A fair amount of news happened last week: The Federal Reserve announced it is still nowhere close to issuing a digital dollar and the U.S. House of Representatives held a surprisingly substantive disc...
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CNBC Fed Survey forecasts more aggressive Fed, but better economic growth
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the CARES Act, at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, U.S., Sept...
Dow Jones Futures Sell Off: Has The Stock Market Bottomed? Fed Meeting Up Next
Dow Jones futures sold off 300 points late Monday. The stock market recovered from huge losses Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s two-day policy meeting. IBM earnings kicked off five Dow Jone...
As stock market plunges, a star money manager says the Fed is making a mistake by focusing on rates. Here’s what Scott Minerd says it should do instead.
The Federal Reserve is under the gun as the market plunges ahead of its first rate-setting meeting of 2022, and at least one star money manager says that the central bank could be making a policy erro...
Bitcoin Stabilizes Above $36K as Investors Await Next Fed Meeting
“First Mover” hosts were joined by Marc Lopresti, managing director at The Strategic Funds, for an in-depth analysis on the crypto markets as cryptocurrencies suffer yet another sell-off. ...
Gold price prediction ahead of January’s Fed meeting
Gold price is trading within a horizontal channel for the fifth consecutive session at its current 1,843.44. The focus is on the two-day Fed meeting that is set to begin on Tuesday. Fed meeting Gold p...
UBS Warns of a Crypto Winter, Expects Fed Rate Hikes and Regulation
A recent report by UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, has warned about a crypto winter in which prices drop and may not recover for years. According to the bank’s analysts, several key factors affect cr...
Pro: Fed is NOT what’s driving the market sell-off
The benchmark S&P 500 index is now down more than 10% for the year, and Bahnsen Group’s chief investment officer says thanks to the sell-off, there’s plenty that is on sale now. Bahnse...
Stocks fall ahead of a packed week of earnings, Fed meeting
Stocks renewed declines Monday as investors looked ahead to a busy week of corporate earnings results, economic data and a Federal Reserve monetary policy-setting meeting after an already volatile str...
Jim Chanos says the notion that the Fed will always bail out the stock market is dangerous
James Chanos and Leon Cooperman at the 2019 Delivering Alpa conference in New York on Sept. 19. 2019. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Short-seller Jim Chanos said the belief that the Federal Reserve will always r...
Dow tumbles over 600 points early Monday as Wall Street extends decline ahead of Fed decision, earnings wave
U.S. stock benchmarks were under pressure early Monday, falling sharply as the downtrend that has pressured stocks this year continues apace. Investors are watching for an important two-day meeting of...
The Week Ahead – Earnings, the FED, and a Busy Economic Calendar in Focus
It’s a busy week ahead on the economic calendar, with 60 stats in focus in the week ending 28th January. In the week prior, 57 stats had been in focus. For the Dollar: Early in the week, prelim privat...
Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Fed Worker Mandate With Anti-Vaxxer Tropes
On January 21, federal district judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown blocked the Biden mandate requiring federal employees to get COVID vaccinations. This got national attention. Brown’s ruling was pegged a...
UBS Warns of Crypto Winter Amid Expectation of Fed Rate Hikes and Regulation – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News
UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, has warned about a crypto winter where prices crash and may not recover for years. The bank’s analysts explained several major reasons affecting the prices of cryptocu...
Gold Specs Betting Fed Will Struggle Taming Inflation
Gold prices slipped on Friday amid a broader decline in commodities, but the market avoided an even steeper sell-off as Treasury yields dropped and the U.S. Dollar edged lower. Nonetheless, the market...
Stocks May Extend Drop on Fed Tightening Concerns: Markets Wrap
(Bloomberg) — Stocks looked set for further declines Monday amid concerns about tightening Federal Reserve policy, while a cryptocurrency plunge highlighted waning appetite for the most speculat...
Dow Jones Futures: Market Correction Shows No Mercy; Fed Meeting, Apple Lead 5 Big Catalysts
Dow Jones futures will open on Sunday evening, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures, heading into a massive week of earnings from Apple to Tesla as well as a key Federal Reserve meeting. ...
U.S. Stocks Historically Deliver Strong Gains in Fed Hike Cycles
(Bloomberg) — As the Nasdaq 100 comes off its worst week since the pandemic selloff in March 2020, investors now have to contend with Wednesday’s Fed meeting, where officials are expected to sig...
Inflation surge could push the Fed into more than four rate hikes this year, Goldman Sachs says
U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell attends his re-nominations hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., January 11, 2022. ...
IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Tesla, Apple, Visa in Focus, Along With The Fed
Investors will focus on Q4 earnings for stocks that are economically sensitive, which should show better profits than technology stocks. Increasing Treasury yields and risk aversion could also hit the...
Where’s That ‘Fed Put’? Scorched Dip Buyers Confront the Market’s New Reality
(Bloomberg) — When stocks plunged in 2018, Jerome Powell was there, buoying sentiment. Two years later as shares careened into the fastest bear market ever, he stepped up again, flooding the sys...
Will Fed Digital Dollar Replace Stablecoins Or Would Both Coexist?
If Congress were to authorize and the Fed were to pursue a central bank digital dollar, is there anything about that which ought to disqualify a well-regulated privately-issued stablecoin from coexist...
The Fed Is Ignoring the Money Supply and Letting Inflation Rip
Text size Farmers descended on Washington to protest high interest rates in 1979. Charles Harrity/AP/Shutterstock About the author: Robert Heller is a former member of the Federal Reserve Board of Gov...
Is the market crashing? No. Here’s what’s happening to stocks, bonds as the Fed aims to end the days of easy money, analysts say
As the stock market has convulsed lower and yields for bonds have surged in recent weeks, culminating in a so-called correction for the Nasdaq Composite Index, average Americans are wondering what’s a...
Fed Seen Signaling March Rate Rise and Assets Runoff Soon After
(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve officials will signal next week they’ll raise interest rates in March for the first time in more than three years and shrink their balance sheet soon after, economi...
Does a Fed digital dollar leave any room for crypto stablecoins?
During Jerome Powell’s Jan. 11 United States Senate confirmation hearings, Sen. Patrick Toomey posed a question to the incumbent-and-future Federal Reserve chief: “If Congress were to authorize and th...
In Long-Awaited CBDC White Paper, Fed Flags Privacy, Financial Stability Risks
“It is important, however, to consider the implications of a potential future state in which many foreign countries and currency unions may have introduced CBDCs. Some have suggested that, if th...
The Fed Might End Up Needing to Actually Sell Some of Its Bonds
(Bloomberg) — Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast. Most Read from Bloomberg The process by which the Federal Reserve ultimately shrink...
Opinion: Thankfully, the Fed has decided to stop digging, but it has a lot of work to do before it gets us out of hole we’re in
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Project Syndicate)—The Federal Reserve has turned on a dime, an uncharacteristic about-face for an institution long noted for slow and deliberate shifts in monetary policy. While the...