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Market Losses Can Reduce Your Tax Bill for Years. Here’s How.
This year’s market mayhem could shave your tax bill for years to come. With just weeks to go, 2022 is poised for steep negative annual returns in both stocks and bonds, a correlated collapse that has ...
Why Higher Interest Rates Won’t Solve the Inflation Problem
Interest rates are heading higher, and the economic toll from the rapid, ongoing rise in the cost of credit is only starting to unfold. But higher rates won’t fully fix the inflation problem. There ar...
Higher Rates Hammer Home Buyers—and Make Mortgage REITs Lucrative for Investors
It’s instructive and often amusing to see how the popular media cover economic and financial news. You can get a handle on the public’s sentiment from how they treat those topics, which usually varies...
The Fed’s Next Rate Hike Is Coming. Why Powell Won’t Say the End Is Near.
The Federal Reserve will fire its next salvo in the war against inflation on Wednesday afternoon. That is likely to include an interest-rate increase of 0.75 percentage points and a hawkish tone from ...
The Fed Makes Its Decision Wednesday. Expect a Big Move in Stocks.
The Federal Reserve’s big announcement on interest rates is Wednesday. The stock market will likely make a large move—in one direction or the other. The Fed is widely expected to lift its target for t...
Adidas Bails From Yeezy. Why That Packs a Punch.
Times are tough at Adidas The German company has too much inventory and falling China sales. It’s slashed guidance, and earnings ran about half what Wall Street expected. The stock is down by more tha...
Will Home Prices Crash? Don’t Count on It. Here’s Why.
The housing market is cooling, but the downturn may be overhyped. That is both a blessing and a curse. Data released this past week showed that U.S. home prices fell in August at the steepest month-ov...
Stocks Poised to Fall Monday
U.S. stocks are poised for a slightly lower open on Monday ahead of another busy week of earnings and the Federal Reserve’s latest decision on interest rates on Wednesday. At 6:22 p.m. Eastern time Su...
Rethinking China: Xi’s Power Play Could Bring Down Stocks Even More
Chinese stocks have lost roughly half their market value, or almost $1.5 trillion, over the past two years. But the damage may not be over as investors reassess their China allocations after President...
As China-U.S. Relations Cool, Reshoring Heats Up. Honeywell and Other Stocks That Should Benefit.
The gulf between the U.S. and China is widening, which could be good news for stocks benefiting from the reshoring of industries that migrated over the past 40 years. If President Xi Jinping’s consoli...
Rising Markets Seem to See the Fed Easing. It’s Too Early for That.
What everybody knows isn’t worth knowing, according to market wisdom. The Federal Reserve will raise its key federal-funds target rate by 75 basis points this coming week, as we all know, from the cur...
This Isn’t the Bottom and Recession Isn’t Priced In, Goldman Says
Markets haven’t priced in a recession, according to analysts at Goldman Sachs Equities and credit markets are pricing in a lower risk of recession than rates and currency traders, though no asset clas...
I Bonds Are Selling Like Crazy. Buy Now Before the Record 9.6% Rate Drops.
Text size Orders for I Bonds must be placed through the TreasuryDirect website. Dreamstime Hurry or you’ll miss out on one of the best deals in the bond market. The rate on the Treasury’s popular seri...
Alibaba, Tencent, Other Chinese Stocks Are in Free Fall. It’s About Xi Jinping.
Shares in Chinese companies were plunging Monday as markets reacted to the consolidation of power by President Xi Jinping, after he was confirmed to a historic third term as leader of the world’s seco...
The Stock Market Had a Great Week, but It Hasn’t Gone Anywhere in a Month. Inside a Very Volatile Market.
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RMDs Will Be a Heavy Lift for Those Who Delayed Them
Retirees who have postponed taking this year’s required minimumdistributions (RMDs) from their 401(k)s and individual retirement accounts face a bitter task before year-end: withdrawing assets when po...
Coca-Cola and 4 Other Quality Stocks to Bolster Your Portfolio
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Black Monday’s Anniversary Is a Reminder to Think Seriously About Risk
Text size A trader on the New York Stock Exchange looks at stock rates October 19, 1987 as stocks were devastated during one of the most frantic days in the exchange’s history. Maria Bastone/AFP...
U.K. Markets Cheer After Liz Truss Resigns. Stocks, Bonds, and the Pound Gain.
British investors cheered the resignation of Prime Minister Liz Truss, whose recent budget plans disrupted markets and prompted intervention by the Bank of England. Stocks, bonds, and the pound crept ...
Alibaba and Other China Stocks Jump as President Xi Reassures on Tech
Shares in U.S.-listed Chinese companies were moving higher Monday as investors smiled on comments from a high-profile speech by President Xi Jinping that was supportive of the country’s technology sec...
How Alternative Investments Saved the Day for Big University Endowments
University endowments, battered by stock-market losses, posted their worst fiscal year since the financial crisis. The largest funds, however, were helped by higher allocations to alternative investme...
Don’t Expect the Stock Market to Rally, Even if GOP Wins Control of Congress
The outcome of the midterm elections on Nov. 8 could disappoint investors, regardless of which party they support. According to Wall Street lore, stocks usually perform strongly following the midterms...