Powell told a Bloomberg reporter that the US central bank chose June 1 to begin letting securities roll-off on the spur of the moment. It was just to choose a date, Powell explained to McKee, and that...
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The Worst Of The Stock Market Crash May Be Yet To Come, According To Wall Street’s ‘Fear Gauge’ Signal
Topline As investors grapple with the worst-performing market in years, some experts have zeroed in on Wall Street’s so-called fear gauge as an indication that stocks have more room to fall—even...
Fed Warns of Worsening Market Liquidity in Stability Report
(Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve warned of deteriorating liquidity conditions across key financial markets amid rising risks from the war in Ukraine, monetary tightening and high inflation in a...
Inflation outlook for consumers falls from record, Fed survey shows
A worker stocks items inside a grocery store in San Francisco, California, May 2, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Consumers grew a little more optimistic about inflation in April, t...
Dow Drops 400 Points, Stock Sell-Off Continues As Fed ‘Hangover’ Slams Markets
Topline Stocks fell on Monday while rates surged, with investors trying to recover from last week’s volatile market swings even as experts warn that rising risks to economic growth could lead to furth...
Vanishing Value Trade Puts Emerging Markets at Risk of Fed Shock
(Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve’s most aggressive policy tightening in two decades is sucking emerging markets into a “sell everything” slump, not even sparing assets that should do well when ...
Fed issued biggest rate hike in 22 years. 4 things to do with your money now
Amid rising interest rate, here’s how to handle savings, investments and debt. Getty Images/iStockphoto For the first time in 22 years, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by more than one-quart...
The Fed Raised Rates and Markets Freaked Out
Don’t miss CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022, the must-attend crypto & blockchain festival experience of the year in Austin, TX this June 9-12. Two newsletters ago, I ended the column with “Zo...
Economic strength is forcing the Fed to get more aggressive
On Tuesday, we learned U.S. employers had a record 11.5 million job openings as of March. That’s arguably the clearest sign that the economy is booming, as hiring workers isn’t cheap and most employer...
Contra Simpleton Pundits, ‘the Fed’ Didn’t Cause the Stock-Market Correction
Every stock-market rally is top heavy. In other words, every stock-market rally is led upwards by the very few. The 80/20 Pareto Principle that defines so much of life is 95/5 when it comes to equitie...
Crypto Weekly Roundup: Fed Hikes Interest Rates, LUNA Acquires More BTC, Solana Crashes, Investors Support Musk’s Twitter Bid, And More
It was an eventful week in crypto. Solana was once again plagued by bots that crashed the network for seven hours. On the other hand, LUNA is continuing its mission of bolstering its stablecoin reserv...
The Weekly Wrap – Fed Monetary Policy Sinks Riskier Assets
The Stats While it was a busy week on the economic calendar for the week ending May 6, 2022, the Fed monetary policy decision was the main event. A total of 62 stats were monitored, following 56 stats...
US Mortgage Rates Spike Again as the Markets Respond to the Fed
In the week ending May 5, mortgage rates rose for the eighth time in nine weeks. 30-year fixed rates jumped by 17 basis points to 5.27%. 30-year fixed rates slipped by one basis point in the week prio...
Fed hawks say they’re not so behind the curve combatting inflation
In the wake of the Federal Reserve policy meeting this week, stock markets have tumbled, raising howls of criticism that U.S. central bank policy will fail to bring down inflation. Read: ‘Unhinged’ ma...
US Fed hikes interest rates, Bitcoin plunges below $36K, and Argentina’s central bank says no to financial institutions offering crypto: Hodler’s Digest, May 1-7
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, pr...
The Fed raised interest rates – what to do now with your retirement portfolio
Inflation is rising, the stock market is volatile and now the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates – but investors, as always, should steer clear of any major changes, financial advisers said. T...
Strong US Dollar Posts 5-Week High, Markets Price in a 75 bps Fed Rate Hike for June – Economics Bitcoin News
While precious metals, stocks, and cryptocurrencies saw a significant downturn this week, the U.S. dollar tapped a 20-year high against the Japanese yen and a number of other currencies. The greenback...
What The Fed Rate Hike Means For The Markets And Investors
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Getty Images The Federal Reserve announced this week that it’s raising rates by 50 basis points. The Fed raised its main interest rate by half a percentage point...
U.S. Added 428,000 Jobs In April—Beating Expectations As Hot Labor Market Spurs Fed Rate Hikes
Topline The U.S. added back another 428,000 jobs in April, performing better than economists expected as the strong labor market recovery encourages Federal Reserve officials to more aggressively rais...
Why Won’t The Fed Use It?
To no one’s surprise, the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it was raising its benchmark interest rate by half-a-percentage point and next month would begin reducing its bloated bond holdings t...
Bitcoin falls toward $38K as stocks abandon Fed ‘reactionary rally’
Bitcoin (BTC) lost almost $1,000 in the first hour of Wall Street trading on May 5 as a brief rally ended in disappointment. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Nasdaq drops 4%...
Fed Will Hike Rates Again; What Will Happen to BTC?
Leave it to the Fed to say something stupid that ultimately brings down the prices of bitcoin and many of its altcoin cousins. The world’s number one digital currency is now trading for just over $40K...
Here’s What Will Cost More As Fed Raises Interest Rates
Topline The Federal Reserve on Wednesday authorized the biggest interest rate hike in 22 years as part of its effort to combat the quickest surge in prices in over 40 years, doubling down on a series ...
What history tells us about stocks soaring after Fed 50 basis point rate hikes
Perhaps investors are right to cheer the first 50 basis point interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve since 2000, even if that seems like a counterintuitive reaction. The S&P 500 went on to ra...
Don’t Fight The Fed: Sell These Stocks Now
Funny man is getting punch in face with fist. getty In bull markets, we buy the dips. In bear markets, we sell the rips. Starting in spring 2020 and through 2021, we dividend investors stayed in “buy ...
Fed hikes by 0.5% – largest since 2000 – Crypto spikes
It was announced by Fed chairman Powell in the FOMC meeting yesterday that the interest rate would be raised by 50 basis points, the largest single rise since 2000. Bitcoin and the whole crypto market...
Fed raises interest rates by 50 basis points
The Fed, following its first interest rate hike of 25 basis points, intervened more aggressively again on Wednesday with a 50 basis point increase. The Fed and its interest rate hike plan First intere...
These 10 stocks in the S&P 500 soared at least 8% after the Fed made its big move — but only 3 have gains for 2022
Wednesday turned into a big day for stocks — the S&P 500 index had its largest one-day percentage gain in nearly two years — after the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by half a perce...