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China’s Auto Sales Are Booming. Can the Rebound Last?
Text size China’s auto market is showing a robust rebound. Here: a BYD Tang vehicle at the company’s showroom in Beijing. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg While the recent recovery in much of China’s ...
Fed Minutes Get Released Today. 4 Things to Watch.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in June 2022. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Text size When the Federal Reserve releases minutes from its June 14-15 meeting today, investors will get a deeper look ...
Home Prices Will Drop Soon, Capital Economics Says. Here’s What to Expect.
Text size Rising interest rates are expected to douse a red-hot housing market. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Home prices in nations such as Canada, Australia, and the U.S. are on the verge of...
Stock Market Today: U.S. Futures Wobble, Global Stocks Rise on July 4 Holiday
Text size Wall Street is closed for the Fourth of July. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images Global stocks were mostly higher and U.S. futures wavered on the Fourth of July. While it is set to be a quiet day...
June Jobs Data, FOMC Minutes, Levi’s Earnings, and More for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited The stock market will be closed on Monday for Independence Day. It will be a light week on the earnings calendar once investors return, but with plenty of notable economic release...
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust’s Discount Is Tempting. Why It’s Not a Slam Dunk.
There is a way to buy Bitcoin for nearly a third less than the market price, but investors do so at their peril. That is the broad lesson to draw from the travails of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (tick...
Home Prices Could Level Out in 2023, Redfin Says. What Could Make Them Drop.
Text size The median home sale price was 14% higher for the four-week period ending June 26 from a year earlier, Redfin said. Joe Raedle/Getty Images As the housing market cools down from its red-hot ...
The S&P 500 Had Its Worst First Half Since 1970. What the Second Half Holds.
The S&P 500 has posted its worst first half of a year since Richard Nixon’s presidency, and many investors worry it has yet to hit bottom. In the first six months of 2022, the widely followed larg...
The Latest Inflation Data Is (Mildly) Good News for the Fed
Fed chief Jerome Powell, shown testifying before a House panel last week, may not have to raise rates as aggressively at coming meetings as some inflation data are showing signs of peaking. Win McName...
Banks Are Healthy. Why They’re Holding Back on Dividends.
Text size JPMorgan Chase held its dividends flat due to increasing capital requirements following the Federal Reserve’s stress test. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Banks may have gotten a clean bill of...
Gas-Tax Holiday Is a Gimmick. Here Are Some Better Ideas.
President Biden’s proposed gas-tax holiday is both a gimmick and dead on arrival. Yet, it is attracting inordinate attention across Washington and on Wall Street. There are viable ways to improve ener...
Best and Worst Spots in the U.S. Housing Market, According to Lennar
Elias Stein Text size Jersey and Florida are hot. Austin and Seattle are not. On Tuesday, home builder Lennar ’s co-CEO Richard Beckwitt on an earnings call provided a tour of U.S. housing markets. “S...
Senate Advances Bill to Raise Age for RMDs to 75
Text size Savers can wait longer to begin emptying retirement accounts under pending legislation. Eric Lee/Bloomberg The Senate Finance Committee advanced a bill on Wednesday that would raise the age ...
Biden Proposes Gas Tax Suspension. That’s Not Why Oil Prices Are Falling.
Text size Crude prices fall as the Biden administration takes more steps to try to lower gasoline prices. Mario Tama/Getty Images Oil prices were falling Wednesday as President Joe Biden prepared to a...
The 7 Worst Housing Markets in America, According to Lennar
Text size Rising mortgage rates are dragging on the housing market. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Jersey and Florida are hot. Housing in Austin and Seattle is not, according to the co-CEO of the U.S.’s...
Why Conagra Brands and Albertsons Could Be havens
Text size Albertsons Companies stock is down just 10% for the year and is about flat since May 20. Dreamstime The stock market has been a scary place this year, but grocery stocks may provide a haven...
The 60/40 Stock and Bond Strategy’s Time Has Come Again
Text size Dreamstime It may be time for investors to return to one of the oldest of portfolio management tools to cope with the new bear market. That would be the traditional combination of 60% stocks...
The Fed Turns Aggressive as Inflation Meets Signs of an Economic Slowdown
Text size At the news conference following the rate hike, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell admitted that the policy-setting committee was taken aback by news of rising prices and weaker-than-expected retail...
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 ...