Amid rising interest rates and a tightening credit market, companies with weaker balance sheets are getting squeezed by higher borrowing costs. Royal Caribbean Group (ticker: RCL) is a case in point. ...
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Don’t Trust This Stock Market Rally. Strategists See More Trouble Ahead.
Text size Only 30% of the indicators that typically light up before market bottoms are triggered today, according to Bank of America. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images The S&P 500’s 15% summer bou...
Mr.”Big Short” Issues a Dire Warning About the Economy
In the current recent euphoria of the markets, Michael Burry must appear as a killjoy. Moreover, he chose as “Cassandra B.C” as a handle in the microblogging website Twitter. This suggests...
Stocks Could Keep Rising If the Fed Shows Restraint
Text size As the market rebounds, speculative stocks are stirring. For proof, consider Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF, up about 40% since mid-June. David Swanson/Reuters/Alamy What bear market? Stoc...
Pressure Is On Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a hearing before Senate Banking, … [+] Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill November 30, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Pho...
Don’t Trust This Stock Rally. Strategists See More Trouble Ahead for S&P 500.
Text size Only 30% of the indicators that typically light up before market bottoms are triggered today, according to Bank of America. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images The S&P 500’s 15% summer bou...
Rising Unemployment Claims Signal ‘Rapid Deterioration’ In Job Market—But Here’s Why The Data May Be Misleading
Topline New jobless claims rose to the highest level in nine months last week as a growing number of firms continue to announce layoffs, but analysts aren’t so sure the seemingly rapid deteriora...
Inflation Break?
Gasoline prices last spring. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Getty Images July brought a measure of relief on the inflation front. Because of a 4.6% drop in energy prices, the overall consumer pri...
Dow Jumps 400 Points After Consumer Prices Cool Slightly In July—Has Inflation Peaked?
Topline The stock market surged higher on Wednesday after a better-than-expected inflation report for July, boosting investor sentiment as consumer prices fell for the first time in months, adding to ...
Statistics Are Mixed But On Balance Say The Economy Is Weak
Ambiguous economic chart. (Photo by Daniel ROLAND / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL ROLAND/AFP via Getty … [+] Images) AFP via Getty Images If you listen to the White House, you hear that the economy is s...
The Fed Is About to Ramp Up Balance-Sheet Shrinkage. It May Get Dicey.
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, shown during a postmeeting press conference late last month, has suggested balance-sheet shrinkage may go on for up to 2½ years. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Text size There i...
What ‘Dr. Doom’ Says About Today’s Stock Market
For some of us of a certain age, an event from four decades ago often is recalled more vividly than what happened four weeks or even four days ago. Such is the case with Aug. 17, 1982. It arguably mar...
This Is Why We Are Not In A Recession Yet, But It’s Just A Matter Of Time
The market bounce may be short-lived if it thinks that the Fed is going to become less aggressive … [+] anytime soon. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith / AFP) (Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Image...
Stocks Fall Despite Strong Jobs Report As Investors Fear Bigger Fed Rate Hikes
Topline The stock market fell Friday after the U.S. economy added back a better-than-expected 528,000 jobs in July, with investors now anticipating that a strong labor market will keep the Federal Res...
Will the Stock Market Rebound Continue? Goldman Says …
The stock market has been on a roll lately, with the S&P 500 soaring 13% since June 16 amid optimism that the Federal Reserve won’t raise interest rates much more. But now Fed officials are making...
Dow Jumps 400 Points As Stocks Rebound Thanks To Solid Earnings, Upbeat Economic Data
Topline The stock market rallied on Wednesday, reversing losses from earlier this week thanks to stronger-than-expected economic data which helped offset lingering recession fears, even as Federal Res...
Here’s Why More Fed Officials Are Warning That The Market Is Getting Ahead Of Itself
Topline An increasing number of Federal Reserve officials are pushing back against the latest market rally, dismissing recent optimism about an upcoming “pivot” in monetary policy as wishful thinking ...
Stock Market Today: Dow Futures Slip as Pelosi Goes to Taiwan, BP Stock Surges
Text size House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to arrive in Taiwan Tuesday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Stocks were slipping Tuesday amid rising geopolitical tensions, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ...
Are We In Recession Yet?
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Getty Images Spring seems to have brought a second quarterly decline in real gross domestic product (GDP). Since this ma...
The Stock Market Had a Great July. Why August Could Be Tougher.
Text size Expectations for future rate hikes changed, hinging largely on two sentences from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s news conference. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Stocks rallied this past week ...
Want Steady Monthly Income? These Funds Offer It, With Some Risk.
Text size The sharp selloff in the credit markets during the year’s first half has created some attractive opportunities. Dreamstime.com Trickle-down economics lives on for individual investors trying...
The Stock Market Rallied on Hopes That Rate Hikes Will Soon Wind Down
Text size While the markets and many consumers are worried about inflation, other people, like these skaters at Rockefeller Center in New York, are still spending. Richard Levine/Alamy Markets can sta...
Crypto company failures not covered by federal insurance, FDIC says
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) protection does not apply to crypto company failures, according to a new fact sheet released by the agency on Friday. “Some crypto companies have misrepres...
The Dollar Will Only Fall When There’s Somewhere Else for Investors to Flee To
Text size It would be difficult to find a currency to dethrone the dollar. Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images About the author: Desmond Lachman is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He wa...
Why Rebounding Stocks May Not Be a Good Thing
After dropping for the first 5 ½ months of the year, the S&P 500 has rebounded 8.5% since June 16 and 4.7% since July 26, the day before the Federal Reserve raised interest rates. Investors have t...
Asia’s ‘Taper Tantrum 2.0’ Bears Chinese Fingerprints
Sri Lankans sit on empty Liquified Gas Cylinders (LPG) as they block a road to protest against shortage of fuel and cooking gas in Colombo on May 13, 2022. AFP via Getty Images China’s stumble is shin...
Crypto market contracts as the Fed’s next interest rate decision looms
Crypto markets traded down Tuesday ahead of tomorrow’s US Federal Reserve interest rate announcement. The Fed is widely expected to increase the US federal funds rate by 75 basis points tomorr...
The Inverted Yield Curve Is Back. What Investors Need to Know.
Text size The Federal Reserve building in Washington. Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg The Treasury yield curve continues to widen, with no signs that the trend is nearing an end. The Federal Reserve raised t...