York Fed chair John Wil...
What 10% inflation could look like for junk bonds: BofA
What happens to companies financed in the booming high-yield or “junk-bond” market on the off chance that U.S. inflation pegged at 7.9% in February soars to 10% and stays there? That’s a question Oleg...
Why a ‘1970s-style’ inflation spiral is a growing threat, according to a major hedge fund
One of the world’s largest macro hedge funds sees a rising risk of a 1970s-type wage-price spiral, according to a Thursday news report. “This combination of high inflation, tight labour markets, and u...
U.S. inflation jumps again and hits 6.4% rate, the Fed’s favorite price gauge shows
The numbers: The Federal Reserve’s favorite inflation calculator rose a sharp 0.6% in February and kept the increase over the past year at a 40-year high, explaining why the central bank plans to move...
Opinion: The economy is in much better shape than the headlines would tell you
Inflation is through the roof. There’s an oil crisis. A looming food crisis. You name it. War is raging in Europe. Russia’s president is starting to sound unhinged. And headlines are now linking him w...
Why the Postwar 1940s May Tell Us More About Our Inflation Than the ‘70s
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size As inflation stirs, economists have fixated on the 1970s. That’s a mistake, says Guggenheim’s chief investment officer, Scott Minerd, who believes the causes of t...
Why Housing May Not Get as Hammered as Usual in This Rate Hike Cycle
Traditional home buyers are sure to be pinched by rising mortgage rates, but better-financed investors could keep prices rising. Here, a home for sale in Houston last summer. Brandon Bell/Getty Images...
Weekend reads: the slowing housing market and inverted yield curve signal a coming recession
It is human nature to fear missing out as prices skyrocket, But all bubbles burst eventually. Ian Shepherdson of Pantheon Macroeconomics predicts a 25% decline in U.S. home sales. What will that do to...
Why Today’s Inflation Might Resemble the 1940s More Than the 1970s
Text size While the surge in energy prices has some likening the inflationary environment to the 1970s-80s, some observers think the postwar period is a better comparison. Here, pricey per-gallon cost...
Opinion: Ukraine war is a wake-up call to ditch oil and gas forever
That invasion, and the subsequent U.S. ban on oil imports from Russia, are partly responsible, but they aren’t the only reason. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the impact of t...
China’s Big Tech Firms Are Axing Thousands of Workers
BEIJING—China’s biggest tech companies are conducting large-scale layoffs this year as they deal with an economic slowdown and Beijing’s regulatory pressure. Tencent Holdings Ltd. TCEHY -7.14% , opera...
‘Reduced competition.’ 5 predictions for the housing market in 2022, from economists and real estate pros
We’ve already seen rates rise in the early months of 2022, and some pros say that will continue. Getty Images Aspiring home buyers may have watched as mortgage rates in recent months rose (though to b...
Weekend reads: There’s a recession warning as the Federal Reserve fights inflation
The Federal Reserve this week increased the federal funds rate for the first time since 2018. Long-term market interest rates had risen significantly as investors anticipated that the central bank wou...
Fed Not Doing Enough to Fight Inflation, Fed President Says. He May Be Right.
President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis James Bullard wants the Fed to move faster. Alastair Pike / AFP via Getty Images Text size St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard has...
Fed’s Powell sees the light — and turns far more hawkish than expected
After remaining stubbornly dovish last year, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday jumped the central bank squarely into the hawkish camp at his press conference on Wednesday. “The March...
China Gives Alibaba, Other Stocks a Lifeline. Can It Last?
Text size China said it would roll out market-friendly policies to help boost the stock market. Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images With a handful of vague comments about rolling out market-friendly poli...
The Fed got inflation badly wrong — and now it admits there’s no quick fix
Higher prices of gas, groceries, new cars and mortgage rates got you down? Americans may have to get used to it. The rate of inflation might not return to pre-pandemic levels of less than 2% for at le...
Inflation Is a Problem. Today’s PPI Just Confirms It.
Text size Costs for the companies that produce goods have gone up, too. STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images February’s producer-price index is out, but we didn’t need to wait for it to know that the...
Inverted Yield Curve Could Be Sending a Bogus Recession Warning
No topic has dominated the investment conversation lately as much as the yield curve. While it’s an arcane matter to most folks, we in the financial sphere have been thrown into a tizzy by this indica...