(Bloomberg) — US inflation probably moderated just slightly in October data due Thursday, and yet another above-forecast reading may dash expectations for the Federal Reserve to downshift from s...
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We’re fed up after Disney’s terrible quarter and streaming losses. It’s time for some big changes
Disney (DIS) reported weaker-than-expected fiscal fourth-quarter results after the closing bell Tuesday. We are shocked and stunned by the poor performance, and we’re certainly not alone. The st...
Jay Powell Just Made These 9.7%+ Dividends Even Cheaper
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 29: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news … [+] conference after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting on January 29, 2020 in Washing...
New York Fed Completes Pilot For Cross-border CBDC Transactions
Central banks around the world have made massive investments into CBDC’s research. The FED, despite lagging behind other peers in the race, has sharply ramped up efforts to issue its CBDC in recent ti...
Fed ‘Hasn’t Accomplished Anything’ on Labor Market, Dudley Says
(Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve “hasn’t accomplished anything” in loosening the US labor market even after four consecutive 75-basis-point hikes, former New York Fed President Bill Dudley said...
Fed Suggests It May Begin To Slow Pace Of Interest Rate Hikes And Labor Market Sees Healthy Report For October
Corbis via Getty Images TL;DR Fed chairman Jerome Powell announced a 0.75 percentage point increase to interest rates, but suggested that the pace of the hikes may slow Peak interest rates are now exp...
Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya Issues Warning to Investors, Says Fed on Path to Overcorrecting and Breaking Markets
Nearly a year after accurately nailing the start of a major crash in global markets, billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya is warning investors that the Federal Reserve is determined to crush demand in an ...
It’s an economic quandary and the Fed sees only one way out
This post was originally published on TKer.co Stocks fell last week, with the S&P 500 declining by 3.3%. The index is now up 5.4% from its October 12 closing low of 3,577.03 and down 21.3% from it...
Dow Jones Futures Loom: Market Rally Faces Fed, Megacaps, Cloud Stocks; What To Do Now
Dow Jones futures will open Sunday evening, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Even with a solid close in Friday’s whipsaw session, the stock market rally suffered significant da...
What To Expect From The Final Fed Rate Decision Of 2022
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference following a Federal Open Market … [+] Committee meeting, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Co...
Despite What You’re Told, There Are No ‘Bubbles’ and Certainly No ‘Fed Bubbles’
It was December of 1994. Mexico did as poorly run countries often do and devalued its peso. Currency devaluation is an obvious economic retardant for it first robbing the citizenry of the fruits of th...
Weekly Macroslate: Fed Chair Powell remains hawkish while BOE seem confused, lack unanimity and lose all credibility as the pound sinks along with the British economy
Macro Overview Powell is not ready to pause Investors are looking for a sign of a slowdown from Fed chair Powell, which they initially thought they were getting despite a fourth consecutive 75bps hike...
Crypto earnings, the Fed and bitcoin back above $21,000
Crypto prices ticked up over the past seven days as some crypto-related stocks gained after earnings. Bitcoin was trading at $21,214 today, up about 2% over the past week, while ether gained 0....
Fed Rate Hikes Spawn 5% Yields for Safe Bonds
While the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate increases have sent stock prices reeling, they have sent bond yields soaring. And that has made bonds attractive for those of us looking to buttress the fixed...
Fed warns of ‘low’ market liquidity in $24 trillion Treasury market, in latest financial stability report
The Federal Reserve on Friday confirmed what many investors were saying for some time: the $24 trillion Treasury market has been experiencing low levels of market liquidity in recent months. The centr...
Major REITs Now Hitting New 52-Week Lows As The Fed Raises Interest Rates Further
The Federal Reserve continues to make it tough for real estate investment trusts (REITs). After raising rates even more this week, investors dumped major REITs so much that a number of them tanked to ...
US Inflation to Pose Fresh Test for Powell’s Fed: Eco Week Ahead
(Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve gets fresh insight into its inflation challenge this week amid expectations US prices continued to rise at a stubbornly fast pace in the past month. Most Read f...
NY Fed releases results of wholesale CBDC research
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Innovation Center released a report on the first phase of its Project Cedar wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) on Nov. 4. The Fed still has no...
New stock-market lows ahead? What investors need to know as Fed signals rates will be higher for longer.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sent a clear signal interest rates will move higher and stay there longer than previously anticipated. Investors wonder if that means new lows for the beaten-dow...
Bitcoin bulls face $21K sellers as BTC price wipes out Fed FOMC losses
Bitcoin (BTC) headed toward $21,000 on Nov. 4 as bulls attempted to reclaim lost ground. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView...
Market Rally Buckling From Fed, Apple, Tesla, Cloud Stocks; What To Do Now
Dow Jones futures will open on Sunday evening, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Even with a solid close in Friday’s whipsaw session, the stock market rally suffered significant...
Fed Sees Risk of Big Declines in Still-Lofty US House Prices
(Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve suggested on Friday that lofty home prices could be susceptible to steep declines after big run-ups in recent years on the back of ultra-low interest rates. Mos...
CBDCs Could Reduce FX Transaction Speeds to 10 Seconds, NY Fed Says
Each participant operated its own version of the ledger, rather than having the participants act as nodes in a single distributed ledger, the report said. Nevertheless, the participants were able to s...
‘Atomic Settlement’ — New York Fed Completes First Phase of Digital Dollar Experiment Called ‘Project Cedar’ – Bitcoin News
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has published findings stemming from an experiment dubbed “Project Cedar,” a protocol that uses a wholesale digital dollar in order to improve financial transactio...
U.S. Unemployment Is No Longer Improving, Here’s Why That Matters
Today saw another reasonable jobs report, but unemployment could be edging up (Photo by Justin … [+] Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images Most definitions of U.S. unemployment moved up in October...
Fed Completes Test With Digital Dollar, Releases Results
In its New York subsidiary, the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) completed the first test of Project Cedar, the initiative testing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The New York Innovation Center (NYI...
Bitcoin outperformed NASDAQ after Fed raised rates by 0.75%
The prices of NASDAQ and Gold have plummeted after the Fed’s latest 0.75% interest rate hike. According to market data, NASDAQ fell 4.97%, while Gold is down 0.68%, as both hit their year-to-date lo...
Two stocks that are ‘immune’ to what the Fed does
Fed Chair Jerome Powell made it somewhat clear this week that “pausing” was not an option just yet. (read more) That paints a not-so-healthy picture for stocks moving forward. But there are names, as ...
NY Fed Closer to Wholesale CBDC
The Federal Reserve is taking the first steps toward making cross-border payments faster and more secure. The central bank’s New York branch is developing a framework for a potential wholesale centra...