The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and MIT announced on Dec. 22 that their CBDC research effort, Project Hamilton, is now complete. That initiative aimed to research the technical feasibility of a cen...
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Billionaire David Tepper Is Betting Against the Stock Market Because of the Fed
Text size David Tepper, co-founder of the hedge fund Appaloosa Management. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Appaloosa Management’s David Tepper says he is worried further tightening of monetary policies from g...
Markets Are Wrong on Fed Rate Hikes, Morgan Stanley’s Caron Says
(Bloomberg) — Markets aren’t prepared for how far US central bankers are willing to go to tame the hottest inflation in a generation, according to Morgan Stanley’s Jim Caron. Most Read from Bloo...
When Does The Fed Announce Rate Hikes? Here’s What Investors Can Expect From The December Meeting
| Getty Images Key Takeaways The Federal Open Market Committee meets eight times per year to help manage the economy. At its most recent meeting, the FOMC raised rates by 0.5%. The prevailing opinion ...
‘Forget a pivot’ — Markets won’t see Fed rate cut boost in 2023, says analyst
Bitcoin (BTC) and other bulls will not benefit from a major change in United States inflation policy in 2023, one analyst says. In a Twitter thread on Dec. 20, Jim Bianco, head of institutional resear...
Housing Recovery Forecast For 2024 As Homebuilder Sentiment Falls Again
(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images Key Takeaways Confidence from homebuilders has now fallen every month for a year, hitting levels not seen since 2012, according to the National Ass...
Fed: interest rate for 2023
CME Group’s FedWatch Tool finds that the Fed in late January, when the board’s next FOMC is held, may opt for a less hawkish interest rate hikes than it did in 2022. According to CME Group’s Tool, des...
Bear market likely to last in 2023 as Fed raises interest rates higher
A brutal year for the U.S. stock market is coming to an end, but investors hoping to see a brighter 2023 may be out of luck. Although hopes of moderating inflation and the prospect of smaller interest...
Don’t Fight the Fed Has Never Been More Important Than Now
The Fed and Chair Jerome Powell came out swinging this past week, raising interest rates, while once again investors were shocked and dismayed. Frankly, I don’t understand why that is, but suffi...
With Cryptocurrencies as With the Internet and Cars, Collapse Is the Sector’s Life
On June 6, 2021 I published a column titled “We’ll Know Crypto Is For Real When Its Coins Start Collapsing.” More than most want to admit or realize, failure is growth. A “market” for crypto money def...
Fed Hikes Rates A Little More And No Santa Rally So Far As Markets Remain Down
Getty Images TL;DR The Fed has hiked rates again this month, though the 0.50 percentage point increase slowdown from the 0.75 percentage point increases we’ve seen at the past four meetings The annual...
The Fed may have already reached its optimal interest rate
With the U.S. inflation rate starting to trend down, the debate has inevitably shifted toward when the Federal Reserve should call it quits with interest rate hikes, and a legendary bond investor just...
How Fed rate hikes impact stocks, crypto and other investments
This article was originally published on Bankrate.com. The Federal Reserve is set to raise interest rates at its Dec. 13-14 meeting after hiking rates six times already this year. The nation’s central...
Interest Hikes, Inflation, and Stagflation: Watch the Fed in 2023
Inflation has raged over the past year and a half, jumping 7.7% in the 12 months through October. The Federal Reserve responded by raising interest rates. The central bank started in March, though man...
Why Some Longer-Term Investors Are Now Concerned
Amazon box. getty AmazonAMZN is no longer an exciting start-up operation even though a few Wall Streett analysts still like to think of it that way. In fact, the big online retailing outfit is taking ...
The Fed Is Making a Mistake—and the Stock Market Will Pay the Price
We all make mistakes—but the Federal Reserve may be making a bigger one than most. That could mean another difficult year for the stock market in 2023. Those concerns were front and center this past w...
The Dallas Fed just said US home prices could plunge another 20%. Should I wait for the bottom to buy a house or bite the bullet now?
The Dallas Fed just said US home prices could plunge another 20%. Should I wait for the bottom to buy a house or bite the bullet now? Buying your first home involves a certain amount of strategy. Tryi...
Stock Market Dips After Wholesale Inflation Report, Fed Meeting
| Getty Images Key Takeaways Wholesale inflation rose 0.3% in November compared to October. Year-over-year, wholesale inflation increased by 7.4%, the slowest since May 2021. Even with the slowdown, t...
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman says the Fed is ‘no longer credible’ on a key metric—and change is probably coming
The Federal Reserve has two simple, but extremely difficult jobs: ensure maximum employment and maintain price stability. It’s an understatement to say that the second part of that equation—price stab...
Popular Crypto Analyst Justin Bennett Breaks Down Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) After Latest Fed Rate Hike
A widely followed crypto analyst says the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) markets are mostly the same after yesterday’s Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting. In a new edition of his Cryptoca...
Bitcoin and Ethereum Take A Nosedive As Fed Signal More Interest Rates Hike ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     BTC, ETH, and SOL shed value on Wednesday following the central bank’s decision to increase interest rates again. Digital assets were not alone as t...
The Fed raises rates again
Yesterday the Fed announced yet another rate hike. In reality, not only was it a widely expected hike, but also its magnitude, namely 50 basis points, was perfectly in line with expectations. Nevert...
Fed Sees Further Hikes In 2023, Here’s What Could Change That
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 29: At its December rate decision, the Fed indicated that rates could … [+] exceed 5% for much of 2023, but data could change that (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Ima...
The Fed raised interest rates again. Where to earn 3-5% on your savings account
Where to earn more on your savings account. Getty Images/iStockphoto On Wednesday, The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point, bringing the federal-funds rate up...
BTC Falls From 5-Week High as Traders Continue to Digest Fed Decision – Market Updates Bitcoin News
Bitcoin fell from a five-week high on Thursday, as markets continued to react to the latest Federal Reserve interest rate decision. The U.S. Fed moved to increase interest rates by 50 basis points as ...
XRP Price Shows Encouraging Action Despite Fed Sell-Off
Gamza Khanzadaev XRP price action gives confidence after major sale on macro reports occurred The week of macro statistics and important economic decisions is coming to an end. While some are still be...
The Federal Reserve Should Drop FedNow And Any Plans To Launch A CBDC
BRAZIL – 2022/11/02: In this photo illustration, the FedNow Service logo is displayed on a … [+] smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty...
Equities Decline as Fed Shock Halts Global Rally: Markets Wrap
(Bloomberg) — US equity-index futures and European stocks declined after the Federal Reserve rebuffed expectations for a dovish tilt and said interest rates will go higher for longer. Most Read ...
Fed Hikes Rate by 50bps, Sends BTC Below $18K as Crypto Rally Cools Off (Market Watch)
The decision of the US Federal Reserve to hike interest rates by 50 basis points put an end to the most recent crypto rally. Bitcoin’s price tumbled below $18K as the entire market took a beating. Bit...
USD/CHF forecast after the SNB and Fed rate hikes
The USD/CHF exchange rate has been in a freefall in the past few weeks as investors focused on the actions by the Federal Reserve and the Swiss National Bank (SNB). It crashed to a low of 0.9213, whic...
Crypto Market Plummets Post 0.50 Basis Points Interest Hike by Fed
14 seconds ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News The Federal Reserve of the United States increased interest rates by 0.50 basis points. Just like U.S. equities, the majority of the crypto market fell shortl...
DigiByte Price Prediction As Fed Hikes Interest Rates By Half A Point
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage DigiByte price has gained over 4% over the last 24 hours amid a general crypto market mid-week rally. On Wednesday, the Federal O...