We ‘have reached peak bearishness’ on recession and Fed fears, Citi says

After a couple of days of strength in stocks, one Wall Street investment bank thinks the worst is behind investors — for now. “Over the near term, our high level takeaway is that the equity mark...

Unnecessary Pain From Powell

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has let the cat out of the bag: Our central bank believes that the best way to fight inflation is by deliberately slowing the economy, hence, the raising of interes...

Bill Ackman wants the Fed to hurry up: is he right?

Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management is a well-known voice in the financial markets. In his recent tweets, Ackman took aim at Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve for not ac...

Fed Governor Christopher Waller says he’s prepared to take rates past ‘neutral’ to fight inflation

Christopher Waller, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for governor of the Federal Reserve, listens during a Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Fe...

How far Fed Vice Chair Lael Brainard is right saying CBDC and Stablecoin can co-exist together?

Both CBDC and stablecoins are meant to be two different yet assets with the same goal to elevate the financial transaction and digitalize the economy. Vice Chairperson of the United States Federal Res...

Tesla Investors Are Getting Fed Up With Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

Text size Musk has said “Tesla is on my mind 24/7.” Win McNamee/Getty Images Tesla shareholders are growing more vocal about their frustrations with Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to take Twi...

The Fed Must Decide Between Two Policy Mistakes, Says Economist – Economics Bitcoin News

Allianz Chief Economic Advisor Mohamed El-Erian says the Federal Reserve will have to “decide between two policy mistakes.” One risks triggering a recession and the other could prolong inflation well ...

Crypto market rally is imprisoned because of US FED

The chief operating officer of Galaxy Digital, microphone Novogratz, has forecasted that Bitcoin can lead successive rallies once the United States of America Federal Reserve System eases its financia...

Fed Vice Chair Brainard defends CBDCs against Republican attacks in first hearing since confirmation

“America can’t be left behind,” said Maxine Waters (D-CA), chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, opening a May 26 hearing on a US central bank digital currency. The virtual hearing fea...

Markets Finally Reversed Their Losing Streaks. The Fed Might Avoid Inflicting More Pain, After All.

Text size A ‘help wanted’ sign is displayed in a Manhattan store in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Nothing lasts forever, not even a stock market decline. But just because a mar...

Why the Dow finally bounced — and what it will take to prove it’s for real

A little pre-summer cheer finally filtered its way into the stock market the week before Memorial Day, but it will likely take more than the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s first winning week since lat...

This Rally Could Force the Fed to Raise Rates Higher

The markets make the news, not the other way around, an insight that has been quite humbling to one who has made a living by reporting and analyzing the impact of news on financial markets. Consider t...

US Fed Vice Chair Says Digital Dollar Would Take 5 Years to Launch

“I really see the potential for a digital dollar as being complementary to a more stable, efficient system that would include stablecoins and commercial bank money, so I really see them potentially en...

Creating CBDC Would Take At Least Five Years: Fed Vice Chair

Key Takeaways Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard has stated to the House Committee on Financial Services that a central bank digital currency would take at least five years to build. White House...

Good News For Markets As Fed’s Preferred Inflation Metric May Have Peaked

Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, from left, Lael Brainard, vice chair of the US … [+] Federal Reserve, Philip Jefferson, governor of the US Federal Reserve, and Lisa Cook, gove...

How far is Bill Ackman right while thinking the Stock Market will collapse if the Fed does not hike rates aggressively?

Pershing Square Capital’s founder Bill Ackman thinks that inflation is uncontrollable and Federal Reserves should act aggressively on monetary tightening. Bill Ackman, Founder of Pershing Square Capit...

These Stocks Could Pop if the Fed Keeps Its Hands off the Market

Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Al Drago/Bloomberg Is the “Fed put” a thing of the past, or has it just been temporarily put on hold? I’m referring to the colloquial name Wall Street...

Dow books 4th day of gains, stocks rally after Fed minutes signal flexibility on interest rate hikes

Stocks closed higher Wednesday as investors took away a message of flexibility from the release of minutes of the early May Federal Reserve meeting about its path to higher interest rates. How did sto...

Fed Vice-Chair Presses for CBDC in US Amidst Market Stress

In a testimony before the Committee on Financial Services, Brainard called for “clear regulatory guardrails” to provide consumer and investor protection, uphold financial stability, and ensure a level...

Fed Sees Asset Prices As Elevated, Expects To Raise Rates Further

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 04: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell attends an event at the … [+] Federal Reserve headquarters October 4, 2019 in Washington, DC. Powell participated ...

Fed minutes: May 2022 – Monetary policy may move into restrictive territory

Federal Reserve officials earlier this month stressed the need to raise interest rates quickly and possibly more than markets anticipate to tackle a burgeoning inflation problem, minutes from their me...

Stocks Rally After Fed Minutes Show Central Bank Will Continue To Raise Rates Aggressively

Topline Stocks rallied slightly on Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s most recent policy meeting showed that the central bank is likely to continue raising interest rates by a half-per...

If There’s a Recession Coming, Not Even the Fed Could Stop It Now

The word recession is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Influential investor and philanthropist George Soros is talking about it in Davos. The Federal Reserve, on the day minutes are published, is cons...

Opinion: The Fed must boost rates by a full percentage point at every meeting to bring down inflation and avoid a job-killing recession

The Fed has taken aim at inflation, but it isn’t moving fast enough. Earlier this month the Fed boosted the federal funds rate by half a point, and more half and quarter point increases are almost cer...

Fed Minutes to Come Today. Look for Insights on Rates, Mortgage Bonds, and More.

When the Federal Reserve on Wednesday releases the minutes from its most recent policy meeting, investors will get a deeper look at deliberations over monetary-policy tightening and officials’ views o...

Analysts say the Fed has no choice but to continue raising rates

As economic conditions continue to worsen, financial experts worldwide are increasingly placing the blame at the feet of the United States Federal Reserve after the central bank was slow to respond to...

Bill Ackman Doubles Down on Call for Aggressive Fed Rate Hikes

TipRanks Down More Than 30%: Insiders Call a Bottom in These 3 Stocks Despite brief periods of respite, the markets have mostly trended south in 2022, with the NASDAQ’s 28% year-to-date loss the most ...

‘Markets are imploding’ because the Fed isn’t doing its job, says billionaire investor Bill Ackman

“‘How does this downward market spiral end? It ends when the Fed puts a line in the sand on inflation and says it will do “whatever it takes.”’” — Bill Ackman, founder and CEO, Pershing Square Capital...

Fed Survey Reports 12% Of American Adults Invested In Crypto In 2021 ⋆ ZyCrypto

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp The appeal of cryptocurrencies has permeated into the American economy to such an extent that the United States central bank is now including the ass...

Despite Bear Market, Fed Expected To Hike Aggressively Next Month

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...

Billionaire Investor Bill Ackman Says The Fed Isn’t Doing Its Job Fighting ‘Runaway’ Inflation

Topline The Federal Reserve isn’t doing its job fighting runaway inflation—and unless the central bank tightens monetary policy and raises interest rates “more aggressively,” the ongoing stock market ...

Annual Fed Report Provides Key Insight into Correlations between Crypto Usage & US Household Well-Being

The 2021 Fed well-being report sheds light on how different economic classes in the US treated crypto within the past year. According to a recent report by the US Federal Reserve, American households ...