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These Are the 7 Worst Housing Markets, According to Lennar
Higher mortgage rates have cut into home sales at a national level—but, as the saying goes, all real estate is local. Lennar , the nation’s second-largest builder by market capitalization, on Thursda...
Retired Couple Wins $5.2 Million Award From UBS Over YES Strategy
Two retirees won a $5.2 million arbitration award against UBS , which they accused of misrepresentation, unsuitability, and breach of fiduciary duty with regard to a complex options-trading strategy. ...
Bitcoin Slumps to Lowest Since Late 2020, Ether Tumbles on Fed Jitters
Text size Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, has declined nearly 60% this year. Dreamstime Bitcoin fell Monday and other cryptocurrencies followed it lower ahead of what’s expected to ...
Dow Futures Fall as Wall Street Anticipates Another Big Rate Hike From the Fed
Text size AFP via Getty Images Stock futures traded lower Monday in a week that is expected to see the Federal Reserve raise interest rates by another three-quarters of a point in its effort to stamp ...
Bulls Get Scorched by FedEx. Don’t Expect the Fed to Help.
Text size FedEx’s disappointing earnings and unexpectedly weak guidance were key factors in this past week’s stock market swoon. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg The stock market faces a doubly poisonous c...
Goldman Sachs: Why European Natural Gas Could Fall by 50%
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Here’s a challenge to the conventional wisdom, courtesy of Goldman Sachs : Europe has “solved” its winter natural-gas crisis, and prices could drop by half in the...
The U.S. Consumer Is Running on Fumes, Say These Strategists
Text size This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. The Poor(er) U.S. Consumers The Week in 60 Seconds...
The Economy Is Slowing Down. What It Means for the Fed.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has warned that the central bank’s tighter monetary policy will be painful. The latest data confirm he’s right. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Text size For Jerome Powell’s Fe...
Ferrari’s Family Car: 4 Seats, 1 Trunk—and 800 Horsepower
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size It took a while, but Ferrari has a family car, with four doors and four seats. The iconic Italian sports-car maker, famed for its black “prancing horse” logo, rec...
Why Is the Stock Market Down? It Knows the Worst Is Yet to Come.
Text size NYSE From a certain point onward, there is no turning back. The stock market reached that point this past week. Oh, the market was hopeful, entering the week, that inflation had reached its ...
Cash Is No Longer Trash. T-Bill Yields Near 4%.
Text size After years of yielding near zero, cash is suddenly a better investment. Eva Hambach/AFP via Getty Images Cash is no longer trash. For the first time in 15 years, investors can get nearly 4%...
Inflation Is Sticker Than It Looks. Consider the Cleveland Fed’s Data
Text size The food index increased by 11.4% year over year in August, according to the government’s latest CPI release. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Inflation is sticky — and even stickier than it ...
Inflation May Have Slowed in August. That May Not Be Good News.
Text size Markets have been waiting for a clearer indication that inflation is coming down from its highest point in four decades. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Inflation is expected to have slowed...
Stocks Poised to Open Higher on Monday
Stocks are poised to open higher in New York on Monday. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images Text size U.S. stocks are poised to open higher on Monday as investors await the August reading on inflation. On S...
Quantitative Tightening Is About to Ramp Up. What It Means for Markets.
The Federal Reserve now owns about a third of both the Treasury and mortgage-backed-securities markets as a result of its emergency asset-buying to prop up the U.S. economy during the Covid-19 pandemi...
T-Mobile Stock Market Value Has Been Rising. It’s Bigger Than Verizon.
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size There’s a new top dog in U.S. telecom. This past Tuesday, T-Mobile US nosed ahead of Verizon Communications , and AT&T in market capitalization—an exclamation...
Inflation Could Be Harder to Tame Than the Fed Anticipates
Text size Another 75-basis-point hike in the federal-funds target is looking very, very likely. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Market participants returned from their summer holidays apparently undaunted by the ...
The Stock Market Had a Crazy Good Week. One Way to Make Sense of It All.
Text size Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Traders prefer a volatile market, and they’ve gotten one in 2022. Stocks have declined, rallied, and dropped again, driven by ever-evolving expectations for ...
Europe’s Unfolding Crises Could Impact U.S. Stocks. Here’s How.
U.S. investors are watching the Federal Reserve but the European Central Bank is likely to keep hiking rates to pull down prices, and those moves deserve more attention. Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg Text si...
Why Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd Sees Stocks Falling Another 20% by Mid-October
Text size Scott Minerd says ‘we should see a really sharp adjustment in prices very fast.’ Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Guggenheim Securities Chief Investment Officer Scott Miner...
FuelCell Reports Strongest Quarterly Revenue in 5 Years. The Stock Still Falls.
Text size FuelCell reported revenue of $43.1 million for its fiscal third quarter. Jung Yeon-je /AFP via Getty Images FuelCell Energy shares traded lower Thursday as the producer of units that make el...
Crude Oil Prices Tick Higher After Putin Threatens to Let Europe ‘Freeze’
Text size Russian President Vladimir Putin Mikhail Klimentyev/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images Oil prices inched up on Thursday after Russian President Vladimir Putin hinted that he might tear up supply c...
Oil Prices Tick Higher After Putin Threatens to Let Europe ‘Freeze’
Text size Russian President Vladimir Putin Mikhail Klimentyev/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images Oil prices inched up on Thursday after Russian President Vladimir Putin hinted that he might tear up supply c...
Stocks Are Sinking and Rates Are Rising. It’s Painful, But We’re Heading for Normal.
Stocks and bonds are tumbling. Housing has weakened. And I haven’t heard a word about nonfungible cartoon monkey tokens in maybe three months. Strategists are now turning to truly bizarre assets—two I...