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Companies Are Rebuilding Their Inventories. What That Means for Profits.
Text size Target’s inventory rose 43.1% and sales grew 4% in the most recent quarter. Joe Raedle/Getty Images After months of being empty, shelves are finally being restocked. That makes shoppers happ...
The Bear Market Is Still on the Prowl
Text size To the Editor:There is definitely further to go (“The Stock Market Has Avoided a Bear. But the Selloff Isn’t Over,” The Trader, May 20). The Federal Reserve goosed the economy from 2009 to n...
Toyota Is Cutting Car Production Again. It’s Bad News for Inflation.
Text size A scene from a Toyoya production line in India. Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg Global car production has been hampered for months because of a plethora of supply-chain and logistics issues. Investor...
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...
Markets Finally Reversed Their Losing Streaks. The Fed Might Avoid Inflicting More Pain, After All.
Text size A ‘help wanted’ sign is displayed in a Manhattan store in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Nothing lasts forever, not even a stock market decline. But just because a mar...
The Stock Market Finally Had a Winning Week. Why It Might Not Last.
Text size Ed Yardeni, founder of Yardeni Research: “We now are raising the odds of a recession from 30% to 40%.” Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg The stock market ended its multiweek losing streak, and l...
Fed Minutes to Come Today. Look for Insights on Rates, Mortgage Bonds, and More.
When the Federal Reserve on Wednesday releases the minutes from its most recent policy meeting, investors will get a deeper look at deliberations over monetary-policy tightening and officials’ views o...
Sit Out the Next Few Months, Say These Analysts. A Recession Is Unavoidable.
Text size American flags outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg The S&P 500 came close to finishing Friday’s session in a bear market, adding fuel to a rapidly in...
How Low Could the S&P 500 Sink? According to History, 3000.
Text size The fall in stock and bond prices has cut household wealth by as much as $8 trillion in 2022. Justin Lane/epa-efe/Shutterstock The stock market had a near-bear experience, which might be the...
Nvidia, Macy’s, Zoom, Costco, Snowflake, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season winds down this week, but with more than a dozen S&P 500 companies left to report. Economists will be watching the latest Federal Reserve meeting...
Nvidia, Macy’s, Zoom, Costco, Snowflake, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season winds down this week, but with more than a dozen S&P 500 companies left to report. Economists will be watching the latest Federal Reserve meeting...
$6 a Gallon Gasoline? Here’s How It Could Happen.
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size U.S. gasoline prices are at record highs, averaging more than $4.50 per gallon at the pump, and surpassing $4 in all 50 states for the first time. But, says Natas...
Corporate Board Diversity Benefits Companies and Stakeholders
Text size It is in the best interest of shareholders for companies to evaluate their board composition regularly, establish policies and processes to ensure board diversity, and disclose the compositi...
The Bear Nears and Might Not Exit Stocks Until the S&P Sinks to 3000
Text size The fall in stock and bond prices has cut household wealth by as much as $8 trillion in 2022. Justin Lane/epa-efe/Shutterstock The stock market had a near-bear experience, which might be the...
Consumers Aren’t OK. Why April Retail Sales Are Misleading.
Walmart sales climbed in the first quarter from a year ago, but flat transaction numbers suggest inflation drove the gain. Here, a Walmart in San Leandro, Calif., last year. David Paul Morris/Bloomber...
How Long Do Bear Markets Last? S&P 500 Is Near One— and It May Fall More.
The worst selloffs began in 1973, 2000 and 2007. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Text size With the latest 4% drop on Wednesday, the S&P 500 index is now 18% below its all-time high and dangerously clo...
Boeing Could Face Another Test on 787. Investors Need ‘D’ for Deliveries.
Text size An American Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Boeing investors could use a bit of good news, but they don’t seem to be getting any. The latest is the assertion that t...
The SEC Just Raised the Fees Investors Pay on Every Transaction
Text size The fees aren’t big enough to change most traders’ plans. Getty Images After this weekend, U.S. government fees on securities sales will quadruple. Don’t panic. The charges are s...
Are We in a Bear Market? Investors Should Stay Calm.
About the author: David Rosenberg is founder and president of Rosenberg Research & Associates. He was formerly chief economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc, and chief North Ame...
Russia Is Likely to Default on Its Debt Soon. What That Means for Markets.
Text size Spires of St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow’s Red Square. Cameron Spencer/Getty Images About the author: David Beers is a senior fellow at the Center for Financial Stability, a NY-b...
Is Red-Hot Inflation Cooling Off? 3 Signs That Show It Is.
Text size Expectations for inflation are critical to how fast the Fed raises interest rates. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Good news about inflation is bubbling up even as the Federal Reserve...
3 Signs Red-Hot Inflation Is Cooling Off
Text size Expectations for inflation are critical to how fast the Fed raises interest rates. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Good news about inflation is bubbling up even as the Federal Reserve...
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...