Banks and stablecoins could be on the losing end while consumers would be winners if the Federal Reserve gets approval to digitize the dollar. The Fed outlined its thinking on a central bank digital c...
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Tesla, AT&T, Apple, Microsoft, Visa, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited It will be a packed week of fourth-quarter earnings releases, with more than 100 S&P 500 companies scheduled to report. IBM and Halliburton are Monday’s highlights, followed ...
Stock Market Suffers Worst Week Since 2020. Here’s What Comes Next.
Text size The decline has been painful for investors who have been trained to buy on the dips. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg A bad start to 2022 just got a whole lot worse. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...
Tech Is Falling Again. Why Apple, Tesla, and Other Tech Stocks Are Still Buys.
Text size Apple and other tech stocks have had a rough start to 2022. They could still be good picks. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tech stocks are getting slammed yet again, for familiar reasons. Inve...
Stock Market Today: Global Shares Rise as U.S. Markets Pause for M.L.K. Jr. Day
Text size Wall Street trading will return in force Tuesday. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Global stocks moved slightly Monday in what is expected to be a quiet trading session, with U.S. markets c...
As Russia-Ukraine Tensions Heat Up, Russian Stocks and Currency Take Big Hits
Russia’s stocks continue to sink as Russian-Western diplomatic talks ended without visible progress. NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Image Text size Russia is a screaming buy, if you forget about the li...
A Rising Misery Index Points to Four Rate Increases in 2022
Now, in the winter of our discontent, it shouldn’t be surprising that the Misery Index has made a comeback. Those of a certain age will recall it was a measure conceived in the 1960s by the economist ...
Russia-Ukraine Conflict Could Disrupt the Prices of These Commodities. What to Know.
The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in Russia would carry natural gas to Europe if approved by legislators. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Text size Tensions between Russia and Ukraine are on the rise, and trade...
Lael Brainard Says Inflation Is ‘Too High.’ She’s Open to a Rate Hike in March.
Text size Lael Brainard Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Cutting down inflation will be the Federal Reserve’s most important task for the foreseeable future, Fed Gov. Lael Brainard said at her confirmation...
Moderna and Novavax Stocks Get Whacked by Supreme Court’s Vaccine Decision
Text size A nurse takes a Moderna Covid-19 vaccines ready to be administered at a vaccination site Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images Novavax stock and shares of other vaccine makers fell Friday after the...
Alibaba Stock, JD.com, and Others Are Soaring. Here’s Why and Who to Thank.
Text size An Alibaba Group sign David Becker/Getty Images Chinese tech stocks are soaring. Many have been looking cheap of late, and soothing words from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell only fueled...
Biogen’s Alzheimer’s Drug Aduhelm Has Another Shot at Success
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Biogen ’s Alzheimer’s disease therapy, Aduhelm, has been a disappointment for the company since its Food and Drug Administration approval last spring, with early ...
Forget Fed Rate Hikes. How It Handles Its $9 Trillion in Assets Is What Really Matters.
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell, shown late last year at a House hearing, faces some big policy decisions this year. Brendan Smialowsky/AFP/Getty Images Text size If there is one takeaway...
Not Even GameStop Stock Can Fight the Fed
Text size A Tesla electric vehicle drives through the Las Vegas Convention Center loop at the CES 2022 show this past week. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images The stock market is supposed to be forwar...
Fed Minutes Suggest More Stock-Market Turmoil Could Lie Ahead
Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Sometimes you need to read something in black and white to believe it. That may explain why the stock market sold off sharp...
Bitcoin Tanked After the Fed Minutes Were Released. Here’s Why.
Text size Proponents of Bitcoin argue that its limited supply should make it an inflation-proof asset akin to gold. Dreamstime Bitcoin slid sharply after the Federal Reserve released minutes of its De...
Stocks Tumble as Fed Minutes Confirm Rate Hikes Are Coming
Text size Interest rate hikes are coming. The stock market is taking note. Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Stocks fell Wednesday after the minutes from the last FOMC meeting confirmed that the Federal R...
Why Inflation Won’t Be Driving Markets in 2022—And What Will Be
About the authors: Larry Hatheway and Alex Friedman are the co-founders of Jackson Hole Economics, and the former chief economist and chief investment officer, respectively, of UBS. As the New Year co...
Stock Futures Rise and Tesla Surges as a New Trading Year Begins
Text size A Wall Street sign outside the New York Stock exchange (NYSE) at Wall Street on November 30, 2020 in New York City. ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images Stock futures were rising Monday, suggesting...
The Fed Is Ignoring the Money Supply and Letting Inflation Rip
Text size Farmers descended on Washington to protest high interest rates in 1979. Charles Harrity/AP/Shutterstock About the author: Robert Heller is a former member of the Federal Reserve Board of Gov...