This past month’s Producer Price Index (PPI) in the U.S. came in slightly higher than expected, edging markets down slightly. In Nov., PPI rose 0.3% over the previous month and 7.4% over the previous ...
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‘Rich Dad’ R. Kiyosaki says Bitcoin holders ‘will get richer’ when Fed prints trillions
Robert Kiyosaki, author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” has suggested that investors still have a chance to get richer in the future even with the possibility of the Federal Reserve ...
This Week’s Job Report Presents Mixed News For Investors
Getty Images Key takeaways Thursday’s jobs report and unemployment report found that November’s numbers performed slightly better than expected Meanwhile, last week’s jobless claims rose roughly in li...
Fed Expected to Keep Peak Rates for Longer, Dashing Hopes for 2023 Cuts
(Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve is set to disappoint Wall Street as it keeps rates at their peak throughout 2023, dashing hopes markets have priced in for rate cuts in the second half and maki...
U.S Fed Investigate Sam Bankman-Fried Over Terra Luna Collapse
16 seconds ago | 2 mins read Exchange News Sam Bankman-Fried is being investigated by U.S. Federal prosecutors and SEC. Alameda Research may be more responsible for a significant portion of UST sell o...
Senator Warren Wants the Fed to Answer for Banking Sector’s Ties to FTX
U.S. lawmakers have penned a letter pressing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for information on American banks’ ties to crypto following the collapse of FTX. In a Wednesday letter, Democrat se...
JPMorgan looks at ‘Armageddon scenario’ of Fed jacking rates up to 6.5%. Its conclusion may come as a surprise.
The market’s expectation is that the Federal Reserve will keep lifting its policy interest rate until it brings it to 5% before pausing for some time. But it’s possible that the Fed could decide that ...
Billionaire Ray Dalio warns stock market hasn’t priced in ‘very harmful’ Fed rate hikes
The stock market is not pricing in the possibility of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates to a “very harmful” level and could be in store for a sharp correction in 2023, according t...
The Fed is expected to raise rates once more before 2023. If you’re shopping for a new CD, you may want to hold off
With inflation still at an all-time high, consumers could see one more rate hike from the Fed before 2022 comes to an end. The Federal Open Market Committee holds eight regularly scheduled meetings du...
Cathie Wood Warns Fed Has Made ‘Serious Mistake’ As Yield Curve Inversion Steepens—Here’s Why Some Experts Disagree
Topline High-profile stock picker Cathie Wood, the chief of asset manager Ark Invest, on Wednesday laid into the Federal Reserve’s aggressive plan to fight inflation, joining some experts in arg...
Oil plunge, tech collapse and Fed cuts? Strategist shares possible 2023 market ‘surprises’
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, August 29, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters After a tumultuous year for financial markets, Standard Chartered outlin...
Cramer’s 4 Reasons Why The Fed Can’t Stop Raising Interest Rates
IPOs, Oil etc… Jim Cramer has listed four reasons why Fed can’t stop raising interest rates The CNBC investment pundit has issued a warning regarding Oil. The ‘Mad Money’ host Jim Cramer listed four r...
Price Controls in Illinois Speak to The Limits of the Fed’s Rate Machinations
On March 23, 2021 Illinois legislators imposed an interest rate ceiling of 36 percent on all non-bank and non-credit union loans under $40,000. The stated intent was to reduce the burdensome cost of i...
Fed may wreck one of greatest booms in history of Main Street America
The Census Bureau reported almost 433,000 new business applications in October, up from 313,000 in December 2019, before the Covid pandemic began, and 413,000 as recently as June. Mint Images | Mint I...
Fed can’t stop raising interest rates due to these 4 factors
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday listed four reasons why the Federal Reserve can’t stop tightening the economy just yet. Not enough people are reentering the workforce. That makes it more diffi...
What Do Rising Treasury Yields Mean For Your Investments?
(Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images) Getty Images Key Takeaways Treasury yields are up again, hitting 3.589% compared to just 0.55% in 2020. This might seem like good news, but for existing bon...
When Is The December Fed Meeting And What To Expect From It
The Federal Reserve will once again set interest rates on 14, a 0.5 percentage point hike is … [+] expected. Photographer: Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP The markets expect...
S&P 500, Nasdaq post worst day in month after strong data fuels worry about Fed rate hikes
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes recorded their worst day in almost a month on Monday, after a hotter-than-expected U.S. services-sector reading fueled concerns that the Federal Reserve ma...
‘Hidden’ Leverage Poses $65 Trillion Economic Challenge As Experts Worry What Could Trigger Next Market Collapse
Topline The growing load of hidden leverage has swelled to a massive $65 trillion in a largely obscure corner of the foreign exchange market, economists at the Bank for International Settlements warne...
Average U.S. House Price Falls And Labor Market Shows Strength Despite Recession Speculation
Getty Images TL;DR Non-farm payroll numbers increased by 263,000 jobs in November, well above the estimate of 200,000 The average hourly wage went up as well, with the 0.6% gain double what had been e...
BTC price Jumps after Fed Chair’s announcement on rate hikes
The US Central Bank raised interest rates at record pace this year. Fed Chair Jay Powell has given positive signals regarding interest rate hikes. BTC price reacted to the Chair’s announcement. The Fe...
Bitcoin Lags as Unwinding of ‘Fed Trade’ Lifts US Stocks Above 200-Day Average
The S&P 500, Wall Street’s benchmark equity index, has gained 16% in less than two months to trade above the widely-tracked 200-day moving average for the first time since early April. The U...
US Dollar Erases More Than Half of This Year Gains on Fed Rate Bets
(Bloomberg) — The US dollar has erased more than half of this year’s gains amid growing expectations the Federal Reserve will temper its aggressive rate hikes, and as optimism grows over China’s...
Stocks Rise on Cooling Inflation and Fed Moderation. That Doesn’t Mean the Bear Market Is Over.
Christmas came early this year for the stock market. Is there a Grinch waiting to ruin it? It was a week of surprises both good—Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell essentially confirming a smaller ...
Fed Could Be Pushed by Overheated Wages to Higher Peak Rates
(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve officials have enough worrisome inflation data to consider raising interest rates to a higher peak than investors expect and potentially follow the half-point hike ...
Philly Fed Manufacturing Index Continues Its Downward Slump
| Getty Images Key Takeaways The Philly Fed Manufacturing Index dropped again in November. This drop takes the index to its lowest point since May 2020. The index has been negative for the last three ...
Elon Musk wants the Fed to ‘cut interest rates immediately’ — but Jerome Powell just said inflation ‘remains far too high.’ Here are 3 sectors for safety if costs keep soaring
Elon Musk wants the Fed to ‘cut interest rates immediately’ — but Jerome Powell just said inflation ‘remains far too high.’ Here are 3 sectors for safety if costs keep soaring ...
Here’s why the smart money is betting on value stocks to outperform growth
You should be skeptical of the growth story that periodically captures stock investors’ attention. That’s because the companies that Wall Street believes will grow the fastest in the future rarely liv...
Larry Summers Says Fed Will Need to Boost Rates More Than Markets Expect
(Bloomberg) — Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that the Federal Reserve will probably need to raise interest rates more than markets are currently expecting, thanks to stubbornl...
These money and investing tips can help you know when the bull market has come back to stay
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