Text size President Joe Biden has said getting inflation under control is his “top priority.” Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images President Joe Biden is set to meet with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell o...
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Don’t Expect Stocks To Save You From Inflation
NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 2: Traders and financial professionals work on the floor of the New York … [+] Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the closing bell, February 2, 2018 in New York City. The Dow...
Stock Market Today: Global Stocks, U.S. Futures Move Higher on Memorial Day
Text size Stock and bond trading will resume on Wall Street on Tuesday after Memorial Day. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images Global stocks and U.S. futures rose on Monday amid a quiet day for markets due ...
Is This the Worst Bond Market Ever?
Getty Images getty Back in February, with the unfortunate punctuality of a Swiss watch, we published an article exactly one day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, signaling our idea to overweight...
The Bear Market Is Still on the Prowl
Text size To the Editor:There is definitely further to go (“The Stock Market Has Avoided a Bear. But the Selloff Isn’t Over,” The Trader, May 20). The Federal Reserve goosed the economy from 2009 to n...
“Solid Growth Prospects Alongside A Very Robust Labor Market” DB Says
LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 05: A general view of Deutsche Bank on September 5, 2011 in London, … [+] England. Shares at Deutsche Bank fell by nearly 9 per cent today after news emerged th...
Are Shorter Business Cycles The Next Big Change In Economies?
LONDON – OCTOBER 07: In this photo illustration, a man looks at a graph representing the 12 month … [+] decline of the FTSE 100 share index on October 7, 2008 in London. Financial markets ...
Avoiding Recession May Require Moving the Inflation Goal Post
Fed chief Jerome Powell, shown at a May 4 press conference, has said the central bank remains committed to bringing inflation down to 2%. Al Drago/Bloomberg Text size Signs of economic weakness are pi...
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...
The Stock Market Finally Had a Winning Week. Why It Might Not Last.
Text size Ed Yardeni, founder of Yardeni Research: “We now are raising the odds of a recession from 30% to 40%.” Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg The stock market ended its multiweek losing streak, and l...
It’s A Contra Machina – Yes, The Machine Is Running in Reverse
Running in reverse: Getty Images getty Latin for the machine in reverse, contra machina, sums up our current dilemma. In January, the Fed laid out a plan to raise rates and slow money printing while r...
20 Stocks Experts Say Will Help Investors Beat A Bear Market
Topline With stocks on track for one of their worst years in recent history amid concerns around persistent inflation, rate hikes from the Federal Reserve and rising recession risks, top firms on Wall...
The Great Gold/Bitcoin Debate – Act Three
(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Getty Images To those who are constant readers (thank you), you have seen me write on a few occasions about what we at Proficio Capital Partners call our “Hard Curr...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Markets: The Correction Is Not Over Yet
The recent selloff in the stock market could be the start of a reprieve, hedge fund experts and market strategists said. The Dow rose by 618 points or 1.98% on Monday following Friday’s downturn that ...
Sit Out the Next Few Months, Say These Analysts. A Recession Is Unavoidable.
Text size American flags outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg The S&P 500 came close to finishing Friday’s session in a bear market, adding fuel to a rapidly in...
Is The Battered Stock Market Reaching Its Bottom?
Falling market getty The S&P 500 narrowly missed closing out last week in bear market territory—that would be 20% down from market peak, a high point attained after New Year’s. The tech-heavy Nasd...
How Low Could the S&P 500 Sink? According to History, 3000.
Text size The fall in stock and bond prices has cut household wealth by as much as $8 trillion in 2022. Justin Lane/epa-efe/Shutterstock The stock market had a near-bear experience, which might be the...
Inflation Will Lead Inexecrably To Recession
Old chart glimpses future directioins. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Getty Images Recession is in the cards and not because of the recent report of declining real GDP in the first quarter. That w...
Silicon Valley’s Prosperous Existence Is the Surest Sign of the Fed’s Unctuous Irrelevance
A headline at Forbes.com last week indicated rising layoffs at Silicon Valley start-ups that are said to foretell a quiet summer for venture capitalists. On the same day, an A1 story in the Wall Stree...
The Bear Nears and Might Not Exit Stocks Until the S&P Sinks to 3000
Text size The fall in stock and bond prices has cut household wealth by as much as $8 trillion in 2022. Justin Lane/epa-efe/Shutterstock The stock market had a near-bear experience, which might be the...
China Covid Lockdowns Threaten To Fuel U.S. Inflation As Economic Pessimism Grows
Topline As rising cases in Shanghai threaten further lockdowns in the region, experts are warning China’s pandemic crackdown measures this spring could be the latest headwind for the U.S. econom...
Consumers Aren’t OK. Why April Retail Sales Are Misleading.
Walmart sales climbed in the first quarter from a year ago, but flat transaction numbers suggest inflation drove the gain. Here, a Walmart in San Leandro, Calif., last year. David Paul Morris/Bloomber...
Jobless Claims Keep Rising Unexpectedly—Experts Worry Stock Market Crash Could Have Spillover Effects On Economy
Topline As markets fend off one of the worst sell-offs in nearly two years, new jobless claims posted an unexpected increase for the third straight week on Thursday, according to data released by the ...
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...